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

It is true that food was exported from Ireland, largely beef and wheat, food that the majority of the Irish population could not afford to buy. But the famine affected the rural poor who depended on subsistence farming for their livelihood. Potatoes were not a cash crop.

Eh and don't forget about raising the rent!!!!!! Feckin landlords, somethings never change!

Eh, see reference of raised rents!!!!!!!!!

i've learned the subtleties of porridge here, ellie.

in the cupboard, there's pinhead for my skirlie and parkin.

my fine-milled for brekkie and some of the cakes and my perkins.

rolled for the flapjacks.

even some ready-brek because dd2 likes it.

That's better kerry!

I would just like to make it entirely clear that I was just trying to clear up one small point as regards how the Famine occurred - I am not a Famine-denier!

Perkin? parkin? skirlie? erm I understood readybreak!

nearly all my ancestors were still back in Mexico then, kerry.

oh, and atholl brose is not a pudding!

it is a beverage. it is whisky infused with oats, honey and cream.

Ooh I invented perkin!

Of course they should have SKerry, I was just trying to make a particularly nerdy point, about HOW the Famine happened.

expat literally from Mexico to Kerry? Jaysus that's a bit of a trip boy!

mmmm, skirlie.

take some bacon drippings. heat them and fry an onion. add in some medium/rough porridge oats, like pinhead.

fry the oats till they are nice and goldy.

serve up. now it is a side dish, but in the past people have eaten this over bread as a snack or even a sort of meal.

a parkin is just a treacle cake with oats. you wrap it and let it sit a few days and it goes all sticky.

mmmmm.

i think frankendooby has left the building and probably the country as well after all this.

Drosophila, the guy that killed the rat sounds like my FIL! He's from the Wesht alright but I seriously thought he was one of a kind!
I think the Catholic Church has lost it's hold. There are still people who go to Mass regularly , not half as many as before but I seriousy don't know of anyone who would allow a priest to have any say in how they conduct their lives.
The education system is run on State Money, even if the school is Catholic. Most new secondary schools are Community Colleges. I can't remember when I last say a nun or a priest in a teaching role in a school. Probably when I left school actually in 1986. The education system is fine provided your children do not have SEN. Then red tape lets them down.
I'm not a big fan of GAA either. But I'm girl. My sons love it!
The thought of Tayto makes me sick. But that's cos I'm pregnant and the thought of most food makes me sick!

nah, from mexico they just crossed what was always a very loose border into texas, mhamai!

at the time of the famine, texas was its own republic, but before that it had been a colony to spain and france as well as part of mexico.

good for the uncle!

there's no such thing as a 'pet' rat.

no sane person would keep such a creature as a pet!

the only good rat is a dead rat, IMO .