In 2008 Ireland went into recession. The young people hit the pubs and spent all their money thinking it was a few days off hashing. It soon became clear there were no more houses to be built. They began a mass emigration leaving most of the small towns in Ireland like “ghost towns”.
Some people however stayed behind. Realising that the building trade had gone they began to diversify, The learned new trades and got better educations. They became inventive started new businesses and contributed to the recovery of a broken Ireland.
This is not a time for pointing the finger blaming the government or the banks. fact is we are in the situation we are in and that is that. Leaving for Australia or America because you are too thick to change your career is no help to anyone.
I say take down your tri colours that you fly so proudly in the foreign lands, remove your county colour jerseys that you wear to show your “support” for your country, because you abandoned her when she needed you most!!
When the British invaded the country, if everyone had of left where would that of left us? men sacrificed more than a few quid and a fancy lifestyle for their country. Many men went hungry for their flag so as turn coats and scape goats you have no right to fly the Irish flag.
Being Irish is more than just where you were born, it is about standing up for yourself and your country, freedom and family not running away and abandoning your country and country men.
The true Irish men are at home working hard to get things back on their feet, dealing with the debt that they left behind.
Christmas saw the return of many abandoners, once again small local businesses were thriving, selling food to feed them, pubs were once again full. Now its all gone, 2013 will see the further closure of many more small businesses and it is your fault now not the government.
If they had all stayed at home there would have been a greater population, greater population needs fed (opportunities for more shops), people want drink (opportunities for more pubs) people need lifts home (opportunities for more taxis) instead of running away like cowards into burrows or mines or what ever they call the places that cowards run to, if every person stayed at home and thought to themselves what does my neighbour need that nobody else is doing, and started doing something new. Employing people, making money flow once more. Its a big circle of chain, but when links start going missing money does not flow any more.
Basically you have all left now, many of you hope to return one day when things pick up, when the economic climate changes to suit you, well, guess who is changing it? the people that stayed behind we will not allow you to reap the benefit of the crops that we are sowing now!
Take down your Tri Colours, you are not worthy of flying them and are not welcome back so stay where you are because the Irishness is better off without you!