What was the worst event in modern Irish history?

John Doe1 · 22-07-2014 01:26AM #1

There has been quite a few but DeValera signing a book of condolence for Hitler and the treatment of those who fight in WW2 when they returned home has got to be up there.

Also, The Omagh bombing was the most pointless waste of life on this island.

TeddyTedson · 22-07-2014 01:29AM

Wasting so much of tax payers money during the boom and ending up where we are now is pretty bad.

Duff · 22-07-2014 01:29AM

Jedward in the Eurovis.. in general.

hjkl · 22-07-2014 01:29AM

Dublin Monaghan bombings is up there.

The Backwards Man · 22-07-2014 01:30AM

Sending that turkey puppet to the Eurovision.

massdebater · 22-07-2014 01:31AM

The whole Garth Brooks thing

ardmhacha22 · 22-07-2014 01:37AM

When people started to turn anti N.I catholic, my grandfather said it was not like that until recent times.

greedygoblin · 22-07-2014 01:39AM

So many to choose from.

The Omagh bombing.
Dublin-Monaghan bombings.
Buttevant rail crash.
Stardust tragedy.
Air India plane crash.
Aer Lingus Tuskar Rock plane crash.

ch20 · 22-07-2014 01:40AM

the saipan incident with roy keane in 2002.

131spanner · 22-07-2014 01:44AM

The Stardust Tragedy would always come to mind.

policarp · 22-07-2014 01:45AM

Has to be the economic crash.
End of the "Celtic Tiger".

LOEF · 22-07-2014 01:46AM

The Omagh bombing.
How quickly the 6 counties were forgotten by Dublin.
The continued assistance offered to the US Army via Shannon.

Panthro · 22-07-2014 01:46AM

the success of Mrs Brown's boys.
I heard there's a second film in the pipeline.

Dear.
God.
No.

My name is URL · 22-07-2014 01:54AM

That auld one climbing a fence & walking on to an active runway while security had to be alerted by her friend who phoned them up

She's literally Hitler

Karl Stein · 22-07-2014 01:54AM

Bloody Sunday 1972.

Not for the number of people killed but the backlash it caused.

Sulla Felix · 22-07-2014 01:55AM

Probably suningdale not being signed. Lead to many many more deaths for no appreciable benefit over what was initially on the table.

Sir Arthur Daley · 22-07-2014 01:56AM

Kilkenny for the 5 in a row.

N N Nuther 55 · 22-07-2014 02:06AM

partition,

banquo · 22-07-2014 02:07AM

My name is URL wrote: »

That auld one climbing a fence & walking on to an active runway while security had to be alerted by her friend who phoned them up

She's literally Hitler

No way, man. Double Hitler.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 22-07-2014 02:12AM

Norman invasion.

john the one · 22-07-2014 02:13AM

Micheal Collins taking a bullet. Its a nice emotional scene in the movie, i cried reading about it in my school history books aswell.

Lapin · 22-07-2014 02:15AM

The X case and the subsuquent failure of successive governments to act on it, which eventually resulted in the death of Savita Halappanavar.

Simply because our poiticians were too spinless to take ation for fear of the inevitable backlash from the altar and the loss of votes from the sheep kneeling before that altar.

You get the (bigger) picture here.

An Riabhach · 22-07-2014 02:17AM

Joining the EU.

ardmhacha22 · 22-07-2014 02:18AM

N N Nuther 55 wrote: »

partition,

No it made us see what the southern Irish were really like, they stood back and let the Nationalists get literally butchered in the street.
It is a division of Irish people that will never heal,

dobz95 · 22-07-2014 02:19AM

Omagh bombing & Stardust I'd have to say. Sadly there have been many terrible events in Irish history

porsche959 · 22-07-2014 02:19AM

John Doe1 wrote: »

There has been quite a few but DeValera signing a book of condolence for Hitler and the treatment of those who fight in WW2 when they returned home has got to be up there.

Also, The Omagh bombing was the most pointless waste of life on this island.

The ones you've mentioned would be high on my list.

Also DeValera's pointless, moronic, counter-productive trade war of the 1930s.

ardle1 · 22-07-2014 02:19AM

massdebater wrote: »

The whole Garth Brooks thing

YEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWWWW

I'm agreeing with you btw.

john the one · 22-07-2014 02:20AM

yeah sorry forgot about the famine which is hands down the worst. defined our history

porsche959 · 22-07-2014 02:24AM

Lapin wrote: »

The X case and the subsuquent failure of successive governments to act on it, which eventually resulted in the death of Savita Halappanavar.

Simply because our poiticians were too spinless to take ation for fear of the inevitable backlash from the altar and the loss of votes from the sheep kneeling before that altar.

You get the (bigger) picture here.

On a similar note, but going back further in history, the shafting of Noel Browne by an unholy alliance of clerics and doctors. The latter were worse, as they didn't have the excuse of being brainwashed by a fanatical cult. They did it just for professional monetary advantage.

porsche959 · 22-07-2014 02:24AM

Seasan wrote: »

Joining the EU.

Come off it.

genuine leather · 22-07-2014 02:28AM

Two treatys that were voted against by the irish electorate,
but both got a yes vote after the threats....sorry,disscussion,sorry jellybeans...eh..f n hell democracy my arse

What was the worst event in modern Irish history?

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