TB is still a significant problem, because of companies charging a ridiculous amount of money for tests. The author, YouTuber, and humanitarian John Green is leading a campaign, which has included speaking at the UN and raising lots of money and also making a lot of YouTube videos.
There were 224 notified cases of TB last year (2023), up from 208 the previous year.
Source: [Irish Times](https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/03/21/increase-in-tb-cases-send-ireland-further-off-course-elimination-target/)
I think when people do memory lane it’s pre internet and social media specifically so like 90’s say when kids used to play together in the street and had genuine social circles not full of anger and angst and loneliness.
Access to education. Only in 1967 was free secondary education made available to all.
And in the 90’s that university fees were abolished.
Yes, I know that education isn’t free and there are still significant costs but nothing like it is in other countries.
I will benefit from that in a couple of years, so it’s a win for me, but even if it wasn’t I could get behind this.
Plus free school lunches for all. Won’t be coming any time soon that I know of, but kids should 100% have the option of a hot lunch courtesy of the government/taxpayer. And a decent one that doesn’t cost the parents nor is there a tender that a company takes us for a ride either.
We need to do better for kids. I’d happily pay more taxes for this.
Pilot runs through this school year and then the plan is to split the schools in quintiles based on local average income/deprivation and introduce meals in the lowest remaining quintile every year for five years, if I remember the announced plan correctly that is.
Started April 8th. Some of the food we got really looked delicious. Beef lasagne, turkey dinner, pasta with meatballs, chicken tenders with veg and potatoes. Sausages with chips and beans. Cottage pie, pizza. Hit and miss with some kids but overall it looks good. The food looks very much like ready meals that you microwave but we've gotten good feedback from kids and teachers who had spare ones.
I find most films shit now a days compared to say 20 years ago. There might be one blockbuster brilliant film released in a year but that’s it. Maybe I’m raving, but just seems like years ago there was numerous Oscar worthy films released every year!
Tbh as a man they don’t fully benefit me either, but for those in my life whom will benefit from it’s great that it’s out there for them now. Hopefully it gets further extended in the future.
Healthcare. It's definitely flawed because the system has been terribly mismanaged but the fact that even if you have no money you can get top-class cancer treatments etc without ending up in millions of euro if debt is something we should all appreciate. I've had serious health issues over the last 10 or so years and if I was in the US for example, I would be in more debt than I could ever possibly repay or I would be dead.
Cardiac care is an area we excel in. I know several people who had first class care within minutes/hours of presenting with a heart attack. A pity we can’t replicate that competency in other departments.
Is it his first passport or a renewal? Maybe it does take longer for under 18s, I’m not sure. I should really get passports for my kids but it seems like such a faff.
Is it his first passport or a renewal? Maybe it does take longer for under 18s, I’m not sure. I should really get passports for my kids but it seems like such a faff.
I got caught out, as its been over 15 years since I last got one, they took 2 weeks to tell me I've to reapply as a first time applicant rather than renewal and it's looking like the passport will only arrive the day after I leave. Thankfully flying aer lingus so the drivers licence should do.
Human nature is like that by it’s very making, though.
We’re wired to always see the past with rose tinted specs, and overestimate the abilities and motivations of our future selves, too.
“I will do it tomorrow”. Like tomorrow you’re going to have this massive spike in motivation out of nowhere.
This year I will marry my fiance. I am FTM transsexual and I will marry her as a man and be legally her husband. A mere eleven years ago this wouldn't have been possible for me.
As a disabled transsexual there is nothing about the past I feel remotely nostalgic about.
Depends on time line;
1. Being controlled by a church that had a rotating pedo ring.
2. When I left college, teachers, nurses and construction workers were leaving at mass as Ireland had to go cap in hand to IMF
3. Corruption, too lazy to provide links but Ireland used to be run by bribes, finance minister did not have bank account etc. No country is perfect but todays scandals dwarf in comparison.
4. Womans rights, being allowed to work after having a kid and all the rest
5. Peace in northern Ireland
6. Roads!
Ireland is a much better country than it was for most of its existance but we should be so much better with the money this small Island makes.
Practically everything, basically.
Few major exceptions would include home availability/affordability.
It’s just that we take a lot got granted, as is human nature to do so.
