@FDNY94 He was born in Ireland but moved to England at a young age. If you think Pat sounds English, you might want to check out Erskine Hamilton Childers, Ireland's President from 1973 until his untimely death in late 1974: a man who made Prince Charles sound like Ray Winstone.
If this guy ran for office in Ireland tomorrow (assuming he could distribute this presentation widely enough) I think he'd get in - and not by just a whisker.
Pat - contact Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show. Ireland needs to hear more of this.
Lol... Spot on Pat... Democracy... the political ideology whereby once ever 4 years you get the opportunity to hand your say and you brain away to a total fucking twat, who's father was a twat before him... He or she will then snigger and do everything they can to land themselves a cushy job and a few bob whilst telling you its for your own good...
Then 4 years later the population get restless, so the whole charade is repeated... and another crowd of shitbags are elected.
As an American with no axe to grind here, I find this angry debate between Irish militants and perplexed Brits to be ...well, amusing. I suspect Pat Condell has a good point here, and I share his sympathy for Ireland. But hating today's Brits because of the conflict in 1916 is about as drunk-ass stupid and bigoted as Louis Farrakhan referring to all white people (including English & Irish) as "devils," because 200 years ago some of them were involved in the slave trade.
@abdul7591 As an Irishman (Dublin) there's a shit load more to worry about these days than what group of wasters claim sovereignty over the northern half of the country.
Personally I'd love to sack the lot of them... and your lot too! they don't see to be doing much good...
Theres a rule here... don't vote... because no matter who you vote for the government always win!
@abdul7591 Actually american have an election this year... now could you imagine if somebody put say George Washington or Abe Lincoln up for the presidency... by way of telling the US politicians that there is no fucking way Americans are willing to put up with 4 or 8 more years of total crap!
I'm not sure if somebody has to be alive to be voted into office in the US... but it'd give those bastards a right run for their money!
As an English man i feel sorry for what has happened to the Irish, the fact is the Irish hate us so much, and not many of us Brits actually no why and neither do we care, what happened in the past must stay in the past, but we would welcome you with open arms if you ever wanted to dump the Euro, your like that grumpy old stubborn brother that wont forgive, join the union we already share so much in common, hell all us Brits do, we have kicked the living fuck out of each other for century's
@SoulIgnitionMusic The Irish have no bone to pick with the British mate... What we want to do is dig up the fuckers in england who fucked up the fuckers we buried in Ireland...and kill them again...
Since that's not possible we'll console ourselves with the knowledge that a whole chunk of the British population is in fact Irish. Just like Pat there... Just not to many Irish in the queens family., the Germans got there before us!
I'm a northern Irish Catholic who thinks this man speaks some sense, especially on the Middle East, a subject on which the Irish (I now live in Dublin) are very ignorant. Glad to think he is Irish. It shows that we don't all have to think the one way: Brit-bashing, special-pleading etc.
For the 1st time I see Pat says something decent & true. But it's still doesn't make sense if democracy doesn't work as he described in the early part of the video, how can the Irish change throw election?!
@FolkeBernadotte2 Use EDD perhaps? There is no real reason any population of people need to have a group of idiots between them and the civil infrastructure... in fact with modern technology governments are essentially obsolete.
Unfortunately the demographic of those that vote compared to the average ages of the nation show that people over 30 are more likely to vote... Otherwise governments would last until their first fuck up!
Britain was a threat to Ireland and created sectarianism by establishing the state of Northern Ireland and importing Protestants into that region. In addition, the British committed heinous war crimes well into the later half of the last century. Everything Pat says about the EU and its effect on Ireland is true and the EU is an enemy of Ireland also.
So true. The pity is Ireland never was a soverign nation. It was simply the sum of the random juxtaposition of soverign independant republics otherwise known as Families.
dude the euro sucks but its still better than sterling or dollar
euro has lower inflation than both of them and higher interest rates, sure it would be better if everyone would have his currency but you as brit should be more against your own currency with 4% inflation.
@thebloodtemplar1 - exactly! There seem to be so many stupid irish that don't seem to understand what europe is trying to do - blinded by their hatred of the UK. Grow up guys - we have more in common with the UK than the EU.
@thebloodtemplar1 Hehe. And to add to the anti-Irish, anti-EU rants, we have that good old anti-communist paranoia: check! You're my ideal British jingoist. With this culture, it's no wonder the (Royal) British Legion was raising volunteers to help the Nazis crush "socialists" in the Sudetenland back in 1938! (oops, that sort of slipped out!)
@thebloodtemplar1 It's absolutely delightful that the men and women of 1916 are now "heroes" - yet in 1916 all you British nationalists were baying for their blood. Strange how that happens - oh wait, the EU is now the big, bad enemy and let's rewrite the past to make it easier to attack it. As for independence, I want the EU to be stronger in Ireland because that will weaken the British cultural world which was dumped on us by your crowd. Independence is not about aping the coloniser.
@thebloodtemplar1 Sweet suffering Jesus. A British nationalist is telling an Irishman he's taking the soup because he sees the EU as a balance to British dominance. Then again, when the British executed all the Irish leaders in Easter 1916 for "treason" I can't really say I'm surprised. This telling the natives that they're traitors for not supporting British nationalist aims is a culturally British thing. Your "British Isles" pipedream alternative to the EU is pathetic. The EU is where it's at.
@thebloodtemplar1 "second generation Irish" - Ha! So you're British. As if any proof is needed of your rightwing British cultural upbringing we have: Europhobia in abundance: check; attempt to minimise the unparalleled Russian role in WWII and maximise the British role: check; personal abuse against somebody who doesn't share your narrow, anti-Irish Europhobic John Bull views: check.
@thebloodtemplar1: Well, not being British I learnt quite a different history of WWII. It went something like this: around 65,000 British civilians were killed by the Nazis in WWII; around 14.5 million USSR civilians were killed by the Nazis. The British, being rabid nationalists, do not recognise this far greater USSR sacrifice with their poppy. This sort of blinkered nationalist ignorance allows British people like you to think they were the critical force in defeating Nazism. You weren't.
and beta is an insufferable troll doing it for the troll cause trolls like you have been counted in every eu country where are the rights of irish natives being upheld?
Hey you fucking cumwhore..who the fuck are you to talk about Ireland you fucking english cunt..go suck cocks you filthy fucker and let me fuck you with red hot pokers you dirty cunt!!! YOu fucking dirty prick!!! keep sucking cocks you cocksuckingh bollocks!!!! LMFAO
The Eu is Facist israeli backed state.I'd rather still be under british rule than Eu rule and that a horrible thing to say as an irishman.Im a total nationalist but our politicians at the moment are fucking thick jokes.
@TheTrollWorld In fairness, more British people worked with the Nazis, both before September 1939 and after, than did Irish people. I seem to remember something about British aristocrats being quite close to them? Indeed, there was something about no less than the (Royal) British Legion raising volunteers for Nazi Germany in 1938 to help pacify the Sudetenland? Then there was something about the British Free Corps? And the desertion of almost 100,000 British soldiers between 1939 and 1945....
@DoctorT2010 well thats bleedin obvious isnt it, since there were more british than irish at the time (50million vs 4million??). Don't forget that many Irish abandoned their neutrality and fought on the Allied side because it was the right thing to do. I think there were even a few Irish pilots who fought in the battle of britian. The most decorated WWII soldier to serve with the british army was also Irish - who was villified by catholics after the war, poor man. Can't remember his name-paddy?
The biggest threat to Ireland is the state of the economy. Debt, unemployment and emigration are the most important issues in this country and we can't control them because we're not in control of our economy.
Whether or not this was primarily caused by ourselves or the EU, right now, being constrained by EU laws, regulations, and forced loans is crippling our country.
'United we stand, divided we fall.'- Aesop I support the European Union, as it is now the most powerful nation-state (Lisbon Treaty makes Europe a nation-state) in the world, and that's good for us Europeans.
