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Do Irish people not appreciate our Scenery

  • 30-09-2013 03:38PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭


    I grew up by the sea/beach and I love a nice walk on the beach weather sunny or windyI just find it refreshing. I was telling my mates this and they thought I was insane in the membraneI sometimes like to drive to dingle or ring or kerry or even cliffs of moher just for a look if its a nice dayDo the folk of AH apperciate the nice scenery or nice nature we have here Tourists love it here but sometimes I think us irish folk just dont give a rattling sh!te


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Your mates are not Ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    You can't beat a mountain stream flowing through a snow filled forest. Lush.

    Other than that, I love the scenery at Gelandalough when ya go hiking


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    It is always that case that you do not fully appreciate the beauty of the place you live until you travel. Especially true of people who have never left their town of birth IMO.
    But that is far from saying that Irish people in general do not give a fiddley dee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Some do, some don't.

    I love Irish scenery, there's a spot on the Ring of Kerry that for me is the most beautiful spot in the world. That whole route is nothing but beauty.

    West Clare is also spectacular.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I was up in Powerscourt yesterday and I appreciated the fudge out of the scenery.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,060 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Of course we do, domestic tourism to Kerry, Mayo, Donegal, Wicklow, West Clare etc is massive business. We have the countryside worn out hiking through it and photographing it!

    Could your mates be profiled as younger, slightly surly, with a preference for drinking and/or gaming? Hardly a sufficient polling group!


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    I'm blind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Judging by the detritus no is the answer.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,560 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Wicklow mountains are stunning as are the Slieve Blooms.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭markomuscle


    I appreciate the scenery of Ulster, especially the North coast, the rest has little interest to me as i'm too skint to drive and see it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Yep I appreciate it as much as I destest the despicable degenerate scumbag wanker cnuts that litter it with their pizza boxes and bottles and nappies.

    i.e. a lot.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    I love Ireland's scenery. We used to holiday in Ireland when we were young (because we were poor :P ) and everywhere we went was beautiful to look at. Mayo, Clare, Kerry, Wicklow. This is the general consensus amongst my friends too. We live in an aesthetically pleasing country. Not quite sure what constitutes not appreciating it but some people don't care for scenery. Anyone that does will probably like the place.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Went to Kerry for the first time recently and was actually bowled over by the scenery.

    The government should actually evict all the mullahs - save bar staff and hoteliers - from the county and turn into a giant nature park.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Familiarity breeds contempt


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭Jelly2


    We have scenery that can compete with just about anywhere, and the variety in the landscape is fantastic for such a small country. This is what makes it for me - the fact that you can enjoy so many great and different views over the course of driving around for a day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Familiarity breeds contempt

    Very true, my line as kid when somebody was banging on about about the beautiful scenery.

    You can ****ign eat it


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    But doesn't Scotland have everything we have except more dramatic?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    But doesn't Scotland have everything we have except more dramatic?


    Scotland is gorgeous (more beautiful than Ireland, I'd say) but the people are dour (probably because of the weather) and the weather is atrocious. Lived there for 4 months although I had the intention of living there long-term but had to get the fook out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭Surveyor11


    Was on the beara peninsula in cork a few years back - it's beauty was breath taking


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    Sure I'm always telling people that plenty pay good money to come see our scenery - go out to Connemara or the Burren in Clare, even head north to Sligo, you can forget your woes and kick back in the style that only nature supplies.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    I do. And like others, I get very cross when I see litter. :mad:

    I like the unexpected scenery away from the really spectacular spots - like the way Lough Mask and all its islands suddenly spread out before you as you round a corner in the Partry mountains.

    *cries nostalgic western tears.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    After living for a 2 years in Canada i learnt to appreciate Ireland before I didn't really care so much. But when you go abroad and its no where as green as here you then value what you have at home.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    But doesn't Scotland have everything we have except more dramatic?

    Mountains, Junkies, Gaeilge ✓


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭Lambofdave


    Id like Ireland more if the dam road hedges were cut back and lowered then i could see more and a by product is the road would be safer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,556 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Scotland is gorgeous (more beautiful than Ireland, I'd say) but the people are dour (probably because of the weather) and the weather is atrocious. Lived there for 4 months although I had the intention of living there long-term but had to get the fook out.



    Now if you switched the actors from a Scottish to an Irish man, I don't think there'd be much difference really. Except the accents of course.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭The Big Smoke


    Your mates are not Ireland.

    Imagine if Stephen Ireland was his mate, that would be one humorous quinkey dink.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭caustic 1


    Live in Donegal and it is one of the most beautiful counties, takes my breathe away, we have it all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭yizorselves


    A lot of Irish people just dont get off their arses and see the rest of the country. Maybe for the odd piss up weekend away but sure you'll see feck all that way


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭cupcake83


    Legs, I am surprised you didn't care for Scotland! I am going in March and I help run a Scottish group on Facebook all of my Scottish friends are very nice and caring! I think they can be stand offish until they warm up to you though! I find most of the Irish more fun and outgoing though! Both gorgeous countries!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Love the Irish scenery,was lucky enough to have seen almost every square mile of the place thanks to a previous job I had.

    Can't understand a neighbour of mine who knows nothing about the place,if it's not along the N11 or M50 he won't see it.


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