What do you love about Ireland ?

nicegirl · 15-05-2010 02:42AM

Jordan Berbatov wrote: »

Booooooo

So should you

karlog · 15-05-2010 02:50AM

i like how everything is reasonably priced:rolleyes:

McChubbin · 15-05-2010 03:34AM

You're asking me what do I like about Ireland?

That would be an ecumenical matter.

khmk · 15-05-2010 03:49AM

Tbh I love the way when you're on the piss and blah blah blah something happens and you end up stabbing 2 people through the skull with a screwdriver and murdering them.

20 years is all you get.

20 years!

Awesome!

RayM · 15-05-2010 04:05AM

The scenery. Or rather, the parts that haven't been vandalised with crappy looking apartment blocks and half-built housing estates.
The weather. Rarely too cold in the winter or too warm in the summer. Irish weather is seriously underrated.
The fact that Father Ted couldn't possibly have been made anywhere else.
The way politicians use the phrase "world class" to describe any type of public infrastructure that, in terms of quality, is nearly as good as that of other countries.

Drumpot · 15-05-2010 04:29AM

Sarcasm . .

Did we invent it ? We certainly perfected it . . Nice . .

15-05-2010 07:58AM

I'm completely fed up with the place right now tbh. What more to do?

AskMyChocolate · 15-05-2010 08:09AM

Orange69 wrote: »

Ireland is a festering pit of human depravity.. imo..

Sweet. I actually read your post in Ian Paisley's voice.

FruitLover · 15-05-2010 08:13AM

The Airport.

Snowie · 15-05-2010 08:32AM

MitchKoobski wrote: »

Giving directions to tourists in Irish

when i was a courier some german men asked me where a good club was i sent them to the george , the things you do to amuse your self when your on a push bike are unbealeavble

Johnny Utah · 15-05-2010 08:34AM

- Trad music
- We have our own language
- For a country of our size, we usually punch way above our weight on the world stage (eg. sport, business, etc)
- High standard of living
- Beautiful scenery
- Never more than a two hour drive to the coast
- Irish people have a great sense of humour
- Great golf courses
- Very relaxed pace of life
- Low crime rate
- Sharon Ni Bheolain on the 6 o'clock news every evening
- Excellent education system
- RTE soccer analysts being allowed to speak their mind and have a bit of a laugh (compare them to the boring twats on the BBC/ITV). Actually, RTE's sport coverage in general is excellent.
- Very few speed cameras
- Community spirit, eg. during the recent flooding, the local community, indeed the whole country, did everything they could for those in trouble.

That's just off the the top of my head. Face it lads, we have a great country here.

Jesus Wept · 15-05-2010 08:36AM

Drumpot wrote: »

Sarcasm . .

Did we invent it ? We certainly perfected it . . Nice . .

yeaaaaaaaaaah,we.invented.it. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Johnny Utah wrote: »

- Trad music
- We have our own language
- For a country of our size, we usually punch way above our weight on the world stage (eg. sport, business, etc)

Really? How so?

Reaching the quarter finals of the world cup in 1990?

davyjose · 15-05-2010 09:39AM

Gate B, Dublin Airport.

Seriously though, me and my mates all agree that's the best place in Ireland

seanaor · 15-05-2010 09:41AM

The weather.

BattyInNZ · 15-05-2010 10:05AM

About the sense of humour thing - we certainly Do have a sense of humour and I'd go as far as saying everyone else's is s h i t in comparison to ours but that's sometimes where the trouble starts - theirs is different to ours so even though we KNOW we have a great sense of humour it doesn't always emigrate very well! :rolleyes:

ChocolateSauce · 15-05-2010 10:15AM

Not much. I'll always be attached to Ireland because it is my home and where I grew up, but if asked to name what I like about it, I can't think of anything that couldn't also apply in other places (and I can think of loads of things I hate about it that wouldn't apply in other places), except perhaps for "craic", but then again, I've never had craic in other places so I can't possibly know if Irish craic is superior.

Ireland is a mediocre country IMHO. At least in other conservative corrupt debt holes (like Greece) the food is good.

