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Top Five Things you like about or are from Ireland

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  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Cant think of five.....

    Guiness
    and the distance from here to there.
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,624
    [cite]Posted By: les_says[/cite]white pudding

    great shout
  • QatarNapsy
    QatarNapsy Posts: 998
    My grandparents
    Guinness
    Jamesons
    Brendan Behan
    Schull (Co. Cork)
  • Me Mum
    Half Me Family
    Me Wifes Family (some of em)
    Everything else over there
  • addickdanny
    addickdanny Posts: 136
    gaelic football
    Hurling
    International rules matches
    The smell of cow shite in the summer months
    Bulmers
    Sligo County
    The amount of days you get off college and work because the council wont grit the roads for snow!!
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,750
    My grandparents
    Christie Moores version of travelling aengus
    Van Morrison
    Guinness
    William Butler Yeats
  • Rory Gallagher
    Thin Lizzy.
    Liam Neeson
    Van Morrison
    Foy Vance
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,246
    edited March 2011
    Guinness
    Mark Kinsella
    The Crofton Bray Head Hotel (Lovely Porcelain)
    Father Ted
    Magners
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,004
    Glenda Gilson

    thats it....
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,338
    You pass it as you go to the US

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  • Message for DFT - Bulmers is Irish, too -

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  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    Bar:Code
    Temple Bar
    Hill 16
    Bulmers (The proper Magners)
    Gaelic Football
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    Didn't realise we had so many fans with Irish connections. My five....

    Irish Barmen (and Women) - professionals
    Being able to have a pint whilst waiting in the Post Office or the corner-shop
    Live music in country pubs - if you're not touched by the sound of the fiddle, you've no soul
    The three unplanned days I once spent milking cows on a farm at Carrick-on-Shannon
    The welcome of the locals and their embarrassment over "the troubles."
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,780
    James Joyce
    J.P.Donleavy
    ThePogues
    The Cranberries
    Guinness
  • siblers
    siblers Posts: 2,030
    Surprised Father Ted hasn't been mentioned.
  • scabbyhorse
    scabbyhorse Posts: 2,544
    Jack charlton
  • redredrobin
    redredrobin Posts: 433
    Father Ted Crilly
    Father Dougal McGuire
    Father Jack Hackett
    Mrs Doyle
    Father Jack's Pet Brick
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    [quote][cite]Posted By: siblers[/cite]Surprised Father Ted hasn't been mentioned.[/quote]

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  • richie8
    richie8 Posts: 1,205
    The first train out of oirland
    The first bus out of oirland
    The first plane out of oirland
    The first bike out of oirland
    The first space hopper out of oirland.

    As you probably guessed I hate the place!
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,624
    i don't like fish either

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  • McLovin
    McLovin Posts: 2,307
    Champ
    Thin Lizzy
    The Saw Doctors
    Father Ted
    In Brugges
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    My partner - Marie
    The beautiful county of Kerry, where I now live.
    Cork City
    Flann O'Brien
    The craic!
  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 4,413
    edited March 2011
    A woman at work's sister.

    Amazing. Love her accent.

    And The Script.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    My family
    Templederry
    My uncles Farm and land
    Doolin
    Kinsale.

    Fecking beautiful country.
  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 2,997
    a little known FACT I am in Uganda at the moment, and white potatoes are called irish
    My friend Adrian
    Father Ted
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,134
    Temple Bar
    Howth
    Guiness
    Mark Kinsella
    The women!

    One for luck - Van Morrison.
  • SE10Addick
    SE10Addick Posts: 2,966
    [cite]Posted By: Curb_It[/cite]Doolin

    Doolin and the cliffs of Moher are awesome.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    They are indeed. Always stop off for a night on our way back to Shannon. Cant beat drinking in the little pubs of Doolin listening to the trad music. Bit touristy but still brilliant.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    where your family from curb it?
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    My mother was from Tipperary and Dad from Belfast.