The ten best things about your county

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

can we not have a worst thing about your county thread ?
Irish site...we dont understand this positive stuff.


Best ?

rolliepoley wrote: »

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

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?

angelfire9 wrote: »

1)The Burren ~ unique in the world

2)The Cliffs of Moher almost one if the new 7 wonders

3)Lisdoonvarna

4)The music

5)Shannon airport no queues, lots of parking, US pre clearance

7)The hurlers (beating Cork is an added bonus)

8)The beaches (even Limerick people come here for the seaside)

9) the fair at Spancilhill (well tis famous )
10) Shannon Heritage : Bunratty, Knappogue, Cragganowen

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

Roscommon

1. The geographical centre of Ireland
2. The first president of Ireland
3. Highest life expectancy in the country
4. Easy to get to most other parts of the country from
5. Lough Ree and the Shannon
6. Hyde Park on a summer's day
7. The pride Rossies have in where they're from despite everyone else thinking its a kip
8. Chape property
9. Lowest crime rate in the country
10. I like cake

RayM wrote: »

Wicklow -

1. Its proximity to Dublin
2. Mountains on one side
3. Sea on the other

I can't really think of anything else, but those things are enough.

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Longford . Absolutely nothing going for it scenically, geographically or any other 'ally'.... BUT its in the middle of the country so we get to visit everybody elses 'allys' without driving all day.