Reasons Ireland is Class

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 colemanY2K wrote:

 MC Hammered wrote:

At a basic level, its a pretty safe country without much risk of serious natural disaster. We have quality food. There’s good living and educational standards. The people are generally friendly. There’s a decent social scene. There are very high levels of employment including lots of well paid work. There is a thriving sports scene. That’s off the top of my head

a lot of credit goes to tj whittaker for the vision that eventually put ireland on the road to prosperity but imo as much praise should go to ernie o'malley for going on a solo run as minister for education in the 60s and making education free to all. that decision above all others imo changed ireland forever and is the reason why today we enjoy the prosperity we do. 

my grandfather used to tell a story to my father about how he finished primary school on a particular  friday evening in the 40s. of the 12 in the class just 1 received a scholarship to continue on with second level education with the monks in the village, the other 11 started thinning beat on the monday morning in the abbeys farm. most of them eventually immigrated and many died young, my grandfather being one of them having died in his 50's. the majority of todays kids will go on to 3rd level education, some will do apprenticeships but very few will go on to do unskilled labour. we've come a long way.

Obviously things are better nowadays compared to that but I think we have become complacent about our education system. I think it is a little overated, too many of my friends have fancy certs from fancy colleges which are essentially useless.