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What would Ireland be like now without the E.U. ?

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  • 23-04-2013 7:40pm
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    meoklmrk91
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    What would Ireland be like if we had never joined the E.U? I wonder if we would even have motorways. What do ye think? Would we have been better off if we never joined?


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    #2
    Fr_Fitzexactly
    Site Banned Posts: 85 ✭✭Fr_Fitzexactly


    Thatched cottages, dirt paths, canal boats, all our own local produced stuff and very few foreign brands and a lad going down the village on a horse and trap while posting on boards with his iPhone 5

    Edit: Feck it, and the most important thing, feck all regulation. People would still be able to get stuff done without having to deal with tons of red tape. It would be pure bliss

    Posted from my iPhone


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    lkionm
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    A big patch of grass.


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    not yet
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    Empty.


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    jaja321
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    I shudder to think. The EU has dragged this country kicking and screaming into the 21st century in many ways and still is, thankfully.


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    Fr_Fitzexactly
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    jaja321 wrote: »
    I shudder to think. The EU has dragged this country kicking and screaming into the 21st century in many ways and still is, thankfully.

    The 21st century is a load of sh1t


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    not yet
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    Fr_Fitzexactly wrote: »
    The 21st century is a load of sh1t

    Ok then, lets party like it's 1999.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Achill isalnd, but bigger.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    fergiesfolly
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    Think North Korea, but with less democracy, wealth and food.


    And if you leave out food, we're not far off North Korea now.


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    Nabber
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    Autonomous


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    Zamboni
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    Poland circa 2003.


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    mikom
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    Fr_Fitzexactly wrote: »
    The 21st century is a load of sh1t

    Posted from my iPhone 5


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    crockholm
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    It would be Irland, there is no "u" in it


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    [Deleted User]
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    jaja321 wrote: »
    I shudder to think. The EU has dragged this country kicking and screaming into the 21st century in many ways and still is, thankfully.


    True. The EU isn't the problem but the blatant idiots we continue to vote in who squander EU money left right and centre.


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    true
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    The EC would be a lot better off if they had not thrown all that money at us over the past 40 years. They should have kept their money and fancy cars for themselves.


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    NuckingFacker
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    Better off. Immeasurably so no doubt.


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
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    The Catholic Church would still be ruling Ireland.

    Gardai would deal with most offences by young hooligans with a good kick in the arse.

    Family would still be sending stuff like soap and socks and modern day stuff like that back from America.

    Young lads would be leaving school at 16 to do ANCO courses.

    Everyone would go to Sunday mass and daren't miss it.


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    NuckingFacker
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    CJC999 wrote: »
    The Catholic Church would still be ruling Ireland.

    Gardai would deal with most offences by young hooligans with a good kick in the arse.

    Family would still be sending stuff like soap and socks and modern day stuff like that back from America.

    Young lads would be leaving school at 16 to do ANCO courses.

    Everyone would go to Sunday mass and daren't miss it.
    Doubtful. It was "hadn't joined the EU", not "hadn't joined the 21st century".


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    stretchdoe
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    I think we'd probably be 'upside, inside out', as outlined by Prof. Ricky Martin in his 1972 essay 'Livin' La Vida Loca: Why Ireland shouldn't join the EEC'.


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    Sarky
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    Most places would probably look like this.


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    stretchdoe
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    Sarky wrote: »
    Most places would probably look like this.

    Quaint?


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    mike65
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    Women would still have to leave the public service upon marriage, so single income households would still be common so the economy would not have overheated and we'd not be in a flatlined economy. Damn you EEC! :pac:


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    Senna
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    Sure didn't the EU fill in all the potholes?


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    Celly Smunt
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    Either way we'd be tied to the E.C.C and most likely be spending sterling.In fact we probably would've been british again.


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