Ireland's worst or most pointless 'visitor attractions'

The Spire is a useful navigation tool for culchies visiting the city, I'd be lost without it.

Fry Model Railway in Malahide - tiny!

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

Not for you then, but its not all about you.

yes it is:)

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

where is that?

Ballybunion,Co.kerry

johnjoe7 wrote: »

The spire is a manipulators party trick, make no mistake about it. You think they didn't attach any kind of monitoring system at the top of it which spies over the entire city and beyond, think again.

Fat lot of good it doing, when you consider the debacle in the park last night.

ZombieBride wrote: »

Ceide Fields, you drive into the middle of no where for a weird pyramid, it's weird.

More the edge of nowhere,
I liked it,it may have be pointless if you didn't take the guided tour,
most of these centers seem to be the same shape I'm not mistaken.

criticalcritic wrote: »

'Just because one is born in a stable does not make one a horse'

His words in regards being Irish by birth

The words of an arsehole

I bet you have the royal wedding on tape

His quote, 'just because one was was born in a stable, does not make one a horse' was uttered in a parliment debate with Daniel O'Connell. It was a lightweight, throwaway bit of banter, similar to what we hear in the Dail today. Also, O'Connell allegedly responded "but it does make one an Ass" and everyone laughed, including the Duke.

In fact, having been born in Dublin, and being an MP for Trim and living here for a significant portion of his life, I would consider him an Irishman - even the term 'wellington boot' arised from him, and his link to Dublin after he visited his favourite shoemaker on Capel St to design a sturdy boot for warzones etc (despite what it says on Wiki about a london shoemaker coming up with the idea)

Before people ask for sources, there are a few dozen books in your local library that testify to this. But then again, history has a nasty habit of blurring the facts. So who really knows. And who really cares actually. We claim people who weren't even born here, as Irish (Big Cas, Andy Townsend, James Connolly etc) so why not the people that actually were

Boskowski wrote: »

I friend of mine from Germany came over and wanted to see a historical Irish site so to the Rock of Cashel we went.

What a disappointment that was. I mean the thing looks impressive and really grand from far away and you expect great things but the tour was the most pathetic thing ever. A total of 3 rooms we went through. No historical facts whatsoever, the only thing she would talk about was the struggle to preserve the castle and what it takes and what it costs (hint, hint) blabla and the only 'room' that wasn't an actual former room with no roof over our heads was full of stuff ala 'well we don't actually have anything from that area and from that period but that carpet we brought here would be close enough to what may have been in here at the time'.
I learned zero on who built it, who reigned there, who they were, what happened to them, zilch.

Total waste of time. Surely all those Americans coming in busloads in the summer expecting whatnot must be thinking this is a p1sstake or something.

have to agree with you here, the Rock is pretty sh1te inside (and thats coming from a Tipp man)...was in Blarney castle a few weeks back and thought it was really interesting actually!

The Bushmills distillery in County Antrim, hardly anything in the distillery apart from bottles of whiskey to buy and small glasses to drink.