Question About Southern Ireland..........

[Frankendooby]

Haloo.Just wanted some opinions fro people who have moved to Ireland to live and of course fom people who are Irish and have lived,do still live here.Opinions on the Politics,Laws,Education,Work etc.
I moved here from the UK and although i used to visit lots to see family I find living here extremely difficult in many ways.Just wondered how others have found it.Thanks in advance

ah drosophila the auld sod you left in the dark and hungry days of 87 is a different land now in '07. havn't you heard of the celtic tiger - you can get lattes in every boreen now. and tayto, fig rolls and chocolate kimberlies.

Anois - taim ag dul go dti mo leaba. Slan libh agus Oiche mhaith!

Not all shite though!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to say compulsory Irish at school was the bane of my childhood. I loathed every second I spent learning it.

mmm, fig rolls.

but nah, i could not leave the land where i can walk into a supermarket and find at least three different kinds of porridge oats for that .

Didn't get beaten in secondary school thankfully.

corporal punishment in schools was not exclusive to ireland, you know.

Feck the lot of ye I am off to bed. Before I go another great this is that actor in 'the wind that shakes the barley' hmmmmmmm

Ok I'm going to have to do a Mrs Doyle in a minute, it's all going tits up here, no wonder we have a rep as a bunch of nutters! Cuppa tea anyone?

that film was so fucking depressing it haunted me for days!

i should have known better than to watch another loach film, even if he is brilliant.

As an aside did Frankendooby ever come back?

The famine happened because the potato crop failed in successive years due to a disease called potato blight. The fact that the economic system which had evolved depended on the majority of the rural population being dependent on a single subsistence crop is something else again as is the lack of assistance given by the British government of the day to help alleviate the effect of the Famine.
But they didn't eat the potatoes.

and you know, i was so pissed off, because if i'd have been that sinead gal i'd have known what her man's lousy brother was about, and you can better believe i'd have been laying for him.

i'd have drawn a bead on him from behind that house and the second he stepped off that bike and picked up that letter, then i'd have known and taken the first clear shot i had at him, then unloaded the entire magazine .

Kerry, for the last time no that's not a good impression of me giving head!

and also not allowing tenants to plant anything else to feed them and then evicting them in the road when they couldn't pay rent as they'd no crop to sell/pay rent or eat.

expat my local supermarket has a whole shelf of differnent porridge- we irish like our oats