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Tricolours in town

I think tbf what he said has some truth in urban areas.

The long and the short of it is that the typical Irish person or family has changed and that irritates narrow minded people greatly.
Nothing to do with Gaelscoileanna.
In fact I think all schools should be Gaelscoileanna. Then everyone of all creeds and colours would be together whether they wanted or not and we'd have the lanuage revived in 1 generation.
 
M8.
You referenced the cartoon only when I challenged you.
What you said, and I quote
That was my response to your post where you referred to pictures in a school book/cartoon. Go back and check. I know I did.
All of that above is horseshit.
Im not progressive, im not well off, my kids attend a gaelscoil where the majority are children of small farmers or working class aka the ginger spud munchers you referenced.
Ok, hands up on that. I should have comma’d the “ginger spud munchers”, as that is how they are portrayed in that picture
There is some cultural diversity in the school but it is limited as a result of it being a country school and the most local ipas centre being in the local town which has several secondary schools none of which are gaelscoileanna.
That’s definitely a rural/urban thing. There is diversity in our local GS too, mainly with mixed race kids, but lovely to see nonetheless.
Yes it is more nuanced no it is not ironic.
The irony I was pointing at, was, aimed
at the so called progressive parents who preach only about the positives of multiculturalism, and then send their kids to a GS which is largely a mono cultural experience.
 
Ironically the people portrayed as the progressive types with pasta dinners and alphabet gendered cats are in reality attending monocultural Gaelscoileanna while the family of ginger haired spud munchers are experiencing the true realities of multi culturalism(the positives and the negatives) the minute they cross the school gate/walk around their towns without have to watch traditional Far Eastern dances from the luxury of a 5 star poolside while wearing a sari, out of respect, yaw!
They don't even do culture, they do lifestyle: brand new EV (waste of money), foreign holidays and, of course, lattes. David Goodhart neatly characterised it as those who are from "anywhere" and those who are from "somewhere" (a good example of which are the members of this forum). Give me the latter any day of the week.
 
Saw a post from someone who lives in fermoy, they said the town was always decked out in tricolours on Patrick's day but up to last night not a tricolour to be seen,
Have we really got to the stage where we are afraid of upsetting people? Pitiful
 
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