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What would Ireland be like with just Irish People in it?

Andy From Sligo

Yes its another one of those Andy Controversial Threads again

- First off I am not being racist and I hope the thread wont descend into a load of racist drivel. - as always if you hate any of my views or threads on Boards you are welcome to not feel you have to join in and answer and are welcome to go search hundreds of more posts on boards to reply to

had some idle time on my hands today and thought (as you do) I wonder what the world be like today if everyone who was born in their own country stayed in their own country and didnt/werent allowed to emigrate to another country, what kind of a world would it be like today? - would each country manage to survive with the citizens it had?

what for example would we do if a lot of our very well trained Doctors in hospitals, a lot of them who are of Indian/asian decent and a lot of Filipino Nurses would those vacancies be abled to be filled by Irish people?

What about other things like over population infrastructure and unemployment - would there be houses available for everyone to live in Ireland and would everyone have a job? - Could Ireland survive without foreigners and immigrants do you reckon with just the amount of Irish people who were born here or does Ireland need/rely on foreign people ?

Whats your view on it?

As I say its only up for discussion and to make you sit down and think on what (Ireland or any country come to think of it) would be like if years ago there was a strong policy of countries not allowing people to reside and work in other countries.

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darkpagandeath

No romantic notions of being Celtic for a start probably very Portuguese looking.

Andy From Sligo

dd972 wrote: »

Lest we forget Dublin v Meath, I was about 5 stone lighter, full head of hair and visible to the opposite gender, now I'm about halfway to full invisibility, depressing.:pac:

do you know what I was 4 stone lighter as well in 91 - what a coincidence, i wonder what the connection is most probably because there was only Dunnes and Quinnsworth to buy food from and no LIDL & ALDI

dd972

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

great year - great communities, everyone knew each other, decent houses for sale for around 50,000 irish punts, the Irish punts, the Roads were sh!te granted full of potholes and no bypasses and there were border control between the north and south, knock airport was a cowshed, summers were better, towns had non pretentious cafe's which sold cheap tea and coffee (not a Costa in sight!) only 2 TV stations RTE1 & Network 2 , people going round in horse and traps, nobody had a mobile phone , Leave keys in front doors and cars, actually could leave your doors open , nice comfortable train carriages to Dublin and a fare of 15 Irish Punts return from Sligo to Dublin (whats it something like €45 now?) of course most of this resonates with rural Ireland, maybe it was different up Dublin and other cities. - great it was

Lest we forget Dublin v Meath, I was about 5 stone lighter, full head of hair and visible to the opposite gender, now I'm about halfway to full invisibility, depressing.:pac:

SeantoBarry

bloopy wrote: »

I think it could do with a tad more stereotyping and self loathing.

It's really pathetic.

bloopy

ThisRegard wrote: »

Do you know what this thread needs? Bigger hyperlinks.

I think it could do with a tad more stereotyping and self loathing.

catbear

endacl wrote: »

No it's not. I play it, and lots if it. What you're describing is 'whining paddy music'.

In my mind your man Kanye Whist is the whiner around.

endacl

Deleted User wrote: »

Nope. For example. Listen to our more traditional music. It's all mostly related to trouble with the English. Irish music changed due to foreign influences and it developed a new direction.

Without that influence, Irish people would still be sitting in their pubs, singing out their bitterness of lands stolen, and such. Think "four green fields".

No it's not. I play it, and lots if it. What you're describing is 'whining paddy music'.

SeantoBarry

Deleted User wrote: »

Nope. For example. Listen to our more traditional music. It's all mostly related to trouble with the English. Irish music changed due to foreign influences and it developed a new direction.

Without that influence, Irish people would still be sitting in their pubs, singing out their bitterness of lands stolen, and such. Think "four green fields".

A country that experienced famine, colonisation and its people put through terrible hardship in their native homeland is reflected in its music.

What a shocker!

Hoop66

Well I wouldn't be here, so it'd be shite.

catbear

sonofenoch wrote: »

I find it shocking the lack of Irish accents you hear when out and about........we're being killed off.......I'm staring to build a bunker in the back garden soon

On the other hand I laugh when I hear polish people picking up local accents, that just cracks me up!
I hear one lad on a train and it was really hard to tell he was polish because he'd picked up his english in thurles.

endacl

Yester wrote: »

No. There was a black guy here in 1985. I saw him.

There were two. Paul McGrath and the other fella. There used to be three, but Phil Lynott moved out.

cbyrd

It'd be pretty Damn full with the amount of children being born. It's not that long ago a family of seven or nine or twelve was the norm....

sonofenoch

I find it shocking the lack of Irish accents you hear when out and about........we're being killed off.......I'm staring to build a bunker in the back garden soon

fryup

having grown up in insular backward 80's ireland

i think its great that there's people from other countries living here

its about time irish people discovered that there's more than just white & catholic people in the world

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Why, cause I come across as being so childish?

I had early 20s in my head for some reaon...

JupiterKid

It would be a lot more boring. Immigration has enriched Ireland and added a touch of spice to the dish.

Andy From Sligo

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote:

Surely you weren't alive in 91...?

