Cringy Irish events

ihavenoname3

What cringey Irish events can you think of?

here is one that is hard to forget, the Abercrombie and Fitch opening in Dublin, people willing to wait hours in the cold for the shop to open, even though there was no special deals for doing so, then awkwardly took pictures of a girl and guy with no top on as if they were famous celebs or something.

The video is on youtube, I cant post it because i am a new user.

Wacker The Attacker

paddys day

JaMarcusHustle

Christmas Market in Dublin.

It's literally crappy food and junk stalls you find at festivals or any event in this country, only now with added Christmas music. And an embarrassment compared to most European capitals equivalent.

The one at Stephens Green this year was a farce.

lc180

Rose of Tralee has to be the ultimate?

JaMarcusHustle

The Garth Brooks concert protests on O'Connel Street last year.

On the same day about 100 metres up the road from the Israel/Palestine demonstration.

nc19

Every single one of them

PopePalpatine

Seachtain na Gaeilge launch events.

JaMarcusHustle

JaMarcusHustle wrote: »

Christmas Market in Dublin.

It's literally crappy food and junk stalls you find at festivals or any event in this country, only now with added Christmas music. And an embarrassment compared to most European capitals equivalent.

The one at Stephens Green this year was a farce.

Oh don't be such a grinch!

It was perfectly festive to browse that tat and have a burger or a glass of mulled wine while taking a break from Christmas shopping. Granted, the lack of crowd control was a bit of an irritation, but it's Christmas. That's what happens at Christmas. We eat sh1t and browse pure tat whilst cursing the buggy-wielders for delaying everyone.

I've been to Christmas markets in other European capitals and I can't say Dublin's was considerably different, except perhaps I would have preferred more food options.

osarusan

Arthur's Day is pretty stupid really.

The Dark Side

Any GAA match.

Buona Fortuna

lc180 wrote: »

Rose of Tralee has to be the ultimate?

Ah the Lovely Gals competition is grand so

Lux23

Water protests.

keithclancy

The Gathering

Thinly veiled - Come back and we'll rape you for every penny we can

Eugene Norman

keithclancy wrote: »

The Gathering

Thinly veiled - Come back and we'll rape you for every penny we can

It worked.

Yamanoto

Anything involving Des Cahill on a makeshift stage

Un Croissant

Riverfest Limerick.

Close thread.

SEPT 23 1989

The World Cup Homecoming with MC Duffy was a watch from behind the couch event

Bubbaclaus

Water protests (the small weekly ones)

About 20 people slowly walking from Dame Street to O'Connell street roaring "Who's Streets? OUR STREETS" while causing traffic chaos.

They should give them a free supply of water by getting the water canon

fiachr_a

Garth Brooks in the Point back in the 1990s. Everyone wearing cowboy hats and jeans.

Ruu

Garth Bro...never mind.

OldMrBrennan83

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_Whimsical_

Nearly a tenth of the population buying Garth Brooks tickets... and then us not having the concerts.
An Irish reporter telling an international press conference that the entire country was distraught at the cancellation.

Though it being cancelled was probably for the best in retrospect. People would probably be sill wearing cowboy hats and doing line dancing classes if it had been let continue. Lord knows the state we would be in.

Yamanoto

All-Ireland winning captains roaring into a microphone

RobertKK

Celebrating failure like 1916 which was a defeat, and led to the partition of the island which led to thousands dead, both with a civil war and the troubles.
Yet it will be commemorated as something that was good.

It is going to be very cringy, next Spring...

Super-Rush

This.

http://www.joe.ie/life-style/video-forget-foo-fighters-this-sligo-festival-was-the-place-to-be-yesterday/497856

OldMrBrennan83

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RobertKK

Patww79 wrote: »

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It would have happened anyway.

Sir Osis of Liver.

RTE People in Need Telethon.

C'mon everybody.




No,fcuk off.

Bubbaclaus

Mothers and Fathers Matter
IONA
Garth Brooks
Protesting over paying 17 cent a day for an unlimited supply of water being pumped into your house (ultimate first world problem)
Paul Murphy
Dustin at Eurovision
Henry handball reaction
Mick Wallace
US Presidents coming to Ireland being treated like a 2nd coming of Jesus Christ
John Waters

CaraMay

Any event where we fawn over for grinned eg Obama, the queen.

