Things you are surprised are still manufactured in Ireland

The other day I purchased a new mattresses for the spare room and as I was dressing the bed I noticed that it was manufactured in Ireland. Have you come across anything that you were surprised that was still manufactured in Ireland.

The narrative is that our economy is too expensive for traditional manufacturing and its all gone to the far east, its all about the hi tec industries in Ireland.

MRnotlob606

Corrupt politicians ?

Ellie2008

Parts of weapons, you know cause we're "neutral"

tomwaterford

Sellotape

darkpagandeath

Are we still not making frozen chips ?

Pink Fairy

Mein Taytos!

Whitewinged

As far as i know, I think Sudocrem is only made in Ireland.

mad muffin

Novelty poop and puke.

afatbollix

Botox and viagra is made in Ireland.

bnt

Jelly Beans: from Blanchardstown to the World! Well, parts of Europe, at least ... :cool:

So how come the dominant narrative is that we are too expensive an economy for common or garden manufacturing, which can be done far cheaper in the far east.

Mesrine65

Tic-Tacs & Viagra

XR3i

druids cider

kupus

believe it or not ireland is one of the leaders when it comes to mining equipment..... Up to a few decades ago, mining equip was big huge and bulky. Three guys decided to put wheels and tracks on them and a whole new industry was born.

Ten of Swords

This...

delahuntv

Iced Caramels - no matter what brand they are, they're made in Newbridge.

Eugene Norman

Ellie2008 wrote: »

Parts of weapons, you know cause we're "neutral"

Why would this violate neutrality?

Mesrine65

The Irish-made Reacher bomb disposal robot.

http://www.independent.ie/incoming/article31420793.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/3%20Reacher%20002.jpg

Del2005

Ellie2008 wrote: »

Parts of weapons, you know cause we're "neutral"

Better not tell the Swedes that they shouldn't be making weapons as they are a neutral country unlike Ireland, which is military non aligned not neutral.

kneemos

kupus wrote: »

believe it or not ireland is one of the leaders when it comes to mining equipment..... Up to a few decades ago, mining equip was big huge and bulky. Three guys decided to put wheels and tracks on them and a whole new industry was born.

Libherr make cranes down in Killarney.
Hugh place unsurprisingly.

XR3i

limestone

Stheno

Wright bus in the North make lots of busses in the Dublin bus fleet.

And Mincon, the mine equipement company supplied the machinery that helped rescue the miners trapped in Chile in 2010

XR3i

cowboys

Rhys Essien

kupus wrote: »

believe it or not ireland is one of the leaders when it comes to mining equipment..... Up to a few decades ago, mining equip was big huge and bulky. Three guys decided to put wheels and tracks on them and a whole new industry was born.

It was gear made by an Irish mining company that saved the Chilean miners.

Other stuff made here:

iMacs

These watches
http://mileata.com/watches.html

XR3i

briquettes

Mycroft H

Surprising? Briquettes? Really? The abundance of bog not a clue?

XR3i

Mycroft H wrote: »

Surprising? Briquettes? Really? The abundance of bog not a clue?

ireland isn't the only country with bogs

Buona Fortuna

Apparently we have a lot of Zinc, we're about 10th in the world

delahuntv

Westport - the Botox capital of the world. 90% of Botox is made in westport

Fratton Fred

Cheese strings.

Joe prim

delahuntv wrote: »

Westport - the Botox capital of the world. 90% of Botox is made in westport

Always wondered why you could'nt get a smile out of a Mayo woman, now I know!:)

Crimsonforce

Viagra, giving boners to the world.

drdeadlift

Foam rollers made here and not in china shocking stuff

http://mobilizefoamrollers.com/

StupidLikeAFox

Bananas

cantdecide

Bomb disposal robots in Cork

Stheno

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

Bananas

Apparently we are the biggest importers of bananas in the world for onward export

Dawn Rider

Del2005 wrote: »

Better not tell the Swedes that they shouldn't be making weapons as they are a neutral country unlike Ireland, which is military non aligned not neutral.

UK arms company's sell to the Swede's, who sell on to the countries the UK government have banned weapons trading with. Allegedly..... The little minxesðŸ˜

rubadub

Ellie2008 wrote: »

Parts of weapons, you know cause we're "neutral"

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Why would this violate neutrality?

It would obviously depend on your definition of neutrality, you should give your definition.

I see wiki has us defined as "formerly neutral"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_neutrality_(international_relations)#Formerly_neutral

I would be interested to see the definition which we do fall under being "neutral". If we are definitely making "parts of weapons" I would compare it headshops openly selling drugs washing their hands of it by saying "what you do with it is your own business". But if the "parts" are fuses or some other commonplace part I would accept it. I am totally undecided and genuinely would like to know.

Rhys Essien

Pepsi Cola or the main product for Pepsi.Maybe someone who works there can verify.

Stheno

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Pepsi Cola or the main product for Pepsi.Maybe someone who works there can verify.

Think the flavouring for Pepsi is made down in Cork.

StupidLikeAFox

Stheno wrote: »

Apparently we are the biggest importers of bananas in the world for onward export

They managed to have it classified as manufacturing for tax reasons!

darkpagandeath

rubadub wrote: »

It would obviously depend on your definition of neutrality, you should give your definition.

I see wiki has us defined as "formerly neutral"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_neutrality_(international_relations)#Formerly_neutral

I would be interested to see the definition which we do fall under being "neutral". If we are definitely making "parts of weapons" I would compare it headshops openly selling drugs washing their hands of it by saying "what you do with it is your own business". But if the "parts" are fuses or some other commonplace part I would accept it. I am totally undecided and genuinely would like to know.

Not to drag the topic further off but Ireland is not and never has been a Neutral country. Do they not Mine a load of Naise in Mayo ?

Stheno

Just looking through this thread, how the feck have I managed to accumulate so many random facts????

RobertKK

Pfizer apart from Viagra, also produce Lipitor in Ireland.

Rhys Essien

Titanium hips and knees.

delahuntv

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

Bananas

Very true!

"manufacturered" in balbriggan.

Brought in green and then a manufacturing process ripens them to edible condition and officially it is considered manufacturing

Buona Fortuna

Stheno wrote: »

Think the flavouring for Pepsi is made down in Cork.

Yeah it's turf.

simdan

delahuntv wrote:

Iced Caramels - no matter what brand they are, they're made in Newbridge.

It says they are made in tallaght by Robert Roberts when I look online?

Dawn Rider

There was a company in Waterford that made parts for ICBMs in the 1980s.
AFAIK Texas Instruments had a place here making guidance parts for missiles too.

delahuntv

simdan wrote: »

It says they are made in tallaght by Robert Roberts when I look online?

Made by urney chocolates in Newbridge for Robert Roberts www.urneychocolates.com

RobertKK

Stents to replace valves around the heart.