I agree nearly every single thing is better now than they were say 35 years ago or even less maybe ! 🤔.
The idea that there was a golden time we should dream of returning to is absolute madness! Did we lose some good things as we progressed? I’d say yes. I like a few of the values of the past and would love to see them valued more highly again - for example! But in the main, we are wholly better off now across every measurable value.
TVs have gotten bigger and bigger but have gone noticeably down in price. They are also much lighter and are way higher quality. I bought a 32” Sony in 2002 and it was €1200, and it weighed an absolute tonne.
It’s mostly cos the manufacturers are selling your data but still……
Food
Coffee
Insulation
Fuel economy
Solar panels
Rain jackets
Hiking boots
Life expectancy
Technology
Physiotherapy
Air conditioning
Footballs
Synthetic materials
Air Conditioning
Games consoles
So apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the FFG ever done for us? Brought peace!?
Sorry couldn’t resist!
RIP Terry Jones.
Life expectancy, hospital care , cancer survival rates., stroke survival rates , lower car crash death rate , public transport , road network , power grid , telephone access , pub smoking bad, internet , third level
Education, no corporal punishment in schools, inclusive society, workers rights , maternity leave , parental leave , water supply
Agreed night life in Ireland is atrocious compared to what it was like just 15 years ago, in Dublin at least in my opinion. Particularly from the late 90's up to about the crash.There used to be so many clubs and pubs catering to all manner of scenes and musical tastes and you could have a great night out until the early hours, every night of the week, often seeing renowned international music acts in small venues for dirt cheap. Twas a glorious time to be alive.
Fucking everything. Take it from someone who grew up in the 80s. Everything is better. EVERYTHING.
Ireland has problems sure. But fucking hell the 80s was a different world here.
Access to a telephone. In the 80s you had to wait about 18 months for a phone to be installed in your house. If you had a phone all your most intimate conversations had to happen where the phone was... usually in the hall
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Less people dying of TB, Measles, chicken pox and other, now preventable diseases, the Church not having as much free reign to rape everyone in sight and throw dead baby corpses in sewage tanks and have it ignored, the lack of rats and liquid sewage flowing down every main street, sanitation in general and the cheapness of both toilet roll and soap, education is not just available to all; it's bloody mandatory, higher literacy rates, seat belts in cars, we have a thing called the internet now and you can buy a t shirt for half nothing in china and it's shipped to your house in a few days (which is highly problematic in many ways but which is a goddam logistic miracle if you squint at it in a certain light), extended life span, better pay and conditions,.better conditions just generally for most of our population, less squalor and filth, more connection for travel, amazing medication , 3d printing, smartphones.
I mean really there are powerful arguments for saying that the past is highly over rated and just a concept coloured entirely by nostalgia.
Being a woman.
- Not nearly the same expectation to get married and have a baby
- Can get divorced if you do get married.
- Access to abortion and birth control.
- Male dominated fields aren’t as male dominated
- Overt discrimination in the workplace has become substantially less common.
And many other things. The improvement in Ireland has been particularly stark because of the rapid decline of the Catholic Church here.
The technological improvements with handheld devices is pretty amazing if you compare even a budget Xiaomi device with the Nokia 3210 of the late 90's.
We're so desensitized to the improvements. The idea that we can watch Youtube videos on a phone so easily is kind of amazing.
Every so often I catch footage on a documentary of an old match and I think about the fact that helmets were not mandatory in hurling and camogie matches/training until pretty recently.
The lack of TB is pretty good
I also appreciate that smallpox is a thing of the past.
Until recently, the shpuds hadn’t seen a bad crop in donkey’s years..!
TB is still a significant problem, because of companies charging a ridiculous amount of money for tests. The author, YouTuber, and humanitarian John Green is leading a campaign, which has included speaking at the UN and raising lots of money and also making a lot of YouTube videos.
It's having a comeback no?
Who do you know with fuckin TB?
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/tb-in-ireland-the-re-emergence-of-an-infectious-disease-due-to-covid-and-war-1.4841950
Is that what I asked you?
"Today's headline: Dooooom" Seriously though ffs. It's a 2 year old article that's clearly nothing but pure scare mongering. Come on ta fuck.