It's always moving to see all these rightwing British nationalist nutjobs online defending Irish sovereignty. The spiritual inheritors of Humphrey Gilbert, Walter Devereux, Edmund Spenser, Oliver Cromwell, the Famine Queen, the Black and Tans and the Parachute Regiment are now up there fighting for Irish freedom. Pass the bucket. Thank God for the EU dragging us out from under John Bull's tyranny and protecting our sovereignty against the only country that has ever threatened it: Britain.
@LiamNuinseann but pat was born in ireland! One would think you have a chip on your shoulder. Try to forgive and forget. There's more to oirland dan dis.
@ooeyb: So, by this thinking I suppose the India-born Cliff Richard is not British? Or the Dublin-born Iris Murdoch is no longer British? Or the English-born Irish revolutionary Erskine Childers was not Irish? Or the Scottish-born Irish revolutionary James Connolly was not Irish?.... Condell is British, and doesn't claim to be anything but British of the most objectionable, Europhobic, pro-imperial kind. Only in Britain can that unique culture flourish. It doesn't exist among Irish people.
@LiamNuinseann its just that people like you don't like the fact that there are plenty of irish people (like myself by the way) who tell it how it really is, who hate the IRA/EU and everything it stands for etc. Ok So we are both irish and i also live in Britian but so what? Most irish supposedly live in the past and hate the british, but are ok to take their handouts and live off the UK. The EU is doing to ireland exactly what you say the UK did in the past. Ireland is NOT independent anymore
@ooeyb British nationalist rant against the IRA: check; British nationalist rant against the EU: check. Anti-Irish stereotypes: check. British myth that everybody is taking handouts except their oil-robbing, land-grabbing selves: check. You're not Irish. You're British, taking the Queen's shilling and brainwashed by rabid Europhobic tabloid dross which dominates the British media with paranoia about the EU and extraordinary conceit about the barbarous record of British imperialism. Vive La EU!
@LiamNuinseann no - i just dont see it through Guinness-soaked eyes like you do. Who are you to tell me I'm not Irish just because I live in England? Just because I'm Irish but don't agree with you. Is Cliff Richard English? Technically, no. Am I English? Again, technically, no. Try to stop living in the past. It is you who is brainwashed by the EU. If Pat didn't care about the situation in Ireland he wouldn't have bothered to post as it would have meant nothing to him.
@ooeyb Another anti-Paddy stereotype - it took you a while to get to the drunken Paddy stuff: check on the flag-waving British jingoist anti-Irish front. Great work. You must be utterly exhausted from such sterling work on the atavism front. You're an honour to all the great Little Englanders who have gone before you. Indeed, you could be a cartoonist for Punch magazine in about the year 1860, drawing the Irish as apes. What an endearing cultural world you come from indeed.
@LiamNuinseann its very interesting to note that for you, Irish nationalism is fine, but british/english nationalism (identical things) is very much a no-no. With arguments like that, no wonder we, the Irish, get labelled as small-minded idiots. Looking at it from an english perspective, I see they have to put up with rants such as the Roy Keene/Mick Mcarthy world cup row.
Is the latter an irish man in your view? Born in Yorkshire but played for Ireland. As for Keene...
...talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Who is the better Irishman in your opinion? Is Sir Terry Wogan Irish then? I suggest that if you don't like what Pat(trick) a good Irish name that, by the way, has to say then just don't watch his posts. Then you won't be offended. But he is spot on on most things he says. Especially about the EU. Oh and about living in the past, Muslim fundamentalists are the new enemy, NOT the British. We live in modern times. Catch up.
@LiamNuinseann Again, you dont seem to have grasped the fact that I was born in Ireland, which makes me Irish! Drinking isn't an Irish stereotype actually, but they seem to drink more than others (and find excuses to do so, like st Patricks day). I don't drink.
It seems to be you who is small-minded. I see the big picture, especially on the EU. I don't see it from just one side like you do. Another example of being stuck in the past with a seething hatred of the British.
@LiamNuinseann I'm guessing you like british TV. You like a British football team (yes - Celtic ARE a British team whether you like it or not). Or are you happy with Shamrock Rovers? There are plenty of things I'm sure you like about the UK, but you are just jealous because Ireland can not hope to match the UK's culture. Typical Irishman. Thank god the UK is more free than the EU, otherwise they wouldn't allow so many Irish football players to play here.
@ooeyb 1) I love football, but I find soccer, "the garrison game", to be the greatest load of commercialised overhyped nonsense ever. 2) I enjoy some British programmes, I also enjoy French, Canadian and US films. Does this, in the tiny world which you clearly inhabit, mean I want to see those countries ruling Ireland? Just what, precisely, are you trying to say? 3) The day an Irishman gets "jealous" of the most warmongering, violent, imperialist, anti-freedom culture of the past 400 years....
@ooeyb PS: Great to see you so interested in Irish football players. I thought you only followed soccer players over there in Perfidious Albion. I'd say Dublin will win the All-Ireland by a few points again this year.
@LiamNuinseann Interesting thinking there... you seem to want to be enslaved by the EU. THEY will make the rules, not democratically elected Irish politicians, so how is being ruled by the EU protecting Irelands sovereignty? One size doesn't fit all, it's near impossible to overturn EU rulings as we have seen time and time again. I really don't understand this stubborness from some people, which will lead Ireland and the EU itself to ruin.
The Irsh referendum said no, the EU says "there can be only one answer, and it's not no, so vote again until you come up with YES!". How very democratic.
@LiamNuinseann Clearly living in the past, it`s reassuring to see that this kind of flag waving, racist, biggotry is being replaced by a new generation of forward looking young Irish who are happy to be a part of the European community (Britain included) and not keeping old wounds open and festering.
@777oddball Yeah don't speak too soon there fella... most of us couldn't give a rats ass about Europe, or the Brits... and we certainly are not too happywith our own government either.
As far as I see its a land grab. Except this time the land is money and the banking system is clearly in with these shower of shitbags.
They'll get a wake up call to... we are way too many, way too connected, too well educated and really fucking angry... when we catch up with them we will tear them to pieces!
Furthermore, how do you equate the EU with the state Ireland is in now? While the ECB's interest rates were not decisively tailored, it had little to do with them as a whole; What did have an effect was moronic shitheads completely deregulating our banks and a professional clown as a Taoiseach to completely antagonize the bubble and ignore prominent Economists who warned of the bust.
To be honest if we weren't in the eurozone to begin with, we would be cataclysmic-ally fucked.
I hate to be the devils advocate, and I am in no-way a fan of the EU; But I ask you, what do you propose as a countermeasure to returning to the old currency? Do you honestly think it's that simple? Go get a decent education on Economics and then come back to me, otherwise you're just spouting rhetoric to imply that we will be completely freed.
Democracy is good up until the point where you have stupid people voting. In America, we put VALUE into other people controlling us and they don't have to bully us into voting to further their initiatives because we're too damn stupid to realize what's happening.
What we need is a benevolent socialist dictatorship. One that has the best interests of the people at heart that will do the right thing even if everyone disagrees with them because of years upon years of indoctrination.
@33guyfawkes Wow you should be ashamed of yourself. Why would you say that about your own country. Thankfully you're going to emigrate hopfully you will give back your Irish passport, as the way you are speaking is disgraceful and YOU are NOT Irish.
@brandonlovesmonkeys - Why would he say that? Democracy me old mucca. Im Irish and feel exactly like guyfawkes. So that makes two of us then. What have us irish got to be proud about, exactly? Being neutral in WWII? No because many Irish realised the threat of Nazism and fought against it! Being an insignificant puppet state of the EU? Perhaps its just jealousy of the UK, judging by the way the Queen was treated when she came to the Emerald Isle?
To be fair Pat, there was a lot of stupidity in how we spent our "Celtic Tiger" windfall too!
We gave most of it away to people who made an empty profit by arbitrarily deciding on the cost of property........With the help of corrupt elected officials!!
Government is destroying itself at a faster and faster rate. When people have nothing to lose, as they are soon approaching, they will take out the trash, worldwide. I hope the irish get to fighting soon. The Euro is DEAD.
P3. OUR DEBT IS SAVAGE but what is never mentioned is how our sugar beet industry was crushed, agriculture ruined and 100BILLION of fisheries given away to spanish,french and portugese trawlers. Our natural resources were also shipped off to the lowest bidder....YES! THE LOWEST BIDDER because our gas field at corrib was sold for a song, our oil has gone to norway and we dont see a red cent.
