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Things Ireland had before the UK

Mondo from Dublin

An national lottery Ireland 1987 UK 1994. National licenced commercial Radio Ireland 1989 UK 1992. Free TV licence for oaps Ireland always UK 2001

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Minderbinder

Northern Ireland

Ipso

800 years of oppression.

Witchie

Minderbinder wrote: »

Northern Ireland

Was so disappointed and then a little excited that no one had said Norn Iron coz I wanted to win wit of the week but then you swooped in and stole my glory like the British taking a lump of our Island.

*Shakes fist*

Laois_Man

Surely listing things that the Brits STILL don't have is against the spirit of the thread!

Crisps!

[Deleted User]

A Republic.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

A smoking ban.

Capt'n Midnight

National Grid

Trousers

STD, as in being able to dial long distance without operators.

indioblack

circadian wrote: »

A Republic.

If you specify England, they had one in the 17th century.

Brian CivilEng

circadian wrote: »

A Republic.

Technically they had that in England first, in 1649. Wasn't very popular here.

Edit: Bah, foiled by the dart going into a bad phone coverage area.

mikemac2

Rock Shandy
Red Lemonade

Yer Da sells Avon

We had Home and Away a good few months before them.

Your Face

We had priests before they had Jimmy Saville.

Mondo from Dublin

Isn't it kind of strange that it took the UK until 1994 to have an national lottery?

Bigus

A Boeing 747 with aer lingus

And Ryanair

Yer Da sells Avon

Mondo from Dublin wrote: »

Isn't it kind of strange that it took the UK until 1994 to have an national lottery?

I remember the fuss when it first launched. A thirty minute programme with a studio audience every week, while we just had Ronan Collins and a stony-faced independent observer from Stokes Kennedy Crowley (good evening Alex, good evening Ronan) in a tiny studio for three minutes.

MonkieSocks

Sudocrem was developed in 1931 by Dublin-based pharmacist Thomas Smith. It was originally called "Smith's Cream", later "Soothing Cream".

The name changed to Sudocrem in 1950 due to the Dublin accent pronunciation of soothing cream.

During the 1960s, samples of Sudocrem given to new mothers in Ireland increased the popularity of the product and the brand was gradually introduced to the UK in the 1970s.

Its makers claim it to be the leading nappy rash cream in both Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Sudocrem is still (2015) manufactured in Dublin (in Baldoyle).

A 2012 Irish Independent article said:

"Sudocrem is the spuds and bacon of skincare creams, the Guinness of gentle nappy rash reliefs and the Tayto of topical ointments,"
following reports in the British and Irish media that celebrities were using the product to treat acne.

There are now three Sudocrem branded products available in the UK: the original antiseptic healing cream, Sudocrem Care and Protect which is a nappy rash preventative and Sudocrem Skin Care Cream which is an everyday acne cream aimed at the youth market.

AndyBoBandy

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Duty Free (invented by the CEO of Aer Lingus or the Airport authority)

I thought it was the government in conjunction with Aer Rianta, as back in the day most transatlantic flights from Europe to America and vice versa had to stop in Shannon to refuel. So some clever clogs decided to declare the area Shannon is built on as a free port (outside Ireland in tax terms) so VAT duty didn’t need to be applied to goods sold there, thus creating the worlds first Duty Free shop.

engiweirdo

Mother & Baby homes.

Child Rapist Clergy.

Franz Von Peppercorn

engiweirdo wrote: »

Mother & Baby homes.

Child Rapist Clergy.

The English keep this stuff well under wraps.

JupiterKid

A drive thru bank (AIB, Cornelscourt, 1990 - gone now sadly).

Gay men and women able to serve openly in the army.

Kyle More

Dara O'Briain

Tell me how

AndyBoBandy wrote:

I thought it was the government in conjunction with Aer Rianta, as back in the day most transatlantic flights from Europe to America and vice versa had to stop in Shannon to refuel. So some clever clogs decided to declare the area Shannon is built on as a free port (outside Ireland in tax terms) so VAT duty didnâ€™t need to be applied to goods sold there, thus creating the worlds first Duty Free shop.

Brendan O'Regan was that clever clogs.
Was responsible for developing Shannon airport and opening world's first duty free shop. Also did trojan work in developing/promoting the Shannon region and was also later involved in peace initiatives between Northern and Southern Ireland.

[Deleted User]

The flavoured crisp.

Invented by Tayto.

cheese and onion and salt and vinegar.

Day Lewin

Far as I know, the first Crime/Police real life programme was RTE's "Garda Patrol" back in the 1960's:
long before any of these Crimewatch type of things. A definite First.

dinorebel

Margaret Cash

M.T. Cranium

Rain, except when it came from the east.

eviltwin

Primark

sicknotexi

**** all really.

Duckworth_Luas

The first country in the world to be mapped at high accuracy large scales.

This was completed during the Great Famine so the island could be more effectively taxed by Westminster.

Lucy8080

A lack of Roman dominance.

The civilisation of Europe after the Romans fell.

Go away outta that with your two world wars and one world cup. Would not be possible without us laying the pitch!