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What do you think about Carrolls shops?

  • 04-03-2013 12:25am
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 20


    Hello there,

    I am French and lived in Ireland and visited it for 6 months last year. It was fantastic :D Before leaving I bought some gifts at Carrolls shops. Like in any other gifts shops in the world, it was full of clichés. Like in Paris, you can buy many Eiffel tower items, stuff about cheese and Garlic. I just hate Garlic.

    In Carrolls shops, Leprechauns items (drinking beers and saying rude things) are numerous! They seem to be one of the most popular stuff.

    I am just wondering, what do Irish people think about Carrolls shop and about leprechauns items? Do you go there times to times?

    Thanks for sharing :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Ive never been in a Carrolls shop. Are they a Dublin thing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,507 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Their lasagne is doing well since so many of the other brands have been pulled off the shelves.


    See, I can do current issues too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I'm an actual Leprechaun.

    I'm a 6 ft 2 inch spud loving Irishman.

    Shure it doesn't get much better than this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    I'm an actual Leprechaun.

    I'm a 6 ft 2 inch spud loving Irishman.

    Shure it doesn't get much better than this.

    But do you say rude things?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭3rdDegree


    I've only ever gone there when entertaining foreign guests - usually American family or friends. Once I brought a small group who were visiting from India. They loved it. Apart from that, I would have no reason to visit such an establishment.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    I thought Carroll's shops only sold their own cigarette's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Any true Irish person has leprechaun items adorning every room in their house.
    Carrolls is the IKEA for Irish people


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,458 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Carrolls shops are full of tacky crap and as such they are only located in the tourist areas. Ive been in one in Dublin once and once was enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    they are a painful reminder from our history


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭judgefudge


    Standard tacky tourist shop. I'd imagine few Irish people actually go in there.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20 DanaScully


    Chucken wrote: »
    Ive never been in a Carrolls shop. Are they a Dublin thing?

    Yes there are located in Dublin (maybe 11 shops) and other bigs cities. I saw one in Galway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    tacky and cheap


  • Registered Users Posts: 20 DanaScully


    crockholm wrote: »
    they are a painful reminder from our history

    Are Leprechauns part of History ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭jaffacakesyum


    DanaScully wrote: »
    Are Leprechauns part of History ?

    Yes the English killed them all. That's the main reason there has been strife between us and the Brits all these years :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    DanaScully wrote: »
    Yes there are located in Dublin (maybe 11 shops) and other bigs cities. I saw one in Galway.


    Ahh right. You see in our part of the country we grow our own leprechauns*so really have no need for shops that sell them :)

    *Secretly of course


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    DanaScully wrote: »
    Are Leprechauns part of History ?
    yes, how dare you question their contribution to society,our president has leprechaun blood in him, be more sensitive


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,507 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I can't see why anyone would get too bothered by them. They have shops that sell biscuit tins with the queen on them in London. (although I've met natives there that buy the fcuking things)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    DanaScully wrote: »
    Are Leprechauns part of History ?

    They were. Until the English came...


  • Registered Users Posts: 20 DanaScully


    They were. Until the English came...

    What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

    Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    DanaScully wrote: »
    What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

    Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

    thats dubarry's you're thinking of.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,492 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    crockholm wrote: »
    yes, how dare you question their contribution to society,our president has leprechaun blood in him, be more sensitive

    Why the short temper?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4 Afro Patsy


    Don't like Carroll's. Benson and Hedges FTW.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    DanaScully wrote: »
    What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

    Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

    :mad: Excuse me?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 329 ✭✭Cereal Number


    Funny how they are irish shops, yet are full of Chinese scrap.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    DanaScully wrote: »
    Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

    OMG, you can't just say that!


  • Registered Users Posts: 20 DanaScully


    Chucken wrote: »
    :mad: Excuse me?

    lol ... So Leprechauns = Irish = tiny men who hide gold ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    I believe one of your own had a bit of leprechaun in him, nicky sarkozy, i think his name was?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken




  • Registered Users Posts: 20 DanaScully


    crockholm wrote: »
    I believe one of your own had a bit of leprechaun in him, nicky sarkozy, i think his name was?

    I don't see ...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20 DanaScully




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