What are counties actually famous for?

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20/12/2007, 6:50 PM
Thunderblaster

1.Antrim - Ian Paisley
2.Armagh - Drumcree
3.Carlow - Rastafarian colours
4.Cavan - Potholes and poor signposts
5.Clare - Shannon airport
6.Cork - The langer from Togher
7.Derry - Foyleside Shopping Centre
8.Donegal - Barnesmore Gap
9.Down - World's oldest underpass in Banbridge
10. Dublin - Best city in Ireland
11. Fermanagh - Enniskillen
12.Galway - Arty-farty city
13.Kerry - Bogball
14.Kildare - Horseracing
15.Kilkenny - 19th June 2005
16.Laois - Portlaoise Prison
17.Leitrim - Glencar Waterfall
18.Limerick - Kennedy Cup
19.Longford - Luigis
20.Louth - Puking up on Dundalk station platform
21.Mayo - Westport United football club
22.Meath - Comeback kings
23.Monaghan - Monaghan bus station
24.Offaly - Tullamore church fire
25.Roscommon - Douglas Hyde
26.Sligo - Ben Bulben
27.Tipperary - Tipp town bottleneck
28.Tyrone - Start of the M1 motorway to Belfast
29.Waterford - Dungarvan
30.Westmeath - Feerick's bar
31.Wexford - Most thundery county in Ireland
32.Wicklow - Glendalough
21/12/2007, 8:21 AM
Block G Raptor

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Originally Posted by kingdom hoop

Right, more serious tone. I see Kerry got a hard time from a few people....clearly my personality has shone through in my posts then. :D 'Stoopid' and arrogant though?? :confused:

Sorry kingdom no offense intended, was thinking more of the old kerryman jokes:D
21/12/2007, 9:05 AM
kingdom hoop

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Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

Sorry kingdom no offense intended, was thinking more of the old kerryman jokes:D

Cool, none taken, joke is really on the people who think they're true to life. :)

Is there smoke without fire though? I wonder how the trend originated....probably not the most worldly-wise of people alright.** But to counter that, if it makes any sense, I don't think we'd be naive, or easily duped into something at the same. Anyone have an inkling on origin? Of course it could also be that people knew we'd take it on the chin and have a laugh along and a quick retort, unlike, say, Roscommon people. No complaints with Kerrymen being the the local equivalent of the world's Irishmen though I must say. Has to be a positive thing, must mean Kerrymen are the best in the world, and I'm the best Kerryman, so my suspicions have been confirmed, I'm the best man in the world. Sweet! :p

**Despite being an intrepid traveller to far-flung destinations I too tend to be a little bit of a head-in-the-clouds type at times. Very curious indeed.
22/12/2007, 1:27 AM
osarusan

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Originally Posted by kingdom hoop

I suppose golf courses would have to be thrown in there too........attracting thousands of yanks to our shores.

We rest our case on the stupidity issue.
22/12/2007, 3:27 PM
sonofstan

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Originally Posted by Magicme

First county to elect a Sinn Feinner to the Dail,

Think a few might have done that in 1919/ 1921/ 1923?
22/12/2007, 5:18 PM
Magicme

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Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy

Good way to stir sh!t Dodge :D

4.Cavan - Clones so many memories both bad and good.

Clones is actually in Monaghan Mr Heggy! Dont you dare try give our once county town to that shower!

Oh and sonofstan I really meant in recent years.
22/12/2007, 5:50 PM
sligoman

Is Monaghan famous for anything? Apart from Magicme of course:p. Also Carlow, Clare and Tipperary? Can't think of anything, apart from Pat Shortt for the latter.
22/12/2007, 5:57 PM
beautifulrock

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Originally Posted by Magicme

Clones is actually in Monaghan Mr Heggy! Dont you dare try give our once county town to that shower!

Oh and sonofstan I really meant in recent years.

How about 1957 then from the county that you reckon nothing happens in. Ok Monaghan - no education :)
23/12/2007, 9:22 AM
bennocelt

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Originally Posted by sligoman

Sligo-Aine, Westlife, Yeats, lovely scenery too;), oh and Rovers of course:D.

surely to god you are not proud of Westlife, are you?

Antrim - Too many Oranges up there!
Armagh - South Armagh/snipers/ira
Carlow - nothing
Cavan - greddy and tight, pig farmers
Clare - Lisdoonvarna, trad music
Cork - the real capital, rebels. roy keane
Derry - free derry
Donegal - danield on donnell, there are all a bit slow up there
Down - decent footballers
Dublin - jackeens, skangers, full of themselves, dirty dirty dublin
Galway - cool, great bars/music/the galway races
Kerry - kerryman jokes, fcuking fools, jackie healy rae, having useless festivals
Kildare - dublin but richer, horse stud farms
Kilkenny - hurling, castle
Laois - portlaoise
Leitrim - empty, one trafficlight
Limerick - stab city, richard harris
Longford - immigrant central
Louth - mad, rough
Mayo - knock, simple
Meath - navan, funny, strange accents, vicious at ga
Monaghan - the border
Offaly - biffos
Roscommon - nothing much
Sligo - sligo town
Tipperary - hurling, always amaze me how they vote for corrupt politicans
Tyrone - ga
Waterford - down south
Westmeath - no show like a joe (dolan) show
Wexford - in the corner
Wicklow - rathdrum, mountains
23/12/2007, 4:31 PM
sligoman

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Originally Posted by bennocelt

surely to god you are not proud of Westlife, are you?

