Do yourself a big favour and spend some time living in another country.
I bet you’ll quickly realise that the same issues happen everywhere.

I am Irish, born and bred in Dublin, and while I love Dublin and Ireland I abhor the attitude you espouse. I abhor the fact that the roads I cycle on are substandard, that the rubbish, leaves and other junk are left unswept for months leading to punctures and dangerous lakes of water and mud on the roads. I abhor the fact that we don’t have sufficiently strong laws to ensure that wrongdoers are adequately punished and that real justice is denied many victims of crime and abuse. I abhor the fact that our politicians are not adequately answerable to the electorate. I abhor the state our educational system is in. For example, many beginning third level students still are unable to correctly add two fractions or perform other basic operations.

In this country it is extremely rare we get anything right first time round and it’s often decades and multiple attempts later that we finally get something acceptable. For example, we are now producing state construction projects such as roads on time and budget, sometimes even ahead of time. Only took us about 40 years. In between we had deeply flawed systems of tendering and tracking such projects. Our laws are a joke. Many criminals go unpunished especially so-called white collar criminals.

The housing estate I live in is controlled by a management company which leaves the residents with very little say in the running of their own homes and neighbourhood. It was designed and built with apparently no oversight by the local authority. There are no less than 4 dangerous junctions in the estate, each of which is an accident waiting to happen. In each case it would have been a perfectly simple task to modify the junctions so that they are safe.

In this country the phrase “best practice” is a dirty word. Just outside our estate is a roundabout which was built off-centre in the junction!! In any other developed country in the world the people responsible would be regarded as incompetent. But not here in Ireland. Here everyone just shrugs and carries on. The asinine drivers in this country used to drive around the wrong side of the roundabout because it was wider and shorter! It took the death of someone to eventually get the local council to put bollards in to prevent people cutting across the roundabout the wrong way. A completely unnecessary death and an expense that could have been avoided if the roundabout had been built properly in the first place.

I say, enough with the ‘Ah shur it’ll do’ attitude. Let’s say instead “Enough is enough! Let’s start doing things right for a change!”