THERE IS NO IRISH SOCIAL REALISM - EVER!

Shoot the cabbage has solved a major mystery in Irish cinema! The reason that there is no cinema about the Ireland's lower-classes struggling to survive is because the welfare here is too generous. These people are too busy enjoying one of the highest free payments in Europe. The only ones who work minimum wage in Irish retail/factories/slaughterhouses are the non-nationals. Irish filmmakers do not make films about foreigners in Ireland (apart from that rubbish Front line). There is no genuine Irish working-class system anymore as these people don't work. If someone did make a film about an Irish person in a factory, spending his paypacket at weekends, while trying to escape his upbringing it would not be taken seriously. That would appear too contrived. That is why Irish filmmakers waste their time looking for adaptations and concentrate on the technical aspects of filmmaking. There is nothing to say through the social realism genre in Irish cinema! Also, no audience would care for a film about a successful couple who lost their holiday home in Bulgaria. They got their just deserts! This recession would not transfer well to the big screen. No-one would feel sorry for the characters or whatever misery they are going through. It serves most of them right! What's needed is a comedy/satire on the whole recession. Make fun of it all. Irish politicians (who were schoolteachers) trying to negotiate with Eurocrat whizzkids to save the country. Couples getting 100% mortgages to live in Leitrim! Hiring helicopters for communions! Let's take the piss out of the whole Celtic Tiger/recession? That's the best way to criticise everyone involved?