People thinking it's cool to be known as the drinks of the planet

mg1982

At ireland internationals in Soccer and Rugby. The president has to shake hands with both teams. Such a waste of time and unnecessary. Get on with the game.

ArnoldJRimmer

Self Aid in the 80's.

Anything related to Irish Garth Brooks fans, past, present and future

Eugene Norman

Strong sniff of post colonial mindset off this thread.

Dozen Wicked Words

Tribunals and inquiries into everything with zero useful findings and resolving nothing.

Chloris

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Riverdance. Whenever that fiasco comes to town it's like we've just resigned ourselves to the leprechaun stereotype and cashed in.

Ruu

This was posted in another thread, heavens above! Poor Gaybo announcing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2c5v8IZNA

PowerToWait

Tedfest. I can only imagine the cringeathon with all the "ah shur aren't we just mad craic altogether" types.

kfallon

Ole ole ole ole ole!

Wasn't it even sung at Eurovision one year by the crowd

Into The Blue

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

That's what happens at Christmas. We eat sh1t and browse pure tat whilst cursing the buggy-wielders for delaying everyone...

Don't think so buddy.

Sunflower 27

osarusan wrote: »

Arthur's Day is pretty stupid really.

To osarusan...

valoren

The IFTA's

Into The Blue

Linda Martin destroying Get Lucky.
Still can't listen to the original..

Omackeral

When any English team come over here and play an Irish side. I recall Manchester United playing a League of Ireland XI to open the Aviva and the amount of people openly booing players from their own country would just boggle your mind if you were not from these shores. Sad. Same happened when St Pat's played Celtic in Europe. Majority of those supporting 'their' team have probably never seen them in the flesh since.

enricoh

Think the worst is not strictly Irish! Orange marches on 12th of July and some protest over not traipsing through some 99% catholic area.

Also some Irish comedians on UK telly mentioning that they,re Irish every 20 seconds - so what, say something funny !

eviltwin

Culchie festival, national ploughing championship

Shep_Dog

On a summer's evening of the Celtic Tiger....Massed choirs in Lansdowne road getting drenched in gale-driven rain while trying to do the 1812, the loud bits of Carmina Burana and some popular Verdi pieces. They could'nt hear the music and occasional hail stopped them seeing the conductor...

Adamantium

Mel Gibson at the IFTA's in 2008. I felt genuinely sorry for the mega rich guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTPxiny2Pn8

Ripped from the Film Forum:

Going to the IFTAs that time. Back in his pomp Mel wouldn't have come anywhere near. To see him suited and booted on the red carpet, smiling awkwardly with such household names as Bella from Fair City, made me feel genuinely sorry for him. It was like watching someone like Del Piero, or some other faded superstar, picking up a paycheck in a grandfather league, about as far away from the big leagues as you could possibly get. Sure, there's a smile on the face of whoever it may be holding up the jersey at the press conference on their first day, or the poor misfortunate once mega movie God now reduced to answering questions from Xpose, in the pissing rain. There's a smile alright, but the eyes say -How Did I End Up Here?

keithclancy

Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival

major bill

Anytime a decent bit of Sun comes out (limited to an event)

castletownman

Not such much an event but a moment, but the quite frankly absurd reaction by every sports fan in the country to BOD being dropped from the panel for the crucial third lions Test last time around. Despite him being clearly past his prime. The abuse Gatland got for the decision left me grinning ear to ear when the Lions ended up hammering Australia (despite not following rugby at all). The over-reaction to BOD's exclusion was a massive dis-service to the Irish players who did get a game, and his parading of Amy and Sadie in the post-match celebrations was cringe-worthy and stupid.

Pumpkinseeds

RobertKK wrote: »

Celebrating failure like 1916 which was a defeat, and led to the partition of the island which led to thousands dead, both with a civil war and the troubles.
Yet it will be commemorated as something that was good.

It is going to be very cringy, next Spring...

Absolutely. The rest of the world, including tens of thousands of Irish men, were off fighting the Germans but the 'glorious' leaders of the revolution were buying arms from and doing deals with the Germans. Yey, what a glorious thing to celebrate. It's a shameful episode in our history, not something to celebrate.