Is this breaking point for the land of Saints and Scholars?

It looks like our defiant motherland, the nation we all love dearly and hold close to our hearts, after thousands of years of spitting back in the face of adversity, after defying occupancy and flippantly ignoring natural and man made disasters, after giving us an enormous sense of pride and well being with her lush green mane spreading right across the land giving us our very own identity, after producing the most wondrous scholars, loved and hated by man, woman and child in their humble abodes worldwide, after inspiring countless souls and instilling awe in our emotions with her many majestic sights and views, her resolve has eventually been shattered by our current woes (probably furthered by the hand of Thierry Henry!) and she is weeping inconsolably and uncontrollably. All you have to do is look at Grand Parade in the city of Cork. Tear drops are falling at her feet. Her heart is broken!