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If you could change one thing about Ireland...

  • 11-06-2019 8:50pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭sportsfan90


    If you could change one thing about Ireland, what would it be?

    For me it's the courts system and the sentences handed down. I'm so sick of lenient and suspended sentences that I now just avoid reading about court cases in newspapers. People on 100+ previous convictions pleading with the judge about their tough upbringing and how they've now turned their life around. Absolutely infuriating how it's repeatedly allowed to happen!

    I don't care what it takes - they can double my USC to pay for extra prison officers, they can build a massive prison next door to my house, I really don't care how it's done once the scumbags are taken off the streets and there's an actual deterrent for the type of people that feel the law doesn't apply to them.

    So what is the one thing (serious or trivial) that you'd like to change about Ireland?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    The culture of little to no personal responsibility.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,348 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    The drinking culture.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Get rid of Joe Brolly by whatever means necessary


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,350 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    I'd like for winters to be colder, so when the Liffey freezes over , I could skate along it in a sort of winter wonderland scene.
    Ok , I'd have to avoid the frozen traffic cones and shopping trolleys but you get my gist.


  • Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭corkboy38


    snakes


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  • Registered Users Posts: 17,574 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    The weather, think France has the best all round climate, I'd happily change ours for theirs.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • Registered Users Posts: 995 ✭✭✭Gorteen


    Inept political and public service decision making


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭spakman


    Weather. It's like fkcng winter out there!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 474 ✭✭Former Observer


    Outlaw private health care and private schools.

    Everybody should contribute to the same system. If rich people want their children to go to better schools then they should invest in the whole system.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,211 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Not so expensive


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    The current people.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Its location - the Bay of Biscay would be nice.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,319 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Seize every car, motorbike, bicycle or pedestrian that breaks the rule of the road, and put them into a big crusher.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,020 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I'd like to change the school system. Mainly the secondary one.
    Firstly I'd like to see more practical classes(I know people say your meant to learn it at home but we don't live in an ideal World).
    I'd also like to see more subjects/courses being offered especially in the second half of secondary. Some would be for the more academic students and others for the more vocational students.
    I'd also look into the amount of subjects you have to study.


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    I'd like people to support an Irish football team as well as a British one.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Geographical location.

    Move it down near the Canary Islands.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,322 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    The instututional apathy and lack of accountability.


  • Registered Users Posts: 733 ✭✭✭milehip


    A few less scumbags would be nice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Pay.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    Fcuking regulate the legal and insurance professions properly


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Midges.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Everyone has to do a minimum of 1 years service in the army upon finishing/dropping out of school.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    Make the housing crisis the no 1 priority ,build 30 k housing units per year ,
    give the council money to repair the 1000,s of empty council flats.
    Even working people find it hard to find quality rental housing.
    The tds, politicians are on high wages ,they are not looking to rent
    a small flat or share a house with 4 other tenants .
    Some international companys are now avoiding irish citys as a base , because there is a shortage of quality rental units.

    Theres no accountability for any one in the government or the civil service,
    if someone screws up they might maybe retire early with a nice pension .
    When theres a big screw up, the people responsible will not be named .
    But there will be committees and investigations which cost millions .
    A report will be published which will be vary vague and no person will be named .
    eg this happened, that happened ,
    some dept or governmnet body did something or was not quick to react to certain events .
    Unless someone commits financial fraud , or commits a serious crime ,
    no one in the civil service is held to be responsible for anything


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    Issue people with a love for

    Personal Responsibility


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,325 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Outlaw private health care and private schools.

    Everybody should contribute to the same system. If rich people want their children to go to better schools then they should invest in the whole system.

    It doesn't improve healthcare. All that does is encourage consultants to move abroad to make money.

    And people won't put extra money to the whole education system. I'm fact it's been demonstrated before that many people paying for private schooling are ordinary workers who are making sacrifices to try to give their kids an advantage.

    But if the objective is to bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator then why stop there? Nan cars and make everyone just use public transport. Or in fact just go whole North Korea.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,693 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    imme wrote: »
    Issue people with a love for

    Personal Responsibility

    This ^^^

    When individuals act in any way to hurt another... instead of doing some sort of digging mission and creating a dossier of ‘hardship’ and using it as a green card to authorize past and further discrepancies...how about we look after those who have and are victimized first and foremost. Bad actions and bad people to in turn pay the price, regardless.


  • Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Everyone has to do a minimum of 1 years service in the army upon finishing/dropping out of school.

    Yeah, give every scumbag training in how to attack and kill... I can see that ending well.


  • Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    While it's all we have at the moment, democracy gives us some of the most inept leaders. Maybe introduce a system where people have to train and complete courses in leadership, do exams and go through serious interviews and screening to become a member of government.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭Elemonator


    Change the Irish attitudes of begrudgery and the acceptance of mediocrity. Irish people, in my opinion, hate to see their own get ahead and you are instantly communally beaten down for showing any sort of confidence or aspirations and you would be considered to have "notions". I didn't encounter this attitude in the US.

    Acceptance of mediocrity. While we are extremely lucky to have what we do have, there is a prevalent attitude of acceptance of mediocrity in all aspects of Irish society. I'd call it the "be grand attitude", whether that be our public transport, wasted potential or our health system.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 426 ✭✭Nikki Sixx


    The people. Nosy, gossipy, back stabbing, begrudging, spiteful, sneery and judgmental. If you broke your back suddenly in Ireland and were wheelchair bound, people would love “feeling sorry” for you.


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