When St.Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland he unfortunately missed Dail Eireann!!!!!
P2. our "leader" tries to embed himself in the history books by making a "State of the nation address" (right after x factor..lol) to tell us the harsh realities of how our bold politicians spent all our money on the races in galway and having a big party in a tent with bankers, lawyers and property developers and how we now have to pay it back for them or our boss in bruxelles will be angry and might not give us money for our atm's anymore.
P1. give that man a bloody job! well said pat. we were bullied into lisbon.... scared the life out of everyone with talk of raparations and economic and social exclusion. The greed of a mere 50 people brought this nation to its knees and the big wigs and elite stuff their pockets with our hard earned and pay offs while we worry about where our next meal is coming from.
we are told to tighten our belts and prepare for savage cuts in spending, healthcare and a hike in taxes direct and indirect.
Your "Queen" may be "one of the people we haven't elected...who have their snouts in the trough". They get richer, while you sit back and gaggle and drool over their "fairy tale" weddings..etc. It isn't only Ireland. Don't forget Her Satanic Majesties Govt. is part of the EEU..you may not have changed your currency but you're still part of that system. This European "government" that has a currency..but no leader..was doomed to fail from the beginning. Who's in charge? Merkel? Sarkozy? ..NOBDYiz
@bheadh your "POPE" sits in his luxury palace, with his snout in the trough. He gets richer while you sit back and ignore Paedophile priests and all the damage they have done to communities worldwide... Do you see where I am going with this? At least the Queen is a figurehead and gives the UK an identity. Ireland would be better off in the UK than the EU. At least we speak the same language and have similar cultures. The EU was always doomed to failure, what with the bossy Germans/sly French.
@ooeyb Who said any thing about a Pope? We were talking about Her satanic majesty, Elizabutt, she is just another in a long line of charlatans designed to keep you fooled by "being a figurehead" of fairy tales. She serves NO purpose except to keep you drooling over her family so you can wish you were one of 'em....your so-called "identity". Ireland will never become part of that fairy tale again. Your blatherings about a pope have nothing to do with the subject...says alot about you.
@bheadh erh no - pat wasn't talking about the queen either, who happens to be a much loved figurehead around the world, despite what you or I say. I wouldn't want the workload of the queen and so would not wish to be one of them. .
I always wonder weather the anti-EU camp is knowingly lying about the facts or if they are just too stupid to realize what they rant about doesnt make any sense.
who gives a fuck we all live on the same planet - all this would seem insignificant if we could view the earth from space - no fences or borders. Just one planet. Retards.
Its funny that ireland wanted independance from the uk, yet has let itself be dominated by the EU - a greater evil... Are they going to set the IRA on them now?
@ooeyb hey leave ireland alone!! we didnt want to be bullied by the english so we left the british empire (great britian) but they forbidded us to leave and many died from this war!! so shut up
@goungoun2 - funny we had to bail your country out with OUR money eh?! As a country, you were happy to take that, even if we want very little to do with each other. Actually I'm Irish myself, but my allegiance is to the UK as I live there. I'm sick of the hypocrisy many Irish have - especially those that live in Kilburn, the heart of the Irish community in London (supposed capital city of the enemy of all things Irish...). You can't have it both ways, you know.
@goungoun2 yes - i was waiting for this typical response! You can't say anything against me because I was born in Ireland like you, but you don't like my response and can't come up with something sensible in retaliation, so opt for abuse instead. Just telling it like it is, as Pat, sensible person he is does. This bloke speaks for the majority of sensible people in the UK.
@goungoun2 which hole shall I die in? The hole in Ireland’s financial deficit? And faggooooot is spelt 'Fagot'. Please have the courtesy to speak the Queen's English.
I am every bit as much an enemy of the EU as Mr. Condell is, but let's be honest. The sorry state Ireland is in was not just caused by the EU, but by their attempt to follow the bright example of the rest of the English-speaking world to shed the dull industrial cocoon and turn into a beautiful finance business butterfly that makes money not by producing stuff like those stupid Germans but by juggling money like the UK and the USA do.
Scotland needs to do something along those lines as well by splitting away from England. But that's not going to happen until the oil supplies run out in Scotland then when we have nothing valuable left they might consider leaving? But I do think Ireland should make a stand and say enough is enough!
their sovernity will happen when england will give back 6 counties in northern ireland ( Teddy's head ). ....LONG LIVE IRELAND. you are a mad person who advocate HATE, ....Fix your own problems before you advice others. ha ha ha
Wow it seems like the EU is to blame for EVERYTHING, eh, Pat? They're even somehow to blame for Ireland and Northern Ireland not unifying into a single nation! You, sir, are a GENIUS!
If anyone is giving out about Ireland's condition, go to Dame St. and make your voice heard. Wake up. YOU ARE BEING RAPED. Look up article 10 and 45 of the Irish Constitution for a start.
@kiwimike1000 instead of conveniently leaving a comment, why don't you make a reaction vid and put Condell in his place. I'd love to hear what you have to say. Until then, you're comment holds zero merit.
@GamerElite1000 Interesting that you talk about the Irish birth rate. I was reading a forecast by the American think-tank PEW and it said that the Islamic population of N.Ireland will increase by 94% by 2030 and in the Rep.Ireland by 190%. Just wondering if Ireland's high birthrates have anything to do with the increasing influx of Muslim immigrants considering that the UK's Institute of National Statistics wrote that the Muslim population of the UK is growing 10 times faster than the rest?
I ran a campaign with allot of others against Lisbon, we met media blackout. I found that democracy is a mask for dictatorship. We and I mean the democratic world are not being listened to and when we were listened to in Ireland our government decided to lean on working class with promises and "oh we need Europe, oh we need jobs''. Conformity my friends by any means possible.
The more I watch your back-catalog, Pat, the more I realize something:
The 'Atheist' or 'Freethought' movement depends on new, young faces to keep the movement alive. We also desperately need mature, established, household-name people to lend legitimacy to the movement. It's far too easy for people to complain about 'those young ruffians who don't know anything", but I would PAY to see a Pentacostal preacher condescend to you :)
The president is effectively a symbolic role. He has no political power. Get your facts right before you attempt to inarticulately insult your superiors.
You start off by saying "this is a video about politics" yet you do not realise that the political leader in Ireland is a prime minister not a president. Maybe you should stick to what you know.
Well done Pat Condell. It's a shame that the prevailing political opinion across Europe would be that you are a xenophobe and a bigot. I certainly know the British political class are falling over themselves to obsequiously gratify the Euro Nazis. In all this the Lib Dems come out terribly; how can they be supportive of centralising political power whilst ostensibly being the party of civil liberties? I think now UKIP is possibly the only way to go.
Global Capitalism was born in 1945-46. The old "democratic" systems were wiped away in favor of a brand new system of World Government, world economy-banking and a shared world fate. John Maynard Kaynes insisted this would be the best way to keep the peace. There is nothing anybody can do about it now. We cannot go back to Old European Comodities Sovereignty.
incarceration rates every seen in a westarn country-we locked up more people then, per capita, than the USA does today (see Ian O'Donnell: Coercive confinement in Ireland). The EU helped us to modernise, to industrailise, to develop coherent policy, and to prioritise human rights over backward Irish gaelic catholic dogma. I love my very imperfect country, and we are far better off as part of the EU and Euro than not!!!
When Ireland joined the EU it was a very backward country drowning in recession, poverty, screwed up social policy, and a crushing lack of confidence and direction. Irish governments from 1921 to the late 1960s pumped millions into the revival of the Irish language and into promoting agricultural practice-they wanted us all to be Irish speaking priest worshiping farmers. Our industrialisation was 40 years behing the UK (see Tom Garvin: why Ireland was so poor for so long). We had the highest
politicians a shower of tossers? Of course, show me a country where that aint true. Has the EU harmed Ireland? Of course some of the stupidity of the EU has harmed Ireland, paper pushers in Brussels dictating to farmers in Offaly about when they can and cant cut turf is just dumb and silly. But we must also ask: has Ireland beneffited greatly from the EU? Has the EU funds greatly improved our infastructure, our sociaty, our education system, our community and voluntary sector, etc? Yes!!!!!!!!!
