Is Ireland a third world country?

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Shiori_hime

You cannot be serious. I refuse to believe there are people in the world ignorant enough to believe Ireland doesn't have electricity and electronics. Of COURSE they have electricity, they're a modern European nation. Use your head and next time, go do some research before you post something like this. Geez people.

froggequene

If we don't have electricity & electronics, how will we get on the internet to answer your question?

CÃaran

Ireland is fifth on the Human Development Index. Yeah of course we do unless we choose not to like a few people I know but they're a minority

lulu

Ireland is one of the most expensive countries in Europe. Obviously you need to read up on Ireland. And yes, they have lights and flush toilets....LOL

Louise Ellen

Our country of Ireland is aptly known as the Emerald Isle because it's fields of grass are lush and green that we only have to eat the grass because it's so nutritious.
We also live in vast forest in tribes known as Culchies, most of the day is spent picking grass to eat in the eveningtime.
The Irish people are the most hygenic of all 3rd world people, because precipitation is so plentiful we need only to step out from under the tress and we have a shower.

No flush toilets, you do your business in the ditch and wipe your bum-bum with a leaf.

We also have computers made from twigs which are powered by hydro-electricity.

Don't tell my boss I'm on here

What the bloody hell is this!

Is this a joke question?

Margaret C

First, may we ask if you are intending to move here? our answer will depend on your answer/

bluebell

I am answering you on broadband. Does that suggest third world? For an idea of the housing conditions, check out
http://www.daft.ie/searchsale.daft?search=1&s[cc_id]=c19&s[search_type]=sale&s[furn]=&s[refreshmap]=1&limit=10&search_type=sale&id=202802

We don't all have jacuzzis, but there are many who do. Sure, there is lush green grass, in eveyone's front and back mancured gardens, as well as in the fields if you wish to drive out into rural areas where you might also find rocks, particularly in western coastal areas.

I think you are due a visit to come and find out for yourself.

Eamonn S

Ireland always has been a culturally advanced country, however growing up in the republic in the 60's and 70's I would have to admit that while culture might warm the heart it won't do much for the stomache. While the other answers you are getting are direct " you should have researched more before asking" they obviously want to forget times not long passed. When I was growing up in north Donegal many homes were without running water and while some had electric the service was so undependable that one could be without for weeks at a time after a storm, the roads dept. carried hand shovels, the schools had turf fires for heat, the turf which was donated by the locals to keep their children warm, no homes bar the local taproom and the post office had a telephone, school transportation was zero some of us had to walk as many as three to four miles there and back, and I knew a kid who cycled nine miles each way to highschool, all of which is pretty third world to me at least. While the rest of the answers you are getting are leaning towards your ignorance of the matter, I would prefer to educate you on the same. While times were tough back then the Irish love of the arts and education put them in a position for an economical revival, which eventually came by way of the Celtic Tiger. Under which, for now, the country has thrived. But some of your answerers should remember the days when the only thing the Irish had was an education and their culture and it wasn't very long ago.

nikki!! (ex-anti jonas)

wtf???

im from ireland and it ain't a third world country it's a first world country.

also there is alot of country side but there are also a few cities that are getting bigger and bigger :)

but anyway...i'd say the irish youth ( a.k.a me =] ) are alot like american kids because of tv and the media lol

PeAce.LoVe.JoNaS

(sorry i just had to through that in there lmao)

catrinaheywood0@btinternet.com

Lmaooooooooo Of course we dOoO Haha ints really intresting that you didnt no that lol
but we do have alot of fields lol and grass and thee odd cow & sheep ..=]

ninde

yer an eejit. we all live in huts. whats elemictricity? do houses have electricity? no, im typing this on a leprechans backside. althoough we dont have electricity or cars or phones or ipods, we do have an education.

Gayle

Surely this question is a joke! What country are you from?

there is alot of people like you out there, last year i spent the summer in new york, while i was in harlem gettin my social security number i got asked by a number of harlem's residents did we all go round on bike's and did we have running water and electricity. They were dead serious! So i told them that we did but i had 2 swim over to new york because i couldn't afford to fly, they all believed me!

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