It’s become a depressing shithole, run by a crowd of people that are so disconnected with the people it’s sickening , no future for young people here and not even the most basic mental health services available to people in need
I looked up the tweet of the last one you posted. That’s fucking horrendous. I had a friend who attempted suicide but was stopped. Her gp referred her to the A&E in tralee to be assessed by a psychiatrist. She waited 12 hours with people literally sitting on her by the end as she wanted to leave. Her sister went to the triage nurse to find out WTF was going on as it was a Tuesday night and the A&E was empty. It turned out she had been entered on the system as a potential chest infection rather than a psychiatric emergency by mistake and as such she was waaaaay down their list of priorities. If people hadn’t been with her to keep her there that could have been a fatal mistake on tralee hospitals part
The sad thing is that none of this happened by accident. Everything from our healthcare system to our housing crisis. It’s all a direct result of years of deliberate FG/FF policy. This is what they set out to create.
Jesus, that’s fucking disgraceful. All of it….it has turned into a joke of a country
Edit: I’m open to be proven wrong
I want this country to improve in a great many ways, but I also want people to have perspective and recognise when things do improve.
In relation to suicide, the number of people taking their own lives has dropped pretty significantly over the last 10/20 years, from well over 500 a year, to 340 in the most recently released figures.
We’re having a mental health crisis and our services are overwhelmed because for the first time in our history, we’re recognising and prioritising and discussing mental health. We need three times the services and mental health professionals that were available twenty years ago to meet current demand today and that’s going to take time because it takes years to train people. Can we do more? Yes, of course, but this post is someone asking what’s this country becoming, and the answer is “slowly better”.
As for the non sentence for that scumbag, some of us are old enough to remember how rough things were in the 80s and 90s, but there weren’t any cameras around to record things. So as much as the stats show decreases in assaults and especially murders/violent deaths in this country consistently since the 2000s, social media absolutely makes us feel like it’s getting worse, because if there’s a scrap outside a chipper in Carrick on Shannon tonight, I’ll see it from multiple angles before I climb out of bed tomorrow morning. I worked in a rough bar back in the early noughties and must have had a serious row in the pub once a month. I swear the number of fights happening outside bars now has actually plummeted thanks to smart phones and folks becoming more conscious of the dangers involved and deciding against it.
We live in the safest time in the history of Ireland and things are consistently and slowly improving. There will be days where its hard to see or believe that, but it’s true.
Where do I find r/ireland again, I have no clue where it is.
What exactly is your agenda OP? Looking at your post history it seems your a fan of Trump, Steve Bannon and Fox. While Ireland is not exactly perfect I feel like you’re stirring things for the sake of it. Fear mongering.
There’s a clear support for more renters in neoliberal economics. Take a look at this.
The upvoted responses are generally anti homeownership. I was downvoted for suggesting that it might not be so good for the average person (nor for society) if there was less homeownership.
That’s a fairly technical thread policed by economists. And clearly there’s no support for social housing either, the preference is for private rentals.
The neoliberal economic argument for renting is that people are more mobile, ready to upsticks fairly easily, and that’s good for the economy. This is in line with the neo liberal (and general economic theory) that people are units of production and the more you can squeeze from them, the better.
It’s therefore not that conspiratorial to believe this is by design.
TBF it’s been like this for a while now 🤷🏻♂️
No joke we need a revolution. Not a mad one but we need our voices to be heard and for the politicians to shit themselves.
That’s was incompetent leadership and management has done.
So sick of this ‘what happened to ireland’ shit. It like Joe Biden saying “this isn’t who we are”
This IS who we are, it has always been this way. Or worse.
We are still trying to exit a period of religious rule over this country and some people think that struggle is over and we don’t need to reckon with our past and some think that this stuff is new and it just isn’t.
Get politically involved, local and national.
At the very least know who you’re voting for, don’t just listen to campaign bullshit.
Email, call and write to your representative, often.
