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Ireland Leading the way in .......

  • 29-05-2013 04:01PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭


    So with all the negative things we like to say about our country I thought maybe we could try and come up with a few things that we did that were progressive at the time.

    In recent memory we either lead the way or were early adopters of banning smoking in the restaurants, pubs, clubs and public buildings, the plastic bag tax and now plain packaging on cigarette packs.

    Can anyone think of anything else progressive we have done?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    Taytos


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭TheYardStick


    Bono.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭Weevil


    Apathy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,506 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    We definitely lead the way in electing and re-electing incompetent governments.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,177 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    VRT.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭DipStick McSwindler


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    Hurling


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,177 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Closing offlicences at 22:00. Makes a big difference in under age drinking habbits.....................


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    Closing offlicences at 22:00. Makes a big difference in under age drinking habbits.....................

    HUGE! :D

    http://www.thejournal.ie/alcohol-use-cancer-ireland-929011-May2013/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭diarmo06


    lahalane wrote: »
    Hurling

    .. Thats about it, close thread


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    Wasn't duty free an Irish thing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy


    10 packs of cigarettes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭BGozIE


    Taxing people (highly) for random things


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Sweating the small stuff.

    I know, I know, some people have it really tough, and there's a hell of a lot more we could be doing to improve society as a whole, and half the world hasn't a pot to piss in.

    But Jesus Christ, there's never, in the whole history of the planet, been a better time to be alive. We don't what the future will be like, it might be better than now, it might be worse, but constant whinging and moaning about things that mean absolutely fcuk all in the grand scheme of things doesn't help.:mad:

    So yeah, we lead the way in forgetting how lucky we are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭IK09


    Dole cheats


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Child Safety


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    lahalane wrote: »
    Hurling

    Or that ball game where one can handle the ball, and that's why a Hooker or flanker in rugby can kick/catch the ball so well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Snorting coke.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    electing snakes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    BGozIE wrote: »
    Taxing people (highly) for random things

    Totally. And making up random taxes for the craic like.

    I wonder what's next.....Maybe garden plants tax or schoolchild tax. :rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7 monster_mouse


    I hate the term " progressive "

    I immedietly think of smug wan*er whenever I hear it uttered


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,177 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Rainy day tax.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy


    Free cheese at Christmas (or is that a European thing??)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Emmigration. When the irish start we swarm everywhere.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Child Safety

    Apart from in creches.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Information Technology, IT roles, anything to do with computers really. I'm a Computer Science student myself, Jobs are very easy to come by in this sector and its always evolving

    Like hell they are, Ireland was once the largest exporter of Software in the world but not anymore and the few companies that are here are only here for our low corporation tax. We have a 3rd world teleco infrastructure and anyone who thinks the IT Sector is somehow booming here is clearly deluded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭Justice!


    Optimism


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Information Technology, IT roles, anything to do with computers really. I'm a Computer Science student myself, Jobs are very easy to come by in this sector and its always evolving

    evolving too bloody quick,the minute you receive a certificate its already outdated.

    We've been left behind in terms of IT


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭Tiddlypeeps


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Like hell they are, Ireland was once the largest exporter of Software in the world but not anymore and the few companies that are here are only here for our low corporation tax. We have a 3rd world teleco infrastructure and anyone who thinks the IT Sector is somehow booming here is clearly deluded.

    If you can't find a job in the IT sector then you aren't looking very hard. Most places I know of have to hire from outside Ireland because there aren't enough qualified people here to fill the jobs.

    The office I work in only 4 our of the 30 staff are from Ireland. The rest had to be hired in from elsewhere.


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