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The ten best things about your county

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 644 ✭✭✭yohan the great


    diograis wrote: »
    Do these GAA heads realise that counties were an English invention? Honest question here. our country is smaller than most American states....

    And the Vatican is smaller than my local parish. What are you trying to say?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    And the Vatican is smaller than my local parish.

    Munster's bigger than Israel.

    Your turn!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    Population per square kilometre:

    Singapore .....7405

    Netherlands.....495

    Ireland........66

    Enough said ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    WikiHow wrote: »
    The 10 roads out of Dublin :D

    Did you know, nearly every county has a Dublin road for a quick and easy getaway.


    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I won't be living in Clare forever, that's about the best thing that I can say about it.


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  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Galway -
    Nowhere near as many junkies or scumbags as Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    MissD93 wrote: »
    1) supermacs
    2) deli burger
    3) laugi's
    ^longford in a nutshell

    no one from longford would put luigi's below the other 2 muck!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    patmac wrote: »
    Bit old but close enough:
    Carlow = Mad for sugar beat cant get enough of it Hobbies:Growing sugar Beat


    Cavan = filthy, ignorant hillbillies, tight. Hobbies: discovering IRA ammo dumps and knitting black balaclavas.


    Clare = fiddle-playing charming people and, more recently, fine hurlers Hobbies: Falling into pot-holes and being never heard from ever again, setting up golf courses in their back lawns.

    Cork = the loveable rogues of Ireland. Here for everyone else’s entertainment. Hobbies: Milking cows, being European capital of culture but not knowing what exactly that means or how they got it boy?

    Donegal = away in their own world up there, not much known about this eccentric type. Hobbies: Stripping the Irish coast of fishies, running back up to their corner of the island and blaming the spanish….aye twas the spanish!!

    Dublin North = criminals, drug dealers and factory workers, dirty women, skinheads and all-round examples of human waste. Hobbies: Heroin and watching serial numbers being filed off stolen BMW's, joy-riding anything from a lexus to a washing machine.
    Dublin South = west Brits, snobs, rich, easy glamorous women. Hobbies: talking sh*te and sleeping with their best friend's spouse or mother.

    Galway = sophisticated culchies, sexually adventurous, cultured and wealthy. Hobbies: Teaching sex acrobatics to foreign tourists, dropping acid, juggling with fire on the streets, paying a million euros for a three bedroom suburban house and pretending it was a bargain.

    Kerry = God’s kingdom on earth, no doubt about it. Some of the best land in Ireland but they don’t tell anyone this. Hobbies: Football, swimming with dolphins, football, seeing how many foreigners they can score each year, football, hosting a massive festival every week, football, going to the south pole and football.

    Kildare = is anyone really from Kildare or are they all just from Dublin? Hobbies: Denying they have anything to do with Dublin. Spending best part of 4 hours each day travelling to and from Dublin. Using Daz for whiter than white jerseys on a summer’s day.

    Kilkenny = red haired alcoholics who refuse to believe not all land in Ireland is capable of growing barley and wheat “not a bother”. Hobbies = driving massive combines, hosting comedy festivals and having red-haired babies.

    Laois = harmless aul bunch of lads, hope to have the whole county by-passed at some stage by 2025 so they can get on with their own business. Hobbies: Living an honest life, collecting EU development grants, getting the p*ss taken out of them for being the queen’s county…haha ye plantation bast*rds!

    Leitrim = enigmatic reclusive weirdos. Hobbies: learning about traffic lights and roundabouts in school (night school for adults that is)

    Limerick = grand place, great sports people, city has bad reputation through no fault of its own. Hobbies: stabbing people, gang-land murders, drug hauls, graffiti spraying, joy-riding….

    Longford = Gombeen men. Hobbies: Legalising bestiality.

    Louth = IRA supporters, smugglers and bandits. Hobbies: Tearing through Cooley at 125MPH trying to stop the boxes of cheap vodka from falling out the window.

    Mayo = Depressing, defeatist, negative, misery-laden losers, emigrate as soon as the umbilical cord is cut. Hobbies: roaring about how great they are, whinging about why nobody likes them.