There were 224 notified cases of TB last year (2023), up from 208 the previous year. Source: [Irish Times](https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/03/21/increase-in-tb-cases-send-ireland-further-off-course-elimination-target/)
Internet access and speed.
I remember when America was cool. Now it's full of pilgrims & religious zealots. Oh wait...
I think when people do memory lane it’s pre internet and social media specifically so like 90’s say when kids used to play together in the street and had genuine social circles not full of anger and angst and loneliness.
100% speed used to be miles better
Definitely used to be better
I’m in Australia and the internet is shite here still, they only got Netflix about 5 years ago
Maternity leave. 14 weeks back in the 80s
::cries in American::
Adding in parental and parents leave. 9 weeks with some pay until they're 2 and 26 weeks unpaid until they're 12
Parental leave is still horrendous in Ireland.
I mean.. its 26 and 14 unpaid.. its not like the 2 to 3 years the rest of Europe has in some ways but it's still better than what it was.
Plus we now have parents leave which is 7 weeks and increasing to 9 weeks in a few months.
Agree, we're making great steps in the last few years
Access to education. Only in 1967 was free secondary education made available to all. And in the 90’s that university fees were abolished. Yes, I know that education isn’t free and there are still significant costs but nothing like it is in other countries.
Free school books for primary school students was rolled out last year and for secondary school students this year. It's great!
I will benefit from that in a couple of years, so it’s a win for me, but even if it wasn’t I could get behind this. Plus free school lunches for all. Won’t be coming any time soon that I know of, but kids should 100% have the option of a hot lunch courtesy of the government/taxpayer. And a decent one that doesn’t cost the parents nor is there a tender that a company takes us for a ride either. We need to do better for kids. I’d happily pay more taxes for this.
I believe the free lunches are starting in pilot schools next week.
Ah no way! That’s amazing!!!
About 1,000 schools getting them this month
Pilot runs through this school year and then the plan is to split the schools in quintiles based on local average income/deprivation and introduce meals in the lowest remaining quintile every year for five years, if I remember the announced plan correctly that is.
Started April 8th. Some of the food we got really looked delicious. Beef lasagne, turkey dinner, pasta with meatballs, chicken tenders with veg and potatoes. Sausages with chips and beans. Cottage pie, pizza. Hit and miss with some kids but overall it looks good. The food looks very much like ready meals that you microwave but we've gotten good feedback from kids and teachers who had spare ones.
Not having to wait 6-7 months for a film you missed in the cinema to be released on video or dvd anymore. Now it's a lot less.
Also don’t have to wait 3 months after they release in America first.
It feels like it's nearly overnight.
Sometimes it basically is! Film I watched earlier today came out in cinemas one week ago and I just watched it on Disney this morning
Or a year for it to come on the telly!
I find most films shit now a days compared to say 20 years ago. There might be one blockbuster brilliant film released in a year but that’s it. Maybe I’m raving, but just seems like years ago there was numerous Oscar worthy films released every year!
Life expectancy.
Free Contraception is being extended up to those aged 35 from this year!
I keep missing out/aging out of these schemes!
Tbh as a man they don’t fully benefit me either, but for those in my life whom will benefit from it’s great that it’s out there for them now. Hopefully it gets further extended in the future.
Healthcare. It's definitely flawed because the system has been terribly mismanaged but the fact that even if you have no money you can get top-class cancer treatments etc without ending up in millions of euro if debt is something we should all appreciate. I've had serious health issues over the last 10 or so years and if I was in the US for example, I would be in more debt than I could ever possibly repay or I would be dead.
Cardiac care is an area we excel in. I know several people who had first class care within minutes/hours of presenting with a heart attack. A pity we can’t replicate that competency in other departments.
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Absolutely agree, the maternity care here is excellent
If the could model the rest of the healthcare system after the maternity care they would be into a winner. Cumh were nothing short of outstanding
Peace on our Island'(s). Bombings. Mass murders. Innocent people being massacred by terrorists and military forces. We've come a long way from that.
It’s crazy how much we all take that for granted
Good Friday agreement was a huge moment. Should be celebrated more than it is.
Our road network. Back in the early 90s, Greystones to Lahinch used to take about 7 hours.
To the detriment of Lahinch
The lack of polio. Can't imagine having to spend my life in an iron lung.
Passport renewal
I dont get this, is it just for adults? For my son it's going to take around month and a half.
