Mowl
Member
I've never understood people who think they're the shit because they attended an Irish university. You could combine every Irish third level institution together into one entity...and it still wouldn't even come close to comparing to somewhere like Oxford or Cambridge.
Yes, but in Irish 'society' it's not what you learned or from whom: it's which educational establishment you attended.
Working class people don't get opportunities like that, and it has fuck all to do with relative intelligence or whatever: it's what your parents can afford to send you to. Pick the right college and now you're in the network of the next big things. Those contacts are invaluable, as are the private member's clubs, secret handshakes, and all that other cloak and dagger bullshit.
Most of the twats in RTE went to the same schools, whether they work the production floor or sit in the live studio, or are show presenters, news readers, etc. Look at your wan Callaghan on Prime Time? her husband is who now? Then there's the two Coveney brothers: they have their shit all sewn up. The hilarious aspect to it is that they're doing it right in front of your face, and they don't give any fucks what you think so long as the lovely lolly keeps flowing through their accounts.
Absolutely nothing in Ireland is either balanced or fair.
Never mind logical.
At least Cambridge produced Newton, Darwin, Turing, Attenborough and Hawking...all Irish third level education produces is useless idiots who go on to jobs in the Civil Service...or in RTE.
Zing!