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

Davarus Walrus · 07-05-2014 01:49PM

An Ulster Breakfast doesn't traditionally include black pudding, and is therefore an inferior form of fried breakfast - despite it being a source of cross-community pride up North.

jimgoose · 07-05-2014 01:57PM

Tabnabs wrote: »

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!

I have it on good authority that Phil Hogan has a life-sized poster of this dude on his bedroom wall. :pac::pac::pac:

jimgoose · 07-05-2014 02:00PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

An Ulster Breakfast doesn't traditionally include black pudding, and is therefore an inferior form of fried breakfast - despite it being a source of cross-community pride up North.

Yes, the legendary Ulster Fry. However, the potato-cakes, or "Tatie Bread, hi!" in the vernacular, partially make up for it.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 07-05-2014 02:01PM

Initially Northerners seem tribal, stand-offish and bitter to newcomers, after you get to know them well you realise this is not the case at all. Being a newcomer has nothing to do with it, they're like that all the time.

gugleguy · 07-05-2014 02:04PM

Northern Ireland folk don't say "fór fuxx sake". They say "Fúck á doodle - dooooo":D:D

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 07-05-2014 02:04PM

In 1987 (the year after Ferris Bueller was released) Mattew Broderick was involved in a head on collusion in Enniskillen in which a local mother and daughter were killed instantly:

On August 5, 1987, Broderick was in a car accident in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, while vacationing with Jennifer Grey (star of Dirty Dancing) whom he had begun dating in semi-secrecy during the filming of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

The accident, which was the event through which their relationship became public, occurred when the rented BMW Broderick was driving crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo driven by Anna Gallagher 28, accompanied by her mother, Margaret Doherty 63, who were killed instantly in the accident.

Broderick suffered a fractured leg, fractured ribs, a concussion, and a collapsed lung. Grey received minor injuries, including severe whiplash. Broderick told authorities he had no recollection of the crash and did not know why he was in the wrong lane. "I don't remember the day. I don't remember even getting up in the morning. I don't remember making my bed. What I first remember is waking up in the hospital, with a very strange feeling going on in my leg," he said at the time.

Broderick was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and faced up to five years in prison, but was later convicted of the lesser charge of careless driving and fined $175, which the victims' family called "a travesty of justice." Martin Doherty, whose sister and mother were killed in the crash, later stated that he forgave Broderick, amid plans to meet with Broderick in 2003, in order to gain a sense of closure. As of March 2014, the meeting has not taken place.

jimgoose · 07-05-2014 02:07PM

gugleguy wrote: »

Northern Ireland folk don't say "fór fuxx sake". They say "Fúck á doodle - do":D:D

Fuck-a-doodle-doodle-doodle-doodle-doodle-doodle-do sit-YASHUN!! :pac::pac::pac:

Fentdog84 · 07-05-2014 02:10PM

Most of the people who live there are not actually Irish. They are decendents of King Herod's army from 667 bc

Mr. Nice · 07-05-2014 02:34PM

How it's spelt.
For years I thought it was Northern Ireland.
I feel so embarrassed now having seen the correct spelling in the thread title.

stefan idiot jones · 07-05-2014 02:42PM

Their two most famous sporting icons liked to drink.

pickarooney · 07-05-2014 02:56PM

Tabnabs wrote: »

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!

This guy seems like a bit of a ledgebag and a distant relative of Australian rugby international Adam Ashley Cooper no doubt.

whiskeyman · 07-05-2014 03:01PM

sit-YASHUN!!

It has been proven impossible for a Norn Iron politician to be interviewed without using the term 'sit-yashun'.

gramar · 07-05-2014 03:07PM

The use purr shurrs for washing more commonly known as electric or power showers down south.

Donkey Oaty · 07-05-2014 03:18PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

a source of cross-community pride up North.

That's worth a thread of its own.

Sports has a few - has anyone from there got much of a bad word to say about Barry McGuigan, George Best or Dennis Taylor?

I am pie · 07-05-2014 03:18PM

NI is a magnet which draws out the cliches and stereotypes from it's conflicted (do we or don't we) southern cousins.

I am pie · 07-05-2014 03:21PM

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

That's worth a thread of its own.

Sports has a few - has anyone from there got much of a bad word to say about Barry McGuigan, George Best or Dennis Taylor?

Happy to claim the Clonus Cyclone, but he was a monaghan man no? Claimed as a son of the north through Barney Eastwoods guiding hand.

Tommy Bowe has good cross commuity appeal, possibly the Dunlops with the motorbike racing, although I've no idea really about them.

jimgoose · 07-05-2014 03:24PM

I am pie wrote: »

Happy to claim the Clonus Cyclone, but he was a monaghan man no? Claimed as a son of the north through Barney Eastwoods guiding hand.

Tommy Bowe has good cross commuity appeal, possibly the Dunlops with the motorbike racing, although I've no idea really about them.

