If we only had ole Ireland

Ah for the days when it felt good to be Irish, I mean really good. The world is so accessable now and talk of multi culturalism every where but it has destroyed what was once a rich tapestry of cultures.

For those who remember or had mental pictures of Bacon, cabbage and spuds for dinner and hens and donkies running around the yard, Ireland is not the place to visit. Now expect to be ordering panini's and look for BMW's or 4 x 4's in the yard. I love Ireland, I love being Irish and I live in Ireland but I miss it terribly. As an Aquarian I embrace change and welcome improvements but not at any cost, not so that my fellow countrymen (and women) can become obsessed with their jobs and mortgages and worry about falling ice caps while they fill our land with the waste of their oppulent lifestyles. The accessability to the "land of 1,000 welcomes" (cead mile failte) now depends on your spending power or how much you are perceived to be encroaching on another mans space.

Like I said I embrace change, in fact I could not conduct my business without the net, at least 60% of our turnover in the past year was conducted via e mail but tomorrow, I will wake up, feed my dogs and check on my donkies, have breakfast near the window with just a view of the local mountain range, then let my ducks and hens out, do some work after which I will check how my fruit and vegetables are doing.

There are few of us left and I did not grow up with this lifestyle, nor is it based on large earnings (anything but) but I am a dying breed who loves Ireland for what is was and not what globalisation has done to Ireland and for that matter every country in the world.