Useless facts about Ireland.

Hobbes

Don't know how much of this is true.

1) The average height of Irish men is 5' 7".
2) The average height of Irish women is 5'5".
3) 90% of Irish nationals are Catholic but only 30% ever attend church.
4) The average Irish adult spends £3,500 a year on alcohol.
5) The most popular Irish Radio station is RTE, attracting 1.5 million listeners every weekday.
6) The Irish report the lowest annual number of UFO sightings in Europe.
7) The Irish will eat 12 million creme eggs between New Years Day and Easter 2000.
8) 70% of married Irish women would consider having an affair while on a foreign holiday without their spouse or children.
9) 90% of all Irish men would do the same.
10) The Irish buy 20 million cigarettes a day.
11) Experts believe that the average price of a 3 bedroom house in Dublin will rise to £250,000 by 2005.
12) The most popular cars in Ireland are the Ford Fiesta & Focus, the Toyota Yaris and the 3 series BMW.
13) The average Irish household has three TV's and two video recorders.
14) The average Irish married couple has sex one and a half times a week.
15) The average Irish single couple has sex four times a week.
16) The average unattached Irish male only has sex once every six months.
17) 76% of all Irish nine-year-olds have tried alcohol and cigarettes.
18) 63% of all Irish people think that corrupt politicians should be made bankrupt and then imprisoned.
19) 73% of Americans are unable to locate Ireland on a map bereft of country names.
20) Bra sales in Ireland increased by 4 million between 1998 and 1999.
21) Raymond O'Brien is the shortest person in Irish history. The midget, who died in 1795, was one foot eleven inches tall.
22) The actress who played seventies Irish advertising icon, Sally O'Brien, was in fact English.
23) Less than two percent of the Irish population have been bitten by poisonous snakes.
24) The Irish drink four million pints of tea a day.
25) The average Irish farmer receives £40,000 in EC subsidies every year.
26) Ireland has one of the lowest rates of crime against tourists in the western world.
27) Dublin is the Gay capital of Ireland with over ninety percent of the indigenous gay population residing there.
28) The average Irish family is made up of two parents and three point nine children.
29) Irish women believe that thirty is the best age to get married and begin a family.
30) Irish men believe that thirty-five is early enough to settle down.
31) Only 9% of the Irish population are natural red heads.
32) May is generally the driest month of the year in Ireland.
33) Galway is the Hash capital of Ireland.
34) Dublin is the Smack capital of Ireland.
35) RTE's "The Late Late Show" is the world's longest running Talk Show.
36) 57% of Irish people wear glasses or contact lenses.
37) In 1907, Bernard Murphy legally swapped his daughter for three cows and a sheep at a Donegal market.
38) Cat's now outnumber dogs by two to one as Ireland's most popular pet.
39) Almost 100% of Irish Catholic children take a pledge to stay away from alcohol until they are eighteen. Only 2% of them actually stick to it.
40) 58% of practising Catholics see the church as outdated and in need of major overhaul.
41) Dublin boasts one pub for every 100 head of population.
42) Tourists cite the severe lack of Dublin taxi's on weekend nights as the main reason they would not recommend the city as a short
break destination to their friends.
43) Only 1/8 of Irish people under the age of 24 is married.
44) Irish marriages last an average of thirteen years although the majority does not end in divorce. Irish couples prefer to separate and live in sin with their new partners rather than go through costly legal proceedings.
45) An album only needs to sell 5,000 copies to top the Irish music charts.
46) A book only needs to sell 3,000 copies to top the Irish best seller's list.
47) The Canary Islands are the most popular sunshine holiday destination with retired Irish citizens.
48) 89% percent of the population are in favour of permanently separating Northern Ireland from the Republic.
49) The fattest Irish person on record was Aine Gowan. At the time of her death she weighed over thirty stone.

[This message has been edited by Hobbes (edited 14-03-2000).]

Smurfy

VERY INTERESTING STUFF..THANX!

I LOVE NO.37 . THERE LIKE THAT IN DONEGAL.

THAT ONE ABOUT THE FATTEST PERSON ON RECORD IN IRELAND BEING 30 STONE HAS TO BE VERY OLD THOUGH, I KNOW A GUY MUCH HEAVIER. ITS NOT YOU GAPHEAD!


GOOD STUFF NONETHELESS

ADIEU!

amp

Useless indeed but somehow comforting.

P.S SMURFY, I THINK YOUR CAPSLOCK IS STUCK MAYBE WITH SOME CHEESE EXTRACTED FROM SOME SKIN (I CAN'T SAY FROM WHERE THOUGH, SOZ!!!!)