    Meath = either Dublin wannabes or mad country bucks. Hobbies: Beating Dublin at GAA and hoping that one day somebody in Dublin will actually notice, driving massive john deere’s cos they’re big, green and yellow too.

    Offaly = Bog. Hobbies = exploiting bogs and later making them into tourist attractions…hats off!

    Roscommon = flat county, a silage pit is a mountain. Hobbies: Sheep-stealing.

    Sligo = either in their 20s and a surfer or in their 80s and a granny, no in-betweens. Hobbies: Surfing and knitting wet-suits for their grand children.

    Tipperary = promiscuous girls, Tipp does not have two different Ridings for nothing! Hobbies: Getting a flat in Dublin and losing their accents and hoping their parents don't find out.

    Waterford = decent honest hard-workers generally good folks. Hobbies: Calling a strike.


    Westmeath = like most midlanders, generally boring. Hobbies, much like some people up north, winning one football title and then believing they know it all about football.

    Wexford = Brown earth you’d wanna take home in your pockets. Hobbies = selling their “home-grown” organic fruit (bought at supermarket that morning) at the side of the road in summer and ripping-off gullible Dubliners out for a drive in the country. Also beating Kilkenny in hurling and going on the p*ss for the rest of the summer (with the team).

    Wicklow = either country snobs with range rovers or poor aul sheep farmers with peak caps and a small black and white sheep dog with dirt all over him. Hobbies: setting up illegal dumps in their back lawns and denying all knowledge of that 300,000 tons of asbestos, nappies and syringes. Never saw it til now your honour.

    Monaghan is missing, but did anyone really notice?

    And the other 6?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    diograis wrote: »
    Do these GAA heads realise that counties were an English invention? Honest question here. our country is smaller than most American states....

    In fairness, American states are still subdivided - here is Florida (67 counties)
    http://geology.com/county-map/florida-county-map.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,077 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    patmac wrote: »
    Bit old but close enough:
    Carlow = Mad for sugar beat cant get enough of it Hobbies:Growing sugar Beat


    Cavan = filthy, ignorant hillbillies, tight. Hobbies: discovering IRA ammo dumps and knitting black balaclavas.


    Clare = fiddle-playing charming people and, more recently, fine hurlers Hobbies: Falling into pot-holes and being never heard from ever again, setting up golf courses in their back lawns.

    Cork = the loveable rogues of Ireland. Here for everyone else’s entertainment. Hobbies: Milking cows, being European capital of culture but not knowing what exactly that means or how they got it boy?

    Donegal = away in their own world up there, not much known about this eccentric type. Hobbies: Stripping the Irish coast of fishies, running back up to their corner of the island and blaming the spanish….aye twas the spanish!!

    Dublin North = criminals, drug dealers and factory workers, dirty women, skinheads and all-round examples of human waste. Hobbies: Heroin and watching serial numbers being filed off stolen BMW's, joy-riding anything from a lexus to a washing machine.
    Dublin South = west Brits, snobs, rich, easy glamorous women. Hobbies: talking sh*te and sleeping with their best friend's spouse or mother.

    Galway = sophisticated culchies, sexually adventurous, cultured and wealthy. Hobbies: Teaching sex acrobatics to foreign tourists, dropping acid, juggling with fire on the streets, paying a million euros for a three bedroom suburban house and pretending it was a bargain.

    Kerry = God’s kingdom on earth, no doubt about it. Some of the best land in Ireland but they don’t tell anyone this. Hobbies: Football, swimming with dolphins, football, seeing how many foreigners they can score each year, football, hosting a massive festival every week, football, going to the south pole and football.

    Kildare = is anyone really from Kildare or are they all just from Dublin? Hobbies: Denying they have anything to do with Dublin. Spending best part of 4 hours each day travelling to and from Dublin. Using Daz for whiter than white jerseys on a summer’s day.

    Kilkenny = red haired alcoholics who refuse to believe not all land in Ireland is capable of growing barley and wheat “not a bother”. Hobbies = driving massive combines, hosting comedy festivals and having red-haired babies.

