Things that make you embarrassed to be Irish

Green Devil wrote: Isn't supporting you're country not enough no?

Going to half a dozen matches a year does not constitute being 'mad' about football, no.

Green Devil wrote: Blah, Blah, Blah look at me i support a LOI team, how dare anyone from Ireland support a team based in the UK! Give me a break

At what point did I suggest people aren't allowed to follow foreign teams?  I simply suggested that people have a bit of realism about their attitudes to football.

And for what it's worth, the event junkie-ism isn't just confined to the soccerball.
There'll be 2,000 or so punters in Celtic Park tomorrow for the NFL match against Laois.  Yet we'll bring 20,000 to an Ulster final, no bother.
Remember when the country went 'boxing mad' during the last Olypmics?  Many on here been to a boxing match since?
Derry and Cork have annual jazz festivals.  Nobody really likes jazz in this country, but come festival week, the bars are packed.
We're a nation that loves a sense of occasion, a wee day out, to feel like we're part of something.  There's nothing wrong with that at all, but let's not kid ourselves that we're all football mad, boxing-crazed GAA-heads who love nothing more than a bit of Louis Armstrong's early work to relax in the evening.

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