Message to Don Firth - been reading your posts, and my heart goes out to you mate. My advice to you is don't try to fight it 'cause it's never going to happen. Your country is a lost cause. Emigrate while you still have your health.

Ireland is the place to be - Why?
The people
The music
The food
The black gold
The air
The scenery

Join all those Irish-Americans who have already woken up to the realization that the land of milk and honey their fore-fathers emigrated to was just a poisoned chalice - they got wise, and went back home.