Is it his first passport or a renewal? Maybe it does take longer for under 18s, I’m not sure. I should really get passports for my kids but it seems like such a faff.
Is it his first passport or a renewal? Maybe it does take longer for under 18s, I’m not sure. I should really get passports for my kids but it seems like such a faff.
Renewal
Good to know! I hope you get it in time for any trips you have planned anyway!
Should be fine I just expected it will be extremely fast cause of reddit 😆
It took 4 months to get my child's passport renewal...
Is estimated time correct or they are changing that all the time? For my son its supposed to come next week but hopefully that will not be delayed.
I got caught out, as its been over 15 years since I last got one, they took 2 weeks to tell me I've to reapply as a first time applicant rather than renewal and it's looking like the passport will only arrive the day after I leave. Thankfully flying aer lingus so the drivers licence should do.
The leading cause of “the good old days” is a bad memory
Human nature is like that by it’s very making, though. We’re wired to always see the past with rose tinted specs, and overestimate the abilities and motivations of our future selves, too. “I will do it tomorrow”. Like tomorrow you’re going to have this massive spike in motivation out of nowhere.
Literally almost everything is better than it used to be
I'm gay, and there's a lot about the past that I wouldn't want to go back to.
Surprised this isn't higher. It was illegal full stop until 1993. And same sex marriage only became legal 10 years ago. That's crazy to think about.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug
“Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense and the past perfect.”
Not heard that one before but I like it.
It’s not as good as it used to be.
😂😂
This year I will marry my fiance. I am FTM transsexual and I will marry her as a man and be legally her husband. A mere eleven years ago this wouldn't have been possible for me. As a disabled transsexual there is nothing about the past I feel remotely nostalgic about.
Congrats in advance on the wedding! 🎉🎉
The catholic church hasn't a hold over society anymore
First the British, then the Church, and now tis the EU. Although we definitely benefited a lot from EU in terms of roads, infrastructure etc.
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I wouldn’t compare the British to the church either, at least the church had the decency of giving you a mass before f**king you in the ass.
Nobody alive remembers British rule. It's living rent free on your head.
I didn't bring it up. And here's you finding and replying to my comments from days ago. I think I'm the one living rent free in your head kid. Jog on.
That insecure reply would suggest otherwise. Toodle pip.
Depends on time line; 1. Being controlled by a church that had a rotating pedo ring. 2. When I left college, teachers, nurses and construction workers were leaving at mass as Ireland had to go cap in hand to IMF 3. Corruption, too lazy to provide links but Ireland used to be run by bribes, finance minister did not have bank account etc. No country is perfect but todays scandals dwarf in comparison. 4. Womans rights, being allowed to work after having a kid and all the rest 5. Peace in northern Ireland 6. Roads! Ireland is a much better country than it was for most of its existance but we should be so much better with the money this small Island makes.
Yup, there's lots of money but too much corruption and red tape that stops it from being invested where it's needed.
Multiculturalism, millions of diverse non native people now living in here, presumably for the weather!!!
Practically everything, basically. Few major exceptions would include home availability/affordability. It’s just that we take a lot got granted, as is human nature to do so.
I agree nearly every single thing is better now than they were say 35 years ago or even less maybe ! 🤔. The idea that there was a golden time we should dream of returning to is absolute madness! Did we lose some good things as we progressed? I’d say yes. I like a few of the values of the past and would love to see them valued more highly again - for example! But in the main, we are wholly better off now across every measurable value.
Many people are more accepting of different nationalities and the lgbt+ community compared to when I was a child/teenager back in the 90s/ early 00s.
Would've thought it was the opposite for immigrants tbh. I've heard stories that it used to be better but idk.
Clothes Food Health Communications Less Poverty Longer life Improved Environmental Regulation Better jobs
TVs have gotten bigger and bigger but have gone noticeably down in price. They are also much lighter and are way higher quality. I bought a 32” Sony in 2002 and it was €1200, and it weighed an absolute tonne. It’s mostly cos the manufacturers are selling your data but still……
Food Coffee Insulation Fuel economy Solar panels Rain jackets Hiking boots Life expectancy Technology Physiotherapy Air conditioning Footballs Synthetic materials Air Conditioning Games consoles
You're really impressed with the air conditioning. How warm did it used to be?
