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Reuters: An American tells us 17 things they don't know about Ireland

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  • #32
    Chaotic_Forces
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    Some of this is true?!


  • #33
    southsiderosie
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    cruhoortwunk wrote: »
    16. The Irish Police force, Gardai, don’t carry firearms. In recent years they have been outfitted with batons and pepper spray. Which makes the Irish police force just slightly more effective than your average single woman in New York City.

    Good old American logic there-you can't be effective without a gun

    You can't if you live in a country where any reasonably sane half-wit has access to military-grade weaponry. The police are often underarmed, compared to who they are dealing with.


  • #34
    LittleBook
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    I remember when Reuters was the most respected news agency in the world.

    Now they're (re) publishing badly written and scarcely researched blogs by amateur travel writers. :(


  • #35
    Dravokivich
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    LittleBook wrote: »
    I remember when Reuters was the most respected news agency in the world.

    Now they're (re) publishing badly written and scarcely researched blogs by amateur travel writers. :(

    I don't think it's just Reuters... journalism has become a lot more flash in the pan over the last while overall...


  • #36
    chicken fingers
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    Many of those "facts" are untrue.


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  • #37
    klose
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    Stall on, Guinness isn't a beer? It's a stout. Or am I mixing things up?


  • #38
    conorhal
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    In before the whinging athiests stamp their feet and demand that the green and orange are removed from the Irish flag.... ah bollix

    Mike 1972 wrote: »

    "the orange stripe represents Irish Protestants, green is for Irish Catholics"

    Thats all good and well but what about everyone else ?

    Still, I suppose that the irish state represented by white flag would be an appropriate metaphor the the state of the country...


  • #39
    Dont be at yourself
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    whippedcream wrote: »
    Stall on, Guinness isn't a beer? It's a stout. Or am I mixing things up?

    A stout is a beer. (as is lager, ale, pilsner &c...)


  • #40
    faceman
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    Reuters wrote:
    6. The longest one-word town name is Newtownmountkennedy, which is a village in Wicklow County.

    No its not. Longest town name in Ireland is Muckanaghederdauhaulia and its in Galway.


  • #41
    flyton5
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    The Ryanair one is a bit bizarre. Isn't it named after Tony Ryan? Wouldn't take that much research to figure it out. Oh wait, were they trying to be humourous. :rolleyes:


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  • #42
    Korvanica
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    whoopdedoo wrote: »
    he has a point, all the pepper spray in the world won't stop a bullet!

    Neither would having a gun....


  • #43
    Fratton Fred
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    Hazys wrote: »
    Its actually the opposite

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_diaspora#Caribbean

    At one point, 75% of the Montserrat population was Irish slaves.

    No, the reason why Montserrat celebrates St Patrick's day is to mainly remember the failed slave revolt. The majority if slave owners on the island were Irish.

    http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/slavery/montserrat.htm


  • #44
    Overheal
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    cruhoortwunk wrote: »
    16. The Irish Police force, Gardai, don’t carry firearms. In recent years they have been outfitted with batons and pepper spray. Which makes the Irish police force just slightly more effective than your average single woman in New York City.

    Good old American logic there-you can't be effective without a gun
    Rather I think you don't understand how effective a single new york woman is!


  • #45
    sensibleken
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    No, the reason why Montserrat celebrates St Patrick's day is to mainly remember the failed slave revolt. The majority if slave owners on the island were Irish.

    http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/slavery/montserrat.htm

    Youre both right. Originally the majority were indentured labour and slaves from Ireland but by the mid 1700s the Irish had taken over the role of slave owners


  • #46
    28064212
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    faceman wrote: »
    No its not. Longest town name in Ireland is Muckanaghederdauhaulia and its in Galway.
    That's a townland (which is an area of land), not a town: List of longest place names in Ireland. Newtownmountkennedy is the longest town name in Ireland

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  • #47
    jackiebaron
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    tricky D wrote: »
    Montserrat had an attempted rebellion on March 17 ages ago. The slaves reckoned the mainly Irish slave drivers would be too drunk. Quite a few Irish placenames there too.

    I believe that there are lots of people with Irish lastnames too and Montserrat is called the Second Emerald Isle.


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