Rob Carry

The State and its army of NGOs can't provide young people struggling with their mental health with free, timely therapy services. So the people of Bray are stepping in. We're all volunteers. Zero overheads. No wages. No waste. 100% of funds raised go to end user. #Cabhair

@Cece1087120 @rtenews Social housing.

@rtenews Wher are they going to go? The private rental market is beyond stretched.

The Government is working towards a "reduction and eventual elimination" of the State's accommodation programme for people fleeing the war in Ukraine, the Minister of State for Migration Colm Brophy has said rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

May God bless the people of Ireland and may God bless the United States of America! 🇮🇪🇺🇸

@dessie_martin Not too far from there, Des. Walk starts from the opposite side of the road to the walk that takes you Jackson Falls.

@RobCarryBray Near Jackson Falls?

Short feed cleanse of the Avonmore River in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland 🇮🇪 Even at this time of year, the place is magic.

Katie Taylor in Croke Park and Ireland in the World Cup puts 2026 up there with 1990.

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@RobCarryBray Oh stfu 🙄

The St. Patrick's Parades around the world couldn't be more different to the carry on in Dublin. What's different? People overseas are proud of the Irish nation, its unique indigenous culture and their connection to it - big or small. The Dublin Parade is a walking post-colonial inferiority complex. Anything uniquely Irish pushed to the back. A people who will tear down their own identity for fear of appearing boastful or worse - offending someone. 'What, this old thing? My people and culture? Not at all, sure I got it in Penny's hun!' In a perverse way, that could be the most Irish thing about it.

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@Quinnobi2 @RobCarryBray This is literally how these lads pay the bills. Putting down the country because a parade for babies wasn't just irish dancing and dev's ireland culchie nonsense. West Britons.

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@RobCarryBray Do you ever stop fucking moaning?

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@RobCarryBray Good man Rob . Never let the actual truth get in the way of a post. Arsehole

You could definitely argue that Tom, but in my view it's a bit of a missed opportunity to showcase what's unique to Ireland. To tell our story to the world and, really, to give people who visit what they want. Nobody is going to Mardi Gras to see an Irish pipe band - people travel to places to experience what can only be found there.

@RobCarryBray The original St Pat parade was basically an immigrant pride parade, I dont see the contradiction including immigrants in our celebrations in Ireland, in fact I see rhyme.

I take your point on the term indigenous - first time I heard it in reference to Irish people I definitely paused. I looked up the definition ready to disagree - but found it very difficult to form an argument against it being applicable in our case. The Irish are an indigenous people.

@RobCarryBray The Parade in Dublin is mainly for kids and tourists. And that’s fine. You want culture, the Concert Hall has great music all week. Your use of the word indigenous is a warning light though. Our music, like all of our culture, is influenced by other cultures. And that’s also fine

@schmarlton Irish people aren't interested in Irishness?

@RobCarryBray Or "general Irishness" is just not something that Irish people living in Ireland their entire lives are interested in and would prefer something novel.

@TippForMichaelD Do you believe indigenous cultures exist elsewhere? Or indigenous people? Could you give some examples?

@RobCarryBray Our “culture” is constantly changing. It’s been influenced by the Celts, Vikings, Normans, AngloNormans, Romans and even in the 20th Century by the US. 1,000 years ago we were pagans. We don’t have an “indigenous culture”.

I don't accept the idea that everything that happens in Ireland = Irish culture. For example, we've as many Polish speakers here as Irish speakers. So do we equate the two? Give both equal funding and support? Teach both in schools to the same degree? If not, why not? Because one is indigenous and unique to our nation. This isnt out of any kind of disrespect to other cultures - the opposite, if anything. Imagine going to Mardi Gras, and it had little bit of Brazil but just as much Irish, American and Chinese. Then you to China for Chinese New Year and its the same salad bowl of African drummers, Irish dancers and Chinese Dragons. That won't protect diversity - it'll kill it.

@RobCarryBray I don't believe it's a serious complaint seeing some cultural additions to the parade that is still full of the typical Paddy's Day iconography And they aren't random additions. They represent groups here in Ireland. They are indeed part of Irish culture

@maelnallaen That's really well put.

On one hand St Patrick's Day parades in the US look like caricatures. On the other hand Ireland still hasn't really conquered the shadow of Anglo-British colonialism. In Sinn Fein there's a fear of being England and in Fine Gael and Fianna Fail there's a fear of being Ireland.

@adamkjohnston Brilliant Adam, welcome home.

As an American with partial Irish heritage, there is something spiritual about experiencing a piece of your culture first hand. When I visited Ireland, I felt as if a part of me was awakened. The music, the food, the people. It felt like home - even though I had never visited.

'He was a gentleman' Irish kids in 1977 tell the story of Saint Patrick

@Pl3030440137927 @wilsonhlthcoach It's a traditional Irish American dish.

@wilsonhlthcoach Nobody I repeat nobody in Ireland ever ever eats corned beef and cabbage.

All my life, my whole family thought we were Irish. I always made corned beef and cabbage on St. Patty's Day. I love corned beef! We thought we were Irish because we have a lot of redheads in the family. Plus, our tree shows that our family, the McCalls, immigrated from Ireland in the mid-1800s. In 2009, I even took my daughter on a trip to Ireland to show her the country our family came from. Then I did my DNA. Turns out, we have no Irish at all. Not even a fraction of a percent. We're Scottish. The McCalls originated in Scotland and immigrated to Ireland in the 1600s. Guess I'll have to take a trip to Scotland one day. 🤷‍♀️

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh ☘️ Special shout out to our diaspora who still recognise the importance of their heritage and are proud of the island they hail from. If you've Irish blood, you're as Irish as any of us - and don't let anyone tell you otherwise ☘️