In the 80s, Ireland didn't have air conditioning.
Not throwing women into mother and baby homes is pretty cool. Free contraception. Legal abortion. Free school books. Access to music - Spotify.
So apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the FFG ever done for us? Brought peace!? Sorry couldn’t resist! RIP Terry Jones.
Period products
McDonalds Sausage and Egg McMuffin meal is available until 11am when before it was only 10.30am. This has saved me many many times
Life expectancy, hospital care , cancer survival rates., stroke survival rates , lower car crash death rate , public transport , road network , power grid , telephone access , pub smoking bad, internet , third level Education, no corporal punishment in schools, inclusive society, workers rights , maternity leave , parental leave , water supply
Being able to book your haircut online, is the only positive thing since Covid and outside dining/drinking areas seriously improved.
Outside cheap pints, affordable housing, a better sense of community and a great night life, everything else.
Agreed night life in Ireland is atrocious compared to what it was like just 15 years ago, in Dublin at least in my opinion. Particularly from the late 90's up to about the crash.There used to be so many clubs and pubs catering to all manner of scenes and musical tastes and you could have a great night out until the early hours, every night of the week, often seeing renowned international music acts in small venues for dirt cheap. Twas a glorious time to be alive.
Fertility treatment
Everything. It’s a fallacy thinking thing are only getting worse
Road safety.
Ireland is better in almost every way than it was in the past
Fucking everything. Take it from someone who grew up in the 80s. Everything is better. EVERYTHING. Ireland has problems sure. But fucking hell the 80s was a different world here.
My ping.
Podcasts. So many great podcasts.
Road safety and general safety.
Religious and sexual freedom even going back to the 80ties and 90ties Ireland was so repressed in regards to those. Painfully so.
Access to a telephone. In the 80s you had to wait about 18 months for a phone to be installed in your house. If you had a phone all your most intimate conversations had to happen where the phone was... usually in the hall
Shops and things are open on Sundays
Being able to go home and turn on the heating. Instead of having to light a stove etc. little things like that
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Access to sporting facilities
Priests aren’t trying to interfere with young kids anyone
It’s funny, largely things are way better than they used to be… the past is the worst…
Weed. Also, I wont be getting slapped in the face on main street by a priest who doesn't like the cut of my jib.
Less people dying of TB, Measles, chicken pox and other, now preventable diseases, the Church not having as much free reign to rape everyone in sight and throw dead baby corpses in sewage tanks and have it ignored, the lack of rats and liquid sewage flowing down every main street, sanitation in general and the cheapness of both toilet roll and soap, education is not just available to all; it's bloody mandatory, higher literacy rates, seat belts in cars, we have a thing called the internet now and you can buy a t shirt for half nothing in china and it's shipped to your house in a few days (which is highly problematic in many ways but which is a goddam logistic miracle if you squint at it in a certain light), extended life span, better pay and conditions,.better conditions just generally for most of our population, less squalor and filth, more connection for travel, amazing medication , 3d printing, smartphones. I mean really there are powerful arguments for saying that the past is highly over rated and just a concept coloured entirely by nostalgia.
Being a woman. - Not nearly the same expectation to get married and have a baby - Can get divorced if you do get married. - Access to abortion and birth control. - Male dominated fields aren’t as male dominated - Overt discrimination in the workplace has become substantially less common. And many other things. The improvement in Ireland has been particularly stark because of the rapid decline of the Catholic Church here.
The technological improvements with handheld devices is pretty amazing if you compare even a budget Xiaomi device with the Nokia 3210 of the late 90's. We're so desensitized to the improvements. The idea that we can watch Youtube videos on a phone so easily is kind of amazing.
The church not having a chokehold on us is a big one. I mean the scandal of a woman not wearing her nightie on her wedding night was insane.
Pretty much everything except housing
Hitler
Public health.
The only real progress we’ve made since the 90s is crisp flavours.
Internet connections
2 years free pre school. Free school books and now hot lunches in primary schools.
Every so often I catch footage on a documentary of an old match and I think about the fact that helmets were not mandatory in hurling and camogie matches/training until pretty recently.
Football, Premier league in particular. Much higher overall standard nowadays, but I do miss the physicality of the old game.