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What exactly is Corks problem?

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  • #32
    Klinkhammer
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    donegaLroad wrote: »

    On the issue of Cork, I lived there, and they like Donegal people.

    Has the dispute over Rory Gallagher been settled so?


  • #33
    donegaLroad
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    Klinkhammer wrote: »
    Has the dispute over Rory Gallagher been settled so?

    we stole the festival I suppose!


  • #34
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    david75 wrote: »
    Guess my biggest question is why aren’t we all on the same page and all love each other as one country. Why aren’t we united. (Well, we’ll get that bit back eventually but in anyways) it’s all so competitive and resentful. No need.
    That ****ehawk from limerick isn’t helping on twitter but his podcast is a good listen.


    *Calls for Irish unity*

    *Starts thread singling out a county for abuse*


  • #35
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    The population is a lot less here than it was in 2008. All the young people have gone to Australia, been back and are away again.

    By the way, I know your post is a tongue in cheek remark, Im just putting this up for the benefit of viewers who may not realise that the problem of de-population in Donegal is a real one. I have never heard Donegal people described as smug before either... thats a strange one. (and I know you are answering the post above you)

    On the issue of Cork, I lived there, and they like Donegal people. Any problems that the Cork people have with Dublin, maybe could be attributed to the assassination of Michael Collins.


    Thanks for getting the fact that the post was tongue in cheek. Some of the responses tell their own predictable tale.
    The abandonment of towns and villages is a real concern not being addressed. When those last residents pass away we’re gonna he left with actual ghost towns and bizarrely a growing homeless population. There is a load of weirdness lying ahead of us in the next 20 years.


  • #36
    donegaLroad
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    Your Face wrote: »
    *Calls for Irish unity*

    *Starts thread singling out a county for abuse*

    the GAA would go down the Swanee if there wasn't some inter-county rivalry


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  • #37
    david75
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    Your Face wrote: »
    *Calls for Irish unity*

    *Starts thread singling out a county for abuse*



    Outrage porn for the permanently angry.


  • #38
    mad muffin
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    Wesht is the besht.


  • #39
    Ursummupet
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    mad muffin wrote: »
    Wesht is the besht.

    The best thing out of the wesht?

    The ferry to Kerry.


  • #40
    snowstorm445
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    Cork's great altogether bai.


  • #41
    snowstorm445
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 939 ✭✭✭snowstorm445


    musiknonstop wrote: »
    Media fuelled nonsense. I lived in Cork for 20+ years and only after I left that I heard Patrick Street is referred to by the natives as 'pana' . I guess I just wasn't native enough.

    Only older Corkonians would call it that, if anyone really. A bit of a cliché.


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  • #42
    david75
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    mad muffin wrote: »
    Wesht is the besht.



    Think the whole nation agrees that putting ‘esht’ into every possible word available is the most annoying thing in all Irish History


  • #43
    TomSweeney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,260 ✭✭✭TomSweeney


    david75 wrote: »
    You mean west Germany. Something like 80% of the houses in west cork is owned by Germans.

    This true ?

    Mein Godheimen !!!


  • #44
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Wesht is the besht.

    Id associate 'sssht' with Galway / Mayo


  • #45
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    Id associate 'sssht' with Galway / Mayo

    I’ve friends from as close as Kildare that do it. Every. single. Sentence.


  • #46
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    TomSweeney wrote: »
    This true ?

    Mein Godheimen !!!

    Vast majority of houses used as holiday homes in west cork are indeed owned by Germans.


  • #47
    donegaLroad
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    david75 wrote: »
    I’ve friends from as close as Kildare that do it. Every. single. Sentence.

    now that you mention it, Ive heard Ray D'Arcy at it... and he is from Kildare. You would never hear it in Donegal. I wonder where it roots from


  • #48
    Your Face
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    donegaLroad wrote: »
    the GAA would go down the Swanee if there wasn't some inter-county rivalry

    There's robust rivalry and then there is plain abuse.
    The type of sledging heard on the pitch is proof that the GAA isnt concerned about heading down the swanny.

    david75 wrote: »
    Outrage porn for the permanently angry.

