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Our Accents And Our Culture

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Replying To Breffni40:  "There's very little difference in all the faiths and they all mostly come from the same mythologies and legends. Faith is fine and I often wish I had it as people with it often appear very content. However organised religion and fundamentalists and extremists down through the centuries have exploited every faith for nefarious reasons. Ireland is no different and I personally cannot see how any moral person can associate themselves with any of our religious orders. Evil is evil and supporting it, even passively, does not strike me as something that will work in your favour in any potential afterlife"
I hope there is an afterlife as long as there is a hell, where these types should be left to burn for their evilness. For all the ones that did commit these heinous crimes, I'm sure there we're as many again that knew what was going on and chose to do absolutely nothing about it and cover it up or worse still move these people on so they offend elsewhere.

Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2041 - 10/09/2024 17:49:28    2569303

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Replying To Bon:  "I hope there is an afterlife as long as there is a hell, where these types should be left to burn for their evilness. For all the ones that did commit these heinous crimes, I'm sure there we're as many again that knew what was going on and chose to do absolutely nothing about it and cover it up or worse still move these people on so they offend elsewhere."
I would say the colluders outnumber the (many) perpetrators by a factor of about 5:1 in terms of those in actual service (to church, institutions etc.).

In terms of those in wider society who actually knew what some were up to and didn't speak out, in say 1960s Ireland. . . The ratio could well be 100s:1.

That is the power the Catholic church yielded over Irish society in the last century. Truly sickening.

cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5110 - 11/09/2024 06:31:23    2569337

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The accents in my county are awful although they could be worse like our neighbour in the east or in south Armagh.
There must be 4 accents in the county, Derry city, North Derry, South Derry and then the accent along the River Bann up to Coleraine.
The accents are starting to mellow a bit but a broad County Derry accent from an older person above 50 isn't an easy listen.

PattyONeill (Derry) - Posts: 244 - 11/09/2024 21:27:23    2569462

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Replying To PattyONeill:  "The accents in my county are awful although they could be worse like our neighbour in the east or in south Armagh.
There must be 4 accents in the county, Derry city, North Derry, South Derry and then the accent along the River Bann up to Coleraine.
The accents are starting to mellow a bit but a broad County Derry accent from an older person above 50 isn't an easy listen."
What about ye mucker.Are you from the city Hi.

gunman (Donegal) - Posts: 1106 - 11/09/2024 22:28:56    2569469

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From Fermanagh and South Tyrone, I can confirm that the accents are very strong among our underage teams. The differences between Irvinestown, Enniskillen, and Teemore are incomparable. I swear, some of the men and women from South Fermanagh sound like they're speaking a different language.

I must admit, the older generation speaks with an even thicker accent. Despite many years of travelling, two things remain true: every other nation adores our accent, and every other nation can't understand it.

Itown1234 (Fermanagh) - Posts: 46 - 12/09/2024 16:26:41    2569590

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