Ireland is the most charitable country in Europe, second most in the world

And it is (I just cant resist saying this ) the most catholic country in the world, yet Irish Examiner website back in Feb 2012 73% of th4e Irish support changing the constitution to allow marriage for gay people. And pls let's not forget that it already has reasonably complete civil unions for that became law in early 2011 And the sky didnt fall in etc. .... As for those who think CUs are adequate, I wonder how they would feel if their hetero marriages were renamed as a matter of law CUs . And of course marriage is about love and commitment - so vastly lacking for gay people in general by the Vatican.

Go learn Cantonese angrypaddy, you'll be needing it seeing as they have you guys by the gorbels. Stay out of Irish affairs and worry about your own laughing stock gun toting image. Yu 'eer that now yu redd neck.

Well isn't that great news a nation of beggers giving away money they dont have.A drunken PM giving 85 billion to banks that the next two or three generations of tax payers will have to pay thats if there is anybody left in the country

It may be droll, but it's true.

@WoundedKnee Very droll. But let's not forget the 5-10 billion we give unsecured bank bondholders.

Don't forget a further charity. Irish tax payers give over a billion dollars a year to the foreign migrants who have settled there.