The good things about Ireland.

The people.
Still a strong sense of community.
Close to the sea.

The fields are always so green wen comin home froms holidays esp!

The Girls
The stable economy
The secure currency
Low unemployment
The way noone's scum
The weather
oh I know, Planxty!

*Social Healthcare
*Overly generous Welfare system
*Nobody is dying of hunger
*No regime is forcefully ruling the country
*Decent but dated education system
*Average public transport
*Outgoing and interesting society

Things could be worse.

Bad things?
*We're a shower of ungrateful c*nts

There's ATMs everywhere!
I was traveling around Europe a few years back and finding an ATM was often a pain in the neck.
Our taxation system is deadly. Everything is sorted for you, no headaches trying to sort out your taxes at the end of the year.
Irish cities are always good crack with musicians and buskers playing late at night. You rarely see that elsewhere.

The weather-I love our temperate climate. Sure a bit more sun would be nice but then I'd have to slather on the factor 50 more than I already do on so meh, not worth it .

No deadly creatures that want to maim or kill you (not counting the local scobes)

Irish beef and dairy is the best in the world. I missed Irish butter more than anything when I lived abroad.
Our farmhouse cheeses are as good as you find anywhere and our fruit and veg are fantastic. Same with our sausages and black pud.

Best bloodstock industry in the world here.

Gorgeous lush green countryside.

The people.

I'm here and I'm fucking brilliant.

mikemac wrote: »

If you drive or walk on country roads in rural areas everyone salutes

It's what seperates us from the townies :cool:

This might have been true years ago but is certainly becoming less and less true with time as affleunt folk from the towns move out to the country.

Best things about Ireland are the beaches (shoutout to Banna strand)

The rivers are great for fishing and with the clampdown on the offshore nets the fishing is getting even better.

The best Guinness anywhere from my experience (I have never heard anyone say otherwise)

And the biggy: this is where my friends and family live, you could stick me on a one square mile rock in the middle of the pacific and as long as they were there and I was in no imminent danger things wouldn't be that bad. Home isn't really the place for me it's the people and those people are in Ireland so it's pretty good in my books.

mtb_kng wrote: »

How do you know people in the town don't do it, you live in the country. I'm a ten minute walk from the town centre and everyone salutes...

And +1 to all the rest :pac:

grew up in the country in Kerry lived in Cork city for the last 7 years, When I was young everyone saluted the car when you passed in the country mostly, they flat out don't in Cork anyway (sure they would never stop saluting!). When I go back home now the mother is always going on about it how there are so many new faces around the place and loads of people don't salute mightn't be the same everywhere but in my own experience it's only the older generations of out and out country folk who do the saluting thing.