Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Recruitment for British army soars in Republic of Ireland

24567…51

Comments

  • #32
    Mouseslayer17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭Mouseslayer17


    All the dole scroungers here should be conscripted to the English army


  • #33
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    they're a bunch of fairies you know...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Qhbdijv5Y


  • #34
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Was talking to an Irish member over Christmas.

    Guy was going nowhere in life and decided to join up. He loves it, he's stationed out in Germany and they have him doing all sorts of courses, he says they love lads who show initiative. He'll come out of it with some decent employment prospects.


  • #35
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Mouseslayer17 wrote: »
    All the dole scroungers here should be conscripted to the English army

    The English Army hasn't existed for over 200 years.


  • #36
    Mouseslayer17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭Mouseslayer17


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    The English Army hasn't existed for over 200 years.

    Some of them haven't worked for longer


  • Advertisement
  • #37
    Cool_CM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    Irish people leave Ireland to work in a larger organisation with better prospects in their field than they would have in the Irish equivalent shocker!


  • #38
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    Mouseslayer17 wrote: »
    All the dole scroungers here should be conscripted to the English army

    Its not the English army you clown.


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mikeym wrote: »
    The Brits have pulled out of Afghanistan.

    And they wont be going back.

    And at the moment they are not involved in any combat operations.

    I said middle east and a British soldier was killed in Iraq just yesterday, so they dont seem to be that pulled out.


  • #40
    Jayop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,377 ✭✭✭✭Jayop


    wakka12 wrote: »
    You don't have to kill people just because you're in the army ,you know. You can be a field doctor or look after vehicles or ammunitions etc.. Plenty of positions which don't involve being in the firing line

    I think they call that aiding and abetting.


  • #41
    Jayop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,377 ✭✭✭✭Jayop


    Mouseslayer17 wrote: »
    All the dole scroungers here should be conscripted to the English army

    Right wing tosspots would probably be a better fit.


  • Advertisement
  • #42
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Mouseslayer17 wrote: »
    All the dole scroungers here should be conscripted to the English army

    Is there one? Why is it called the British Army then?


  • #43
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I said middle east and a British soldier was killed in Iraq just yesterday, so they dont seem to be that pulled out.

    There is around 1000 troops deployed in Iraq today. Pretty sure they have a small presence in Afghanistan too.


  • #44
    getzls
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    Crea wrote: »
    Great. Opportunities to murder complete strangers on orders for reasons you don't really understand.
    You can do that as a member of the IDF as well.
    Sorry I have to kill you as I'm here as a peace keeper.


  • #45
    getzls
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    Crea wrote: »
    Great. Opportunities to murder complete strangers on orders for reasons you don't really understand.
    You can do that as a member of the IDF as well.
    Sorry I have to kill you as I'm here as a peace keeper.


  • #46
    UrbanFret
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭UrbanFret


    Plebbit wrote: »
    From the Belfast Telegraph.

    Apparently a new Irish recruit signs up every 4 1/2 days. Can't blame the young Irish lads. If it's a choice between wasting your life away on the dole in some grim village in the backarse of Cavan or traveling the world on global deployments with the British Army, I'd choose the latter. I hear the pay is decent and there are lots of opportunities for advancement.


    "grim village in the backarse of Cavan" Indeed. :rolleyes:
    The british army used to be garrisoned 1/2 mile down the road from me i can guarantee joining them was the last thing on peoples minds .


  • #47
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Four days into the New Year and some of us are back to thinly veiled, and not so thinly veiled, 'Brit' bashing. :rolleyes:

    ****



  • #48
    Jayop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,377 ✭✭✭✭Jayop


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Four days into the New Year and some of us are back to thinly veiled, and not so thinly veiled, 'Brit' bashing. :rolleyes:

    Someone suggests joining the British army would be a good life choice for poor plebs in cavan and what you take from this thread is Brit bashing?

