The vulgar paradoxes of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland were last night lambasted by filmmaker John Boorman.
Mr Boorman, famous for directing Excalibur and Deliverance, criticised the nation's vices such as binge-drinking, racism, suicide and greedy lawyers.
Speaking at CHQ on Dublin's quays before a preview of his new film, A Tiger's Tale, Mr Boorman presented a commentary entitled: "The good, the bad and the ugly in new Ireland."
Included in the performance was a veiled reference to disgraced former taoiseach Charles Haughey.
He said: "The superb staging of a state funeral rewarding a life of blatant corruption."
A Tiger's Tale, which stars Brendan Gleeson, has its official premiere in Dublin in November.
The black comedy thriller is a cautionary tale of a man living through Ireland's economic boom.
Mr Boorman read: "The conviviality of the pub and binge drinking. The welcoming smile to the stranger and the rabid xenophobia.
"The affection for children and their sexual abuse.
"Poets and scholars and the highest illiteracy rate in Europe.
"The new prosperity and the vulgar flaunting of wealth.
"Longer life expectancy and young men taking their lives.
"The compassionate nurse and the callous health service.
"The 'traffic jam' postcard showing sheep blocking a road and Pearse St today.
"A blue-eyed black-haired Galway girl and a dyed blonde in an SUV with a phone glued to her ear.
"The anonymous generosity that fills the collection boxes outside the supermarket and the fat-cats who only give when they can be seen to be giving.
"National neutrality and the raging gun and drug wars.
"The rule of law and the grotesque greed of lawyers.
"Stunning landscapes and the plague of ugly bungalows.
"The Craic and the crack-up."