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What was the worst event in modern Irish history?

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  • 22-07-2014 1:26am
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    John Doe1
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    There has been quite a few but DeValera signing a book of condolence for Hitler and the treatment of those who fight in WW2 when they returned home has got to be up there.

    Also, The Omagh bombing was the most pointless waste of life on this island.


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    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Wasting so much of tax payers money during the boom and ending up where we are now is pretty bad.


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    Duff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭Duff


    Jedward in the Eurovis.. in general.


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    hjkl
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭hjkl


    Dublin Monaghan bombings is up there.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Sending that turkey puppet to the Eurovision.


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    massdebater
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    The whole Garth Brooks thing


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    ardmhacha22
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16 ✭ardmhacha22


    When people started to turn anti N.I catholic, my grandfather said it was not like that until recent times.


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    greedygoblin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭greedygoblin


    So many to choose from.

    The Omagh bombing.
    Dublin-Monaghan bombings.
    Buttevant rail crash.
    Stardust tragedy.
    Air India plane crash.
    Aer Lingus Tuskar Rock plane crash.


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    ch20
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭ch20


    the saipan incident with roy keane in 2002.


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    131spanner
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    The Stardust Tragedy would always come to mind.


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    policarp
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    Has to be the economic crash.
    End of the "Celtic Tiger".


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    LOEF
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    The Omagh bombing.
    How quickly the 6 counties were forgotten by Dublin.
    The continued assistance offered to the US Army via Shannon.


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    Panthro
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    the success of Mrs Brown's boys.
    I heard there's a second film in the pipeline.


    Dear.
    God.
    No.
    :(


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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,060 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    That auld one climbing a fence & walking on to an active runway while security had to be alerted by her friend who phoned them up

    She's literally Hitler


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    Karl Stein
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    Bloody Sunday 1972.

    Not for the number of people killed but the backlash it caused.


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    Sulla Felix
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    Probably suningdale not being signed. Lead to many many more deaths for no appreciable benefit over what was initially on the table.


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Kilkenny for the 5 in a row.


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    N N Nuther 55
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    partition,


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    banquo
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    That auld one climbing a fence & walking on to an active runway while security had to be alerted by her friend who phoned them up

    She's literally Hitler

    No way, man. Double Hitler.


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    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
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    Norman invasion.


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    john the one
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    Micheal Collins taking a bullet. Its a nice emotional scene in the movie, i cried reading about it in my school history books aswell.


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    Lapin
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    The X case and the subsuquent failure of successive governments to act on it, which eventually resulted in the death of Savita Halappanavar.

    Simply because our poiticians were too spinless to take ation for fear of the inevitable backlash from the altar and the loss of votes from the sheep kneeling before that altar.



    You get the (bigger) picture here.


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    An Riabhach
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    Joining the EU.


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    ardmhacha22
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    N N Nuther 55 wrote: »
    partition,

    No it made us see what the southern Irish were really like, they stood back and let the Nationalists get literally butchered in the street.
    It is a division of Irish people that will never heal,


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    dobz95
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    Omagh bombing & Stardust I'd have to say. Sadly there have been many terrible events in Irish history


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    porsche959
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    John Doe1 wrote: »
    There has been quite a few but DeValera signing a book of condolence for Hitler and the treatment of those who fight in WW2 when they returned home has got to be up there.

    Also, The Omagh bombing was the most pointless waste of life on this island.

    The ones you've mentioned would be high on my list.

    Also DeValera's pointless, moronic, counter-productive trade war of the 1930s.


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    ardle1
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    massdebater wrote: »
    The whole Garth Brooks thing

    YEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWWWW








    I'm agreeing with you btw.


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    #28
    john the one
    Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    yeah sorry forgot about the famine which is hands down the worst. defined our history


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    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    Lapin wrote: »
    The X case and the subsuquent failure of successive governments to act on it, which eventually resulted in the death of Savita Halappanavar.

    Simply because our poiticians were too spinless to take ation for fear of the inevitable backlash from the altar and the loss of votes from the sheep kneeling before that altar.



    You get the (bigger) picture here.

    On a similar note, but going back further in history, the shafting of Noel Browne by an unholy alliance of clerics and doctors. The latter were worse, as they didn't have the excuse of being brainwashed by a fanatical cult. They did it just for professional monetary advantage.


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    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    Seasan wrote: »
    Joining the EU.

    Come off it.


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    genuine leather
    Registered Users Posts: 370 ✭✭genuine leather


    Two treatys that were voted against by the irish electorate,
    but both got a yes vote after the threats....sorry,disscussion,sorry jellybeans...eh..f n hell democracy my arse


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