I didn't say I was but sure why not anyway? Sure jealousy will get ya nowhere:p

Another thing Sligo is famous for is surfing, Strandhill is very popular. I know of one fella who came over from Germany and thought Sligo was a place in Strandhill:D
25/12/2007, 10:42 AM
holidaysong

Louth:

Famous for - Brown bull of Cooley, C�chulainn, The Corrs, Cromwell burning down Drogheda, Oliver Plunkett's head.

Actually known for - Maxi, smuggling, IRA, Dundalk FC and err.. Stan.
25/12/2007, 2:36 PM
ollie

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Originally Posted by sligoman

Is Monaghan famous for anything? Apart from Magicme of course:p. Also Carlow, Clare and Tipperary? Can't think of anything, apart from Pat Shortt for the latter.

From the top of my head heres a few things:

Clare: Trad music, Bunratty castle, Lisdoonvarna, cliffs of moher, hurling, ger loughnane, ennis, shannon airport, The burren, Aillwee Caves, Craggaunowen

Tipp: Rock of Cashel, Semple Stadium, GAA was founded in Thurles, Bulmers, Denis Leamy, holy cross abbey, numerous ancient castles around the county, glens of aherlow, Eddie Moroney, Mitchelstown caves.

Looking back, numerous school tours took in a lot of those places.

As for Carlow......em.....pass!
25/12/2007, 3:34 PM
holidaysong

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Originally Posted by ollie

As for Carlow......em.....pass!

Worst GAA jersey ever.
25/12/2007, 3:43 PM
BohsPartisan

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Originally Posted by citizenerased

Meath -

Formerly the 5th province of Ireland
Hill of Tara where the High resided(ala the royal county)
Tommy Tiernan/Hector/Dylan Moran
Pierce Brosnan(navan man himself)
Francis Beaufort(invented the beaufort windscale)
Best land in the country
Boyne Valley
Great GAA Teams

Newgrange/Knowth/Dowth
25/12/2007, 7:17 PM
Paddyfield

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Originally Posted by ollie

As for Carlow......em.....pass!

Monte Carlow? :D
25/12/2007, 7:50 PM
Lionel Ritchie

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Originally Posted by sligoman

Is Monaghan famous for anything? Apart from Magicme of course:p. Also Carlow, Clare and Tipperary? Can't think of anything, apart from Pat Shortt for the latter.

Monaghan is famous for plenty ...and at the moment I'm thinking it's ability to recreate a little piece of Antartica shouldn't be overlooked. Not in a bad way either. This morning was not the first utterly beautiful christmas morning I've witnessed here. I mean picture postcard beautiful. Sharp frost, deepest Irish blue skies and cold enough to freeze the nads off a polar bear.

Can I just commend Ollie on a post that didn't once seek to highlight the bad in any place either ...being stumped about Carlow aside (I'm stumped too). I'm not saying we should talk like a Bord Failte ad -but I think we do that too often in this country -seek to enhance our own neck of the woods by looking down the nose at other places to create counterpoint or some such. Maybe being from Limerick makes me that bit more tuned into it but it goes on a lot.

Clare, by the way, has so much going for it that's notable I'm not sure where to start. The Burren, Ailwee, Fanore, Kilkee, perriwinkles, dilisk and a pint of stout in any of the locals, Spanish Point, Lahinch, Lisdoonvarna, Miltown Malbay and the Willy Clancy festival, Ballyheigue, Enistymon, Carrigaholt, the cliffs of Moher, The Stunning/The Walls (commonly thought of as a "Galway Band" -but from Clare, the fishing at Dunlicky ...that's just the west coast! The siege of Ennis, Scattery Island and St. Senans seven churches (count 'em SEVEN! on an uninhabited island! ...to paraphrase Quint in 'Jaws' he was either very clever or very dumb), the Killimer ferry, the view from gallows hill (Ennis-Limerick-Nenagh on a good day with the estuary marking it out), the lakelands taking in Killaloe, Scariff and Mountshannon. Great little county.
25/12/2007, 9:05 PM
mypost

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Originally Posted by Donegalred

Offaly - Bord na Mona

Imo, Offaly is the most boring, dull, uneventful county in Ireland. At least Leitrim has a coastline.
26/12/2007, 9:23 AM
bennocelt

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Originally Posted by mypost

Imo, Offaly is the most boring, dull, uneventful county in Ireland. At least Leitrim has a coastline.

Hvae you seen the new Tommie Tiernan DVd, has a good rant about Offaly, very funny and so very true:)
Also calls Athlone a hole of a place!
that man is always spot on with his observations!
26/12/2007, 6:31 PM
Raheny Red

Longford: for the unfortunate and disgusting atrocity at Abbeylara.
26/12/2007, 7:11 PM
Paddyfield

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Originally Posted by mypost

Imo, Offaly is the most boring, dull, uneventful county in Ireland. At least Leitrim has a coastline.

I had my stag party in Tullamore in 2001. The nightclub in the Bridge Hotel is massive; I reckon it holds more than 2000. In fact, my username on foot.ie is inspired by a great Chinese restaurant called The Paddy Field in Tullamore [no, my real name isn't Paddy!].

A mate of mine who lived in Athlone often got a taxi to Tullamore instead of downtown Athlone for a night on the sauce.

Ex Athlone Town and Galway United defender Kevin Williamson is from Tullamore. I think he went on to join the Mighty Mons. Also, ex Galway United, Shamrock Rovers and Waterford United striker Stephen Grant is from Offaly before he quit to take up modelling:D

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