    Very strange.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Four days into the New Year and some of us are back to thinly veiled, and not so thinly veiled, 'Brit' bashing. :rolleyes:

    I love the British people and culture. You can hate a countries army without hating the country. For example I like a lot of Israeli people and are friends with some, I think the IDF are scum.


  • #50
    muddypaws
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,616 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I love the British people and culture. You can hate a countries army without hating the country. For example I like a lot of Israeli people and are friends with some, I think the IDF are scum.

    The IDF are the Israeli people though, as everyone there serves in it.


  • #51
    Jayop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,377 ✭✭✭✭Jayop


    muddypaws wrote: »
    The IDF are the Israeli people though, as everyone there serves in it.

    And? I detest the British Army, I have a very good friend who was a Para. I have loads of English and Scotish friends who I don't hate because I hate their army.

    Your analogy would be like someone saying the IRA are the Irish people.

    Also, you don't need to be Israeli to join the IDF afaik. You hear of American jews joining up.


  • Advertisement
  • #52
    Atari Jaguar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Atari Jaguar


    Mouseslayer17 wrote: »
    All the dole scroungers here should be conscripted to the English British army

    ... so they should be moved to another country
    To earn a wage in said country
    And pay taxes to that country as opposed to ours?


  • #53
    muddypaws
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,616 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    Jayop wrote: »
    And? I detest the British Army, I have a very good friend who was a Para. I have loads of English and Scotish friends who I don't hate because I hate their army.

    Your analogy would be like someone saying the IRA are the Irish people.

    Also, you don't need to be Israeli to join the IDF afaik. You hear of American jews joining up.

    What? Don't be so ridiculous. Not every Irish person is/was in the IRA. Every Jewish Israeli citizen (except Haredi Jews) serves time in the IDF and gets called back to it through their lifetime.


  • #54
    Jayop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,377 ✭✭✭✭Jayop


    muddypaws wrote: »
    What? Don't be so ridiculous. Not every Irish person is/was in the IRA. Every Jewish Israeli citizen (except Haredi Jews) serves time in the IDF and gets called back to it through their lifetime.

    Again you're not making much of a point. The serve because they have conscription. Just because someone served in an army that you detest doesn't mean you have to hate them.


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    muddypaws wrote: »
    What? Don't be so ridiculous. Not every Irish person is/was in the IRA. Every Jewish Israeli citizen (except Haredi Jews) serves time in the IDF and gets called back to it through their lifetime.

    In theory everyone serves but people who don't want to go manage to avoid it.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gringo180 wrote: »
    Its not the English army you clown.

    That's what's known as a Freudian slip... or the truth. Next you'll be saying the Maze was not Long Kesh internment camp, or the UDR was not the B Specials just because they changed the name.

    The British state is merely an extension of the English state over the conquered lands of Scotland and Wales. Likewise, the British Army is only the English Army renamed to make the newly conquered feel less, well, conquered and more, well, willing to die for the English British Empire.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdywzKD2Jw


  • #57
    Cypher_sounds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,320 ✭✭✭Cypher_sounds


    They can have this absolute scumbag.

    http://www.sundayworld.com/news/courts/vicious-ex-soldier-jailed-for-beating-his-former-partner


  • #58
    Boaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 615 ✭✭✭Boaty


    Atari Jaguar wrote: »
    ... so they should be moved to another country
    To earn a wage in said country
    And pay taxes to that country as opposed to ours?

    Do you not know what a dole scrounger is? Everything they earn is provided to them by the state or earned illegally.


  • #59
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Of course, what I want to know is, have they got no fucking homes of their own?


  • #60
    getzls
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    muddypaws wrote: »
    Deleted User wrote: »
    I love the British people and culture. You can hate a countries army without hating the country. For example I like a lot of Israeli people and are friends with some, I think the IDF are scum.

    The IDF are the Israeli people though, as everyone there serves in it.

    Including Israeli Arabs.


  • Advertisement
  • #61
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    15 grand a year on joining, 18,300 on joining your unit. Pretty crap pay.


Advertisement
Advertisement