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So you have a healthy dislike  of Irish Nationality because some people paid 85 euro for a rugby game ticket and because they left nationalists in the North to suffer? Have I got it right?

You are right, as always! Dislike was probably too strong a word and I was taking a stance to get debate going.  I don't feel passionate about being Irish because I hold a lot of resentment about the general apathy shown towards the north of Ireland by the majority of people in the republic during a time when their support was vital. 

The drive for materialism and greed that signified the "Celtic Tiger" was such an amazing phenomenon to observe, the Irish psyche of projecting an image of style over substance came to the fore in the most arrogant and self-obsessed way.   

What age are you and what is consumer culture?

31 and this extract by Fintan O'Toole neatly encapsulates what consumer culture in ROI meant:

The shame comes from knowing that, two years ago, an Irish rugby fan would have thought nothing of paying €85—even though this is over 50 per cent higher than the price of an equivalent ticket in Scotland. Spending was a badge of honour: it proved you were a hero of the boomtime economy. You belonged in one of the world's most enthusiastic (and, in retrospect, gullible) consumer cultures. It was an attitude that combined some of the worst and best of Irish culture. It was fed by an older wildness, generosity, and contempt for the mean and the tight-fisted. But that admirable spirit became distorted into an often demented consumerism. People paid through the nose for everything—and now, with the painful realisation that long-term prosperity was an illusion, comes a buyer's remorse. It is not just that people feel like fools for spending so much, but embarrassed for spending it so easily. Hence the reluctance to pay €85 for rugby, or, for that matter, €3 for a coffee.

I was thinking about this after reading the US Open thread and how some "young people" define their nationality as Northern Irish.  I don't consider myself young but I am happy to identify myself as being Northern Irish.  I have a healthy dislike of both British nationality (as manifested by Loyalist/Unionists in NI) and Irish nationality (as manifested by people in the ROI who left their fellow nationalists to suffer in NI and who totally sold out to consumer culture from the early 1990s).

1,400 people with too much time on their hands!

Anyone got up to date league tables for all divisions?

http://www.armaghgaa.net/forum/f25/armagh-acl-tables-sunday-5-june-2011-a-1307/

Last out turn the light off please!

I just hope those are the right people and not someone that got a confession beat out of them.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Me too!

Anyone has to be better than Pat 'the plank', many thanks for the YT links will check out the interview!

I wouldnt bet against Granemore going the whole way

PofG argued that they shouldn't be in the Senior Championship, shows what he knows...

Yeah, two or three years ago when I was arguing that the senior championship should be made up of division one and the top teams in division two as it would make for a more competitive championship.  Weren't Granemore division 3 at the time too?
Anyway, what do you know, now that Granemore are among the top teams in division 2 they're competing well in the senior championship.

Fair Do's Pints, I was only given you a jag lol, this place wouldn't be the same without you!

I wouldnt bet against Granemore going the whole way

PofG argued that they shouldn't be in the Senior Championship, shows what he knows...

I thought liverpool reserves won the league last year as well?  Add me to the list Gabriel.

Down, due to their historical record.

Was just told that as I am in Belfast I cann't get it.

Strange as I had no problem getting it any other time.

Seriously?  What a load of crap, are they not going to fix the problem?  I'm in England btw.

Cann't get the match in Belfast - stuck on a Pic showing teams from about 20 mins before match.

Setanta not saying much, one Girl said they are dealing with it, another asked me to contact my Braodband supplier

Yes exactly the same for me, what a waste of money.  Just got this to watch the football today... arrrhhhh

I hate climate change skeptics who like to stick their heads in the sand and pretend that nothings wrong. f**king flat-earthers. 

Carbon Cultist right back at ye... why tax flights, when it's the joggers you should be after!

The Brits preaching to (invading) more primative societies about freedom, liberal democracy & meritocracy when someone has to denounce their religion to marry into the Royal Family, how antiquated!