Is Ireland "Too Small" to run itself ?

Because Britain did a bang up job of running Ireland up until independence.... :rolleyes:

The size of the country has nothing to do with how easily it can be run. Can you not run your own household? Maybe it would be easier if you ran 50 households?

The Republic is a very young country, and it will always take a lot of good and bad things to happen before we get to a point where good and bad things still happen but we are more accustomed to dealing with them. We may need to peg a new Irish currency to sterling out of necessity, but claiming that another country is needed to run our own is ridiculous - it would make no difference.

iMax wrote: »

For clarification & full disclosure reasons: There's a lot I love about Ireland & a lot I hate.

Personally I think we screwed it up, I think because of the decisions made in the past by people with money & power, we've lost it. I have a child who probably doesn't have a future in this country, I'd rather see her go & succeed elsewhere than be stuck here saddled with debts she had absolutely nothing to do with.

In this "great" country there are people serving jail time (not much but they are) for not having a TV licence while the people who bankrupted the country & are most probably minimising the taxes they pay walk free.

The government can create or change legislation overnight to enforce pay deductions, yet cannot stop paying bonuses or excessively high salaries because they're "legally contracted" to.

It's no wonder we failed, we weren't watching what was going on because we were too busy screwing each other.

If your daughter has the same defeatest attitude as you then I feel sorry for her cause she'll never succeed at anything.

When things go wrong you fix it and move forward. I'm sick and tired of these non stop bullsh*t threads about how bad this country is and how there's no hope for the children. Your children are tomorrows politicians and policy makers. Teach them now the difference between right and wrong and they won't need to carry the burden of todays mistakes because they'll have the sense and knowledge to change it!

iMax wrote: »

I'm far from defeatist, as is she, I'm very much a realist.

Your not defeatist??? A few bad years and your contemplating running back to the same country that raped and starved us for centuries. If you were a realist you'd realise that we've been here before as has every other country in the world. We'll get through it, we'll move on and like most other countries we'll probably be in the same position again as it wasn't just our mistakes that lead to this. Some things you just can't control

Yes, but I'm not seeing much moving forward going on, admittedly there's a lot of stuff that happens behind closed doors, that we will never be privy to, but all that's happening now is treading financial & political waters.

Your not seeing much now and being honest you probably won't for a while but that doesn't mean it's not happening. Good news in not reported in the national newspapers because good news doesn't sell. There's new jobs being announced every day but they get very little coverage. All we hear is the doom and gloom stories and the majority of those stories are either exaggerated or speculation.

The simple fact is we've only ruled ourselves for less than a hundred years & we managed to screw it up spectacularly. If we were run the same way as Scotland, or NI, we'd probably be in a better position.

There's that defeatist attitude again. How have we screwed it up? The recession brought things crashing back to reality but how many of us were honestly complaining when we were benefiting from it all? None. I don't know anyone who complained during the good times about having a job, getting paid good wages, taking foreign holidays etc etc.

is it to small ?i dont know,but in UK terms its like yorkshire going independent,both have the same population.

Yes. We need to expand. We should invade France and Germany. We should probably take over the UK first, their ports could be useful.