Then, after the crash that was mostly caused bt the Irish, would EU have bailed out Ireland? Yes of course, their banks are so heavily invested in ours that they would have no choice. So if Ireland wasnt part of the Euro, or even part of the EU itself, nothing would have been different: the only exception being that our interest rates would have been a bit higher-and trust me that wouldnt have stopped the crazy Irish elites. Is the EU problematic? Yes of course. Are our past and current
Also...a few more important points about Ireland. If we had not joined the euro we would still be in the same mess we are in today, mostly anyway. Would Anglo, AIB, BOI, still ahve lent money in such a reckless fashion? Would our corrupt politicians still have been engaged in cronyism, deception, corruption? Would our developers still have gambled like addicts in a casino? And would the European banks still have thrown money at the Irish banks? The answer to these questions is of course YES!
similar to the analysis that Pat gave in this video. Ironically enough they are also the loony left brigade who regularly label poeple as Islamaphobic if they express an opinion on Islam that they dont like, they are the multicultural brigade, yes indeed the very people who Pat (rightly) detests. So re Ireland and Irelands woes: the root causes or Irelands difficulties are the IRISH.
help pay for this mess, my childrens schools are losing teachers, my wife was put down to part time work, our police are being reduced, our hospitals are losing wards, etc etc. I would love, absolutely love, to say this was the fault of the EU: it just simply isnt true. It is dishonest to say so, the only people in Ireland who think that the causes of this mess lie outside of Ireland are the ultra left socialist parties led by Joe Higgins. They are the ones who give forth an analysis very very
destruction-if one looks at the details of the public sector, for example, over the last decade one will see an absolutely unsustainable and incoherent system. I read yesterday that one public ministry headquarters had 47 gardners on the payroll and yet had no garden. Does this sound fictious? I assure you it isnt. Ireland had many many examples of such stupidity and financial corruption. I am a working class Irishman, I earn an average wage, I have been taxed a lot over the last 2 budgets to
a culture of corruption. The mainstream public adored these developers who they considered as geniuses. Many tribunals were set up to investigate the many dodgy deals and the dodgy politicians. Ireland was a mess, and it was the IRISH who made that mess. Its easy for outsiders to judge the Irish situation against the broader context of the European and world financial crises, but the reality from inside this country looks very different. Greece is similar-they were the authors of their own
banks lend in a reckless fashion to the Irish? Yes or course, thats why I reckon some of the blame lies with them. However Ireland had a very very corrupt political class that was deeeply in bed with a very very corrupt financial class. Insanely reckless IRISH property developers borrowed huge amounts of cash from insanely reckless IRISH banks who had no oversight from insanely reckless IRISH politicians, IRISH regulators, or even IRISH social figures such as journalists. In Ireland there was
UKIP.
CHRISTIAN6182 1 day ago
This is a great video. I live in Ireland and now we have to Fight SOPA. Something else this joke of a government wants.
LACK78 4 days ago
@FDNY94 He was born in Ireland but moved to England at a young age. If you think Pat sounds English, you might want to check out Erskine Hamilton Childers, Ireland's President from 1973 until his untimely death in late 1974: a man who made Prince Charles sound like Ray Winstone.
27106204 1 week ago
I like how this guy is English and he's talking about Irish sovereignty, contradiction much?
FDNY94 1 week ago
@FDNY94
He was born in Ireland!!
msea66 2 days ago
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SWEJEHTKCUF 1 week ago
@SWEJEHTKCUF
You let racists buy computers and THIS is what you get :(
TheBrettBretterson 1 week ago
@TheBrettBretterson your a jew get the fuck away from me ASS HOLE
SWEJEHTKCUF 1 week ago
@TheBrettBretterson that prick on your profile pic is a jew
SWEJEHTKCUF 1 week ago
@SWEJEHTKCUF
I rest my case
TheBrettBretterson 5 days ago
@TheBrettBretterson the killer on your profile photo is jewish i rest my case too
SWEJEHTKCUF 5 days ago
If this guy ran for office in Ireland tomorrow (assuming he could distribute this presentation widely enough) I think he'd get in - and not by just a whisker.
Pat - contact Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show. Ireland needs to hear more of this.
27106204 1 week ago
Lol... Spot on Pat... Democracy... the political ideology whereby once ever 4 years you get the opportunity to hand your say and you brain away to a total fucking twat, who's father was a twat before him... He or she will then snigger and do everything they can to land themselves a cushy job and a few bob whilst telling you its for your own good...
Then 4 years later the population get restless, so the whole charade is repeated... and another crowd of shitbags are elected.
MumblingMickey 1 week ago
As an American with no axe to grind here, I find this angry debate between Irish militants and perplexed Brits to be ...well, amusing. I suspect Pat Condell has a good point here, and I share his sympathy for Ireland. But hating today's Brits because of the conflict in 1916 is about as drunk-ass stupid and bigoted as Louis Farrakhan referring to all white people (including English & Irish) as "devils," because 200 years ago some of them were involved in the slave trade.
abdul7591 1 week ago
@abdul7591 As an Irishman (Dublin) there's a shit load more to worry about these days than what group of wasters claim sovereignty over the northern half of the country.
Personally I'd love to sack the lot of them... and your lot too! they don't see to be doing much good...
Theres a rule here... don't vote... because no matter who you vote for the government always win!
MumblingMickey 1 week ago
@abdul7591 Actually american have an election this year... now could you imagine if somebody put say George Washington or Abe Lincoln up for the presidency... by way of telling the US politicians that there is no fucking way Americans are willing to put up with 4 or 8 more years of total crap!
I'm not sure if somebody has to be alive to be voted into office in the US... but it'd give those bastards a right run for their money!
MumblingMickey 1 week ago
There is going to be war. its the only solution in Europe
Pitttdog 2 weeks ago
As an English man i feel sorry for what has happened to the Irish, the fact is the Irish hate us so much, and not many of us Brits actually no why and neither do we care, what happened in the past must stay in the past, but we would welcome you with open arms if you ever wanted to dump the Euro, your like that grumpy old stubborn brother that wont forgive, join the union we already share so much in common, hell all us Brits do, we have kicked the living fuck out of each other for century's
SoulIgnitionMusic 2 weeks ago
@SoulIgnitionMusic The Irish have no bone to pick with the British mate... What we want to do is dig up the fuckers in england who fucked up the fuckers we buried in Ireland...and kill them again...
Since that's not possible we'll console ourselves with the knowledge that a whole chunk of the British population is in fact Irish. Just like Pat there... Just not to many Irish in the queens family., the Germans got there before us!
MumblingMickey 1 week ago
Good call Pat. Love the barbed wire wit!
mydogbanjo 3 weeks ago
I'm a northern Irish Catholic who thinks this man speaks some sense, especially on the Middle East, a subject on which the Irish (I now live in Dublin) are very ignorant. Glad to think he is Irish. It shows that we don't all have to think the one way: Brit-bashing, special-pleading etc.
trinitarian100 3 weeks ago
For the 1st time I see Pat says something decent & true. But it's still doesn't make sense if democracy doesn't work as he described in the early part of the video, how can the Irish change throw election?!
FolkeBernadotte2 3 weeks ago
@FolkeBernadotte2 Use EDD perhaps? There is no real reason any population of people need to have a group of idiots between them and the civil infrastructure... in fact with modern technology governments are essentially obsolete.
Unfortunately the demographic of those that vote compared to the average ages of the nation show that people over 30 are more likely to vote... Otherwise governments would last until their first fuck up!
MumblingMickey 1 week ago
Britain was a threat to Ireland and created sectarianism by establishing the state of Northern Ireland and importing Protestants into that region. In addition, the British committed heinous war crimes well into the later half of the last century. Everything Pat says about the EU and its effect on Ireland is true and the EU is an enemy of Ireland also.