Why, cause I come across as being so childish?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

great year - great communities, everyone knew each other, decent houses for sale for around 50,000 irish punts, the Irish punts, the Roads were sh!te granted full of potholes and no bypasses and there were border control between the north and south, knock airport was a cowshed, summers were better, towns had non pretentious cafe's which sold cheap tea and coffee (not a Costa in sight!) only 2 TV stations RTE1 & Network 2 , people going round in horse and traps, nobody had a mobile phone , Leave keys in front doors and cars, actually could leave your doors open , nice comfortable train carriages to Dublin and a fare of 15 Irish Punts return from Sligo to Dublin (whats it something like €45 now?) of course most of this resonates with rural Ireland, maybe it was different up Dublin and other cities. - great it was

Surely you weren't alive in 91...?

catbear

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

yeah what has happened with the ferry? - used to be dirt cheap to go over to UK (on Sealink was it?) - but looked at price a few months back and it cost an arm and leg now!!

The boat seemed cheap to us then because flying to the UK could cost over £200. Its probably still about the as cheaper but easyjet and the others were a revolution.

Andy From Sligo

catbear wrote: »

Wages were ****e, £15 pound was a lot of money. I remember basic wage somewhere under £2!

The boat was the budget option to the uk. However hitching rides around the country was the done thing until jojo dollard went missing.

yeah what has happened with the ferry? - used to be dirt cheap to go over to UK (on Sealink was it?) - but looked at price a few months back and it cost an arm and leg now!!

catbear

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

great year - great communities, everyone knew each other, decent houses for sale for around 50,000 irish punts, the Irish punts, the Roads were sh!te granted full of potholes and no bypasses and there were border control between the north and south, knock airport was a cowshed, summers were better, towns had non pretentious cafe's which sold cheap tea and coffee (not a Costa in sight!) only 2 TV stations RTE1 & Network 2 , people going round in horse and traps, nobody had a mobile phone , Leave keys in front doors and cars, actually could leave your doors open , nice comfortable train carriages to Dublin and a fare of 15 Irish Punts return from Sligo to Dublin (whats it something like €45 now?) of course most of this resonates with rural Ireland, maybe it was different up Dublin and other cities. - great it was

Wages were ****e, £15 pound was a lot of money. I remember basic wage somewhere under £2!

The boat was the budget option to the uk. However hitching rides around the country was the done thing until jojo dollard went missing.

Andy From Sligo

dd972 wrote: »

1991?

great year - great communities, everyone knew each other, decent houses for sale for around 50,000 irish punts, the Irish punts, the Roads were sh!te granted full of potholes and no bypasses and there were border control between the north and south, knock airport was a cowshed, summers were better, towns had non pretentious cafe's which sold cheap tea and coffee (not a Costa in sight!) only 2 TV stations RTE1 & Network 2 , people going round in horse and traps, nobody had a mobile phone , Leave keys in front doors and cars, actually could leave your doors open , nice comfortable train carriages to Dublin and a fare of 15 Irish Punts return from Sligo to Dublin (whats it something like €45 now?) of course most of this resonates with rural Ireland, maybe it was different up Dublin and other cities. - great it was

dd972

1991?

catbear

Actually the vilest anti foreigner comments I've seen on my facebook feed have been by English people settled in Ireland, irony much.

Andy From Sligo

KingBrian2 wrote: »

Well that is an offense and that women would be prosecuted if a Gardaí was anywhere in the vicinity.

yep shame it goes on, but it still does ....

KingBrian2

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

we (mostly all) have accepted it - I wonder if a lot of Irish accepted foreign people to their country because they knew what a hostile reception they got from the English (no Irish/No Dogs/ No Blacks) and thought, we know exactly what that was like and we aint going down that road - there a still instances I am hearing of where people are being spat at though and called names, I suppose some people will never accept foreigners into the country. The other week I heard about some black woman went to cross the road and pressed the button on the traffic light and some random women come up to her and smacked her hand off the button and started hurling abuse at her!

Well that is an offense and that women would be prosecuted if a Gardaí was anywhere in the vicinity.

Andy From Sligo

Grandeeod wrote: »

I was born in the early 70s in Ireland. The only "foreigners" I ever met back then were Doctors. I met a black kid for the first time in the late 70s in a shopping centre. I asked him if he knew Tarzan. This is not a joke.

Since then, things have changed and I accept it.

we (mostly all) have accepted it - I wonder if a lot of Irish accepted foreign people to their country because they knew what a hostile reception they got from the English (no Irish/No Dogs/ No Blacks) and thought, we know exactly what that was like and we aint going down that road - there a still instances I am hearing of where people are being spat at though and called names, I suppose some people will never accept foreigners into the country. The other week I heard about some black woman went to cross the road and pressed the button on the traffic light and some random women come up to her and smacked her hand off the button and started hurling abuse at her!

Grandeeod

I was born in the early 70s in Ireland. The only "foreigners" I ever met back then were Doctors. I met a black kid for the first time in the late 70s in a shopping centre. I asked him if he knew Tarzan. This is not a joke.

Since then, things have changed and I accept it.

Andy From Sligo

catbear wrote: »

There was f all. For me the low point was the moving statues fiasco, it was so boring that people made themselves believe that statues moved.......

Joe prim

Yester wrote: »

No. There was a black guy here in 1985. I saw him.

Yeah, he was the bass player with St.Pats