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a question for Irish roffers

of which there are now zero so let's all just chuck in our uninformed opinions anyway

how do you think Cork would be to move to next year?

my main feelnig about Cork is that people are suspiciously nice and hold the door open a lot and are a bit like Edinburgh in the 1990s in their attitude to sport (oh it's always English when es winning and British when hes losin - WHO CARES)

By the way tho clergs I accept no responsibility for Mr Masterton's ability (or rather lack thereof) when it comes to a scene of an intimate nature.  Cracking stories tho.  makes cork sound fooking terrifying (and rebus' edinburgh rather tame)

oh I didn't know, elphi! do you work there? have been wondering how badly the jobs market was affected by Apple (and I know a lot of tax work is done more cheaply in Belfast).

 

I've only ever visited Kinsale at strange times of year but I imagine summers are pretty bad

I think I went to Dingle in the 70s when we spent a summer in Ireland while my Dad had a grant to drive around and look at Irish high crosses

As with Budapest the answer is ' nice city to live in, hard city to find work in, for a lawyer'. 

There used to be some commercial legal work - Pharma, IT, and the insurance companies used get their legal advice locally  - but Dublin as a centre of gravity has sucked all that out of the city. 

Great city for getting out of, to the coast. 

My key memory is someone taking a dump in the street outside Brown Thomas on a Saturday morning and people walking around as if it were perfectly normal.  I’m sure you’d prefer Limerick.

There used to be some commercial legal work - Pharma, IT, and the insurance companies used get their legal advice locally  - but Dublin as a centre of gravity has sucked all that out of the city. 

Matheson disagree, they’ve just opened an office there.

Cork doesn’t seem too bad. Cork people - ugh

Decent senior tax roles in Ireland are few and far between. Though I guess if you’re looking for roles in practice there’s a bit more availability.

 

Just remember people in Cork and Kerry like to commemorate the “heroes” of 1920-1924 who were all people who drove around the countryside with a mob of supporters massacring random Protestants and people accused of being too friendly to Brits.  

Curiously, they don’t seem to see much to be ashamed of in this relatively recent blood-soaked barbarity.  

Always good to celebrate killers 

"The final phase of the Civil War degenerated into a series of atrocities that left a lasting legacy of bitterness in Irish politics. The Free State began executing Republican prisoners on 17 November 1922, when five IRA men were shot by firing squad. They were followed on 24 November by the execution of acclaimed author and treaty negotiator Erskine Childers. In all, the Free State sanctioned 77 official executions of anti-treaty prisoners during the Civil War. The Anti-Treaty IRA in reprisal assassinated TD Seán Hales. On 7 December 1922, the day after Hales' killing, four prominent Republicans (one from each province), who had been held since the first week of the war—Rory O'Connor, Liam Mellows, Richard Barrett and Joe McKelvey — were executed in revenge for the killing of Hales. In addition, Free State troops, particularly in County Kerry, where the guerrilla campaign was most bitter, began the summary execution of captured anti-treaty fighters. The most notorious example of this occurred at Ballyseedy, where nine Republican prisoners were tied to a landmine, which was detonated, killing eight and only leaving one, Stephen Fuller, who was blown clear by the blast, to escape." Wikipedia 

Yes, the IRA were always good at blowing up women and children in supermarkets 

When it came to real fighting in Normandy etc tho, strangely they didn't seem to be around 

It was lucky for them the British fought for them however. As non Aryans, the Nazis intended there never to be another Irish generation 

The women were to be used as comfort women, and the men sent to die in the uranium mines 

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