Favourite/least favourite Irish accents

[brianw82]

Favourite: slight Northern accent, especially on females. :)

Least favourite: inner city Dublin/Sligo accents

Discuss. :)

[Rovers1]

im afraid im totally opposite to you Brian..i think the townie Sligo accent is "pure class" ;)

hate the northern accent, especially the Belfast one.

[oldyouth]

WorstHas to be the county that ends every sentence with either 'Boy' or 'Like'. I'm saying no more:rolleyes:

[sligoman]

Favourite: Cork and other southern areas.
Least favourite: Dublin, Donegal, Northern accents.

[Red&White Rover]

Like: Anything from up north, Corkies can be funny enough, Big thick Dublin accents are ok at times...

Dislike: Sligo, Athlone, Dundaaaalk, and Wexford(Where in the name of blue f*ck did they end up with that accent)

[Mr Maroon]

Like: Northern accent, especially on females.

Dislike: That south east accent and inner city Dublin

[brianw82]

In spite of Mr Maroon's agreement with me on norther-accented women, I also must add that the Galway accent is the most drab and boring in the country.
Used to work with a Galway lad doing tech support, and I think he fixed people's problems over the phone by putting them to sleep!

[oscar]

Favourite..... anything except a dub accent
Least favouite......dub accent

[hula4]

love the nordie accent on women, find the inner city dublin accent very amusing, love the cork city accent and the "quare" thick wexford accent

cant stand the midlands accent, and the d4 accent

[oscar]

what about the limerick accent hula:D:D:D

[stann]

The Nordie accent on a girl is the best accent anywhere in the world, even better than the Welsh one. :)

My least favourite, as in the most annoying, is the relatively newly fabricated, mainly-though-by-no-means-exclusively Dublin it-girl one, that seems to have started with the likes of Lorraine Keane. The 'ryndabyte aitside the hyse' one. Awful.

[hula4]

can take it or leave it

[Magicme]

I love Derry accents (male or female) and Donegal. Like a bit of Dub too but anything further south does my head in.

[Terry]

love the female donegal accent, hate the cork female accent, especially that one thats occasionally on the ray darcy show !!!!!

[superfrank]

Favourite: The soft Northern female accent is very sexy. I like the Meath one and I find the Galway and Kerry accents very funny.

Least favourite: All Dub ones, Wicklow, Cork (on men, on women it's just funny).

[dahamsta]

The Nordie accent on a girl is the best accent anywhere in the world, even better than the Welsh one. :)But not better than Scottish one. There's nothing sexier than a chick with a scottish accent...

[Jock MIB]

But not better than Scottish one. There's nothing sexier than a chick with a scottish accent...

Then you see her bright Ginger hair and hairy legs :D

[holidaysong]

I wouldn't say I hate southern accents but I do find it quite hard to understand some people from Cork/Kerry/Limerick..

[stann]

But not better than Scottish one. There's nothing sexier than a chick with a scottish accent...

Scottish accent is outstanding, almost as good as it gets, it's true. In fact, there's just two things sexier, the Welsh one and the soft Nordie one. :p :D

[jebus]

Like: Cork, Kerry, Limerick accents, well Munster in general

Dislike: Ulster accents (all of them) and both D4 and proper inner city Dublin accents (the kind that asks you for change at the LUAS stops)

Find the Galway accent a bit nondescript to be honest, struggling to even think what it is

[Mr Maroon]

Find the Galway accent a bit nondescript to be honest, struggling to even think what it is
I was just thinking that. I don't know how other people can dislike the Galway accent. There isn't really one Galway accent.

[dahamsta]

Then you see her bright Ginger hair and hairy legs :DThat's not the hair I would have been interested in though.

[Dodge]

Like; Dublin

Dislike; The rest

[centre mid]

Dislike: Wixklow/Wexford is pretty bad, but Dundalk accent is the worst.
Like: Kerry accent on girls.

[OwlsFan]

Disliked (by a mile): The D4 accent (hise instead of house, roundabite instead of roundabout - Lorraine Keane is a prime example as are most tv3 female newsreaders or presenters).

Favourite: Waterford

[Pauro 76]

I was in a mobile phone shop the other day, beautiful Indian looking girl was at the counter. Asked her about what deals they had, and out came this beautiful Scottish accent. She had Indian parents and was born in Scotland. Ahhhh she was lovely.

Back to Irish accents...
Favourite... Donegal, soft Nordie
Last favourite.... Cork and Dublin

[Terry]

Was doing some maintainence work in a hotel yesterday when two young lads came up talking to me, couldnt understand a word they were saying and couldnt help but just started laughing. I asked where they were from ?....................Dundalk ! Worst accent EVER !

[paul_oshea]

love the geordie accent on a woman! Also have to admit the donegal one considering past 3 have come from there! :D

hate the english accent from the home counties the really posh one though love to bone a bird with it, so its that love hate relationship!