    Laois = harmless aul bunch of lads, hope to have the whole county by-passed at some stage by 2025 so they can get on with their own business. Hobbies: Living an honest life, collecting EU development grants, getting the p*ss taken out of them for being the queen’s county…haha ye plantation bast*rds!

    Leitrim = enigmatic reclusive weirdos. Hobbies: learning about traffic lights and roundabouts in school (night school for adults that is)

    Limerick = grand place, great sports people, city has bad reputation through no fault of its own. Hobbies: stabbing people, gang-land murders, drug hauls, graffiti spraying, joy-riding….

    Longford = Gombeen men. Hobbies: Legalising bestiality.

    Louth = IRA supporters, smugglers and bandits. Hobbies: Tearing through Cooley at 125MPH trying to stop the boxes of cheap vodka from falling out the window.

    Mayo = Depressing, defeatist, negative, misery-laden losers, emigrate as soon as the umbilical cord is cut. Hobbies: roaring about how great they are, whinging about why nobody likes them.

    Meath = either Dublin wannabes or mad country bucks. Hobbies: Beating Dublin at GAA and hoping that one day somebody in Dublin will actually notice, driving massive john deere’s cos they’re big, green and yellow too.

    Offaly = Bog. Hobbies = exploiting bogs and later making them into tourist attractions…hats off!

    Roscommon = flat county, a silage pit is a mountain. Hobbies: Sheep-stealing.

    Sligo = either in their 20s and a surfer or in their 80s and a granny, no in-betweens. Hobbies: Surfing and knitting wet-suits for their grand children.

    Tipperary = promiscuous girls, Tipp does not have two different Ridings for nothing! Hobbies: Getting a flat in Dublin and losing their accents and hoping their parents don't find out.

    Waterford = decent honest hard-workers generally good folks. Hobbies: Calling a strike.


    Westmeath = like most midlanders, generally boring. Hobbies, much like some people up north, winning one football title and then believing they know it all about football.

    Wexford = Brown earth you’d wanna take home in your pockets. Hobbies = selling their “home-grown” organic fruit (bought at supermarket that morning) at the side of the road in summer and ripping-off gullible Dubliners out for a drive in the country. Also beating Kilkenny in hurling and going on the p*ss for the rest of the summer (with the team).

    Wicklow = either country snobs with range rovers or poor aul sheep farmers with peak caps and a small black and white sheep dog with dirt all over him. Hobbies: setting up illegal dumps in their back lawns and denying all knowledge of that 300,000 tons of asbestos, nappies and syringes. Never saw it til now your honour.

    Monaghan is missing, but did anyone really notice?

    I wish I could thank this 100 times.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    alexlyons wrote: »
    1. There are hot singles in my area

    I must live in the same area, I bet they don't want to contact you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    County Laois… hmmm… hmmm…

    Thinking… thinking… nope, nothing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Dry stone walls with fossils and quartz in them,
    Lambs,
    The slap of salt air when you get off the train,
    The clarity, almost telescopic, of far-off details when the clouds are coming in low from the bay,
    The giddy feeling jumping off the tower at Blackrock,
    Turloughs,
    Being able to see the Milky Way in places far from streetlight,
    Turf fires,
    The colours in seashells,
    Midsummer nights.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    It's the capital
    It's by the sea
    Airport for quick getaways
    People are better looking
    Employment opportunities
    Better restaurants
    Better cafes
    Better shops
    Better transport system
    Direct roads to everywhere else

    But that's just all relative to how appallingly crap the rest of the country is


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    Dublin bay, lovely to see when comming in on a boat.
    Dublin city, because we are the envy of the whole country.
    The smell of guinness's, for me it just brings back memorys of old Dublin.
    The Liffey, because it stinks of Dublin, literally :D
    The Dart, practically grew up on it. if you have the pleasure of traveling on it from Howth or Malahide to Greystones, there is some great scenery.
    The St Patricks day festival.
    The people, characters, so many different walks of life.
    Croke park. for any event.
    Its history.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Fcuk out of here better looking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Newgrange
    Hill of Tara
    Knowth/Dowth
    Trim Castle
    Slane Concerts
    Fairyhouse
    Sean Boylan
    Shane Horgan
    Bettystown Beach
    James Bond


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Butterface


    iDave wrote: »
    Newgrange
    Hill of Tara
    Knowth/Dowth
    Trim Castle
    Slane Concerts
    Fairyhouse
    Sean Boylan
    Shane Horgan
    Bettystown Beach
    James Bond

    Also from Meath, though I no longer live there so I was going to write "all roads leading out of it"!

