If You Could Change One Thing About Ireland...

Change licencing laws so that late bars close at 4am, with nightclubs closing at any time between 6 and 8am. Staggered closing times would mean less crowds on the street at any one time, less concentrated drunkenness, and less rowdiness as crowds naturally disperse with fewer people around.

Rather than 'oh its 10, better get to the pub and get our drinks in, oh now its 12, better get to the club and get more drink in 'im not drunk yet', and then 2 o clock, every single person in every licenced premises 'out ya go now, onto the street, go on, out with ye'!

I'd also change the working hours of public sector workers. For instance, in one of my jobs, the working hours were shifted by half an hour each way, so I started later than everyone else, and finished after everyone else, just so that any remaining orders and clients could be dealt with. This was in a private company. Yet our banks and councils all close up around the 4 o clock mark! if you are working, it is nigh on impossible to get into the bank while they are open. I dont understand this.

I would swap all the men with another nationality,accept the Irish men who do actually have respect for all women and Irish women.
Pack them all off to their poland or what ever country they think are better than Irish women.
And go back to the days of kings of Ireland instead of the dail :rolleyes:

coffeelover wrote: »

Change how irish is taught in schools
Certain people
The weather although it gives people something to talk about
More facilities in the countryside :pac: because its soooo boring!!

Hey no fair at least you can tip cows and you have loads of sheeps

LarrytheLantern wrote: »

The weather.

oh! and our moronic political system. this would involve reducing our TDs by about 60%, our Councillors by 70%, and abolishing the Seanad.
Unfortunately getting turkeys to vote for Xmas aint easy.

Their salaries should be in line with other European countries - its shambolic that our government heads get more than Barack Obama:mad:

Make the rich pay more tax.

Free Motor Tax if you use Biofuels.

Ban all pesticides in Irish Agriculture.

Bring back / restore the Adelphi cinema.

Make sure that people gave people five options in threads instead of one.

I would revamp public transport so

1) the red and green LUAS lines actually connected and there would be a 'yellow line' that followed the #16 route, i.e. ran from Terenure to Dublin Airport

2) Dublin bus would use the same tracking system that they have in Belfast so you can actually see when the next bus is coming

3) Dublin, Galway, Cork and Belfast (at a minimum) would be connected through a high-speed rail network so it would take a maximum of 90 minutes to make any of those trips.

4) Car service would be banned and all public officials would be required to use public transport or pay out of pocket for their own cars, just like the rest of us plebs

Mickeroo wrote: »

make our mountains higher, wamer dryer summers, and colder winters with plenty of snow. If we had proper bloody seasons rather than this middle of the road weather we always get we'd have the best country in the world. FACT!

Temperate Climate - sucks.... give us hot summers and -20 winters:cool::cool::cool:

LC2010HIS wrote: »

the rubbish they put on RTE

would it kill them to invest in all their tv shows - the clinic was the only decent looking show on rte ....we have alot of potential. if bbc invest, why cant we?

Because there are millions and millions more people paying a TV licence in Britain. I'm no fan of RTE, but it's not fair to compare it to the Beeb.