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New in Ireland? anyone wanna go to the pub?

  • 27-08-2015 5:17pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19


    So - I am heading over to Ireland for the first time in early September. I am a 34 year old guy from Cape Town, got an Irish passport a few years ago. I have a few cousins there and will be meeting up with them too.

    I'm keen on meeting locals that'd like to have a few beers, maybe show me some of the local spots. I'm not that interested in overly commercial tourist spots.

    I'm considering coming to live in Ireland next year, so I want to get to know the people, experience the culture etc...

    I will have a car and will be travelling all over... I have 2, max 3 months to do this.

    I enjoy a good pub crawl, scenic walks, food markets, wine.. maybe buy a bike and do some cycling.

    Cheers :-)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Give Bono a ring - he usually deals with all new arrivals looking to go for a few scoops.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭degsie


    You'll just get nutjob responses here :(. I'd suggest heading over here instead :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    How did ya get an Irish Passport? Born here?

    Good Irish Surname !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    You should have said you were female, get a much better repsonse!!


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


    eamonnq wrote: »
    You should have said you were female, get a much better repsonse!!

    And an inbox full of creepy PMs. :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 dylanphelan


    vicwatson wrote: »
    How did ya get an Irish Passport? Born here?

    Good Irish Surname !!

    Irish family. Grand parents moved to South Africa.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    I met my soon-to-be wife on a thread like this year's ago :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 dylanphelan


    eamonnq wrote: »
    You should have said you were female, get a much better repsonse!!

    haha unfortunately not..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ygolometsipe


    Do forget to bring your vuvuzela, you'd be very popular in the local
    if you could play the world cup song.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Yeah no problem, I can meet up with you for a good pub crawl in Dublin airport while getting you drunk enough to put you on the aircraft to your home in comfort. Don't worry about the travel expenses as that will be taken care of on the night.

    Come fly, Come fly, Come fly away.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Click here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    So - I am heading over to Ireland for the first time in early September. I am a 34 year old guy from Cape Town, got an Irish passport a few years ago. I have a few cousins there and will be meeting up with them too.

    I'm keen on meeting locals that'd like to have a few beers, maybe show me some of the local spots. I'm not that interested in overly commercial tourist spots.

    I'm considering coming to live in Ireland next year, so I want to get to know the people, experience the culture etc...

    I will have a car and will be travelling all over... I have 2, max 3 months to do this.

    I enjoy a good pub crawl, scenic walks, food markets, wine.. maybe buy a bike and do some cycling.

    Cheers :-)

    What part of Ireland are you coming to?

    By the way, hardly anyone in Ireland drinks alcohol these days. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 dylanphelan


    Do forget to bring your vuvuzela, you'd be very popular in the local
    if you could play the world cup song.

    f*ing vuvuzelas, my flat is 1 km from the cape town stadium. I've heard enough of them !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭Jacovs


    Ek dink nie so nie, bru.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 dylanphelan


    Chucken wrote: »
    What part of Ireland are you coming to?

    By the way, hardly anyone in Ireland drinks alcohol these days. :)

    all over, going to take the ferry to Rosslare, then go to Cork, do some sailing at RCYC, then dublin, limerick and some of the smaller villages in between. I have plenty time, so will be there a while


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    all over, going to take the ferry to Rosslare, then go to Cork, do some sailing at RCYC, then dublin, limerick and some of the smaller villages in between. I have plenty time, so will be there a while

    How long does that take from Cape Town?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,494 ✭✭✭finbarrk


    I was there during the WC. PM sent to you re our pub.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 dylanphelan


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    How long does that take from Cape Town?

    that would take some time!! am in the UK, going from Pembroke :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    RedXIV wrote: »
    I met my soon-to-be wife on a thread like this year's ago :)

    Ah there it is. Nostalgia is nice
    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2055313601/1/#post56240139


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭Jacovs


    that would take some time!! am in the UK, going from Pembroke :-)

    Damn, was going to ask for a bottle of Richelieu, im almost out. :(


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 647 ✭✭✭RichardCeann


    You've never stepped foot in Ireland before yet you have an Irish passport. Am I the only one who thinks that is absurd?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    RedXIV wrote: »

    Going to have to read that. :)
    You've never stepped foot in Ireland before yet you have an Irish passport. Am I the only one who thinks that is absurd?

    Good lad. A great Irish welcome. :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    I think this is a piss-take, but who cares what I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    all over, going to take the ferry to Rosslare, then go to Cork, do some sailing at RCYC, then dublin, limerick and some of the smaller villages in between. I have plenty time, so will be there a while


    Do you know Pinetown?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Chucken wrote: »
    Going to have to read that. :)



    Good lad. A great Irish welcome. :rolleyes:

    Just imagine meeting this feller and giving him 100,000 welcomes ? talk about repeating yourself 100,000 times. Not one Irish person in this country or the world could possibly say welcome 100,000 times. The guy would more than likely knock you out to shut a person up repeating themselves so many times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 dylanphelan


    You've never stepped foot in Ireland before yet you have an Irish passport. Am I the only one who thinks that is absurd?
    yeah, it is a little!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Just imagine meeting this feller and giving him 100,000 welcomes ? talk about repeating yourself 100,000 times. Not one Irish person in this country or the world could possibly say welcome 100,000 times. The guy would more than likely knock you out to shut a person up repeating themselves so many times.