Callum29D 3 weeks ago
So true. The pity is Ireland never was a soverign nation. It was simply the sum of the random juxtaposition of soverign independant republics otherwise known as Families.
LUKESEXT 3 weeks ago
@LUKESEXT Agreed we don't have a democracy...we never did ... we have right now a dynasty!
MumblingMickey 1 week ago
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"Funny how people think Pat is English where actually he was born and raised as a Catholic in Ireland"
That's how Pat really knows the Irish are a bunch of hypocritical leeches and bullies too boot.
bogsidebunny 4 weeks ago
Funny how people think Pat is English where actually he was born and raised as a Catholic in Ireland :L silly people
jkelly551 4 weeks ago
@jkelly551
... he says he was a catholic and comes from ireland regular in his vids sherlock
NefariousVirtuoso88 3 weeks ago
dude the euro sucks but its still better than sterling or dollar
euro has lower inflation than both of them and higher interest rates, sure it would be better if everyone would have his currency but you as brit should be more against your own currency with 4% inflation.
meProudToBeCaucasian 4 weeks ago in playlist Pat Condell about ISLAM 3
@thebloodtemplar1 - exactly! There seem to be so many stupid irish that don't seem to understand what europe is trying to do - blinded by their hatred of the UK. Grow up guys - we have more in common with the UK than the EU.
ooeyb 1 month ago
gEE...who came up with Marxism?
chefshitpiece 1 month ago
@thebloodtemplar1 Hehe. And to add to the anti-Irish, anti-EU rants, we have that good old anti-communist paranoia: check! You're my ideal British jingoist. With this culture, it's no wonder the (Royal) British Legion was raising volunteers to help the Nazis crush "socialists" in the Sudetenland back in 1938! (oops, that sort of slipped out!)
LiamNuinseann 1 month ago
@thebloodtemplar1 It's absolutely delightful that the men and women of 1916 are now "heroes" - yet in 1916 all you British nationalists were baying for their blood. Strange how that happens - oh wait, the EU is now the big, bad enemy and let's rewrite the past to make it easier to attack it. As for independence, I want the EU to be stronger in Ireland because that will weaken the British cultural world which was dumped on us by your crowd. Independence is not about aping the coloniser.
LiamNuinseann 1 month ago 4
@thebloodtemplar1 Sweet suffering Jesus. A British nationalist is telling an Irishman he's taking the soup because he sees the EU as a balance to British dominance. Then again, when the British executed all the Irish leaders in Easter 1916 for "treason" I can't really say I'm surprised. This telling the natives that they're traitors for not supporting British nationalist aims is a culturally British thing. Your "British Isles" pipedream alternative to the EU is pathetic. The EU is where it's at.
LiamNuinseann 1 month ago 2
@thebloodtemplar1 "second generation Irish" - Ha! So you're British. As if any proof is needed of your rightwing British cultural upbringing we have: Europhobia in abundance: check; attempt to minimise the unparalleled Russian role in WWII and maximise the British role: check; personal abuse against somebody who doesn't share your narrow, anti-Irish Europhobic John Bull views: check.
Put down the tabloids and educate yourself.
LiamNuinseann 1 month ago
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@thebloodtemplar1: Well, not being British I learnt quite a different history of WWII. It went something like this: around 65,000 British civilians were killed by the Nazis in WWII; around 14.5 million USSR civilians were killed by the Nazis. The British, being rabid nationalists, do not recognise this far greater USSR sacrifice with their poppy. This sort of blinkered nationalist ignorance allows British people like you to think they were the critical force in defeating Nazism. You weren't.
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LiamNuinseann 1 month ago
Hey Condell, cut out the tin foil hat wearing, biggoted fruit battery and tell us some jokes!
BetamaxLives03 1 month ago
and beta is an insufferable troll doing it for the troll cause trolls like you have been counted in every eu country where are the rights of irish natives being upheld?
dermotsheils09 1 month ago
@dermotsheils09
Is my frightened little lassie still shouting about me but hoping I won't hear?
BetamaxLives03 1 month ago
@IslamsVisionofWorld
ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY!!!!!!
SHOUT IN CAPS LOCK BECUASE YOU ARE ANGRY!!!!!
Michael Stone... The Dail... bomb in his bag...?
Should go a bit easier on you as you are kind of "special needs"?
BetamaxLives03 1 month ago
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Hey you fucking cumwhore..who the fuck are you to talk about Ireland you fucking english cunt..go suck cocks you filthy fucker and let me fuck you with red hot pokers you dirty cunt!!! YOu fucking dirty prick!!! keep sucking cocks you cocksuckingh bollocks!!!! LMFAO
DawkinsDebunked 1 month ago
The Eu is Facist israeli backed state.I'd rather still be under british rule than Eu rule and that a horrible thing to say as an irishman.Im a total nationalist but our politicians at the moment are fucking thick jokes.
JordoF6 1 month ago
well said pat
obrieneoghan 1 month ago
there is not gold nor leprechauns, it´s a lie
Churruminonian 1 month ago
@TheTrollWorld In fairness, more British people worked with the Nazis, both before September 1939 and after, than did Irish people. I seem to remember something about British aristocrats being quite close to them? Indeed, there was something about no less than the (Royal) British Legion raising volunteers for Nazi Germany in 1938 to help pacify the Sudetenland? Then there was something about the British Free Corps? And the desertion of almost 100,000 British soldiers between 1939 and 1945....
DoctorT2010 1 month ago 4
@DoctorT2010 well thats bleedin obvious isnt it, since there were more british than irish at the time (50million vs 4million??). Don't forget that many Irish abandoned their neutrality and fought on the Allied side because it was the right thing to do. I think there were even a few Irish pilots who fought in the battle of britian. The most decorated WWII soldier to serve with the british army was also Irish - who was villified by catholics after the war, poor man. Can't remember his name-paddy?
ooeyb 1 month ago
long LIVE the EU
Abbadon380 1 month ago 3
Ireland is awesome
1CameronsChannel1 1 month ago 3
Ireland is now a cesspit of multi-culturalism. The DRM are the only people trying to stick up for the Irish.
deno914 1 month ago
Sounds like the U.S.. We have a rogue government making criminal laws giving bailouts to banksters.
JillyBeanie2410 1 month ago
@TheTrollWorld K, but your name is TrollWorld so no one will take your comments seriously.
Equilibr1st 2 months ago
The biggest threat to Ireland is the state of the economy. Debt, unemployment and emigration are the most important issues in this country and we can't control them because we're not in control of our economy.
Whether or not this was primarily caused by ourselves or the EU, right now, being constrained by EU laws, regulations, and forced loans is crippling our country.
Md2802 2 months ago
'United we stand, divided we fall.'- Aesop I support the European Union, as it is now the most powerful nation-state (Lisbon Treaty makes Europe a nation-state) in the world, and that's good for us Europeans.
mslewp 2 months ago
It's always moving to see all these rightwing British nationalist nutjobs online defending Irish sovereignty. The spiritual inheritors of Humphrey Gilbert, Walter Devereux, Edmund Spenser, Oliver Cromwell, the Famine Queen, the Black and Tans and the Parachute Regiment are now up there fighting for Irish freedom. Pass the bucket. Thank God for the EU dragging us out from under John Bull's tyranny and protecting our sovereignty against the only country that has ever threatened it: Britain.
LiamNuinseann 2 months ago 12
@LiamNuinseann but pat was born in ireland! One would think you have a chip on your shoulder. Try to forgive and forget. There's more to oirland dan dis.
ooeyb 2 months ago
@ooeyb: So, by this thinking I suppose the India-born Cliff Richard is not British? Or the Dublin-born Iris Murdoch is no longer British? Or the English-born Irish revolutionary Erskine Childers was not Irish? Or the Scottish-born Irish revolutionary James Connolly was not Irish?.... Condell is British, and doesn't claim to be anything but British of the most objectionable, Europhobic, pro-imperial kind. Only in Britain can that unique culture flourish. It doesn't exist among Irish people.
