Is rural Ireland as backwards as people say?

folamh · 14-05-2015 04:07PM

^ What is the source of that chart?

fiachr_a · 14-05-2015 04:11PM

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Unfortunately, Donegal are the forgotten county.

Donegal's main problem is that it has no railway.

The J Stands for Jay · 14-05-2015 04:20PM

I've always found the Dubs to be quite backwards and conservative. But the overall Dublin population is more forward thinking because of all the blow-ins.

14-05-2015 04:26PM

Wheres Nox001 when you need him.

Mesrine65 · 14-05-2015 04:33PM

I'm an inner city northside Dub born, bred & buttered & I prefer rural Ireland TBH :eek:

Backward people & ideas are not geographically based.

Ozymandius2011 · 14-05-2015 04:35PM

I remember getting quite a frightening response when I came out to a rural friend in Co.Wexford around 2000. He blabbed to an older relative who confronted my father to pass on a message the former would never speak to me again. He also broke my confidence by telling the whole village. So I went back into the closet and made out it was just a phase. However I was pleasantly surprised how well my parents took it.

Tar.Aldarion · 14-05-2015 04:56PM

folamh wrote: »

^ What is the source of that chart?

http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/Voting/Referenda/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad,1894,en.pdf

The J Stands for Jay · 14-05-2015 05:07PM

Ozymandius2011 wrote: »

an older relative who confronted my father to pass on a message the former would never speak to me again.

I can never get my head round this. Why would anyone be so angry about something that has no effects on them?

14-05-2015 05:10PM

Ozymandius2011 wrote: »

I remember getting quite a frightening response when I came out to a rural friend in Co.Wexford around 2000. He blabbed to an older relative who confronted my father to pass on a message the former would never speak to me again. He also broke my confidence by telling the whole village. So I went back into the closet and made out it was just a phase. However I was pleasantly surprised how well my parents took it.

Hard to get my head around that one.

I'm glad your parents were good though.

pmasterson95 · 14-05-2015 05:13PM

Ozymandius2011 wrote: »

I remember getting quite a frightening response when I came out to a rural friend in Co.Wexford around 2000. He blabbed to an older relative who confronted my father to pass on a message the former would never speak to me again. He also broke my confidence by telling the whole village. So I went back into the closet and made out it was just a phase. However I was pleasantly surprised how well my parents took it.

Sorry bout that but did no urban friends not accept the decision or spaz out?
Like I'm sorry it happened dont get me wrong but I doubt the "rural friend" made much difference. "urban friend" could be a dick aswell.

K4t · 14-05-2015 05:15PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/Voting/Referenda/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad,1894,en.pdf

Rubbish. Mayo will vote Yes now that footballer Aidan O'Shea has endorsed the yes campaign. I'd be disappointed if it isn't a yes from Mayo, though I do seem to be the only person wearing my yes equality badge around town. The rest must keep forgetting theirs at home.

diomed · 14-05-2015 05:16PM

Little Britain, with Irish accents.

petrolcan · 14-05-2015 05:17PM

fiachr_a wrote: »

Donegal's main problem is that it has no railway.

Do keep up http://www.antraen.com/

cocoman · 14-05-2015 05:20PM

K4t wrote: »

Rubbish. Mayo will vote Yes now that footballer Aidan O'Shea has endorsed the yes campaign. I'd be disappointed if it isn't a yes from Mayo, though I do seem to be the only person wearing my yes equality badge around town. The rest must keep forgetting theirs at home.

He 's probably only endorsing the yes side because Ger Brennan is endorsing the no side

Galwayguy35 · 14-05-2015 05:35PM

Doubt the no side will be that high in Galway East.

Time will tell.

c_man · 14-05-2015 05:44PM

Is rural Ireland as backwards as people say?

No, but it suits a lot of people's agendas to make out that it is.

BoJack Horseman · 14-05-2015 05:47PM

c_man wrote: »

No, but it suits a lot of people's agendas to make out that it is.

Never underestimate "the agenda".

marklazarcovic · 14-05-2015 05:50PM

is a handpainted sign up in a field in oranmore co galway ..

'ya cant start a herd with two bulls' it says

'vote no'

had to laugh

Joe prim · 14-05-2015 05:54PM

bjork wrote: »

You should take a spin out the old west clare road...It's like wall street below. Johnjoe O'Reilly opened a centra and sells lottery tickets. You wouldn't see the like in New york. I went to dublin once with my mother. It was terrible. There was no where for her to sit down and rest, full of places to rest your aunt though.

Ye telt dat joke all wrong,and spoilt it, so ye did!

Aidric · 14-05-2015 05:55PM

McGaggs wrote: »

I've always found the Dubs to be quite backwards and conservative. But the overall Dublin population is more forward thinking because of all the blow-ins.

Weren't the labour party the biggest in Dublin at the last general election? Hardly conservative.

Joe prim · 14-05-2015 05:57PM

Mesrine65 wrote: »

I'm an inner city northside Dub born, bred & buttered & I prefer rural Ireland TBH :eek:

Backward people & ideas are not geographically based.

Stereotyping, I'm a northside dub too, and I do be too busy breaking into houses and acting in Love/Hate to care about oul' gay referenda.

John Doe1 · 14-05-2015 06:20PM

Location:Donegal
Religion: Presbyterian atheist
GAA: Load of bollocks, especially hurlystickball. I'm a rugby man.
Gays: Great bunch o lads
Farming: Nope
You: Ignorant Twat

The J Stands for Jay · 14-05-2015 06:20PM

Aidric wrote: »

Weren't the labour party the biggest in Dublin at the last general election? Hardly conservative.

I don't see them pushing for change.

Aidric · 14-05-2015 06:26PM

McGaggs wrote: »

I don't see them pushing for change.

pushers out #sinnfein

Adamantium · 14-05-2015 06:28PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B436avtEXzs

WesternZulu · 14-05-2015 07:02PM

The OP sounds like someone who has never ventured outside The Pale and bases all their opinions on rural Ireland on lazy stereotypes...which is fairly backward in itself.

jonnypacket wrote: »

. I'm not familiar with Ireland outside of Dublin but I imagine rural dwellers are more fixated on farming, GAA and the Catholic church. How true is this?

It'd be like me saying that all Dub's preoccupy themselves with drawing the dole, joyriding, and heroin.

Reiver · 14-05-2015 07:05PM

Rural Ireland=Real Ireland.

Dublin has never been Irish. It's a mixture of Vikings, Normans, Sassenachs and Palesmen. Never feel right there, so many people living on top of each other. It's like what rodents do.

WesternZulu · 14-05-2015 07:11PM

Reiver wrote: »

Never feel right there, so many people living on top of each other. It's like what rodents do.

At least rodents are civilized enough not to speak in that rotten dirty accent :pac:

jonnypacket · 14-05-2015 07:18PM

Reiver wrote: »

Dublin has never been Irish. It's a mixture of Vikings, Normans, Sassenachs and Palesmen.

Looks more like a mixture of Nigerians and Pakistanis these days.

14-05-2015 07:23PM

Candie wrote: »

Wheres Nox001 when you need him.

I was about to say the same thing :pac:

Is rural Ireland as backwards as people say?

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