    I've been known to repeat myself after a few pints :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 dylanphelan


    Chucken wrote: »
    Do you know Pinetown?

    Nope, never been to Ireland. I know where the major cities are, but not heard of Pinetown


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Do you have diplomatic immunity OP?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Nope, never been to Ireland. I know where the major cities are, but not heard of Pinetown

    It's not in Ireland :D It's in South Africa.

    Do you have a beard? Beards are a thing here now I'm told.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Nope, never been to Ireland. I know where the major cities are, but not heard of Pinetown

    Colour Concepts south Africa indeed.

    According to google earth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Chucken wrote: »
    It's not in Ireland :D It's in South Africa.

    Do you have a beard? Beards are a thing here now I'm told.

    Indeed. Even the women now have them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    I saw a documentary about this years ago. Think it was called lethal weapon 2. Will you be bringing patsy kensit this time as you go about your criminal activities OP?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    So - I am heading over to Ireland for the first time in early September. I am a 34 year old guy.........

    leaves thread


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    PS: Don't forget to stop off in Italy or Greece whatever one of your choosing on the way over for fingerprinting & Documentation.

    I heard that if you fly direct, you can bypass all of this malarky. Enjoy your holiday, best of luck.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭OneOfThem


    So - I am heading over to Ireland for the first time in early September. I am a 34 year old guy from Cape Town, got an Irish passport a few years ago. I have a few cousins there and will be meeting up with them too.

    I'm keen on meeting locals that'd like to have a few beers, maybe show me some of the local spots. I'm not that interested in overly commercial tourist spots.

    I'm considering coming to live in Ireland next year, so I want to get to know the people, experience the culture etc...

    I will have a car and will be travelling all over... I have 2, max 3 months to do this.

    I enjoy a good pub crawl, scenic walks, food markets, wine.. maybe buy a bike and do some cycling.

    Cheers :-)

    There does be threads about meet ups for beers for people that post in this forum, and other forums on the site, like this one http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057475424 so could be worth keeping an eye out for one of them. Or just post one up here called 'AH Beers 13th September' or whatever and people will post in there and then show up, you just head along. Seems like a good way to meet a few locals.

    Edit: Actually didn't think to read that thread before posting the above, thought that one would have happened already. But seems like there is going to be a thing on the 10th of October, in some place. Place still being decided. So head along to that sure.

    While I have you here. How come South Africa is so similar to Australia? Mad about surfing. Weird animals. Don't like the black locals. Play rugby all the time? Sharks eating people. What's that all about?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 647 ✭✭✭RichardCeann


    Chucken wrote: »
    Good lad. A great Irish welcome. :rolleyes:

    It is nothing personal. But being a citizen of a country that you never stepped foot in, and your parents weren't from, is absurd. It is our laws that I was criticising, not the person availing of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    It is nothing personal. But being a citizen of a country that you never stepped foot in, and your parents weren't from, is absurd. It is our laws that I was criticising, not the person availing of them.

    Look, do you want to go for beer or not?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    I'd rather go sailing on my boat in pinetown with a few beers, well away from the bustling city.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    I'd rather go sailing on my boat in pinetown with a few beers, well away from the bustling city.

    Home brew?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 647 ✭✭✭RichardCeann


    Chucken wrote: »
    Look, do you want to go for beer or not?

    Will I wake up in a hotel bathtub filled with ice, minus a kidney?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 dylanphelan


    It is nothing personal. But being a citizen of a country that you never stepped foot in, and your parents weren't from, is absurd. It is our laws that I was criticising, not the person availing of them.

    Yeah, I agree. I could have got British citizenship after staying here for a few year. But the fam is all from Ireland and the requirements are pretty simple.

    they should prob make people stay there a few years before granting the citizenship


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Chucken wrote: »
    Home brew?

    And home-brew yes, and also the Homebrew Computer Club. Hack-attack.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 dylanphelan


    I'd rather go sailing on my boat in pinetown with a few beers, well away from the bustling city.

    will gladly take u sailing on my yacht in Cape Town, if you ever there... with my homebrew IPA


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Will I wake up in a hotel bathtub filled with ice, minus a kidney?

    You will if your home is repossessed, sure were else can they put you minus a kidney. They'll take your possessions as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    will gladly take u sailing on my yacht in Cape Town, if you ever there... with my homebrew IPA

    That seals the deal. Beers will be had in Capetown.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 dylanphelan


    Chucken wrote: »
    That seals the deal. Beers will be had in Capetown.

    Msg me if u in CT. I will be back from NOV sometime...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 647 ✭✭✭RichardCeann


    You will if your home is repossessed, sure well else can they put you minus a kidney.

    They would be back looking for a refund within a week if they got a hold of one of my kidneys.
    Yeah, I agree. I could have got British citizenship after staying here for a few year. But the fam is all from Ireland and the requirements are pretty simple.

    they should prob make people stay there a few years before granting the citizenship

    Are you any good at football?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 dylanphelan


    They would be back looking for a refund within a week if they got a hold of one of my kidneys.



    Are you any good at football?

    not at all!! rugby!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    will gladly take u sailing on my yacht in Cape Town, if you ever there... with my homebrew IPA

    Well fcuk that, I'm on me way --> Homebrew IPA here I come.

    That would be a nice sunny relaxing holiday indeed, before you wrap something around my neck while we are on the boat and throw me over-board to the crocodiles and hippos after telling you to get fingerprinted in Italy or Greece.


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