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Things you are surprised are still manufactured in Ireland

  • 03-12-2015 6:31pm
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    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Corrupt politicians ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭Ellie2008


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Sellotape


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Are we still not making frozen chips ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Pink Fairy


    Mein Taytos!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭Whitewinged


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Novelty poop and puke.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    Botox and viagra is made in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,115 ✭✭✭✭bnt


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

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Tic-Tacs & Viagra


  • Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    druids cider


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,422 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Ellie2008 wrote: »
    Parts of weapons, you know cause we're "neutral"

    Why would this violate neutrality?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭Mesrine65




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,155 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,661 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    limestone


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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    cowboys


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭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


  • Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    briquettes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


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


  • Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    Surprising? Briquettes? Really? The abundance of bog not a clue?

    ireland isn't the only country with bogs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Cheese strings.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭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!:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Crimsonforce


    Viagra, giving boners to the world.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    Foam rollers made here and not in china shocking stuff

    http://mobilizefoamrollers.com/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,763 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Bananas


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,364 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Bananas

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭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˜


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Ellie2008 wrote: »
    Parts of weapons, you know cause we're "neutral"
    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


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


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,763 ✭✭✭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!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭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 ?


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,770 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Pfizer apart from Viagra, also produce Lipitor in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    Titanium hips and knees.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Stheno wrote: »
    Think the flavouring for Pepsi is made down in Cork.

    Yeah it's turf.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 577 ✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,770 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Stents to replace valves around the heart.


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