LiamNuinseann 1 month ago
@LiamNuinseann its just that people like you don't like the fact that there are plenty of irish people (like myself by the way) who tell it how it really is, who hate the IRA/EU and everything it stands for etc. Ok So we are both irish and i also live in Britian but so what? Most irish supposedly live in the past and hate the british, but are ok to take their handouts and live off the UK. The EU is doing to ireland exactly what you say the UK did in the past. Ireland is NOT independent anymore
ooeyb 1 month ago
@ooeyb British nationalist rant against the IRA: check; British nationalist rant against the EU: check. Anti-Irish stereotypes: check. British myth that everybody is taking handouts except their oil-robbing, land-grabbing selves: check. You're not Irish. You're British, taking the Queen's shilling and brainwashed by rabid Europhobic tabloid dross which dominates the British media with paranoia about the EU and extraordinary conceit about the barbarous record of British imperialism. Vive La EU!
LiamNuinseann 1 month ago 4
@LiamNuinseann no - i just dont see it through Guinness-soaked eyes like you do. Who are you to tell me I'm not Irish just because I live in England? Just because I'm Irish but don't agree with you. Is Cliff Richard English? Technically, no. Am I English? Again, technically, no. Try to stop living in the past. It is you who is brainwashed by the EU. If Pat didn't care about the situation in Ireland he wouldn't have bothered to post as it would have meant nothing to him.
ooeyb 1 month ago
@ooeyb Another anti-Paddy stereotype - it took you a while to get to the drunken Paddy stuff: check on the flag-waving British jingoist anti-Irish front. Great work. You must be utterly exhausted from such sterling work on the atavism front. You're an honour to all the great Little Englanders who have gone before you. Indeed, you could be a cartoonist for Punch magazine in about the year 1860, drawing the Irish as apes. What an endearing cultural world you come from indeed.
LiamNuinseann 1 month ago 5
@LiamNuinseann its very interesting to note that for you, Irish nationalism is fine, but british/english nationalism (identical things) is very much a no-no. With arguments like that, no wonder we, the Irish, get labelled as small-minded idiots. Looking at it from an english perspective, I see they have to put up with rants such as the Roy Keene/Mick Mcarthy world cup row.
Is the latter an irish man in your view? Born in Yorkshire but played for Ireland. As for Keene...
ooeyb 1 month ago
...talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Who is the better Irishman in your opinion? Is Sir Terry Wogan Irish then? I suggest that if you don't like what Pat(trick) a good Irish name that, by the way, has to say then just don't watch his posts. Then you won't be offended. But he is spot on on most things he says. Especially about the EU. Oh and about living in the past, Muslim fundamentalists are the new enemy, NOT the British. We live in modern times. Catch up.
ooeyb 1 month ago
@LiamNuinseann Again, you dont seem to have grasped the fact that I was born in Ireland, which makes me Irish! Drinking isn't an Irish stereotype actually, but they seem to drink more than others (and find excuses to do so, like st Patricks day). I don't drink.
It seems to be you who is small-minded. I see the big picture, especially on the EU. I don't see it from just one side like you do. Another example of being stuck in the past with a seething hatred of the British.
ooeyb 1 month ago
@LiamNuinseann I'm guessing you like british TV. You like a British football team (yes - Celtic ARE a British team whether you like it or not). Or are you happy with Shamrock Rovers? There are plenty of things I'm sure you like about the UK, but you are just jealous because Ireland can not hope to match the UK's culture. Typical Irishman. Thank god the UK is more free than the EU, otherwise they wouldn't allow so many Irish football players to play here.
ooeyb 1 month ago
@ooeyb 1) I love football, but I find soccer, "the garrison game", to be the greatest load of commercialised overhyped nonsense ever. 2) I enjoy some British programmes, I also enjoy French, Canadian and US films. Does this, in the tiny world which you clearly inhabit, mean I want to see those countries ruling Ireland? Just what, precisely, are you trying to say? 3) The day an Irishman gets "jealous" of the most warmongering, violent, imperialist, anti-freedom culture of the past 400 years....
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@ooeyb PS: Great to see you so interested in Irish football players. I thought you only followed soccer players over there in Perfidious Albion. I'd say Dublin will win the All-Ireland by a few points again this year.
LiamNuinseann 1 month ago 4
@LiamNuinseann Interesting thinking there... you seem to want to be enslaved by the EU. THEY will make the rules, not democratically elected Irish politicians, so how is being ruled by the EU protecting Irelands sovereignty? One size doesn't fit all, it's near impossible to overturn EU rulings as we have seen time and time again. I really don't understand this stubborness from some people, which will lead Ireland and the EU itself to ruin.
ooeyb 1 month ago
The Irsh referendum said no, the EU says "there can be only one answer, and it's not no, so vote again until you come up with YES!". How very democratic.
ooeyb 1 month ago
@LiamNuinseann Clearly living in the past, it`s reassuring to see that this kind of flag waving, racist, biggotry is being replaced by a new generation of forward looking young Irish who are happy to be a part of the European community (Britain included) and not keeping old wounds open and festering.
777oddball 2 weeks ago
@777oddball Yeah don't speak too soon there fella... most of us couldn't give a rats ass about Europe, or the Brits... and we certainly are not too happywith our own government either.
As far as I see its a land grab. Except this time the land is money and the banking system is clearly in with these shower of shitbags.
They'll get a wake up call to... we are way too many, way too connected, too well educated and really fucking angry... when we catch up with them we will tear them to pieces!
MumblingMickey 1 week ago
@LiamNuinseann
But Pat Condell is Irish too. :\
BigDogJang0 1 week ago
@LiamNuinseann well said
Leinster4life13 6 days ago
Furthermore, how do you equate the EU with the state Ireland is in now? While the ECB's interest rates were not decisively tailored, it had little to do with them as a whole; What did have an effect was moronic shitheads completely deregulating our banks and a professional clown as a Taoiseach to completely antagonize the bubble and ignore prominent Economists who warned of the bust.
To be honest if we weren't in the eurozone to begin with, we would be cataclysmic-ally fucked.
TheAsymmetrical 2 months ago 5
You can really tell you read the Telegraph and the DailyMail,
"Marxist this, Marxist that, Socialist Dictatorships"
I hate to be the devils advocate, and I am in no-way a fan of the EU; But I ask you, what do you propose as a countermeasure to returning to the old currency? Do you honestly think it's that simple? Go get a decent education on Economics and then come back to me, otherwise you're just spouting rhetoric to imply that we will be completely freed.
TheAsymmetrical 2 months ago
*facepalm*
TheAsymmetrical 2 months ago
Democracy is good up until the point where you have stupid people voting. In America, we put VALUE into other people controlling us and they don't have to bully us into voting to further their initiatives because we're too damn stupid to realize what's happening.
What we need is a benevolent socialist dictatorship. One that has the best interests of the people at heart that will do the right thing even if everyone disagrees with them because of years upon years of indoctrination.
BassMakesPaste 2 months ago in playlist More videos from patcondell
man i feel ashamed to be Irish! this fucking country has always been a shithole! when i finish college i am going to emigrate for a job!
33guyfawkes 2 months ago
@33guyfawkes Wow you should be ashamed of yourself. Why would you say that about your own country. Thankfully you're going to emigrate hopfully you will give back your Irish passport, as the way you are speaking is disgraceful and YOU are NOT Irish.
brandonlovesmonkeys 2 months ago
@brandonlovesmonkeys - Why would he say that? Democracy me old mucca. Im Irish and feel exactly like guyfawkes. So that makes two of us then. What have us irish got to be proud about, exactly? Being neutral in WWII? No because many Irish realised the threat of Nazism and fought against it! Being an insignificant puppet state of the EU? Perhaps its just jealousy of the UK, judging by the way the Queen was treated when she came to the Emerald Isle?
ooeyb 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
To be fair Pat, there was a lot of stupidity in how we spent our "Celtic Tiger" windfall too!
We gave most of it away to people who made an empty profit by arbitrarily deciding on the cost of property........With the help of corrupt elected officials!!
