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laughing/dancing in my shower.

Dumb sissy Irish boys.

Benders

>forgot to buy milk for cereal and a cup of tea for breakfast
The day is ruined

Nice, shame the golden laughing face was a blurry one

If I recall correctly you've done this a few times before. I think I'd be in such a bad mood if I had no milk for breakfast.
Thankfully it hasn't happened in a long time

Just got reminded that when I was 13 I had a horror nightmare that involved seeing mouths instead of eyes in my reflection. Not a good feel.

You should do acid if you're afraid of mouths and eyes

The absolute STATE of Dublin

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The mother officially has 67% Irish DNA lads, her surname is O'Connor, and she told me that she'd probably have supported the IRA in the troubles. Guess I'm a true Irishman after all, and I expect to be made fully welcome whenever I decide to venture into /eire/.

Last nightmare I had sas back when I was 10 something about a machine that rips people's arms and legs off
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It's funny how Dubs often defend the crime and danger in their city as something which is a normal part of any moderately large city and yet the article states the victims of theft are mostly foreign visitors who are completely unfamiliar with life in a city this dangerous.

They base their imaginings off of England, or at best, America.

>purging foreigners
>bad

Reminder that Limerick would be a better capital in every way

>not swapping all Dubliners for continental yuppies

Athlone is the most sensible capital.

A capital without a port is hardly ideal.

>needing more access to foreigners
>instead of an absolutely central location within Ireland

Waterford should be the true capital. I am willing to wage civil war over this.

We'd have a stronger cultural identity from the influence of a capital that wasn't adjacent to the UK as well.

The benefit of a port is in trade and industry

Neither of which are necessary for a capital.

> Civil war
A little extreme considering the fact that noone except for waterford ""people"" will fight for your side

>landlocked """""""""""""""towns"""""""""""""""
Besides it's important to starve the midlands of infrastructure as much as possible

You will be the first casualty of my war, traitor.

Economic and population growth is generally the point of moving the capital.

Yeah, but you can't move the coastline.

Which is why only places with a port should be considered as an ideal location.

Capital cities should always have the best infrastructure

> Traitor
It was clear from the beginning that I will accept no city other than Limerick as capital

No. All a capital entails is having the government offices there. Moving that away from the crowded slime pit that Dublin is would be a good idea. Let them live on the strength of their industry and trading capacity, not the benefits of being the seat of government.

No. Every city should have the infrastructure it needs.

Never been to Limerick but it seems to be the most underrated city. It has a lot in it: 2 big stadiums, 2 of the tallest buildings, university, IT, hospital, League of Ireland team and a port for sea access. People look too much into the scumbags

>and a port for sea access
Limerick's port is shite though. Cork has a much better one. In fact Cork has most of the things you listed as attributes of Limerick, yet lacks the chronic knacker issue.

Waterford has all those things too ya know.

Yes, but the conversation doesn't serve any sort of purpose if we're just talking about which building politicians should meet in. It could be in a shack on Achill island for all it matters.
Moving the capital and seat of government is usually symbolic for a strategy in diverting resources to an area with greater growth potential.

Sick of hearing about Charlottesville in the news.

Except on a much shittier scale, and you might get embroiled in a traveller feud on your way to work. Furthermore, Waterford doesn't have a lot of room for expansion.

I wouldn't really call it an "issue", let alone a chronic one. There are a couple of council housing estates in peripheral areas that are best avoided but that's about it.
I'm not exaggerating to say that I encountered more anti-social behaviour last year from one weekend in Dublin than an entire year in Limerick.

It will as soon as we annex Kilkenny.

It's disheartening how much focus American media are putting on it compared to Barcelona but Trump's "on all sides" press conference was one of the most monumental fuck ups I've ever seen the leader of a country make.
At least with Bannon gone I doubt we'll see anything like that again.

>I'm not exaggerating to say that I encountered more anti-social behaviour last year from one weekend in Dublin than an entire year in Limerick.
But I was comparing Limerick to Cork, not Dublin. Cork's anti-social issues are far more contained to a handful of housing estates, whereas there are even dodgy areas in Limerick's city centre.

Let's face it, Belfast is the nicest city on the island. Should reunification happen, it will be the new capital

You have to surpass their tally of Hurling All Ireland titles first.

>but Trump's "on all sides" press conference was one of the most monumental fuck ups I've ever seen the leader of a country make.
I still don't understand the outrage about that. Trump condemned the violence that was taking place - that's pretty reasonable as far as I am concerned.

>Belfast is the nicest city on the island
Would rather live in Dublin, and I hate Dublin.

Have I missed something?
I never check on the news when I'm on holiday

I would generally consider Ireland a safe country outside of Dublin. Cork is probably abnormally safe for a city of its size but I consider the distinction between extremely safe and very safe, I'd have no concerns walking around at night in either while I would in Dublin.

>whereas there are even dodgy areas in Limerick's city centre
Which do you mean?

>Which do you mean?
Limerick has a nice city centre - during the day. Having been around Dublin, Limerick, and Cork at night on a number of occasions over the years, Dublin made me feel the most unsafe, but Limerick wasn't far behind. As you said, for an urban centre of its size, Cork is abnormally safe both during the day and during the night.

I didn’t feel unsafe in Dublin was I just oblivious and two steps from being stabbed with a used needle

>and two steps from being stabbed with a used needle
A surprisingly common experience of visitors to Dublin at night. It's a shame that we have to avoid the main street of our capital city at night because it has been taken over by utter scum.

