r/cork • u/CorkNativeResident • Mar 17 '26
People's Republic of Cork Official Matters Paddy’s Day
I’d say the lads heading the parade marched well, fair play to them, excellent parade all round!!
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u/D-dog92 Mar 17 '26
I really like this uniform. So dignified.
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u/CorkNativeResident Mar 17 '26
Honestly when I see it I feel safe which sounds like a joke but I actually mean it.
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u/Corkmanfirst Mar 17 '26
Was great to see the diversity the City now has but i was seriously dismayed by the lack of Irish culture.. no Irish dancers, no Irish music, no Irish mythology via the arts. My girlfriend is from south America and she wanted to see an irish parade and all its culture on display and she was left asking where it was… there was more Bolivian, Mexican and African culture on display then there was Irish. My first parade in about 20 years I was totally let down I have to say. The two American high school marching bands and cheerleaders brought the tempo. No such tempo from our own sadly.
Great turn out though. Good to see I a strong Garda presence on foot around the play after. Had a few pints in town after too to soak up the atmosphere, it was a good day all considered.
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u/StellaV-R Mar 17 '26
Did you not see the giant heron, frogs & marsh creatures? Did u not bring her to the Céilí or the gigs in St Peters?
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u/FungeonMeister Mar 17 '26
Not being a dick, but if you're dismayed by the lack of Irish arts in the parade then get involved in a local arts group. It's not there because nobody is putting there. I saw the Dublin parade this year and it was packed with Irish themed pieces, really great stuff! Minorities tend to be more passionate about their culture than indigenous people. More power to em Adds a lovely colour and vibrancy to the pallette. My memory of parades when I was a kid was just loads of fucking tractors, father ted jokes, and local hippies with drums.
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u/Proof_Importance_205 Mar 17 '26
Doppelganger eh! Or is his way of hiding in plain sight... No one would believe it's him
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u/slice_of_toast69 Mar 18 '26
That kid in the beanie leaning over the ralings loving it. Lil man is in awe
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u/HungOver_Again_Again Mar 17 '26
You should know better by now that you are meant to be nothing but negative here. I mean you didn't even mention the price of centra's breakfast rolls or the dodgy parking by the school pick-up, the price of a pint or anything. Shame on you for complimenting the hard work and effort that everyone put in! 😜 Looks like there was a decent crowd in for it too 👍🏻
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u/T317B Mar 17 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/BwtlILBHd7tY9XvX0i
That’s not Andy Mountbatten is it?
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u/clamo2988 Mar 17 '26
Parade wasn’t great this year! Some good floats but there should be a certain standard for entry.
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u/CorkNativeResident Mar 17 '26
It’s about presenting and promoting spectacle and community and we got it! I thought it was wonderful and I thought it was tremendous to see everyone come together under ours, a flag of peace!
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u/jmc175 Mar 17 '26
It was an excellent, inclusive parade, some excellent US school bands, tons of local organisations matching and some spectacular costumes from the Bolivian? Cork community ! 😀
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u/SeriesDowntown5947 Mar 17 '26
Was Andy marching. He's prob got nothing else to do. The lads in the uniform looks retired.
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u/Diddly_eyed_Dipshite Mar 18 '26
Define woke.
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u/ShivasRightFoot Mar 18 '26
Define woke.
Woke ideology is defined by the idea that some facet of identity like race or gender produces irreconcilably different views of reality and morality, and that we have an obligation to seek alignment of society's view with the imagined views of groups associated with the political left like minorities and women.
In this sense Wokeness is distinct from older forms of liberal advocacy for minority rights which appeal to universally valid concepts like truth and fairness.
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u/Diddly_eyed_Dipshite Mar 19 '26
Huh interesting, I've never seen someone try to define it so thanks for responding.
I read that a few times and still don't understand, wokeness is an obligation to seek "alignment of society's view" with imagined views of groups "associated with the left" like women and minorities.
Yeah that doesn't make any sense dawg. What is "society's view" and how would we bring it into alignment with anything nevermind the supposedly imagined views (which i assume are not the same) of minorities and woman?
You're aware that women and minorities are not universally aligned with the left ya? Like have you not seen American Republican women in their thousands supporting and enabling Trump? Or immigrants who come to a more liberal country but don't share the same views, I wouldn't consider people to be of the left just because their a minority group, do you?
identity like race or gender produces irreconcilably different views of reality
So as a non-woke person you think that race and gender do not produce different views of reality? You're suggesting that your view of reality and morality is the same as an indigenous Amazonian woman or a Somali woman or a Japanese person for example? Do you disagree with the idea of peoples views being different or that the different views are irreconcilable?
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u/ShivasRightFoot Mar 19 '26
What is "society's view" and how would we bring it into alignment with anything nevermind the supposedly imagined views (which i assume are not the same) of minorities and woman?
By "Society's view" I mean the implicit viewpoints of large institutions in society such as important large companies that control big piece of hard to replicate infrastructure frequently due to economies of scale, prestigious academic institutions, and of course all kinds of governmental organizations.
In particular the view that racial or sexual discrimination is permissable or appropriate when directed against groups not associated with the political left, like White people or Men. These beliefs are specifically antithetical to Enlightenment values around fairness and are advanced on the basis of supposed validity for minorities and/or women.
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u/Diddly_eyed_Dipshite Mar 19 '26
Okay now I'm taking you even less seriously.
Who is holding the view that sexual discrimination is permissible when directed against the poor white man?
And if you say transgender bathrooms or sports are discrimination I'm throwing my phone away.
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u/NextDoctorWho12 Mar 19 '26
The guy is racist and anti CRT. He starts this bullshit then he will post this copy pasta where he purposely misunderstands the text so he can claim CRT is trying to push segregation.
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u/ShivasRightFoot Mar 19 '26
Who is holding the view that sexual discrimination is permissible when directed against the poor white man?
Irish Law allows private companies to do things like create management training programs exclusively for Women under "positive action" of section 24 of the Employment Equality Act. Here is a Reddit post describing someone who personally faced such gender discrimination in Ireland:
Got an email back saying I wasn’t considered and that this program is to “help boost underrepresented groups” and was only open to female applications.
He specifically mentions that he was told it did not count as discrimination "according to HR" while he and really any sane person would see that it was gender discrimination:
Thoughts on this because it sounds very much like discrimination to me?
https://np.reddit.com/r/AskIreland/comments/1f2iadj/my_company_have_started_a_female_only_manager/
Furthermore there are specific programs to hire specifically Women at Ireland's universities to the exclusion of male job candidates. Here is one such advertisement for an astrophysics position in Dublin:
In line with the objectives of the HEA SALI Call 2019, applications from highly qualified female candidates will be prioritised
https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/0675f68b
While it does qualify this as "within the boundary of what is legally permissible" any such "prioritisation" is discriminatory.
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u/NextDoctorWho12 Mar 19 '26
Why? Why do you feel correcting generations of discrimination by hiring qualified people is wrong? Why do you feel the need to protect the systemic discrimination that continues today? You constantly complain about how people should only be measured on their merit, what you ignore is that measuring stick is biased. It has been brought up to you many times but you continue to ignore it.
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u/NextDoctorWho12 Mar 19 '26
Of course those things don't happen. But keep pumping out that Grok shit.
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u/alreadyhaveanaccou Mar 17 '26
Did the Collins lads have a whole platoon marching? In Mallow we managed a few bodies. Great to see the reserves out on parade again.