Letter from Irish Times

dudara

Can he be serious??

THE COLOURS THAT CHEER

Madam, - I was visiting your beautiful country when my country, Greece,
fought its way into the European cup final by bravely defeating the favoured
Czech Republic. On the following day, Friday, July 2nd, I travelled from
Cork to Rosslare.

Imagine my surprise and delight to find that almost the entire route -
especially between the towns of Youghal and New Ross - was gloriously
festooned with the blue and white colours of Greece!

Such overwhelming support of one small country for another brought tears of
joy to my eyes. I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to the Irish people
for making this Greek feel so at home at such an important time for his
country. - Yours, etc.,

MANOLIS ANDROPOULOS, Athens, Greece.

simu

Are they the colours of some local team or something?

ravenhead

Waterford were playing in the Munster Hurling Final - so their colours would have been up in most towns

ChipZilla

Diddy Kong

that was nice of the locals...

kmart6

Hopefully nobody told her the real reason for the flags

Kazu

fool i say fool i say

the_obsolete

That's just a bit sad

LizardKing

Originally posted by kmart6
Hopefully nobody told her the real reason for the flags

Monolis is a male greek name , most greeks are called some variation of manos or janos .... afaik ...

de5p0i1er

There are some stupid ppl out there.
Nice to know that there not all from America.

viking

I think its a piss-take.

I don't think there'd be too many Greeks who'd have the word "festooned " in their vocabulary.

viking

article6

Originally posted by viking
I don't think there'd be too many Greeks who'd have the word "festooned " in their vocabulary.

Or the familiarity with south-east Ireland to know that the flags were only between Youghal and New Ross. :rolleyes:

Seth Brundle

it is real - placed last week IIRC.
Someone else wrote in telling them the real reason for the 'Greek' flags being out!

full forward

Im just waiting for a waterford fan to thank the peope of greece for their support for his hurling team while he was on vacation there.