Comments on: What is wrong with Ireland?

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:20:15 +0000

We have no one to blame but ourselves. Most people are aware how dirty our government and wealthy elite are, we know what they have done, we complain and whine about it all the time. But taking any kind of affirmative action seems to be something too few people are willing to take. Our undoing is because we view our government as the authorities instead of ourselves, the genuine authorities of this country. We have shot ourselves in the foot and deserve to suffer everything that has happened. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

By: jason smith

jason smith — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:42:22 +0000

I think the question should be: “What is RIGHT with Ireland?”

As you’ve said many times yourself, we are an utterly failed state. The charade of “democracy” and “civilisation” that has been carried on here since the foundation of the state has finally ended. The problem is that we’re such a nation of pathetic, gombeen-man following, forelock-tugging eejits that we’ll do nothing about it and allow those in “authority” to rape us (both metaphorically in the case of NAMA and literally in the case of the Ryan Report) again and again. Plus ça change!
I’ve attempted to spur those I work with and live close to into action time and time again and have been repeatedly dumbfounded by the all-pervasive apathy of my fellow countrymen and women. We are a nation of whiners and stress-release ranters, but when it comes to action, de match and de pint will always come first.
800 years under the British thumb? Bollix! 800 years of subservient forelock-tugging apathy more like. I am embarrassed to call myself an Irishman.

By: Brother in Law

Brother in Law — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:46:17 +0000

Quote – ‘these assumptions are all wrong…’ you’re goddam right they are! But when will Ireland wake up and see that??? Every day this stream of corruption is paraded before ue – we do at least have some investigative journalists; each day brings another sleazy revelation, another banking scandal, another inept politician, another expense fiddling Minister – what are we going to do about it?.Will a pint of the black stuff and a GAA final satisfy the (non) working man as it has done for all those corrupt years? It looks as if our two major parties are, in fact, variations of a theme written in the 1920′s – Tweedledum and Tweedledee. A ‘democracy?’ ‘bankrupt?’ ‘banana republic?’ God help us – all these terms seem to fit – and they fit a hell of a lot better than Brian’s ‘inappropriate behaviour…’