It’s funny that Ireland has absolutely no time for the Irexit folks but they keep trying anyway as if their opinions are in any way listened to.
Then you shouldn’t have give for it. The rest of us, are quite happy
This conversation is as tired as Leo blaming Sinn Fein on the weather
As a non subscriber a could ask for a summary but as it’s Anthony Coghlan I probably know the gist.
Empty vessels like Coughlan sure do make a right racket.
1970, 40% of the Irish population either work or/and live in an agrarian setting. This fool wants to go back to some lala land.
I find it somewhat concerning that the Irish Times – supposedly Ireland’s newspaper of record – is publishing political opinion pieces from parties so on the fringe of our political spectrum as to be practically invisible. This is more Press and more advertisment in one go than the Irexit movement could manage to cobble together from their own resources in a year. It lends credence to idiocy. Fools around the nation will be nodding along, delighted that at least someone else ‘gets it’.
To say that the past 50 years of Ireland’s acceptance into the EU has been a mistake is all the signal you need that someone’s world view has been driven entirely askew. Would the IT publish such a piece from a New-Age druid regarding his concerns about modern medicine? How about a flat-earther voicing concerns about the conspiracy of air travel?
A stuck needle on bad vinyl
Joining the EU was the single best thing that ever happened to Ireland
Imagine, we could be a country like Albania with a population of 2 million! Fantastic. So much better than what we have now. Who needs markets, or infrastructure funds, or businesses? We’d be dirt poor and happy with it. Well, the few folks who didn’t emigrate would be dirt poor and happy. And the Catholic Church might still have a healthy stranglehold on us – benefitting our souls.
I am a pretty tolerant person but shite like this is hilariously wrong.
Not an opinion but just wrong.
Ireland was a shithole before EU membership and probably would have been a corrupt okish shithole like some eastern European countries without it.
Leaving it would be a disaster, look at Brexit if the Brits can’t hack it then we don’t have a chance.
Criticize the EU all you want, it is not perfect and could always be improved but don’t fool yourself thinking Ireland would be better without it.
That’s because you’re poorly educated and have no ability to learn so it’d be a waste of time pointing you to the resources of just how poor we were before joining and without the EU’s investment in our infrastructure, we’d never have reached where we are today without it. But as I said, in one ear, out the other with you.
It was a good idea until Lisbon consolidated/centralized the corrupt aspects of the member states to provide easier access to lobbyists.
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Our version of Nigel Farage basically
It’s funny that Ireland has absolutely no time for the Irexit folks but they keep trying anyway as if their opinions are in any way listened to.
Then you shouldn’t have give for it. The rest of us, are quite happy
This conversation is as tired as Leo blaming Sinn Fein on the weather
As a non subscriber a could ask for a summary but as it’s Anthony Coghlan I probably know the gist.
Empty vessels like Coughlan sure do make a right racket.
1970, 40% of the Irish population either work or/and live in an agrarian setting. This fool wants to go back to some lala land.
I find it somewhat concerning that the Irish Times – supposedly Ireland’s newspaper of record – is publishing political opinion pieces from parties so on the fringe of our political spectrum as to be practically invisible. This is more Press and more advertisment in one go than the Irexit movement could manage to cobble together from their own resources in a year. It lends credence to idiocy. Fools around the nation will be nodding along, delighted that at least someone else ‘gets it’.
To say that the past 50 years of Ireland’s acceptance into the EU has been a mistake is all the signal you need that someone’s world view has been driven entirely askew. Would the IT publish such a piece from a New-Age druid regarding his concerns about modern medicine? How about a flat-earther voicing concerns about the conspiracy of air travel?
A stuck needle on bad vinyl
Joining the EU was the single best thing that ever happened to Ireland
Imagine, we could be a country like Albania with a population of 2 million! Fantastic. So much better than what we have now. Who needs markets, or infrastructure funds, or businesses? We’d be dirt poor and happy with it. Well, the few folks who didn’t emigrate would be dirt poor and happy. And the Catholic Church might still have a healthy stranglehold on us – benefitting our souls.
I am a pretty tolerant person but shite like this is hilariously wrong.
Not an opinion but just wrong.
Ireland was a shithole before EU membership and probably would have been a corrupt okish shithole like some eastern European countries without it.
Leaving it would be a disaster, look at Brexit if the Brits can’t hack it then we don’t have a chance.
Criticize the EU all you want, it is not perfect and could always be improved but don’t fool yourself thinking Ireland would be better without it.
That’s because you’re poorly educated and have no ability to learn so it’d be a waste of time pointing you to the resources of just how poor we were before joining and without the EU’s investment in our infrastructure, we’d never have reached where we are today without it. But as I said, in one ear, out the other with you.
It was a good idea until Lisbon consolidated/centralized the corrupt aspects of the member states to provide easier access to lobbyists.