Hate the dub inner city knacker accent, also hate the southside one more, the fabricated mid-atlantic/irish sea/home counties accent the snobs have.

[Lionel Ritchie]

love the geordie accent on a woman! . ...hazarding a guess that that's because you generally hear it spoken by, say, Donna Aire or one of those Girls Aloud wans.


l hate the english accent from the home counties the really posh one though love to bone a bird with it, so its that love hate relationship!. No ...that's a post-colonial complex. :D.

[jinxy lilywhite]

Like: Donegal accent on female and obviously the a good clear dundalk accent. Can't beat it
Dislike: Drawda, cork and the the midlands especially athlone (too flat)

[Ash]

I love Derry accents (male or female) and Donegal. Like a bit of Dub too but anything further south does my head in.

Wont be talking to you again so!!!!!!

[Magicme]

Wont be talking to you again so!!!!!!

Oh dear. Have upset a few people with this one maybe but its just the accent. I do love you and the other lads from Athlone though and when you are talking I just sing loudly in my head to drown out the accent!! :D

[paul_oshea]

...hazarding a guess that that's because you generally hear it spoken by, say, Donna Aire or one of those Girls Aloud wans.

No ...that's a post-colonial complex. :D.

HAHA, could well be, but its just they are all up their own backsides that you would probably have to boil it before you put it in it.....:D

[sadloserkid]

Like: Nordie accent but solely when a female one.

Dislike: Skanger accents are across the board terrible regardless of whether they're from Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway or Waterford. That midlands thing is a bit primitive too...

[Magicme]

The Nordie accent on a girl is the best accent anywhere in the world, even better than the Welsh one. :)


Favourite: The soft Northern female accent is very sexy.


Favourite... Donegal, soft Nordie



Like; northern accents


Like: Nordie accent but solely when a female one.


Considering setting up a phone chat line for you guys, might make enough money to buy my house in France!

That said, any of my northern friends reckon my accent is pure south!

[stann]

Oh dear. Have upset a few people with this one maybe but its just the accent.

You certainly have!
I would have said something earlier myself but I got my head bitten off twice today already! :p

[Magicme]

Its the toothache making me tetchy. Havent slept properly in days either.

[eelmonster]

The perpetual whine of the Ulster accent grates like finger nails scraping a blackboard, and it's difficult to know what they're sing-songing about in Munster and Connaught half of the time. Give me a generic, easily-understood, east coast Leinster accent any day.

[sadloserkid]

Considering setting up a phone chat line for you guys, might make enough money to buy my house in France!

That said, any of my northern friends reckon my accent is pure south!

Before you contact the builders I should be more specific and say that I'm mostly a sucker for the North west. Once we get further east than Derry and further south than south Donegal we're firmly back in hit or miss territory.

[Ash]

Dundawk accents make Baby Jesus cry.
That is all.

[Magicme]

Before you contact the builders I should be more specific and say that I'm mostly a sucker for the North west. Once we get further east than Derry and further south than south Donegal we're firmly back in hit or miss territory.

Dam you!!!!!! Let me ring you and convince you otherwise! :p

[paul_oshea]

eel we westies, do not sing-song-along, we have a very bland drawn out vowel accent, actually drawn out like the yanks but the key difference is optimism and effect.

[2legged tackle]

Not too sure about my favourite but my least favorite is that of the D4. Psoh almost English like. Can be heard around Bray and most Leinster Rugby clubs.

[eelmonster]

eel we westies, do not sing-song-along, we have a very bland drawn out vowel accent, actually drawn out like the yanks but the key difference is optimism and effect.

It's all sing-song-along the N17, Paul :) With the exception of the Sligo towny accent, which sounds a little like the Dundawwk towny accent, which I'd put down to their proximity to the border. The worst accent on the island (and Dundalk is definitely up there) has to be the cacophonous fusion of Scots and Ulster heard in Coleraine/Ballymoney/Ballymena (hey).

[Magicme]

I love the Ballymena accent. Used to go out with a guy whom I would make say, "Big Shopping Centre in Ballymena hey" over and over again. Bliss.

[paul_oshea]

when did you make him say it?!

[bennocelt]

It's all sing-song-along the N17, Paul :) With the exception of the Sligo towny accent, which sounds a little like the Dundawwk towny accent, which I'd put down to their proximity to the border. The worst accent on the island (and Dundalk is definitely up there) has to be the cacophonous fusion of Scots and Ulster heard in Coleraine/Ballymoney/Ballymena (hey).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA5N-O72G3Q
dont know I kind of like that accent - its kind of like a secret code that Ulster Scots can only decipher

[Magicme]

when did you make him say it?!

Guess!!!

[paul_oshea]

No, kids read this forum!

[davey]

But not better than Scottish one. There's nothing sexier than a chick with a scottish accent...

You'd need to be a bit more specific - there are some horrendous accents over here - the aberdonian one is particularly grating.

Nordie for me