Why do Dubs wear jerseys when out of Dublin

dwayneburke

Hi,

I was out in Galway last night for a few pints and was in a pub when i looked around me and noticed a group of guys who were obviously from Dublin!!

Why, there was about 12/13 lads and 9 of them were wearing Dublin football GAA shirts....

I noticed this before why when Dubs are out of Dublin do they always seem to wear their beloved jerseys when the go on the piss??

BTW i do not wish to cause offence to dubs whatsoever and i am not generalising all dubs its just an observation...and yes i know galway ppl do it also but dubs seem to really take it to a whole new level...They looked like the dublin team were on the piss (and no they were not a team they were on a stag----i asked)

Raphael

so they wont be mistaken for "culchies" i imagine

dwayneburke

Well if they hate culchies so much why do they choose to go drinking in amongst all the "culchies " in Galway???

Adeptus Titanicus

Maybe you should clarify and say "Dublin GAA fans out of Dublin"? I've never worn, and never will wear a Dublin GAA jersey anywhere. I'm sure there were plenty of Dubliners lurking in the shadows dressed normally like everyone else, infiltrating the pub. Perhaps the guys in the Jerseys were decoys?

PiE

So they don't puke on our hallowed streets.

dwayneburke

The thing im getting at are these guys actual GAA fans or are they wearing the jerseys to purposely distinguish themselves from everyone else

(i.e. did they buy the jerseys on their way out of dublin and when they get back throw it in the corer and only wear it when they go away on holidays to Spain etc??)

The Muppet

Maybe they are proud of their county. Why do you ask,have you a problem with it?

dwayneburke

not at all , just an observation!!

Adeptus Titanicus

Originally posted by dwayneburke
The thing im getting at are these guys actual GAA fans or are they wearing the jerseys to purposely distinguish themselves from everyone else

(i.e. did they buy the jerseys on their way out of dublin and when they get back throw it in the corer and only wear it when they go away on holidays to Spain etc??)

lol. You never know! But going to Spain they'd be more likely to wear an Ireland Jersey.

Interesting observations though. Tribalism in the City of the Tribes!

Pigman II

It's so we can rally our numbers quickly when 'dueling banjos' starts playing on the dukebox.

KdjaCL

When i go away with Pats i always wear my jersey how else would the Cork/Galway/Kilkenny/Waterford scum bags know to throw a bottle at me?

I thought it helped them out by giving them easier to see targets.

kdjac

Adeptus Titanicus

Originally posted by Pigman II
It's so we can rally our numbers quickly when 'dueling banjos' starts playing on the dukebox.

Not surpised you edited that post..

How soon do you have to edit a post before the "Last Edited" notification appears?

KdjaCL

1 or 2 minutes before Edited shows up.

kdjac

Pigman II

Originally posted by Adeptus

How soon do you have to edit a post before the "Last Edited" notification appears?

Oh you gotta be quick! Jason Biggs in American Pie quick.

Adeptus Titanicus

lol That's quick!

Badly Drunk Boy

I was at Witnness two years ago, and headed into Ratoath to see the Kildare/Dublin Leinster final in one of the pubs. When I walked in Kildare were winning (I'm from Kildare, by the way) so I was quite happy. Then Dublin score a goal and all of a sudden the pub is full of Dublin jerseys. :rolleyes: If they follow their county, fair enough, but this fair weather stuff really grates with me....

Mercury_Tilt

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damnyanks

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
Because they have no sense of fashion and from my experiance most people wearing them...smell bad.

And are from Dublin

Badly Drunk Boy

Originally posted by damnyanks
And are from Dublin

I think that was implied by the previous comment.

daveirl

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dwayneburke

yes,,,,but would you go out for a night on the piss with 8 other lads wearing the exact same jersey....???

All im saying it looked a bit stupid two-thirds of the group wearing jerseys in a fairly upmarket pub!!

Sleepy

What pub was it?

dwayneburke

sallys!!!!!

only messing.....living room:)

Mercury_Tilt

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dsimpson

Wearing their jerseys in another town in ireland has more meaning than wearing them at home.... Sure Dublin is full off spaniards and italians!!!

dsimpson

Wearing their jerseys in another town in ireland has more meaning than wearing them at home.... Sure Dublin is full off spaniards and italians!!!

A real viewpoint from real people......

www.nitalk.com

damnyanks

Whenever I left Dublin I used to go around naked. Then I realised I have no pockets for my money or ID. Every now and then I would paint a blue streak across my bum cheeks of steel. This one time I forgot the blue paint and could only find Green and Black... I thought back to art class and was sure they would make blue. They didnt.... now I'm on a sex offender list for trying to show my dublinism!

Culchies have terrible double standards!

daveirl

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PrecariousNuts

So they can remember their way home after a long night out.

herbie747

Originally posted by PrecariousNuts
So they can remember their way home after a long night out.

Your attempt at humour is really clutching at straws there - I don't see how that would work unless it had a detailed map on the back. And they would probably need to find their way back to their B&B/Hostel in Galway - not Dublin, so to "remember their way home after a long night out" in Galway would mean adapting the map.

It's pretty sad going out wearing a football jersey anyway...

Quatre Mains

I'd guess there's a strong mathematical correlation between those who'd wear said jerseys and ownership of the following items;

1. Moustaches
2. Forearm tatoos
3. Taxi plates
4. Subscription to the evenin hedild

- as a Dub myself tho what gets up my nose is the Kildare stuff. A couple of years ago Dublin played Kildare(and beat them)- in the weeks coming up to the match there Mullahs driving into town with bunches of lilywhite roses in the back window and every piece of Kildare paraphenilia obtainable on view, just to antagonise. Yet the rest of the year the same people are all wannabe Dubs, only too glad to get caught up in the urban sprawl and lose their culchie tag(referring to Leixlip, Maynooth etc. specifically here). They need to face up to the fact that they have been assimilated IMO:)

kensutz

Just as a little bit of a question - I'm Irish but I bought an England football jersey there last week while over to watch a match. I wear it and some people find offence in it. What is your opinions?

silverside

if you're irish why do you want to wear an england jersey? People must reckon you're doing it just to wind them up and I don't blame them. I've no problem with people wearing what they want but it does seem odd to me.

