Irish Politics?

Question

What do you think about the state of our country (Ireland)? Open to the Irish and non-Irish!

Answer 1

i think its ironic that we have one of the fairest voting system in the world, with a real cross of political parties, but yet, not one of them represents the common man. We vote for them, but their policies are ruled by big business. An example is the government commissioned a report on housing on the late 80s/early 90s. This report warned them of rising house prices and gave the government advice on how to control the housing market. But they ignored it when the only supplier of concrete in Ireland, and tax man and all the developers in the country saw their tills ringing. And so it is we are all living in over valued housing, and most middle class people can't get on the property ladder, without putting themselves at serious risk of negative equity.

It seems we look after the very poor and the very rich, rely too much on US investment (but the weakening dollar is making to expensive to carry on working here), EU funding, but we are now out of the bracket to receive the level of funding we did in the past, so soon enough we'll be on our own again. Will we all be so clever then? We'll have no manufacturing industires to rely on then, in debt up to our eyeballs, for now we can thank the € for our cheap credit, just hope some of the newer EU nations don't start borrowing at the same rate we did, or we'll find even the cheap credit is gone.

But family values are still important, can you actually believe common sense still rules (just look at those ASBO laws in the UK to prove my point). And we still are the same poeple we always were! So, like eejits, I'll be voting again in another 5 years.

Answer 2

Even more room for improvement that in 1989! Seriously, the more money some of these nouveaux riches/gombeen people have, the more the Inner Bogger shows. It proves that some people never had class to begin with.

I am not saying this because I am AGAINST Irish, I AM Irish and live in the country and while money might improve some things, certain respect and values have gone to the wall.

Answer 3

Yhis is paper tiger country.
First, foster a want.
Then bombard the populace with idiotic repetative "give-away " drivel
Now it's time to inject the anxiety virus ; you are being stalked .. you must have a placibo of "home watch" which always comes with a deadline discount..
Young decent couples are now ripe for entrapment ....
The "Brown-Enveloped " development land is now preloaded
in hock for site acquisition at unconscionable cost.
SO this is where the BANKS and all their scavenging cohorts come between you and your very breakfast so to speak. The Legal profession and marketing posers smell the carrion.. and the avericious lenders ( who always make "mistakes" in their own favour so it seems ) well, drop in to dine. Then perched on top of the vulture bush sits the so called Government. The exchequer is vacuuming up all vat ,on run-away and therefore inflated furnishings and fittings and since this decent "couple" have had to locate at long commuting distance .. you have travel charges further going to "revenue"
Now how is this financed: Well the concept of family life is relegated , at lenders' dictat to the status of bothersome appendage The much harassed mothers being the stressed buffer in this "existance" of a life. AND ALL THIS IS ON BORROWERS' REAL MONEY. which could well soon in many cases become negative equity PIE IN THE SKY VALUE.
Meanwhile the "miraculous" polititions have gather all the fat salaried kudos . "COUPLE > wouldn't it be so dandy if you forgo the family JUST TO PLEASE THE BANKS." Me. I don't think much of our country (Ireland).

Answer 4

i'm an American of Irish parentage who holds an Irish passport and spent 2-3 months in eire each and every 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, so I even have extremely of an interloper's attitude, yet i think of it relatively is as a results of fact eire is a reasonably small participant on the international point while in comparison with america, China, India, Russia and the united kingdom. eire focuses greater inward, it relatively is definitely a reliable factor, as a results of fact i could fairly have a reliable high quality of existence in a small, much less influential united states than a low familiar of residing in united statesa.. i like eire and desire which you're making it out of the recession. undergo in recommendations, procuring on credit is evil! human beings do it for all time and it will make a contribution to our death. do no longer imitate the worst aspects of united statesa., please! shop up the fantastic academic gadget, shield a reliable infrastructure, shop the corporate tax costs low with the intention to entice company, regulate immigration and shop out speech codes or different infringements on liberty.

Answer 5

Well said anto and orla.
dublin gets too much development, they piss and moan about not havin enough facilitiezs but dont know how good they have it.
My own opinion on the country is thet if you voted for bertie and the muppet show in the last election then you cant complain, they will change their tune in 5 years time and de man of the people bertie will come areound with cap in hand pulling all the stupid faces he does looking for your vote while is 35k extra a year has him laughing in your face.

Haughey was a ba5tard but he was right when he said that Ahern was 2the mosty devious and cunning of them all", this is coming from the great swindler himself.

FG and labour gave this country the free uni fees, that was the catylist for the boom.

Answer 6

I think politically it's in a bit of a mess...the amount Bertie gets paid shocks me. Especially in comparison to other world leaders like George Bush (okay, I know a lot of people don't like him, and i don't either, but he 'rules' a country far, far more populous than our own) and others,a dn the amount of work he appears to do. And the introduction of that learner-driver license thing was strange...to say the least. Did they honestly think every provisional driver in the country would have a full license when they decreed? The mind boggles.

Answer 7

it's awful!
it seems good to everyone when you have'nt left for the Continent in a while but once you go over there, you see how bad Ireland is. I though it was a deadly place and was the best in the world. I went to GERMANY!!!! on an exchange in March and we visited this small town which is smaller than mine(Athlone). It had a huge pedestrian area near the main shopping area, no traffic problems and it's own Luas-thingy.
Only dublin has one in our county, which leads me to my next point.
that capital of ours MUST have it's title taken off it nd it's people must be stopped. nearly all Ireland's infrastructure goes there and little to the rest of the country. This is very unbalanced. Also, the people are very obnoxious and snobby to the rest of the country. ,,AHHH YA FUCKIN CULCHIE, GO BACK TO YER FARM!!'' ,,FOOKIN NORRIE!!!!''
It is apparent that although Ireland is nearly free of english rule and most old settlements of theirs have gone, the Pale still exists. dublin is still full of people who look down on the Irish.

Answer 8

Not sure about the state of the country with the euro but I think it seems to be doing alright.

Answer 9

we irish are proud of the fact that we drove out a foreign invader through minimal force even though greatly outnumbered. in the north its happening as i write this. british barracks have been dismantled the RUC are now the PSNI and catholics are welcome to join. but 75 years after the irish free state was formed we have another foreign invader landing their planes on irish soil with no approval by the state. either the republic of ireland is a true neutral state or it can bend over and take it up the ars'e from the yanks, which it is doing by allowing them to land planes of mass destruction for re-fuelling in shannon airport. also the northern contingent has done more for the south than they could ever be thankful for, werent for us no massive peace dividend or celtic tiger. global economics depends on the silencing of weapons so the parasites can build factories over the graves of the dead. america and britain have profited from this already. as far as i care america britain and the rest of the world can f'uck off. tis better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Answer 10

marvellous my first holiday 1957, happy to work there 1970,
they got as greedy as us english once they joined the european community. Haven't been backsince 1982 and unlikely to return. Respect for authority has gone rapidly down hill since 1985.