What County,

Cleeo wrote: »

People seem to love the Galway accent! It's been said to me, and not by Galway people. They were English. Not that it counts for much!)
I hate hate hate hate the Cork one. It just annoys me. Beautiful county, lovely people. Just wish everyone went around with ball gags on!

foreigners like the Galway accent because it's easier to understand but I think its more that the Galway accent is easier to tone down as a thick Galway accent can easily sound like static on a broken tv.

i like a nice cork accent on a girl

the lovely offaly accent. like our lovely leader for example

DarkJager wrote: »

Limerick of course. I could sing Chris De Burgh's "Lady In Red" in a Limerick accent, and everyone listening would hand out their phone and keys without a second thought

probably because they think you are going to stab them.







only joking bud:eek:

For scenery: Virtually any county on the West Coast.

For women: I'm not from Dublin, don't live even near Dublin, but I must say I really home I get to uni up there because the volume of good looking women is immense.

For the lulz: Cavan.

I think a poll is called for........:rolleyes:

Personally, I think the 'norn iron' accent is savage, that or the CaaaVan accent...... mmmm.

The Dublin accent scares me, maybe it's because I'm a culchie, and I always think they want to steal my mobile phone or something, even though I know it's just psychological (probably). Sorry Dubs:o

Somewhere up north.So sexy coming from the ladies

It has to be the Roscommon accent!

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

Ah you can't beat the Cavan accent, Monaghan accent is vile, Donegal accent is fair, the North Antrim accent is annoying as is the Doire accent at times, as for Throne (Tyrone) accent... similar to the Monaghan one except a little more tolerable. Armagh accent is the nicest though! Nice middle ground Northern accent.

As for the rest of the island. Midlands is ****e, as is Dublin, Kerry, Sligo, Waaaherfurh, Louth etc etc. The only accent I like really is the Cork accent when spoken properly.

/me waits for barrage of criticism!

Think there's noticeable differences in accents within counties. Donegal for example, compare Shay Given with Packie Bonner (or Daniel O'Donnell). Same in Monaghan, Monaghan Town is much more "Northern" than Carrickmacross. For me there's a similar accent from Dundalk across South Armagh, Carrickmacross and into East Cavan.

The first time I was in Cork City centre I thought people were taking the piss or that I'd wandered into a Niall Tobin impersonators convention - really had no idea what a lot of the locals were saying !

I also think that Protestants in the South have a slightly different accent from Catholics

Also think its funny that a lot of people from South City/County Dublin think they don't have a Dublin accent!

Think I like a nice soft Cavan accent the most. But least favourite would be the Cavan accent that sounds like how you get people's attention at a How to Hunt the man-eating great white shark meeting

(For some reason I'm imaging all these accents being spoken by women)

Yees all lump the Northern accents into one category, but to the attentive listener, you'll notice that there are distinct variations in them too. Derry, Tyrone and Donegal are similar (although Derry has a city accent and culchie accent - see Nadine Coyle/John Duddy versus Joe Brolly) whereas the Down, Antrim and Fermanagh accents are different too!

City accent:


Culchie (albeit a cultured one) accent.