Democracy dies with complacency and apathy. If you want things to change then do something about it.
Recurrent FG/FF governments haven’t cared about anything other than big business.
Let’s be real here shitty things have always happened in Ireland and unfortunately always will happen. Most of this stuff hasn’t just suddenly happened. This alarmist shit doesn’t help anyone.
It hasnt “become” anything, its always been like this, mental health has never been a priority for the irish goverment and ireland is historically soft on crime
Nothing new with either of these
The wheels are falling off and half country are fine with it.
The first one can be attributed solely to Martin Nolan .
Kinda similar happened to my friend. Attempted suicide, brought to hospital by ambulance, waited hours. Just left herself after (unsure how many hours but timeline seems to suggest about 6/7 hours), so she left herself (no one watching her) and attempted again and was successful. Heartbreaking!
this country is so much of a joke, the entire government should have to emerge from one tiny clown car every mourning
Become? Its always been like this.
Fuck the hse and fuck the Irish government that’s a terrible thing to hear in today’s day and age, that poor man
Change your GP if you think they are poor. I rang mine a few months ago asking for a sick cert as i was depressed and very anxious. He listened to me and sent me to A&E. I was assessed and put on meds. I feel much better now. They aren’t all bad.
It’s over 100k a year to rent shitty a one bedroom apartment, the government is nigh incompetent and the price of living continues to rise.Either we’re heading for a rescission or mad max
I have 4-5 more years left before i can leave ireland.
Ireland has become an over priced double language hell, apparently being the least in debt in the EU and apparently the most in peace.
If i was the TD, i would stop inflating prices so that families aren’t on the street trying to feed their kids. I would turn the school system into a similar school system to Finland, which prioritises learning and mental health over marks in the junior/senior cert.
I can’t wait for the day that i live in a new country because this isn’t the country i want my children growing up
Ireland just isn’t a seriously run country. It just isn’t.
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It’s become a depressing shithole, run by a crowd of people that are so disconnected with the people it’s sickening , no future for young people here and not even the most basic mental health services available to people in need
I looked up the tweet of the last one you posted. That’s fucking horrendous. I had a friend who attempted suicide but was stopped. Her gp referred her to the A&E in tralee to be assessed by a psychiatrist. She waited 12 hours with people literally sitting on her by the end as she wanted to leave. Her sister went to the triage nurse to find out WTF was going on as it was a Tuesday night and the A&E was empty. It turned out she had been entered on the system as a potential chest infection rather than a psychiatric emergency by mistake and as such she was waaaaay down their list of priorities. If people hadn’t been with her to keep her there that could have been a fatal mistake on tralee hospitals part
The sad thing is that none of this happened by accident. Everything from our healthcare system to our housing crisis. It’s all a direct result of years of deliberate FG/FF policy. This is what they set out to create.
Jesus, that’s fucking disgraceful. All of it….it has turned into a joke of a country
Edit: I’m open to be proven wrong
I want this country to improve in a great many ways, but I also want people to have perspective and recognise when things do improve.
In relation to suicide, the number of people taking their own lives has dropped pretty significantly over the last 10/20 years, from well over 500 a year, to 340 in the most recently released figures.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/recorded-suicides-in-ireland-fall-to-lowest-level-in-two-decades-1.4664538
We’re having a mental health crisis and our services are overwhelmed because for the first time in our history, we’re recognising and prioritising and discussing mental health. We need three times the services and mental health professionals that were available twenty years ago to meet current demand today and that’s going to take time because it takes years to train people. Can we do more? Yes, of course, but this post is someone asking what’s this country becoming, and the answer is “slowly better”.
