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What is the most interesting fact about Northren Ireland that you didn't know?

failinis

Northern Ireland tends to get a bad rap on boards, so after seeing all the interesting facts on Dublin, there must be a few ones on the whole of Northern Ireland/counties with in.

One fact I was recently corrected on was that Derry was known as the Maiden City because of the fact the Derry walls have never been breached - my father wrongly told me it was because after the war there were more women in Derry than men.

Another one would be that Austin's is the world's oldest independent department stores.

And that the largest gay bar has a statue of Lenin outside it.

Anyone else got recently learnt facts on here?

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lertsnim

As soon as I hear it i'll let you know.

turnikett1

That there was loyalist hunger strikers too.

Celly Smunt

6 out of 10 men still have kneecaps.

ancapailldorcha

Belfast is an awesome city.

jimgoose

Briana Corrigan, formerly of The Beautiful South, is from Portstewart. Beautiful town on the Northern tip of Derry, great nightlife and possibly the best place to stay for the Northwest 200. Keep 'er lit, hi!! :cool:

token56

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Belfast is an awesome city.

Northern Ireland has some amazing places to visit, but Belfast is really not a nice city in my opinion.

Legs.Eleven

jimgoose wrote: »

Briana Corrigan, formerly of The Beautiful South, is from Portstewart. Beautiful town on the Northern tip of Derry, great nightlife and possibly the best place to stay for the Northwest 200. Keep 'er lit, hi!! :cool:

I was a massive Beautiful South fan when I was youngin'. Twas my first ever gig in The Point in 1992. I wanted to be Briana Corrigan and always pretended I was her singing with the band in front of the mirror with a hairbrush.

Gatling

Some dodgy bearded types live there

Shiraz 4.99

It's only the scanger chavs that cause the bother, nobody middle class gives a toss.

jimgoose

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I was a massive Beautiful South fan when I was youngin'. Twas my first ever gig in The Point in 1992. I wanted to be Briana Corrigan and always pretended I was her singing with the band in front of the mirror with a hairbrush.

Great voice, she has. While we're on memories, I was at the NW200 a good few years back, watching the 250cc two-strokes yowling through the centre of Portstewart on their way out to the coast road by the golf course, and smelling the burning Castrol-R. Local fella beside me says, "Smell thawt, hi?? Thawt's Gawd's fawrts!!"

Alf. A. Male

I like it when people from Norn Iron refer to people from the south as Mexicans

Gatling

The NW 200 is an amazing event ,been to several over the years always love going back ,
A credit to the community and organisers

AnonoBoy

Due to an error in the 1800's when new maps of The British Isles were being drawn up using the Mercator projection Northern Ireland was mistakenly put at the North of the island of Ireland whereas as we all know Northern Ireland is actually in the West of the island when the more accurate Miller projection is used.

jimgoose

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

I like it when people from Norn Iron refer to people from the south as Mexicans

Me too. I usually just yell back "See ye, hi! Shut yer fuckan moyth!!"

alwayssideways

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

I like it when people from Norn Iron refer to people from the south as Mexicans

So do I, they are insulting themselves by inferring they are Americans. Nobody wants to be an American!

AnonoBoy

alwayssideways wrote: »

So do I, they are insulting themselves by inferring they are Americans. Nobody wants to be an American!

You've never spent any time near a teenager from Dun Laoghaire then.

Tabnabs

Nicholas Edmund Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, aka, Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles and, finally, Baron Cooper of Pawlett owns Lough Neagh. All of it, it's all his, the 15th biggest lake in Europe, supplies 40% of NI's drinking water, one lad owns it all.

Suckers!

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

They hate icebergs.

Birneybau

It's actually the Republic of Iceland but they don't like to be reminded of it.

smcgiff

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

I like it when people from Norn Iron refer to people from the south as Mexicans

Those North Koreans sure like their Lols

gugleguy

If you are carrying euro coins, throw all of them into the street buskers and musicians. Sterling is a lot more readily accepted otherwise.

WesternZulu

About 2/3's of the workforce is employed in the public sector.

gugleguy

Surprised that I don't see the Northern Ireland counterpart of Czarcasm posting in this thread (not YOU Czarcasm). Not altogether caustic soda this boardsie is....:D

Mr. CooL ICE

Something about flegs

BBDBB

That this is how they talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mekofQWyJb0

creolebelle

alwayssideways wrote: »

So do I, they are insulting themselves by inferring they are Americans. Nobody wants to be an American!

The amount of people who immigrate to the U.S says otherwise

Davarus Walrus

8% of all money spent in the Northern Ireland economy is on over-sized Tricolours and Union Jacks.

WesternZulu

It says NO apparently.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Northerners smile a whopping 300% less than their southern counterparts.

gugleguy

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Northerners smile a whopping 300% less than their southern counterparts.

They take that cue from that bronze statue of a man on the plinth in front of Stormont with a stern expression on his face, pointing assertively.