Pigman II

Originally posted by kensutz
What is your opinions?

Go for it man! It reminds me that there was some Irish guy on BigBrother last year who was getting great backing from the Irish press & public - great backing that is until one day in the house he started wearing replica England 1966 jersey! He did well but I got the marked impression that our press at least weren't AS enthusiastic to back him after his display.

But I say wear whatever the hell you like. People over here don't care a toss when you wear France or Germany or Brazil but when it comes to England it's thought a bit 'odd' which I find rather pathetic considering our collective obsession with their national game and national league.

Anyhoo, must dash now and order my Rangers jersey for next season.

nlgbbbblth

Originally posted by Adeptus
lol. You never know! But going to Spain they'd be more likely to wear an Ireland Jersey.

more likely to wear Celtic jerseys:rolleyes:

Why do Dubs wear jerseys when out of Dublin ?

as you said, they were on a stag!

you get it all the time in dublin. groups of people on stags and hen nights wearing the same t-shirts usually with their name on it!!

dwayneburke

My point was missed altogether, they were not doing it as a "fun" stag thing to do like have your name and face printed on their t-shirts this was unintentional,,,,and it was not just these guys but a lot of other people from all counties galway included...do the same thing i.e. go out for a night in their jerseys

DUX

Originally posted by daveirl
I wear Ireland jerseys outside of Ireland, I wear Munster stuff outside of Munster. What's wierd about that.

no sense off fashion whatsoever, just showing off something nobody gives a fukc about

Draupnir

Slightly off topic, but at the Ireland v Brazil match a couple of months ago, there was a shower of D.4 goons at the back of the south terrace wearing Brazil jerseys. Now that pissed me off.

Nuttzz

GAA jerseys should be taken from their owners at the airport, they are worse than english unibond league jerseys (carlow, wexford, the "international rules" jersey)

dwayneburke

Nuttzz...agree whole heartedly...lol:)

DUX

Originally posted by dsimpson
Wearing their jerseys in another town in ireland has more meaning than wearing them at home.... Sure Dublin is full off spaniards and italians!!!

Yeah right, but they don't wear the spanish/italian jersey when they hang out in pubs/night clubs here in Ireland. And if they do they probably wear some other team's jersey (Brazil, Argentina, etc)......but only during day time.
But if you travel to some summer holidays destination in europe you will see plenty of Irish/British wearing their national teams t-shirt 24/7 ...how stupid is that?? what do you need to demostrate??

Adeptus Titanicus

Originally posted by DUX
But if you travel to some summer holidays destination in europe you will see plenty of Irish/British wearing their national teams t-shirt 24/7 ...

Poor mites are homesick!

Just picture them in their apratments at night wearing ruby slippers clicking the heels saying "There's no place like home. There's no place like home"... "And Toto too!"

jank

it goes for all counties really but only bothers me when they stick it in your face

mang87

Probably because dublin owns, and we have to remind all of you boggers about i! :cool:


Just kidding. Maybe because there is a match on? I have NEVER seen a bunch of dublin lads in a pub somewhere outside dublin wearing a dublin jersy when there was not a match on. Although, some poeple I know, where there dublin gear nearly everyday... But they are major GAA players and have an excuse.

dwayneburke

thought about that also but no, there was no match on this weekend!!

sure, i suppose each to their own...

sceptre

Originally posted by dwayneburke
I noticed this before why when Dubs are out of Dublin do they always seem to wear their beloved jerseys when the go on the piss??

Cork people are as bad. And they get to wear a big red thing with big Cs on the sleeves. I've a cousin who used to live in it.

Musashi

Dunno about anyone else here but I usually bring an Irish Rugby Jersey with me when out foreign, like Galway and such, and find people much happier to talk to me etc. when they know I'm Irish.A friend of mine who travels a lot swears by it and thinks it helps in America among other places when people realise you're Irish and not English.This is other countries perceptions, and my mates experience as well as mine, nothing against the English but their perceived persona abroad seems to be much worse than ours!

Dave

I wear my clare jersey alot. And I have brought it when I was living abroad. It was a great conversation starter with other Irish people.

Catch_22

Originally posted by dwayneburke
thought about that also but no, there was no match on this weekend!!

Actaully there was beauty of a game too we creamed offaly 4 - 21 to 2 -6 , but it was hurling so you probably never considered that.

lot of people wear their dublin Jersys in dublin too just depends where in the city you are, i.e. up my way in killester its very common to see people in the local pub wearing dublin Jersys.

c22

Yavvy

dwayneburke

Im from Dublin, I have never been in a pub (in or out of Dublin)where everyone in one group of people were wearing the same jersey...unless it was for a particular sporting event. Such as A Dublin Hurling or football match. I find it hard to imagine any group for friends that would all say "wouldnt it be cool if we all wore our dublin kits tonight"

So I come to the conclusion that those group of Dublin jersery wearing people had a specfic reason for all being dressed the same.

I have never worn a dublin Jersey on a night out ..cause frankly who would ?
But I do wear it casually, and I wear it regardless of where I am ( I live in Galway at the moment) But I think most sports supporters do that. People are proud of their team and they show it by displaying the latest replica kit.