Slow Show · 15-05-2010 10:28AM

Our sense of humour all the way...there really is nothing like it.
GAA, there's nothing like the summer when your team is doing well and the whole community is excited and hanging out flags, not to mention the matches themselves.
The scenery - after being away from a while you really start to appreciate just how green everything is, and I live on the doorstep of the Burren so that too.
It's a grand oul place really...

oooomy · 15-05-2010 10:36AM

spanish and polish girls

some_dose · 15-05-2010 10:50AM

I think our coast and seas are really underrated. We have by far the most impressive coastal scenery in Europe (and indeed the world) and the water quality is generally really good. The Cliffs of Moher are still incredible to this day, no matter how many time you've seen it

15-05-2010 11:08AM

Bitching about Ireland. Sure isn't that the most Irish thing to do?

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 15-05-2010 11:34AM

-The fact that old people bitch about priests and all their shenanigans, but wouldn't miss mass for the world.
-Irish music. The rebel and diddle-dee-i.
-Sense of humour mong Irish people.
-Having the craic.
-Drinking.
-"Ah, be alri"
-GAA.
-The sense of national pride when one of our sportsmen/women do well in something.
-Cherry red faces the day after we get some sun.
-The beaches.
-Golf courses.
-Food.
-RTÉ and Eamonn Dunphy, baby/John 'shush Bill' Giles/Bill 'Okey doke' O'Herlihy.
-Mícheal O'Muircheartaigh and Jimmy Magee.
-Everyone is an expert on whatever we're good at, be it soccer, rugby, boxing, horse racing..
-The summer days when it's sunny but theree's a light breeze so it's not too hot.
-Croke Park.

I

Ireland.:D

storm2811 · 15-05-2010 11:34AM

Des Carter wrote: »

Especially our milk - nicest Iv ever tasted.

Ugh the milk in some places over in Europe is horrible,tastes sweet 'cause they feed the cows corn or something.
Can't stand it!Whenever I'm over there I always have to drink soy milk:(

cypharius · 15-05-2010 11:46AM

Things to hate about Ireland:

*No seperation between Church and State.
*Alcaholics are accepted, wheras casual hash users are shunned.
*Lowest average IQ(92) in western Europe.
*Incompitant corrupt government, whos main opposition is another incompitant party.
*There's nothing for teenagers to do but Drink and spend all day long on the internet/Xbox(I find that it's easier to get my hands on booze then it is to get my hands on a Xbox game over my age limit, and in some cases under my age limit).

Things to love about Ireland

I realy can't think of anything...

Dionysus · 15-05-2010 11:55AM

cypharius wrote: »

*Lowest average IQ(92) in western Europe.
*Incompitant corrupt government, whos main opposition is another incompitant party.

Ahem.

HalloweenJack · 15-05-2010 11:57AM

I'm living outside Ireland at the mo and the only things I am missing from home are:

Foster's
Barry's tea
The Hibo in Bray
Bray Wanderers
GAA
Friends/family

Not that much after 22 years of living there, imo.

I do love Ireland but I just don't want to live there.

cypharius · 15-05-2010 12:01PM

Dionysus wrote: »

Ahem.

The irony is misplaced, seeing as bad spelling is not = low IQ or incompitance(Other then compitance to spell). If you haven't noticed, our leaders are all quite educated.

Ardennes1944 · 15-05-2010 12:04PM

it is a ****e country,but when you get a nice roaster of a day and you can play footy out the back,or take a spin with the windows down, i maintain its the nicest place to be and all the crap goes away for a while at least.

kdave · 15-05-2010 12:04PM

millenuim clock

hada · 15-05-2010 12:06PM

Honestly, if you've ever spent *any* time abroad (which I reckon the vast majority/all of us boardsies have), you kind of start to miss that feeling that generally, people in Ireland are just one big close community - despite all the slagging between counties/towns etc.. I'm not sure that's the best way to describe it; maybe a better way to explain it is, the fact that unlike other places I've lived/visited, Ireland just seems like one big (albeit dysfunctional at times) family - happily trodding along.

Best example of the tight knit/family culture I think Ireland has, is the way whole communities/the whole country reacts jointly to events, recent example being G Ryan's death, or NAMA, or something.

You kind of miss the sense of belonging/importance you get from being part of that family when you move abroad, even though you invariably become more patriotic abroad than you would ever be at home!!

Dionysus · 15-05-2010 12:08PM

cypharius wrote: »

The irony is on you, seeing as bad spelling is not = low IQ or incompitance(Other then compitance to spell). If you haven't noticed, our leaders are all quite educated.

I - N - C - O - M - P - E - T - E - N - C - E

Jesus, isn't there a spellchecker in every one of these posts? See the red underlining your spelling while you're writing? Not to integrate this knowledge is more than an inability to spell correctly.

What do you love about Ireland ?

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