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The Most Embarassed Moment You have Ever Felt to be Irish

Kaka10

Lets try to steer clear of the whole paedophile priests and IMF bail out malarky. Have you ever cringed at something a fellow countryman did abroad ?

My one :
I was in Austria in a skiing resort and the only pub was an English pub called the Londoner. There were an Irish family from Roscommon who used to come in for the Apres Ski every evening. Anyway, one evening the whole family start singing 'RA songs and started singing the fields of Athen Ri, screaming in their own contributions such as "hey baby let the free birds fly" (I am not joking about that one) and more worringly screaming at the top of their lungs "I R A". Everyone in the pub just looked at them bemused and ignored them.

Whats your one?

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P_1

This is a contender tbh

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13189404

Celly Smunt

tommyhaas wrote: »

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'' ?

as a celtic fan i can honestly say the chanting comes from both sides and mainly bigots with no interest in the game.

ColeTrain

alexa5x5 wrote: »

Was in a pub in Portugal a few years ago when a few tables up some guys started singing rebel songs, wouldn’t been so bad but the pub was made up of mainly English people and it wasn’t that sort of place anyway. Have the place got up and left.

That reads like a Sunday World headline - "The drunken Irish in sing song abroad SHOCKER"

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

Ming is far from stupid. I've heard him do plenty of interviews and he always comes across well.

The last interview I heard was on Today FM a few weeks back, he made the presenter sound stupid - not something a stupid person would do.

As for your point about America, I'd wager there are have been far bigger idiots in the White House compared to Ming, never mind the Congress. At least Ming admitted that he inhaled.

talla10

elefant wrote: »

Why do you think that?

He engages in petty crime, has criminal convictions, participated in 'Love Ulster' 'demonstrations', he is a drug addict (i know its 'only' weed but technically he can be defined as a drug addict as he is addicted to a controlled drug as listed in Misuse of Drugs Act 1977/84) He is just a loudmouth who is never happy unless he is giving out.

And his nickname is Ming.

Cnut.

Kevin Duffy

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

The states have former actors and wrestlers in their "national parliment", same for state governers and they re-elected, RE-elected! George Bush.

talla10

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

The states have former actors and wrestlers in their "national parliment", same for state governers and they re-elected, RE-elected! George Bush.

In my opinion Ming is worse the man makes my blood boil!!

KeithAFC

Brendan smyth would be another one.

RayM

talla10 wrote: »

He engages in petty crime, has criminal convictions, participated in 'Love Ulster' 'demonstrations', he is a drug addict (i know its 'only' weed but technically he can be defined as a drug addict as he is addicted to a controlled drug as listed in Misuse of Drugs Act 1977/84) He is just a loudmouth who is never happy unless he is giving out.

And his nickname is Ming.

Cnut.

What a stupid, idiotic post. To accuse him of being a "drug addict" (citing his his recreational use of cannabis) is a bit like accusing someone of being a raging alcoholic (and therefore, also a drug addict), just because they enjoy an occasional pint.

tommyhaas

pmcmahon wrote: »

as a celtic fan i can honestly say the chanting comes from both sides and mainly bigots with no interest in the game.

Of course there's idiots on both sides. True, a portion of the Celtic fans sing Republican songs, songs that may be considered offensive, they dont sing sectarian ones though.

My point really tho relates to how a person who would not consider themselves sectarian or bigoted could reconcile that with being in the midst of a crowd singing such bile

Duckworth_Luas

talla10 wrote: »

In my opinion Ming is worse the man makes my blood boil!!

One piece of advice then, never open a newspaper, listen to the radio or watch TV. Compared to almost every other elected representative of the Irish people, Luke Flanagan is the epitome of an honest, principled, hard working, decent politician. Also, get used to him, he's going to be around for a long time.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

To be honest Ming getting elected only made me embarrassed of being from Mayo (If I lived five miles east of here, I'd be in his constituency).

Venom

Joe Higgins mounting off about the Queen having to pay for her visit here was pretty damm embarrassing :eek:

The FAI asking if Ireland could still go to the last World Cup after losing the match against France wasn't a great moment either

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Ever heard of Pee Flynn?

He was before my time, but yes hes another reason to be embarrassed of being from Mayo. I wish I had transferred my vote to Galway, its a waste of time voting in this county.

You know things are bad when you wish you were from Roscommon

Steyr

KeithAFC wrote: »

I ain't an Irish man though.

Where were you born?

KeithAFC

Steyr wrote: »

Where were you born?

Ulster.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

KeithAFC wrote: »

Ulster.

But Ulsters in Ireland :pac:

wiger toods

When john delaney suggested 'ireland be team 33 at the world cup'!
I was as pissed off as the rest as im a HUGE football fan, but at the same time you have to know when your beat, so to speak!
This was just a bury your head in the sand moment, as fat sepp blatter had a great laugh at it during his press conference.
Thank you john, thanks very much!

fontanalis

KeithAFC wrote: »

Ulster.

Which of the 9 counties?

mikemac

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

He was before my time, but yes hes another reason to be embarrassed of being from Mayo. I wish I had transferred my vote to Galway, its a waste of time voting in this county.

Ah Galway, home of Frank "Twenty houses" Fahy
Don't be ashamed of your area, every area elects some dodgy characters

You should be ashamed of your footballers though :pac:

KeithAFC

fontanalis wrote: »

Which of the 9 counties?

Co.Down

orourkeda

St Patricks Day

Duckworth_Luas

feelingstressed wrote: »

Ah Galway, home of Frank "Twenty houses" Fahy
Don't be ashamed of your area, every area elects some dodgy characters

You should be ashamed of your footballers though :pac:

Frank "Forty Gaffs" Fahey, the reason Luke "Ming" Flanagan initially sought election all those years ago.

zuroph

Thursday night in any student town. Christ the next generation below me are gone mad.

fontanalis

zuroph wrote: »

Thursday night in any student town. Christ the next generation below me are gone mad.

Or you're more sane. Oh, and you're probably paying for it.

suicide_circus

When I log on to after hours every day and see yet another new Ireland-bashing thread. So much self hating and negativity, its truly depressing, snap out of it you lousers.

Big Nasty

When on holidays and the scroates on tour go to the Irish pubs in their eircom jerseys to drink Magners and sing 'The Fields'.

fontanalis

suicide_circus wrote: »

When I log on to after hours every day and see yet another new Ireland-bashing thread. So much self hating and negativity, its truly depressing, snap out of it you lousers.

Don't be so loosy!

suicide_circus

Louser is not a mis-spelling

fontanalis

suicide_circus wrote: »

Louser is not a mis-spelling

Dublin slang; as good as.

suicide_circus

Wrong again, its nothing to do with loser. A louser is someone who is lousy.