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Observations On Our Crazy World: Why Do We Listen To The Negative Shit?

If you were to believe the politicians, the moralists and the commentators you’d think Ireland was a horrible place to live. But it isn’t...

The Hot Press Newsdesk, 04 Sep 2012

Their views find expression in the media and the media are the new church. The belt of a crozier has been supplanted by the belt of a broadsheet editorial. Every day brings another sermon from a commentator in print and on air. Where once priests coursed the lanes looking for courting couples, now you have the tabloids…

And they all hammer home what is essentially the same message, the message that has been handed down for two centuries, that we’re a lazy, feckless crowd of dreamers, chancers and wasters who will fling their money away on horses and card games and craic and will head for the bar or the offie at the drop of a hat or the tinkle of coins.

Okay, there are those amongst us of whom that’s true, people who live down to the messy stereotype. But it’s only some, so why do we contrive to believe the fingerwaggers? Why is this shit still peddled and why do we put up with it? I mean, we’re now so cynical we don’t believe anyone else – yet we seem all too willing to go along with this wretched fiction about Irish people, coined and peddled by our own…

We – and by this I really mean you – deserve better!! This is a good country, full of good people. Anyone want to argue with that?



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