    You know you've won when they search your previous posts.


  • #49
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,071 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Cork were playing hurling against Waterford a few years ago in Semple Stadium in Thurles early 00s and one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen happened before my eyes. There was people wearing Cork jerseys at the Croke monument statue in Liberty Square praying to Archbishop Croke.

    My first time in Cork city 1998/9 i arrived in Kent station and outside in the carpark was a silage harvester and John Deere tractor parked up. Thought this was very unusual for a city.

    Sound people though in my experience.


  • #50
    Klinkhammer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭Klinkhammer


    david75 wrote: »
    Vast majority of houses used as holiday homes in west cork are indeed owned by Germans.

    They're mainly Brits. Visiting the Super Value in Clonakilty is like taking a trip to Kensington.


  • #51
    david75
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    Your Face wrote: »
    There's robust rivalry and then there is plain abuse.
    The type of sledging heard on the pitch is proof that the GAA isnt concerned about heading down the swanny.




    You know you've won when they search your previous posts.



    Know your enemy ;)


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  • #52
    Sadb
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    Shur doncha know we’re mighty like.


  • #53
    Ted Plain
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    I only recently discovered that Cork once had a tram network and the glorious Free State decided to scrap it.

    As a Dubliner, if there is one thing that boils my ****ing piss is that a shower of useless wasters let our tram system fall into utter disrepair and then finally scrapped it.

    If I were King of Ireland, I would dig up up every last arsehole who had a hand in the disembodiment of the Dublin tram network and declare them as enemies of the state and hang the ****ers posthumously.

    If I were a Corkman feeling deprived of my tram I would - with justification - vent my hatred at the Dublin shower for having visited this deprivation upon my town.


  • #54
    Chrongen
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    david75 wrote: »
    Why are they so fvcking insecure? They’re worse than the English with this ‘we’re the best!’ Bull****. Constantly. They hate everyone but Dublin especially. Nobody in Dublin (or anywhere) even cares about them. Ever heard a dub going ‘were the real capital!!’

    Me neither.

    Cork was never a capital real or imagined. They just had the port of choice the Brits preferred as it was a path of least resistance.

    What exactly is their problem and where does the insecurity come from?

    Saw this tonight and it made me wonder.

    https://twitter.com/EmmyMaher/status/956902907022016512?s=08


    But sure Cork is d'only county in Ireland where you can drive 100 miles and still be in Caaark, like.

    Isn't that good enough for ye, like?

    Cork people like to irritate other people. That's cool. Let them.


  • #55
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,767 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    It seems Dubs get very wound up by the real capital thing. It betrays a deep inferiority complex on behalf of some Dubs.

    There's a lot of self loathing in Ireland so I really think many people can't handle the fact that Cork people genuinely love Cork and think it's great. Hence you get posts like the OP moaning about Cork being insecure. Look in the mirror boy!


  • #56
    Jack Kanoff
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    David's been on the beer again!.... Mind you ... he's not wrong :D


  • #57
    boardsuser1
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    Cork is a grand place to live boi!

    Norrie and proud.


  • #58
    Jack Kanoff
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    Cork Truck Driver wrote: »
    Cork is a grand place to live boi!

    Norrie and proud.

    Can we have poppies for dinner?


    Never heard that word until my Norrie friend used it, she asked me did I want poppies or chips with my dinner.....I hadn't a fckin clue!


  • #59
    boardsuser1
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    Jack Kanoff wrote: »
    Can we have poppies for dinner?


    Never heard that word until my Norrie friend used it, she asked me did I want poppies or chips with my dinner.....I hadn't a fckin clue!

    We go for a few gatts feen?


  • #60
    Jack Kanoff
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    Cork Truck Driver wrote: »
    We go for a few gatts feen?

    Gatts is universal....I went last night...I'm in the horrors sham


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  • #61
    Belle E. Flops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Belle E. Flops


    Do some people not realise that the only time the 'real capital' thing is actually ever said, is when there's a Dub around to wind up?!

    Most Dubs get it, and have the craic.

    Some don't it seems.


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