Tobytrim 3 months ago
Government is destroying itself at a faster and faster rate. When people have nothing to lose, as they are soon approaching, they will take out the trash, worldwide. I hope the irish get to fighting soon. The Euro is DEAD.
tekdiveraz 3 months ago
P3. OUR DEBT IS SAVAGE but what is never mentioned is how our sugar beet industry was crushed, agriculture ruined and 100BILLION of fisheries given away to spanish,french and portugese trawlers. Our natural resources were also shipped off to the lowest bidder....YES! THE LOWEST BIDDER because our gas field at corrib was sold for a song, our oil has gone to norway and we dont see a red cent.
When St.Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland he unfortunately missed Dail Eireann!!!!!
celticboxingfan 3 months ago 3
P2. our "leader" tries to embed himself in the history books by making a "State of the nation address" (right after x factor..lol) to tell us the harsh realities of how our bold politicians spent all our money on the races in galway and having a big party in a tent with bankers, lawyers and property developers and how we now have to pay it back for them or our boss in bruxelles will be angry and might not give us money for our atm's anymore.
celticboxingfan 3 months ago
P1. give that man a bloody job! well said pat. we were bullied into lisbon.... scared the life out of everyone with talk of raparations and economic and social exclusion. The greed of a mere 50 people brought this nation to its knees and the big wigs and elite stuff their pockets with our hard earned and pay offs while we worry about where our next meal is coming from.
we are told to tighten our belts and prepare for savage cuts in spending, healthcare and a hike in taxes direct and indirect.
celticboxingfan 3 months ago
Just like in the United States, join the union lose our sovereignty.
saintpatricksmilitia 3 months ago
Your "Queen" may be "one of the people we haven't elected...who have their snouts in the trough". They get richer, while you sit back and gaggle and drool over their "fairy tale" weddings..etc. It isn't only Ireland. Don't forget Her Satanic Majesties Govt. is part of the EEU..you may not have changed your currency but you're still part of that system. This European "government" that has a currency..but no leader..was doomed to fail from the beginning. Who's in charge? Merkel? Sarkozy? ..NOBDYiz
bheadh 3 months ago
@bheadh your "POPE" sits in his luxury palace, with his snout in the trough. He gets richer while you sit back and ignore Paedophile priests and all the damage they have done to communities worldwide... Do you see where I am going with this? At least the Queen is a figurehead and gives the UK an identity. Ireland would be better off in the UK than the EU. At least we speak the same language and have similar cultures. The EU was always doomed to failure, what with the bossy Germans/sly French.
ooeyb 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
@ooeyb Who said any thing about a Pope? We were talking about Her satanic majesty, Elizabutt, she is just another in a long line of charlatans designed to keep you fooled by "being a figurehead" of fairy tales. She serves NO purpose except to keep you drooling over her family so you can wish you were one of 'em....your so-called "identity". Ireland will never become part of that fairy tale again. Your blatherings about a pope have nothing to do with the subject...says alot about you.
bheadh 2 months ago
@bheadh erh no - pat wasn't talking about the queen either, who happens to be a much loved figurehead around the world, despite what you or I say. I wouldn't want the workload of the queen and so would not wish to be one of them. .
ooeyb 2 months ago
@ooeyb ugghh.....pass the sickbag
aussiesam01 2 months ago
@aussiesam01 why, exactly? Please explain yourself!
ooeyb 2 months ago
@ooeyb I just find a lot of monarchist commentary somewhat sycophantic
aussiesam01 2 months ago
Im Irish... the Eu have taken us over... time to rise again folks...
AnnoyingBeast 3 months ago
I wonder if Adolph Hitler had lived long enough he would have been the leader of the EU.
TDS4UT 3 months ago
i agree on how the Lisbon treaty should not have been voted on a 2nd time
namelessmirror 3 months ago
I always wonder weather the anti-EU camp is knowingly lying about the facts or if they are just too stupid to realize what they rant about doesnt make any sense.
FreddieBambino 3 months ago
Yeaaah Ireland for recently dropping it's embassy at the Vatican.
At least that's a start.... but there's a LONG way to go....
GodVlogger 3 months ago
dont know aout you guys but im gay.
iAMzzirJizz 3 months ago
What dont you hate you miserable old cunt
MgEightDee 3 months ago
who gives a fuck we all live on the same planet - all this would seem insignificant if we could view the earth from space - no fences or borders. Just one planet. Retards.
stuartwwillis 3 months ago
Its funny that ireland wanted independance from the uk, yet has let itself be dominated by the EU - a greater evil... Are they going to set the IRA on them now?
ooeyb 3 months ago
@ooeyb hey leave ireland alone!! we didnt want to be bullied by the english so we left the british empire (great britian) but they forbidded us to leave and many died from this war!! so shut up
goungoun2 3 months ago
@goungoun2 - funny we had to bail your country out with OUR money eh?! As a country, you were happy to take that, even if we want very little to do with each other. Actually I'm Irish myself, but my allegiance is to the UK as I live there. I'm sick of the hypocrisy many Irish have - especially those that live in Kilburn, the heart of the Irish community in London (supposed capital city of the enemy of all things Irish...). You can't have it both ways, you know.
ooeyb 3 months ago
@ooeyb faggoooooot gay whore go die in a hole!!!
goungoun2 3 months ago
@goungoun2 yes - i was waiting for this typical response! You can't say anything against me because I was born in Ireland like you, but you don't like my response and can't come up with something sensible in retaliation, so opt for abuse instead. Just telling it like it is, as Pat, sensible person he is does. This bloke speaks for the majority of sensible people in the UK.
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goungoun2 3 months ago
once again faggooooooot gay whore go die in a hole
goungoun2 3 months ago
@goungoun2 which hole shall I die in? The hole in Ireland’s financial deficit? And faggooooot is spelt 'Fagot'. Please have the courtesy to speak the Queen's English.
ooeyb 3 months ago
Pseudo Intellectual
eurodestination 3 months ago
Pat Condell for Taoiseach!!!!!!
MrBrendaneoin22 3 months ago
EU = EUSSR = Eurabia.
diadorim1234 3 months ago
I am every bit as much an enemy of the EU as Mr. Condell is, but let's be honest. The sorry state Ireland is in was not just caused by the EU, but by their attempt to follow the bright example of the rest of the English-speaking world to shed the dull industrial cocoon and turn into a beautiful finance business butterfly that makes money not by producing stuff like those stupid Germans but by juggling money like the UK and the USA do.
TrangleC 4 months ago 2
You are so right, Pat.
Westalong 4 months ago
I look forward to the pain of your heart attack, Pat wank!
thow65 4 months ago
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thow65 4 months ago
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thow65 4 months ago
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thow65 4 months ago
You're an angry idiot!
thow65 4 months ago
This man is right. I hate the eu
davidr6401 4 months ago
This man just never gets enough hatred! Maybe he'll stop when he gets 7 billion people against him to make his Guinness world record!
shobhat 4 months ago
shut the fcuk
lebgang 4 months ago
FUCK THE EU
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AncientTerra 3 months ago
u tell um man
langley69er 4 months ago
Scotland needs to do something along those lines as well by splitting away from England. But that's not going to happen until the oil supplies run out in Scotland then when we have nothing valuable left they might consider leaving? But I do think Ireland should make a stand and say enough is enough!
ruairidh999 4 months ago
their sovernity will happen when england will give back 6 counties in northern ireland ( Teddy's head ). ....LONG LIVE IRELAND. you are a mad person who advocate HATE, ....Fix your own problems before you advice others. ha ha ha
Ahmadintube 4 months ago
You can feel Pat's ferver for Ireland; he was born there.
lollalot 4 months ago
@lollalot waqs he born in irealnd?
PatriciaDeanRevenge 4 months ago
@PatriciaDeanRevenge Yup
lollalot 4 months ago
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Well, according to your comment you look like and idiot and you probably are because you choosed to insult instead of giving reasons to discuss.