Yes, Michael Dunlop is well thought-of by all communities - or at least, those in the communities that know one end of a motorbike from the other.

Very hard to eclipse the great Joey, though.

There's also the likes of Phil McCallen, Jeremy McWilliams, Ryan Farquhar, Eugene Laverty and Jonny Rea.

awec · 07-05-2014 03:33PM

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZYPa6tI43Q

Donkey Oaty · 07-05-2014 03:33PM

I am pie wrote: »

Happy to claim the Clonus Cyclone, but he was a monaghan man no? Claimed as a son of the north through Barney Eastwoods guiding hand.

Interesting one, because he trained in NI, and was hugely popular there from both sides of the community. When his father was asked:

Is he fighting for Britain or is he fighting for Ireland?

he replied:

He's fighting for money.

Singing "Danny Boy" instead of a national anthem before his fights was an inspired choice.

Witchie · 07-05-2014 03:34PM

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

In 1987 (the year after Ferris Bueller was released) Mattew Broderick was involved in a head on collusion in Enniskillen in which a local mother and daughter were killed instantly:

My aunt, a nurse in the Erne attended to the victims of this crash and happened to know the family too. I remember being so upset about it all coz I loved MB back then.

Here's an interesting fact about NI for you, I was born there as were all of my siblings.

Enniskillen is built on islands and linked by bridges. It's a kinda Venice of the North of Ireland.

polydactyl · 07-05-2014 03:34PM

Yep Barry McGuigan and Tommy Bowe are both Monaghan men so cross border appeal really.

Plug · 07-05-2014 03:35PM

The NW200 is the biggest sporting event in Ireland and the UK.

sabat · 07-05-2014 03:37PM

Their national drink is Harp lager, a case of which is known as a "tray of sparklers."

December2012 · 07-05-2014 03:38PM

Derry is beautiful. Really stunningly beautiful.

I didn't know until I went there.

Have been back a few times since.

Witchie · 07-05-2014 03:38PM

I am pie wrote: »

Happy to claim the Clonus Cyclone, but he was a monaghan man no? Claimed as a son of the north through Barney Eastwoods guiding hand.

Tommy Bowe has good cross commuity appeal, possibly the Dunlops with the motorbike racing, although I've no idea really about them.

Two Monaghan men who make Ulster proud!

I am pie · 07-05-2014 03:39PM

Northern Ireland taytos are best taytos.

Long live the eergadnats of tandagree!

gugleguy · 07-05-2014 03:49PM

I must be suffering from the 3 o'clock slump. Feeling 'soft in the head.
I still must get the train Dublin - Belfast - all the way to Derry.

Plazaman · 07-05-2014 03:51PM

If you and a friend are picking up a new exhaust for a 1995 southern reg mini and you have it in the back of said same car and you take a wrong turn in Belfast and the more you drive around, the more you end up getting lost in territory with lots of Union Jacks flying and then if the Police stop you and see said exhaust in the back, they force you out of the car at gunpoint and make you lie on a wet road with your hands behind your head until you can convince them it's just an exhaust for a mini and not a mortar of any sort and you're just looking to get back on the M1 and then they believe you and give you an escort to the outskirts of the city and tell you you're a lucky pack of gobshítes.

That happens a lot, I hear.

Capt'n Midnight · 07-05-2014 06:38PM

They have their own language, Ulster Scots, as used by Jesus and the Apostles.

Lesson 1 , read aloud in a Norlin Airlan accent.
http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/ABOUT-THE-ASSEMBLY/General-Information/Information-Leaflets/Ulster-Scots/

Yer Assemblie

Wirkan for you

The Assemblie…

is the devolved Govrenment o Norlin Airlan. Hit haes the pouer for tae mak laas in a braid reinge airts, comprehendan the housin, the employ, the leir, the halth, the agricultur an the environs. Hit forgaithers at the Pairlament Biggins, Belfast.
...

Wantan tae find out mair anent the Norlin Airlan Assemblie?

Pey a veesit tae the wabsteid on
www.niassembly.gov.uk
Caa or email wi onie speirs
See the Assemblie in plenarie session on Monandey or Tuesdey
Gae tae a comatee forgaither in the Pairlament Biggins or in yer hamelie airt
Get ahauld o yer LMF for tae speir efter a tour o the biggin
Pey a veesit tae the Pairlament Biggins (Monandey til Frydey) for tae tak a keek at the Graund Haa an giftie shop

Adamantium · 07-05-2014 06:45PM

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

In 1987 (the year after Ferris Bueller was released) Mattew Broderick was involved in a head on collusion in Enniskillen in which a local mother and daughter were killed instantly:

I read on Cracked.com of all places about Matthew Broderick having murdered someone, but I didn't know any of the details.

Man, those last few lines of the report are desperately sad.

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

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