WicklowMan
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Well, someone somewhere is out of pocket because of Mr. Cunningham!
So by robbing an orchard I am a thief?
So by robbing an orchard I am a thief?
Yes, of course you are. What else could you be described as for stealing something that doesn't belong to you?
It's just more of the hubris of the Irish soccer supporter, a.k.a. event junkie, e.g. how tournaments since 2002 have been devalued by the absence of the self-styled 'best fans in the wurled'.
No, that's Munster rugby fans. They are also the most passionate.
Some interesting responses here, both in agreement and disagreement. I watched the video of this lad approaching the players on the pitch and thought it disrespectful of the team to be honest. We achieve something great and who comes on to the pitch to congratulate the lads? - a chancer. It's just an image of the Irish I can't warm to, sorry. We may as well have had a drunk stagger on to keep the stereotypes going in front of everyone.A bit like an All final then when the winning fans rush onto the pitch even though they are not allowed? Why do you deem this to be an Irish thing? Fans are passionate all around the world and often run onto pitches, at least this guy was just celebrating and not attacking anyone.
Other 'harmless' fraud that we generally, as a nation, ignore would include employees stealing from Employers ("ah sure, it's only a tin of paint" etc.) and Copyright theft - all visual / audio material is seen as completely free; there to be ripped off. These small individual actions that are generally deemed "harmless" come together to form a whole that's far from harmless, just as a pixel on a monitor means nothing but a group of them form a picture.
I don't know anyone that thinks taking from their employer isn't stealing and the visual theft is an international problem.
That's my tuppenceworth anyway.
But sure it belongs to "the man" so of course he's not a thief,oh no, it actually belongs to a normal person.
Everyone talks about there being this great sense of community in Ireland with our local/parish pride but it always comes at the expense of someone else.
I've said it before, we're a nation of children always looking for someone to be against - first the "brits", then the free-staters, then "them" up there in dublin which means the government elected by all of us.
It's "heros" like this guy that would put me off going to the Euros.
From reading posts here there is often an 'only in Ireland' vibe and I think people care a little too much about how the world views us (given that most of them aren't looking at us in the first place).
I think my cousin in America hit the nail on head when he opined that the Irish are traditionally bred to get one over on the English system, but haven't realized that for the past nearly 100 years they've been applying this 'logic' against their own state to score own - goals.
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