No wonder Ireland has a reputation all over the world for being heavy drinking , foul mouthed fighters.
We had a Budget in the middle of the worst financial crisis the country has seen - there millions of Euros in cuts to wages and cuts to welfare benefits. Petrol prices rose - but the price of booze was cut by as much as €2.80 for a bottle of spirits . Sure - we can all get drunk and to hell with it. Maybe that is what Brian Cowen wants?
Then today we get a Green TD - (Member of Parliament to all you non Irish ) - Paul Gogarty - who uses foul abusive language in a Dail debate about the cuts . He said to a Labour member - F**K YOU - loud and clear , twice. It was going out live on TV too . What a fine example for a member of the government to set to the people of Ireland. Then again - look at Berti Aherne and Charlie Haughey - hardly good examples either. Don’t mention the paedophile priests.
He should be sacked - the 100k a year salary could be better spent on something else. A few dozen others should go too - we have too many TDs.. See clip on YouTube
Is there any hope for this country? The poor will drink themselves to death on the dole while the rich laugh at them and the elected members argue and curse but do nothing useful.
The Church just stand by , take our money and try and hide their priest’s crimes like child abuse and rape.
Now we have teachers and other public sector workers threatening strikes again. They earn more than their equivalents in the UK and do less work. The teachers will probably say we have a better education system here - but no one publishes any exam results and hardly any schools or teachers are inspected or reviewed regularly (if at all)
We have loads of nurses but for some reason the health service is still in a mess because of poor management and the corrupt two tier system that allows consultants to be paid by the government do private work instead of public.
Time for a change - or time to leave ?