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If Germany had of won the war, what would Ireland look like now infrastructure wise?

  • 21-07-2018 02:22PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭


    How do you think Ireland would look different infrastructure wise?

    That Jackie Healy Rae Lad would have nothing to campaign about, because the roads around Kerry would be top of the range like everywhere in the country


    I was reading up about the bertie bowl that was meant to be built in 1999, and was a dream for the next 20 years but was never built. That would have been built in 1949 along with 3 other stadiums in Dublin, and a similar sized stadium for every county in Ireland

    They would be a bridge from here to the Uk


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭Taytoland


    Well seeing as you licked the arse of Nazi Germany at the time probably great infrastructure.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭amcalester


    Taytoland wrote: »
    Well seeing as you licked the arse of Nazi Germany at the time probably great infrastructure.

    You’re not right.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    Taytoland wrote: »
    Well seeing as you licked the arse of Nazi Germany at the time probably great infrastructure.

    Yeah, but releasing downed allied servicemen in irish waters and land back to the war while keeping german pilots and airmen in a POW camp, we definitely support the Nazis...

    You absolute weapon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,703 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    We would have better bridges.

    Better bridges bring better trolls.

    Currently our bridges are shyte.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭Taytoland


    Taytoland wrote: »
    Well seeing as you licked the arse of Nazi Germany at the time probably great infrastructure.

    Yeah, but releasing downed allied servicemen in irish waters and land back to the war while keeping german pilots and airmen in a POW camp, we definitely support the Nazis...

    You absolute weapon.
     You are lucky Britain didn't carpet bomb you for that sheer insult to the British Empire. Should have entered the war and fought alongside the Allies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Etc


    Taytoland wrote: »
     You are lucky Britain didn't carpet bomb you for that sheer insult to the British Empire. Should have entered the war and fought alongside the Allies.

    Many Irishmen did and died doing it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,712 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    I'm sure our native language would still be a difficulty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Donor kebabs for €2 and fkk clubs/high rise 'super' brothels amongst other things.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Taytoland wrote: »
    Well seeing as you licked the arse of Nazi Germany at the time probably great infrastructure.
    More men from the twenty-six counties fought against Nazi Germany than those from the "loyal" six.


    Something you should be eternally embarrassed about.


  • Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Taytoland wrote: »
    Well seeing as you licked the arse of Nazi Germany at the time probably great infrastructure.

    Impressive speed there, Tayto. Anyway, was that before or after Britain's 6 years of collaboration with Nazi Germany, Lord Londonderry? You know, your support for Adolf and Co during the Nuremberg Laws (1935) and indeed your eagerness to undermine the French and Stresa Front by signing the Anglo-German Naval Agreement in that same year to help Britain's struggling economy?

    Ah, you're not taught that in school, are you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Chewbacca wrote: »
    We would have better bridges.

    Better bridges bring better trolls.

    Currently our bridges are shyte.
    Bring on those better bridges.


    maybe then we'd get better trolls than this Taytoland muppet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,454 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Our precious water would not be leaking thousands of litres every day
    Our bin lorries would convert to snow ploughs and clean or street
    The motorways would have proper services all along the trip
    Our beaches would be kept clean and with proper car parking and toilets and showers and bins that were emptied


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭Taytoland


    Taytoland wrote: »
    Well seeing as you licked the arse of Nazi Germany at the time probably great infrastructure.

    Impressive speed there, Tayto. Anyway, was that before or after Britain's 6 years of collaboration with Nazi Germany, Lord Londonderry? You know, your support for Adolf and Co during the Nuremberg Laws (1935) and indeed your eagerness to undermine the French and Stresa Front by signing the Anglo-German Naval Agreement in that same year to help Britain's struggling economy?

    Ah, you're not taught that in school, are you?
    When it came to fighting off Nazi aggression in Europe and fighting for liberty, the Irish state went neutral and didn't join the Allies in the war effort. Thankfully the true Irish patriots had a conscious and joined the war effort. We should be eternally grateful to them for that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Patww79 wrote: »
    For all the infrastructure we'd have had, I'm still glad the Americans saved us.

    Did we ever need saving? If yes, than it was the red army who saved us.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Had of what?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    I'd be very impressed if Jackie Healy Rae was
    still canvasing under the circumstances.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭EdgeCase


    This thread doesn’t even make any sense.

    Do you seriously link the Nazi regime to modern post war West Germany infrastructure. Also places off the beaten track in Germany that have low density population don’t necessarily have autobahn and ICE trains. Ireland’s 21st century infrastructure compares pretty well to *equivalent* areas in other EU parts of Europe btw. You can’t compare rural Kerry and Hamburg or Paris.

    If Germany had won the war, you’d have simply experienced Ireland being destroyed by a brutal foreign dictatorship and then probably bombed to bits by the ultimate removal of that dictatorship power by some combination of an Irish resistance and probably the US and others trying to restore freedom again..

    So I guess it would probably look a lot more like parts of Central Europe that lost all of their architecture and would have an awful legacy of genocide to deal with.

    Germany’s infrastructure and organizational legacy comes largely from sitting on a huge abundance of coal and iron which meant they had an industrial revolution. The same applies to Britain, Northern France and Belgium etc. our economic and post industrial revolution happened in the late 20th century not the 19th.

    Ireland would have been an irrelevance in a military-industrial dictatorship, so not much would have been different except maybe being turned into a handy air base and missile testing facility.

    Really a bizarre and utterly ridiculous thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,194 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    We probably wouldn't have had to wait until 2009 to have a motorway to get to Dublin!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    We'd never get a sun lounger on a spa weekend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Etc


    Taytoland wrote: »
    When it came to fighting off Nazi aggression in Europe and fighting for liberty, the Irish state went neutral and didn't join the Allies in the war effort. Thankfully the true Irish patriots had a conscious and joined the war effort. We should be eternally grateful to them for that.

    Britain didn't engage in fighting in Europe after the Dunkirk disaster until 44 as they didn't have strength, they were limited to a bombing campaign. The African campaign and Aisa were the only locations they put soldiers on the ground.

    Russia fought the European war until 1944.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭bazza1


    We would be looking at The Spire on Hitlerstrasse! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Oh let's not forget about a couple of concentration camps, maybe a bit of slave labour for all the immigrants and maybe for a fair section of the Irish as well. I suppose we might have gotten away with one death camp, after all you can't kill people more than once.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    We would OF been allowed grammar Nazis.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    I doubt Ireland would have been brought into the greater Reich proper. We probably would have had a weak ineffectual puppet government of Reich sycophants...So not that much different from today other than the treaty ports under German control.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    All the shops would still close at nein


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Ireland was viewed by the whacked out drugged high command as a place of mystical magic and elfins so it's most unlikely they'd have spent any money developing the country as an economy with modern infrastructure rather it would have been turned into a theme park


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭badabing106


    Ireland was viewed by the whacked out drugged high command as a place of mystical magic and elfins so it's most unlikely they'd have spent any money developing the country as an economy with modern infrastructure rather it would have been turned into a theme park

    Do you think they would have implemented high speed trains from Dublin to Belfast and other cities?


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Yeah, but releasing downed allied servicemen in irish waters and land back to the war while keeping german pilots and airmen in a POW camp, we definitely support the Nazis...


    Agree.

    We've never been a neutral country. Its a something we like to hide behind


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