One thing you love about Ireland

JaysusMacfeck · 31-03-2006 1:49am #1

As a musically creative person myself, I like the fact that my country’s official documents have a musical instrument as the emblem of the nation; the Irish Harp. And our punt currency before the Euro had nice animals on it. As a kid, I always though the bull on the 5 pingin coin was a pig (random memory). And I never understood the pound currency with the queen's face on it, as a kid it scared me a bit.

How many countries flaunt some randomer's head on their official 'things'? Loads. The Irish see beyond that and employ an animal or a musical instrument as their idol - sometimes a bit of celtic art. We don't aspire to one particular person.. everyone is equal, right? Animals, creativity & emotion have always been our masters.

Anyway, one thing you love about Ireland?

R0ot · 31-03-2006 1:52am

I love donegal, tis class

Zebra3 · 31-03-2006 1:52am

Guinness.

blu_sonic · 31-03-2006 1:55am

Shamrock Rovers

gerire · 31-03-2006 3:21am

Leaving it........................

ok i know i always come back but still

Ruu_Old · 31-03-2006 4:19am

I do miss the punt, what a mistake it was to join the euro. Would have to say Im a fan of the harp also.

kc66 · 31-03-2006 4:50am

The smoking ban. Can enjoy a few pints and be able to breathe.

StupidLikeAFox · 31-03-2006 6:45am

I love ireland, for all its many faults i couldnt imagine being from anywhere else

Archeron · 31-03-2006 6:59am

The weather, no extremes. not too hot, not too cold. Juuuust right.

Beer is Life · 31-03-2006 7:01am

kc66 wrote:

The smoking ban. Can enjoy a few pints and be able to breathe.

Quoted for truth!

WhiteWashMan · 31-03-2006 7:13am

that no matter how crappy things get, irish people will always find one more thing to complain about.
class.

StupidLikeAFox · 31-03-2006 7:33am

Sure wouldnt it be a grand little country if ya could only put a roof over it....?

Unpossible · 31-03-2006 7:54am

Sure wouldnt it be a grand little country if ya could only put a roof over it....?

lol
Im going to say the scenery it would be great to have some mountains and coast where I am now

Siogfinsceal · 31-03-2006 8:50am

the fact that its so acceptable to swear ;-)

Cake Fiend · 31-03-2006 8:56am

The steadily increasing number of Polish and Hungarian women about the place.

TheBlock · 31-03-2006 9:00am

The Taxi drivers are so intelligent:D

xzanti · 31-03-2006 9:06am

Potatoes..

I love a good spud

Tobias Greeshman · 31-03-2006 9:06am

When we talk about any of the Government fúck ups (port tunnel, e-voting, health-service, etc. ), we bitch, moan and then laugh about it, normally using the phrase Only in Ireland eh!

homah_7ft · 31-03-2006 9:21am

I love the informality. Bertie as taoiseach, Pat the leader of the labour party etc.

Peace · 31-03-2006 9:24am

The fact there are no snakes.

delly · 31-03-2006 9:24am

kc66 wrote:

The smoking ban. Can enjoy a few pints and be able to breathe.

I'll go with that as well, quite a bold step that worked out very well.

Heinrich · 31-03-2006 9:29am

Drumcondra - The Goose - Guinness - Howth - The Bots

growler · 31-03-2006 10:52am

Red Lemonade, for a Smithwicks Shandy siting outside the pub on a (the) warm summer's day in Clare.

Sleepy · 31-03-2006 11:02am

Galway
Our culture of music
Guinness
The easy going nature that's sadly slipping away

31-03-2006 11:12am

Donegal, GAA matches, Real old country pubs

Sifo · 31-03-2006 11:14am

The ladies........... of course

Rb · 31-03-2006 11:16am

Our so called neutrality.

Fast_Mover · 31-03-2006 11:18am

xzanti wrote:

Potatoes..
I love a good spud

Yey..another girl like myself!!:)

..also GAA!

Kinetic^ · 31-03-2006 11:22am

Pints of bulmers, long neck bottles of bulmers & pint bottles of bulmers

po0k · 31-03-2006 11:37am

The comforting assurance of unreliability.

thelordofcheese · 31-03-2006 12:32pm

Sleepy wrote:

The easy going nature that's sadly slipping away

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Can i have them back?

Photi · 31-03-2006 12:33pm

An teanga.

Heinrich · 31-03-2006 12:41pm

Photi wrote:

An teanga.

French kissing as gaeilge?:D

ferdi · 31-03-2006 1:38pm

smithwicks
potatos
red lemonade
natural beauty

snickerpuss · 31-03-2006 2:24pm

how rubbish we are at most sports.

(and gaeilge)

The Sweeper · 31-03-2006 2:30pm

The view over Dalkey Bay from the window of the dart as it comes out of that tunnel - sunny days, balmy days, stormy days, calm days.

And the airport.

smurfbaby · 31-03-2006 2:41pm

The Irish sense of humour

Gandhi · 31-03-2006 2:45pm

Jackie Lennox's in Cork. Potato pie and chips. With Fanta. Getting hungry just thinking about it...

elurhs · 31-03-2006 3:04pm

Spuds. Who doesn't like spuds? Boiled, mashed, roasted, baked, chipped...

The GAA and all those who volunteer training underage teams, marking pitches, washing kit, etc.

No snakes is good. A little OT, but I was living with this American and we informed him there were no wild snakes in Ireland. He point blank refused to accept this. We assured him there were no snakes, but he just couldn't be convinced. Oh, how we laughed!:D

scojones · 31-03-2006 3:31pm

Sico wrote:

The steadily increasing number of Polish and Hungarian women about the place.

You took the words right outa my mouth. Don't forget the Lithuanians

So, since that has already been mentioned, I'm going to have to go ahead and say Guinness. Oh dear god it's just not the same anywhere else.

scojones · 31-03-2006 3:33pm

Gandhi wrote:

Jackie Lennox's in Cork. Potato pie and chips. With Fanta. Getting hungry just thinking about it...

The Lennox's on barack street? Best chipper in the country.

Gandhi · 31-03-2006 3:38pm

Best chipper in the world. Best chips, anyway.

super_furry · 31-03-2006 3:43pm

Shamrock Rovers

LegacyUser · 31-03-2006 3:48pm

The fact that we are not perfect and we are ok with that. The fact that we are aware of our own flaws and prepared to get on with it.
The fact that we can laugh at ourselves.

I really like that, its far more 'real' then the way people behave in the states, for example.

biko · 31-03-2006 3:48pm

Galway and Connemara, beautiful even when it rains.

Pighead · 31-03-2006 3:50pm

Pighead loves all the Irish Sony widescreens in all the lovely Irish Pubs.

japanpaul · 31-03-2006 4:01pm

I love the way nobody carries an umbrella around with them and then look suprised when it starts raining. It shows what an optimistic bunch we are.

redman · 31-03-2006 4:04pm

I've two

Sally O'Brien and the Way she might look at ya....

and

a wild wet day on the west coast, soaked to the skin after a long fresh walk followed by a walk to the local pub with a roaring truf fire, great seafood chowder with homemade brown bread, real butter, a fantastic pint of guinness and a pub full of good people.

azezil · 31-03-2006 4:21pm

Rural areas

Roddy23 · 31-03-2006 4:52pm

the craic. Even when yer away on holidays ye always try to find an Irish bar- why cos of the craic- can't be beaten especially if your locked and sunburnt to the hills

weemcd · 31-03-2006 6:08pm

because saying there were cattle on the road might still actually pass as an excuse for being late in some parts... (where else could you say that?)

One thing you love about Ireland

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