Javitomanzano 4 months ago
Wow it seems like the EU is to blame for EVERYTHING, eh, Pat? They're even somehow to blame for Ireland and Northern Ireland not unifying into a single nation! You, sir, are a GENIUS!
macr0machine 4 months ago
I'm not 100% sure but i get the feeling Pat doesn't like the EU.
macnos 4 months ago 49
Go Pat!
slovan 4 months ago
If anyone is giving out about Ireland's condition, go to Dame St. and make your voice heard. Wake up. YOU ARE BEING RAPED. Look up article 10 and 45 of the Irish Constitution for a start.
macco66 4 months ago
Pat you really have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe you should leave politics and just stick to your thinly veiled racist vids instead,
kiwimike1000 4 months ago
@kiwimike1000 instead of conveniently leaving a comment, why don't you make a reaction vid and put Condell in his place. I'd love to hear what you have to say. Until then, you're comment holds zero merit.
codern 4 months ago
First off, Ireland should put its Jews into protective camps.
kolkrabe19 4 months ago
@GamerElite1000 Interesting that you talk about the Irish birth rate. I was reading a forecast by the American think-tank PEW and it said that the Islamic population of N.Ireland will increase by 94% by 2030 and in the Rep.Ireland by 190%. Just wondering if Ireland's high birthrates have anything to do with the increasing influx of Muslim immigrants considering that the UK's Institute of National Statistics wrote that the Muslim population of the UK is growing 10 times faster than the rest?
TheFestivelights 4 months ago
@GamerElite1000
Eggs and Paint Good luck with that mate..Its happening already..42000 this year to date. immigrationcontrol org
WhitesAwaken 4 months ago
I ran a campaign with allot of others against Lisbon, we met media blackout. I found that democracy is a mask for dictatorship. We and I mean the democratic world are not being listened to and when we were listened to in Ireland our government decided to lean on working class with promises and "oh we need Europe, oh we need jobs''. Conformity my friends by any means possible.
toolsoldier 4 months ago
Just tell it like it is, Pat !!! You are always 100 % right !!! Keep these " Truth Video's " coming !!!
VMA225 4 months ago
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CAN ANYONE NAME A SINGLE PLACE ON THIS EARTH WHERE MUSLIMS LIVE IN PEACE WITH OTHER RELIGIONS
idontcarei 4 months ago
The more I watch your back-catalog, Pat, the more I realize something:
The 'Atheist' or 'Freethought' movement depends on new, young faces to keep the movement alive. We also desperately need mature, established, household-name people to lend legitimacy to the movement. It's far too easy for people to complain about 'those young ruffians who don't know anything", but I would PAY to see a Pentacostal preacher condescend to you :)
ddarklighter 5 months ago
ireland will become a dumping ground for eurotrash
WhitesAwaken 5 months ago
The President is elected you fool. In fact the election is in a few weeks. Plus, the PM is the head of government.
KungfuCow5 5 months ago in playlist More videos from patcondell
@KungfuCow5
The president is effectively a symbolic role. He has no political power. Get your facts right before you attempt to inarticulately insult your superiors.
ph03n1xamb1t 5 months ago
You start off by saying "this is a video about politics" yet you do not realise that the political leader in Ireland is a prime minister not a president. Maybe you should stick to what you know.
ph03n1xamb1t 5 months ago 2
Well done Pat Condell. It's a shame that the prevailing political opinion across Europe would be that you are a xenophobe and a bigot. I certainly know the British political class are falling over themselves to obsequiously gratify the Euro Nazis. In all this the Lib Dems come out terribly; how can they be supportive of centralising political power whilst ostensibly being the party of civil liberties? I think now UKIP is possibly the only way to go.
DEC0RAX0 5 months ago
Global Capitalism was born in 1945-46. The old "democratic" systems were wiped away in favor of a brand new system of World Government, world economy-banking and a shared world fate. John Maynard Kaynes insisted this would be the best way to keep the peace. There is nothing anybody can do about it now. We cannot go back to Old European Comodities Sovereignty.
Avalon400 5 months ago
Couldnt have put it better meself, very well said.
boostah27 5 months ago
incarceration rates every seen in a westarn country-we locked up more people then, per capita, than the USA does today (see Ian O'Donnell: Coercive confinement in Ireland). The EU helped us to modernise, to industrailise, to develop coherent policy, and to prioritise human rights over backward Irish gaelic catholic dogma. I love my very imperfect country, and we are far better off as part of the EU and Euro than not!!!
Nadnerb765 5 months ago
When Ireland joined the EU it was a very backward country drowning in recession, poverty, screwed up social policy, and a crushing lack of confidence and direction. Irish governments from 1921 to the late 1960s pumped millions into the revival of the Irish language and into promoting agricultural practice-they wanted us all to be Irish speaking priest worshiping farmers. Our industrialisation was 40 years behing the UK (see Tom Garvin: why Ireland was so poor for so long). We had the highest
Nadnerb765 5 months ago
politicians a shower of tossers? Of course, show me a country where that aint true. Has the EU harmed Ireland? Of course some of the stupidity of the EU has harmed Ireland, paper pushers in Brussels dictating to farmers in Offaly about when they can and cant cut turf is just dumb and silly. But we must also ask: has Ireland beneffited greatly from the EU? Has the EU funds greatly improved our infastructure, our sociaty, our education system, our community and voluntary sector, etc? Yes!!!!!!!!!
Nadnerb765 5 months ago
Then, after the crash that was mostly caused bt the Irish, would EU have bailed out Ireland? Yes of course, their banks are so heavily invested in ours that they would have no choice. So if Ireland wasnt part of the Euro, or even part of the EU itself, nothing would have been different: the only exception being that our interest rates would have been a bit higher-and trust me that wouldnt have stopped the crazy Irish elites. Is the EU problematic? Yes of course. Are our past and current
Nadnerb765 5 months ago
Also...a few more important points about Ireland. If we had not joined the euro we would still be in the same mess we are in today, mostly anyway. Would Anglo, AIB, BOI, still ahve lent money in such a reckless fashion? Would our corrupt politicians still have been engaged in cronyism, deception, corruption? Would our developers still have gambled like addicts in a casino? And would the European banks still have thrown money at the Irish banks? The answer to these questions is of course YES!
Nadnerb765 5 months ago
This is so wrong... I hate EU dictatorship...
What can an individual do to change things?
tontsa911 5 months ago
@tontsa911
Non-participation.
Maxuskrachus 5 months ago
similar to the analysis that Pat gave in this video. Ironically enough they are also the loony left brigade who regularly label poeple as Islamaphobic if they express an opinion on Islam that they dont like, they are the multicultural brigade, yes indeed the very people who Pat (rightly) detests. So re Ireland and Irelands woes: the root causes or Irelands difficulties are the IRISH.
Nadnerb765 5 months ago
help pay for this mess, my childrens schools are losing teachers, my wife was put down to part time work, our police are being reduced, our hospitals are losing wards, etc etc. I would love, absolutely love, to say this was the fault of the EU: it just simply isnt true. It is dishonest to say so, the only people in Ireland who think that the causes of this mess lie outside of Ireland are the ultra left socialist parties led by Joe Higgins. They are the ones who give forth an analysis very very
Nadnerb765 5 months ago
destruction-if one looks at the details of the public sector, for example, over the last decade one will see an absolutely unsustainable and incoherent system. I read yesterday that one public ministry headquarters had 47 gardners on the payroll and yet had no garden. Does this sound fictious? I assure you it isnt. Ireland had many many examples of such stupidity and financial corruption. I am a working class Irishman, I earn an average wage, I have been taxed a lot over the last 2 budgets to
Nadnerb765 5 months ago
a culture of corruption. The mainstream public adored these developers who they considered as geniuses. Many tribunals were set up to investigate the many dodgy deals and the dodgy politicians. Ireland was a mess, and it was the IRISH who made that mess. Its easy for outsiders to judge the Irish situation against the broader context of the European and world financial crises, but the reality from inside this country looks very different. Greece is similar-they were the authors of their own
Nadnerb765 5 months ago
banks lend in a reckless fashion to the Irish? Yes or course, thats why I reckon some of the blame lies with them. However Ireland had a very very corrupt political class that was deeeply in bed with a very very corrupt financial class. Insanely reckless IRISH property developers borrowed huge amounts of cash from insanely reckless IRISH banks who had no oversight from insanely reckless IRISH politicians, IRISH regulators, or even IRISH social figures such as journalists. In Ireland there was
Nadnerb765 5 months ago