    However, we do have quite a few grand castles and big houses, not to mention round towers and high crosses and ringforts etc!
    Great for the tourists. Not much else happening in the county though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Muise... wrote: »
    Dry stone walls with fossils and quartz in them,
    Lambs,
    The slap of salt air when you get off the train,
    The clarity, almost telescopic, of far-off details when the clouds are coming in low from the bay,
    The giddy feeling jumping off the tower at Blackrock,
    Turloughs,
    Being able to see the Milky Way in places far from streetlight,
    Turf fires,
    The colours in seashells,
    Midsummer nights.

    You never said where this place is?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    You never said where this place is?

    In my memory and in occasional bouts of sentimentality, fellow tribesman. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Salthill

    Galway Races

    Good nightlife at the weekend

    No junkies hassling you on the street

    Only about an hour from Limerick and 2 hours from Dublin

    House prices reasonable these days

    Grainne Seoige





    Can't think of anything else.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    Katgurl wrote: »
    It's the capital
    It's by the sea
    Airport for quick getaways
    People are better looking
    Employment opportunities
    Better restaurants
    Better cafes
    Better shops
    Better transport system
    Direct roads to everywhere else

    But that's just all relative to how appallingly crap the rest of the country is

    "people are better looking" Have you ever travelled on the Luas Red Line to the Courts stop


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 366 ✭✭Juan_Mata


    I love Ireland. Spent several years in Dublin a few years ago. I am now living in the Netherlands. These two countries are very similar. I love both. :):):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭SpaceCowb0y


    alexlyons wrote: »
    1. There are hot singles in my area

    Really?? What area would this be ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Dublin bay, lovely to see when comming in on a boat.
    Dublin city, because we are the envy of the whole country.
    The smell of guinness's, for me it just brings back memorys of old Dublin.
    The Liffey, because it stinks of Dublin, literally :D
    The Dart, practically grew up on it. if you have the pleasure of traveling on it from Howth or Malahide to Greystones, there is some great scenery.
    The St Patricks day festival.
    The people, characters, so many different walks of life.
    Croke park. for any event.
    Its history.

    I'm not saying you shouldn't list the positives of your city but you don't really believe that do you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    Santa Cruz wrote: »
    "people are better looking" Have you ever travelled on the Luas Red Line to the Courts stop

    I said people


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    Mayo

    Westport
    Achill island
    Putting an unnecessary 'h' after 's' in words
    Putting 'een' at the end of words
    Painting animals green and red
    Great scenery
    Losing All-Ireland's
    Our silent invasion of Galway city
    Next door neighbour of NYC
    Castbar was capital of the short lived Rebublic of Connacht


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    County Fingal

    The sandwiches
    The betting shops.
    People's shoes
    The variety of plates that can be found in every home.
    The mystical chanting.
    All the grass.
    The pub with the beer in it.
    The pigeons with one of their feet burnt off.
    The nice smell.
    All the things to see and do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    1. Bulmers cider
    2. Linden Village cider
    3. Devils Bit cider
    4. Finches orange
    5. Home of hurling
    6. Gave the rest of you Ryanair
    7. Thought every Garda how to say vaaaay - hick - hell ;)
    8. So good that even Limerick Junction wants to be with us :)
    9. A crystal brand superior to the deise

    I won't list ten as by now every other boardsie would be jealous and depressed they are not from the Premier county


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    variety of restaurants/shops/clubs

    wouldnt be waiting an hour for ambulance/cops in an emergency

    mix of cultures

    loads of young people

    you can choose to live anonymously or have everyone know you

    small enough to walk around

    it feels like it has heritage

    between the sea and the hills

    more job opportunities than the rest of the country

    my friends and family are here


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