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FreaK_BrutheR

It's "they're" like that in Donegal.

DeVore

Lol amp

DeV.

Jaden

"15) The average Irish single couple has sex four times a week.
16) The average unattached Irish male only has sex once every six months."

It's now official, we get more. Muaahhhhh.

Take it, twice-a-year-men.

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Hail To The King, Baby.

Jaden.

the celtic tiger

Is it that you're asking for a whippin' smurfy? I mean.....that one...number 21 is definitely a lie.....I think you're much shorter than that!

tct

Draco

AFAIK number 45 is true.

Draco

Smurfy

What a guy!

Wyverne

38) Cat's now outnumber dogs by two to one as Ireland's most popular pet.

u see its official, there is now more pu55y in Ireland than ever before,
hehe fu<king brilliant,

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Blisterman

Ressurecting a long dead thread here, but I think this is interesting.
11) Experts believe that the average price of a 3 bedroom house in Dublin will rise to £250,000 by 2005.

That's about €320,000, whereas the actual figure was about €400,000. So the shocking prediction actually underestimated it.

What else on the list has changed since 2000?

I'd imagine churchgoers have gone down, as well as the number of albums needed to be sold to reach number 1.

Cool_CM

24) The Irish drink four million pints of tea a day.

Class! Anybody know of any establishments that sell tea in pints?

Pride Fighter

Jaysus, what a bump.

33) Galway is the Hash capital of Ireland

Thought so.

Cool_CM

Pride Fighter wrote: »

Jaysus, what a bump.

Fairly epic in fairness. If they have every sh*tty thread people have created in after hours on record since boards began, no wonder the database dies from time to time!

taidghbaby

is 20 in numbers or size???

GirlInterrupted

That list seems to have truth and bullsh*t in equal measure.
I can't believe Irish men are that short, or the women that tall.....

rossie1977

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

That list seems to have truth and bullsh*t in equal measure.
I can't believe Irish men are that short, or the women that tall.....

they average height of irish males is just a hair over 5'9 and 5'5 for females is correct, in fact the average height of females in general in the western world is 5'5ish

Degag

Less than 2 percent of the irish population have been bitten by a poisonous snake???

I'd imagine that it'd be less than .02 percent!!!

the dee

Cool, I'm bang on average height for an Irish female!

Xavi6

A bump of epic proportions there alright.

45) An album only needs to sell 5,000 copies to top the Irish music charts.

I'd say that's gone way done now with all the illegal downloading and shit that wasn't around eight years ago.

gurramok

17) 76% of all Irish nine-year-olds have tried alcohol and cigarettes.

Yeh rightttt.

ART6

Tackle69 wrote: »

Less than 2 percent of the irish population have been bitten by a poisonous snake???

I'd imagine that it'd be less than .02 percent!!!

Does that mean St. Patrick missed a couple of the little divils?:rolleyes:

Pompey Magnus

15) The average Irish single couple has sex four times a week.

What is a "single couple"? Is that not a contradiction?

Sherifu

25) The average Irish farmer receives £40,000 in EC subsidies every year.

Wow.


Quality 8 year bumpage.

JohnCleary

In before the lock

Love2love

A few more for you....

The very first flavoured crisp was created by Tayto that were based in Moore St. They were Cheese and Onion. Before you just got a sachet of salt to pour over them.

The word Quiz was invented in Dublin, some guy bet his friend that he could get a word entered into the dictionary so he paid a few kids to write the word QUIZ on the walls around Dublin and everyone wondered its meaning.

The MGM lion was born in Dublin Zoo.

TeletextPear

Love2love wrote: »

The MGM lion was born in Dublin Zoo.

and its name was stephen

JohnCleary

TeletextPear wrote: »

and its name was stephen

Stephen McGrath

Gone West

Love2love wrote: »

A few more for you....

The very first flavoured crisp was created by Tayto that were based in Moore St. They were Cheese and Onion. Before you just got a sachet of salt to pour over them.

The word Quiz was invented in Dublin, some guy bet his friend that he could get a word entered into the dictionary so he paid a few kids to write the word QUIZ on the walls around Dublin and everyone wondered its meaning.

The MGM lion was born in Dublin Zoo.

Those are good

The whole list at the start is balls, I remember reading it years ago and thinking the same.

danniemcq

JohnCleary wrote: »

Stephen McGrath

haha dammit no thanks button, you deserve it though!

JohnCleary

danniemcq wrote: »

haha dammit no thanks button, you deserve it though!

Don't know why I deserve a thanks for that - but if it made you smile then it's made my day

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TeletextPear

JohnCleary wrote: »

Stephen McGrath

his da must have been irish too