As for the non sentence for that scumbag, some of us are old enough to remember how rough things were in the 80s and 90s, but there weren’t any cameras around to record things. So as much as the stats show decreases in assaults and especially murders/violent deaths in this country consistently since the 2000s, social media absolutely makes us feel like it’s getting worse, because if there’s a scrap outside a chipper in Carrick on Shannon tonight, I’ll see it from multiple angles before I climb out of bed tomorrow morning. I worked in a rough bar back in the early noughties and must have had a serious row in the pub once a month. I swear the number of fights happening outside bars now has actually plummeted thanks to smart phones and folks becoming more conscious of the dangers involved and deciding against it.
We live in the safest time in the history of Ireland and things are consistently and slowly improving. There will be days where its hard to see or believe that, but it’s true.
Where do I find r/ireland again, I have no clue where it is.
What exactly is your agenda OP? Looking at your post history it seems your a fan of Trump, Steve Bannon and Fox. While Ireland is not exactly perfect I feel like you’re stirring things for the sake of it. Fear mongering.
There’s a clear support for more renters in neoliberal economics. Take a look at this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/w7o7jf/are_too_many_landlords_who_rent_property_bad_for/
The upvoted responses are generally anti homeownership. I was downvoted for suggesting that it might not be so good for the average person (nor for society) if there was less homeownership.
That’s a fairly technical thread policed by economists. And clearly there’s no support for social housing either, the preference is for private rentals.
The neoliberal economic argument for renting is that people are more mobile, ready to upsticks fairly easily, and that’s good for the economy. This is in line with the neo liberal (and general economic theory) that people are units of production and the more you can squeeze from them, the better.
It’s therefore not that conspiratorial to believe this is by design.
TBF it’s been like this for a while now 🤷🏻♂️
No joke we need a revolution. Not a mad one but we need our voices to be heard and for the politicians to shit themselves.
That’s was incompetent leadership and management has done.
So sick of this ‘what happened to ireland’ shit. It like Joe Biden saying “this isn’t who we are”
This IS who we are, it has always been this way. Or worse.
We are still trying to exit a period of religious rule over this country and some people think that struggle is over and we don’t need to reckon with our past and some think that this stuff is new and it just isn’t.
Get politically involved, local and national.
At the very least know who you’re voting for, don’t just listen to campaign bullshit.
Email, call and write to your representative, often.
Democracy dies with complacency and apathy. If you want things to change then do something about it.
Recurrent FG/FF governments haven’t cared about anything other than big business.
Let’s be real here shitty things have always happened in Ireland and unfortunately always will happen. Most of this stuff hasn’t just suddenly happened. This alarmist shit doesn’t help anyone.
It hasnt “become” anything, its always been like this, mental health has never been a priority for the irish goverment and ireland is historically soft on crime
Nothing new with either of these
The wheels are falling off and half country are fine with it.
The first one can be attributed solely to Martin Nolan .
Kinda similar happened to my friend. Attempted suicide, brought to hospital by ambulance, waited hours. Just left herself after (unsure how many hours but timeline seems to suggest about 6/7 hours), so she left herself (no one watching her) and attempted again and was successful. Heartbreaking!
this country is so much of a joke, the entire government should have to emerge from one tiny clown car every mourning
Become? Its always been like this.
Fuck the hse and fuck the Irish government that’s a terrible thing to hear in today’s day and age, that poor man
Change your GP if you think they are poor. I rang mine a few months ago asking for a sick cert as i was depressed and very anxious. He listened to me and sent me to A&E. I was assessed and put on meds. I feel much better now. They aren’t all bad.
It’s over 100k a year to rent shitty a one bedroom apartment, the government is nigh incompetent and the price of living continues to rise.Either we’re heading for a rescission or mad max
I have 4-5 more years left before i can leave ireland.
Ireland has become an over priced double language hell, apparently being the least in debt in the EU and apparently the most in peace.
If i was the TD, i would stop inflating prices so that families aren’t on the street trying to feed their kids. I would turn the school system into a similar school system to Finland, which prioritises learning and mental health over marks in the junior/senior cert.
I can’t wait for the day that i live in a new country because this isn’t the country i want my children growing up
Ireland just isn’t a seriously run country. It just isn’t.