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The Most Embarassed Moment You have Ever Felt to be Irish

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  • #32
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    At Australia V Ireland in a rugby match a few years ago. Drunk Irish youths everywhere shouting "who are ya who are ya" etc at bemused Australian families etc. Scarlet I was!


  • #33
    Wolfe Tone
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    brummytom wrote: »
    Have you never heard the Fields of Athenry sung like that before?! :confused:
    Sure half the time when its sung people sing that version.


  • #34
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    kfallon wrote: »
    The Omagh bombing
    Should be number 1.


  • #35
    fontanalis
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    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Should be number 1.

    What collective guilt can we put on you?


  • #36
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Anyone who goes abroad with a tricolour.

    There is no need to take our national flag on holidays with you, really. Especially when you're going to wear it wrapped around your sunburnt body at 3am in Spain whilst out of your mind on sangria and shouting about how much you want a roide.

    Makes me die a little bit inside.


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  • #37
    SChique00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭SChique00


    l embarressed to be Irish only when I see the news. You know it's actually funny - in a sick sort of way, perhaps - that even after everything they've been struck by, the brave Japanese are continuing on, trying to rebuild their country without so much as a whinge. Whereas here we get a couple of measly inches of the white stuff over Christmas and the whole country shuts down. I told a foreign exchange student from Finland about my missing four weeks of school because of the blasted snow and she laughed in my face.


  • #38
    Kaka10
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    brummytom wrote: »
    Have you never heard the Fields of Athenry sung like that before?! :confused:

    The only time I've ever heard the Fields of Athenry sung other than that incident is at rugby games and I've never heard the IRA or let the free birds fly part added in.


  • #39
    fontanalis
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    What's the name of the fella who looks at the sun for too long?


  • #40
    Celly Smunt
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    fontanalis wrote: »
    What's the name of the fella who looks at the sun for too long?
    stevie wonder?


  • #41
    SChique00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭SChique00


    Oh, and Cowen of course. Need I say more? OH! And the nuns, and Fair City. :D


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  • #42
    RayM
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    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Should be number 1.

    Why should Irish people be embarrassed by the Omagh bombing?


  • #43
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Never once felt embarrassed by Omagh - nothing to do with me, even if the bastards claimed it was done in the Irish people's name. I felt furious, distraught, but shame? Why the **** would an Irish person with no involvement feel shame? :confused:


  • #44
    SChique00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭SChique00


    "We're a small island in a big ocean, but we've disgraced ourselves to the wider world from here". Anyone else hear that the man in the ad cost 5 million spondilicks? And they say we're destitute...


  • #45
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    fontanalis wrote: »
    What collective guilt can we put on you?
    I ain't an Irish man though. But that one would be number 1 if i was. Awful. Shankill butchers would be probably the one for me. Although i wasn't alive but still shamed by it.


  • #46
    talla10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭talla10


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Hey, Mings a legend!

    I hope your joking he is a symbol of how stupid some irish people are!!!No other country in the world would ever have an idiot like that in national parliament. And i include America in that!!:D


  • #47
    Dudess
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    SChique00 wrote: »
    even after everything they've been struck by, the brave Japanese are continuing on, trying to rebuild their country without so much as a whinge. Whereas here we get a couple of measly inches of the white stuff over Christmas and the whole country shuts down. I told a foreign exchange student from Finland about my missing four weeks of school because of the blasted snow and she laughed in my face.
    Although it was a LOT more than a few measly inches of snow, and we were not prepared for it (unlike Finland) because it very very rarely happened in Ireland up to 2009 and 2010.


  • #48
    BraziliaNZ
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    KeithAFC wrote: »
    I ain't an Irish man though. But that one would be number 1 if i was. Awful. Shankill butchers would be probably the one for me. Although i wasn't alive but still shamed by it.

    well Omagh was just another case of your fellow wee countrymen blowing each other up, nothing to do with Irish people.


  • #49
    sparksfly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭sparksfly


    Went to a funeral in London with a plane load of relations. Afterwards in the pub,
    one uncle started every sentence with "begob". The sniggering was unbearable.


  • #50
    elefant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭elefant


    talla10 wrote: »
    I hope your joking he is a symbol of how stupid some irish people are!!!No other country in the world would ever have an idiot like that in national parliament. And i include America in that!!:D


    Why do you think that?


  • #51
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Shankill butchers would be probably the one for me. Although i wasn't alive but still shamed by it.
    I personally don't think you should be. I find collective responsibility of that nature to be quite dangerous. Recognition of how awful it was and that it doesn't represent decent loyalists should be plenty.


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  • #52
    Kaka10
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    talla10 wrote: »
    I hope your joking he is a symbol of how stupid some irish people are!!!No other country in the world would ever have an idiot like that in national parliament. And i include America in that!!:D

    Sarah Palin nearly became vice president


  • #53
    Xivilai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Xivilai


    I'm gonna be pretty embarrassed if this whole Queen visit thing goes down the ****ter


  • #54
    Celly Smunt
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    Kaka10 wrote: »
    Sarah Palin nearly became vice president

    wasn't represented by the people.


  • #55
    DANJOMULL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭DANJOMULL


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEz5GfZUnBU&feature=share


  • #56
    Ellian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Ellian


    Warrington bombing - was in England meeting the girlfriend's parents for the first time. We're all sitting around breakfast table listening to Radio 4 and how the RA blew up a three year old for the glorious cause. Never felt so ashamed of being Irish before or since.


  • #57
    fontanalis
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    Kaka10 wrote: »
    Sarah Palin nearly became vice president


    Bertie Aherne, Cowen, Coughlan, Lenihan (re-elected after the gurantee)


  • #58
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,923 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Pretty much when anyone of Irish nationality acts the bollix when abroad. Remember a few years back a large congregation of Irish Travellers descended on St Raphael in Southern France, pretty much setting up camp where they wanted? The Local police seized their vehicles, carvans etc. because most if not all had no documentation and sent them packing.

    It happens the whole time in small villages and towns in mainland Britain, but **** them....800 years an' all. ;)


  • #59
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Xivilai wrote: »
    I'm gonna be pretty embarrassed if this whole Queen visit thing goes down the ****ter
    lol you can just see it now. :o


  • #60
    Sir Oxman
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    talla10 wrote: »
    I hope your joking he is a symbol of how stupid some irish people are!!!No other country in the world would ever have an idiot like that in national parliament. And i include America in that!!:D


    Cop yourself on, that man is far from being an idiot.


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  • #61
    tommyhaas
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    KeithAFC wrote: »
    lol you can just see it now. :o

    How does it make yo feel when you stand amongst the home fans at Ibrox and hear them chant ''We're up to our knees in Fenian blood'' or ''The famine's over why don't you go home'' ?


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