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What do you think about Carrolls shops?

DanaScully · 2013-03-03 23:25:18

Hello there, I am French and lived in Ireland and visited it for 6 months last year. It was fantastic :D Before leaving I bought some gifts at Carrolls shops. Like in any other gifts shops in the world, it was full of clichés. Like in Paris, you can buy many Eiffel tower items, stuff about cheese and Garlic. I just hate…

04-03-2013 12:25am

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DanaScully

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Hello there,

I am French and lived in Ireland and visited it for 6 months last year. It was fantastic Before leaving I bought some gifts at Carrolls shops. Like in any other gifts shops in the world, it was full of clichés. Like in Paris, you can buy many Eiffel tower items, stuff about cheese and Garlic. I just hate Garlic.

In Carrolls shops, Leprechauns items (drinking beers and saying rude things) are numerous! They seem to be one of the most popular stuff.

I am just wondering, what do Irish people think about Carrolls shop and about leprechauns items? Do you go there times to times?

Thanks for sharing

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#2 04-03-2013 12:29am

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Ive never been in a Carrolls shop. Are they a Dublin thing?

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#3 04-03-2013 12:29am

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Their lasagne is doing well since so many of the other brands have been pulled off the shelves.

See, I can do current issues too.

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#4 04-03-2013 12:31am

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I'm an actual Leprechaun.

I'm a 6 ft 2 inch spud loving Irishman.

Shure it doesn't get much better than this.

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#5 04-03-2013 12:33am

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Chuck Stone wrote: »

I'm an actual Leprechaun.

I'm a 6 ft 2 inch spud loving Irishman.

Shure it doesn't get much better than this.

But do you say rude things?

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#6 04-03-2013 12:33am

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I've only ever gone there when entertaining foreign guests - usually American family or friends. Once I brought a small group who were visiting from India. They loved it. Apart from that, I would have no reason to visit such an establishment.

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#7 04-03-2013 12:34am

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I thought Carroll's shops only sold their own cigarette's.

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#8 04-03-2013 12:35am

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Any true Irish person has leprechaun items adorning every room in their house.
Carrolls is the IKEA for Irish people

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#9 04-03-2013 12:35am

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Carrolls shops are full of tacky crap and as such they are only located in the tourist areas. Ive been in one in Dublin once and once was enough.

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#10 04-03-2013 12:42am

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they are a painful reminder from our history

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#11 04-03-2013 12:43am

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Standard tacky tourist shop. I'd imagine few Irish people actually go in there.

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#12 04-03-2013 12:44am

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Chucken wrote: »

Ive never been in a Carrolls shop. Are they a Dublin thing?

Yes there are located in Dublin (maybe 11 shops) and other bigs cities. I saw one in Galway.

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#13 04-03-2013 12:46am

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tacky and cheap

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#14 04-03-2013 12:46am

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crockholm wrote: »

they are a painful reminder from our history

Are Leprechauns part of History ?

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#15 04-03-2013 12:48am

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DanaScully wrote: »

Are Leprechauns part of History ?

Yes the English killed them all. That's the main reason there has been strife between us and the Brits all these years

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#16 04-03-2013 12:48am

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DanaScully wrote: »

Yes there are located in Dublin (maybe 11 shops) and other bigs cities. I saw one in Galway.

Ahh right. You see in our part of the country we grow our own leprechauns*so really have no need for shops that sell them

*Secretly of course

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#17 04-03-2013 12:49am

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DanaScully wrote: »

Are Leprechauns part of History ?

yes, how dare you question their contribution to society,our president has leprechaun blood in him, be more sensitive

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I can't see why anyone would get too bothered by them. They have shops that sell biscuit tins with the queen on them in London. (although I've met natives there that buy the fcuking things)

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DanaScully wrote: »

Are Leprechauns part of History ?

They were. Until the English came...

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#20 04-03-2013 12:55am

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fasttalkerchat wrote: »

They were. Until the English came...

What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

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#21 04-03-2013 12:57am

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DanaScully wrote: »

What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

thats dubarry's you're thinking of.

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#22 04-03-2013 12:57am

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crockholm wrote: »

yes, how dare you question their contribution to society,our president has leprechaun blood in him, be more sensitive

Why the short temper?

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#23 04-03-2013 12:58am

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Don't like Carroll's. Benson and Hedges FTW.

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#24 04-03-2013 12:58am

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DanaScully wrote: »

What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

:mad: Excuse me?

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#25 04-03-2013 1:00am

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Funny how they are irish shops, yet are full of Chinese scrap.......

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#26 04-03-2013 1:00am

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DanaScully wrote: »

Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

OMG, you can't just say that!

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#27 04-03-2013 1:00am

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Chucken wrote: »

:mad: Excuse me?

lol ... So Leprechauns = Irish = tiny men who hide gold ?

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#28 04-03-2013 1:03am

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I believe one of your own had a bit of leprechaun in him, nicky sarkozy, i think his name was?

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#29 04-03-2013 1:04am

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This is our President:

http://static.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25334482.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/higgins

This is our Presidents victory poster:

http://www.sceala.com/phpBB2/userpix/2_michael_d_higgins_election_posters_president_of_ireland_1.jpg

No leprechauns? huh! :mad:

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#30 04-03-2013 1:07am

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crockholm wrote: »

I believe one of your own had a bit of leprechaun in him, nicky sarkozy, i think his name was?

I don't see ...

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#31 04-03-2013 1:09am

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Chucken wrote: »

This is our President:

http://static.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25334482.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/higgins

This is our Presidents victory poster:

http://www.sceala.com/phpBB2/userpix/2_michael_d_higgins_election_posters_president_of_ireland_1.jpg

No leprechauns? huh! :mad:

But where is the gold?

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