Missed what happened in charlotteville or Bannon being stood down?

>I still don't understand the outrage about that. Trump condemned the violence that was taking place - that's pretty reasonable as far as I am concerned.
It was a weak statement which failed to condemn the ideology and principles behind the KKK. Given his background and who his chief strategist was the American public are especially concerned with what could have been seen as a sympathetic stance towards those groups.
It'd be like a muslim politician in a western country responding to ISIS terrorism with "I condemn the murder of civilians, but the airstrikes in Syria are bad too..."

I prefer to see unnecessary violence being condemned regardless of who committed it, rather than the President being obliged to choose between siding with Antifa or Neo-Nazis.

I've walked through Dublin at night alone a few times and never felt threatened. Makes me wonder show streetwise people who shit on Dublin are

There's no choice to be made, he simply had to condemn groups with an ideology of hatred towards other citizens. A speech is more than just the words, it's the subtext as well. What was not said is just as important.
He did eventually condemn them by name, as did Bannon which acknowledged the mistake in not doing it to begin with.

>he simply had to condemn groups with an ideology of hatred towards other citizens
So, Antifa and Neo-Nazis? I'd prefer to not side with either of those hateful groups.

You grew up in a slum surrounded by danger and learned to adapt, we didn't and judging from crime on tourists neither did anyone else from around Europe.
You can't claim those from other counties are naive idiots when it happens to those from abroad too.

I grew up in the countryside in a different county. My only experience of living in Dublin is from renting here for the past 2 years. Yes there are dodgy places such as Ballymun, Finglas, etc. but we're talking about the city centre here which is fine

>we're talking about the city centre here which is fine
We both know that's not true at all. Look at that article posted above on what a person saw on a single trip down the boardwalk during the daytime.

noice bate
I have risen to it.

Is it weird to have never been to Northern Ireland?

Pissing into the Liffey and taking drugs is degenerate behaviour but it doesn't harm anyone walking by minding their own business. The fights were most likely scumbags who knew each other. They weren't indiscriminately attacking random people passing by.

If you're far from it then no. It's no different than how I've never been in Munster

ari lad
leave them be.

Ah here, seeing a guy getting kicked in the head, groups of drunk and high people and drug deals taking place in broad daylight is not normal or acceptable sights. It wouldn't take much to set off one of those violent addicts for it to become your problem.
It also says people are getting robbed all over the place, especially tourists.

Read in a female Dublin accent. Was comfy

North Dublin or South Dublin?

Jesus how am i sposed to know the intricacies of Dublin colocialisms.
Swords/Finglas
Is that north?

colloquialisms*

Yeah that's north, a conor mcgregor type of accent. The south is softer, more pretentious and americanised.

When will east wall be gentrified the location is nice

really need to learn how to spell that word
If i use it i should know it

>more pretentious and americanised.
like Swedes who learned English from Americans

God I hate knackers. In a non-discriminate type of way that is.

Drug use is for illustrious personalities only. Fact.

Knackers as in scumbags or as in travellers? Granted, there's a large overlap between the two.

The people who take dead horses. What bastards.

Couldn't genuinely tell. Not great at recognising people, as we all know.

Both. All Travellers are Knackers but not all Knackers are Travellers.

>All Travellers are Knackers
That's discriminatory desu. Admittedly I've never met one who doesn't fit that description although it's possible they exist somewhere. Maybe.

>All Travellers are Knackers
That's not true, many of them are tinkers.

"Tinker" is just a synonym for "Traveller" that they find offensive for some reason.

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>Network of jihadi sympathisers on Irish 'watch list' now above 70

I was making a joke about their professions. Knackers were people who take dead farm animals off your hands while tinkers were people that collected bits of tin and melded them down. Both were common jobs travelers had in the old days.

>"Tinker" is just a synonym for "Traveller" that they find offensive for some reason.
They find knacker more offensive. I remember on a documentary one said that calling a traveler a knacker is the same as calling a black man a nigger.

Aside from Maurice McCabe accidentally being added to the list I wonder who the other 69 are.

>watching a documentary on flying animals
>they're covering kangaroos
Looks like the French are behind this.

>Aside from Maurice McCabe accidentally being added

>Both were common jobs travelers had in the old days.
My mother was from a rural area and said as a child that travelers were viewed in a far more productive sense than they are in modern times because of those jobs. I wonder when and why it happened that they started turning to crime and being a general nuisance to settled people.

My granny said the same thing, she said she'd give water to them if they were staying nearby while nowadays most people wouldn't give anything. If you've ever read Sive the old woman has a positive view of travelers, calling them men of the road, while her son holds the modern view that they're a bother.

>I wonder when and why it happened that they started turning to crime and being a general nuisance to settled people
Probably when jobs like that became unprofitable. People didn't have any need or want of their getting their pots and pans repaired when they have the money to replace them easier. Some did have modern ways of making money though, my granny used to buy furniture from them as late as the 90's.

Credit where it's due. Great joke.

hello boys

>Kilkenny romped to a massive 52 points win as they routed Derry by 8-35 to 0-07 in a painfully one-sided All-Ireland U21 HC semi-final at Thurles

How did Derry even get that far in the championship?

I think the format for the U21 hurling is the traditional one. Everyone plays in their own province and four winners go to semi-final.

>the absolute state of Ulster Hurling

About to start pre drinking for tonight's antics, lads. I promised you coverage and that's what you're gonna get. Gonna be brilliant, haha

>U21
Under-21 points more like.

The provincial structure meme needs to end