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Irish & Proud & Troubled Enough… Don’t Represent Me!

Ireland has trouble enough, dealing with its share of the global credit crunch, but in good auld timely fashion there are always those who would come along to drag us further down into the quagmire. I have always been very proud of Ireland and our heritage and carried a heartfelt joy at being Irish, but lately I am finding it hard to hold my head up.

Following the recent renewed spate of violence in the North of Ireland I feel ashamed.

These murderous traitors to the Irish way-of-life, do not represent me as an Irish person nor do they reflect my views. Do these people, who are doing these terrible things, not think that Ireland has enough problems and sadness to worry about with the recession, without pilling more heartache on top of the Country’s concerns?

 

It’s time that it was realised that the Irish people no longer want violence… that Ireland can sort out it’s differences by other means and that these terrorists no longer represent Ireland nor will they be allowed to be the voice of it’s people!

Recession Ireland: The Twice-Done Country

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So we all know what’s going on in the world with economics and who wants to mention the dreaded R-word again !It’s not enough either that everyone is feeling hard-done-by and World leaders have quite nicely managed to cough things up rightly but it seems to me that Ireland has been done over twice by it’s government…

Not so long ago, all the Irish could hear on the radio and read in the newspapers was THE CELTIC TIGER… The economy was booming and the under-lying message was spend, spend, spend… all was wonderful in our bright green wonderland. So good times come and bad times come and after all that is the way of things. We had our moment in the sun and this is our darker hour, so maybe no one should be all that surprised… and that line of thought might be alright if that was what had happened.

THE TRUTH IS: Our economic prosperity was only for the few, like some sort of elitist joke. Certainly, no one I ever met really benefitted from the so-called Tiger! I know I didn’t catch a glimpse of it or even get a sniff of it on someone else! Neither did we have our cake… nor are we ever likely to eat it!