What are counties actually famous for?

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19/12/2007, 5:27 PM
padjoe

What are counties actually famous for?

Hello my good people i come to you for help again.
I'm doing a bit of work on a piece of the above title. I have what counties are famous for and another line bout what they are actually known for......for example...

Cork

Famous for: Shandon tower, Murphy's, hurling and Roy Keane. Michael Collins, the guy who won us our independence or the ******* who sold the republic down the water and called in British guns to purge his former allies... depends on who you listen to really.

Actually famous for: Whinging players, who strike over a roll of toilet paper. People's Republic of Cork. Funny accents.

Cavan

Famous for: Paul Brady, World Handball Champion, Golf courses and Coarse fishing

Actually famous for: Potholes and people who are so tight they can peel an orange in their pockets.

I'm from cork myself so please no one take offence its only a bit of fun.

can i get help on this
19/12/2007, 5:33 PM
Lim till i die

Limerick

Gangland Violence.

There, just saved someone the bother :)
19/12/2007, 5:49 PM
Tir Oilean

Galway: The obvious one is Galway United!

Three in row All Ireland titles.
Landin spot of the first transatlantic flight
Galway Races

That should get you started.
19/12/2007, 6:03 PM
ifk101

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tir Oilean

Galway: The obvious one is Galway United!

Three in row All Ireland titles.
Landin spot of the first transatlantic flight
Galway Races

That should get you started.

.... add dirty water to your list ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lim till i die

Limerick

Gangland Violence.

There, just saved someone the bother :)

Angela's Ashes and rugby. Although knives and stabbings are the first things that come to mind
19/12/2007, 6:05 PM
CollegeTillIDie

Dublin

Being the ACTUAL CAPITAL CITY of the Country and being the only county in Ireland where Irish grown vegetables are produced . You can drink the tap water. Stealing the Stab city crown from Limerick :D
Having Ross O'Carroll-Kelly types and other West Brits !
19/12/2007, 6:23 PM
strangeirish

Sligo-Aine Chambers!

Soon to be renamed Slagho.
19/12/2007, 6:27 PM
gilberto_eire

Quote:

Originally Posted by ifk101

.... add dirty water to your list ;)

*yawn* that is seriously old now, and every county has had water problems!!

Tir' left out some important ones..... Claddagh/Claddagh Ring, Connemara

dont sligo also have W.B Yeats?
19/12/2007, 6:31 PM
strangeirish

Quote:

Originally Posted by gilberto_eire

dont sligo also have W.B Yeats?

Yeah, but surely Aine is way more famous by now.
19/12/2007, 6:34 PM
GavinZac

Quote:

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

Dublin: Being the ACTUAL CAPITAL CITY of the Country...

For now... for now
19/12/2007, 7:52 PM
sligoman

Sligo-Aine, Westlife, Yeats, lovely scenery too;), oh and Rovers of course:D.
19/12/2007, 8:07 PM
DaveyCakes

Carlow...uuuum, well there's..ah

I'll get back to you
19/12/2007, 8:39 PM
Kildare Lad

Kildare - Horses & inventing Guinness
19/12/2007, 8:52 PM
Kingdom

Kerry - Football , Ring of Kerry, Austin Stack, Jokes.
19/12/2007, 10:23 PM
Sam_Heggy

Donegal - Daniel O'Donnell, Packie Bonner, Shay Given, Margo, Enya, McDaids football special, Oatfield sweets, and well thats pretty much it.

actually famous for, choking GAA team, GAA players fondness for the aul pint or two and bugger all else.
20/12/2007, 6:53 AM
OwlsFan

Sligo = Yeat's country

Waterford = glass and hurling.

Cork = langers and people who go home from World Cups :p
20/12/2007, 6:57 AM
Pauro 76

Longford -

ehm. Bogland. Albert Reynolds (even though he's technically a Rossie), Luigi's chips, Pat the Baker (even though he's brown bread), Longford Town FC
20/12/2007, 7:17 AM
Dodge

On another board someone asked us to put down the first thing that came into our heads about the 31 counties that you don't consider your home. Made for interesting reading (all of then, not just mine). Some are obviously going to be personal and useless in the original context but here's what I put down

Antrim - belfast
Armagh - snipers
Carlow - rasta looking GAA jersey
Cavan - thriftiness
Clare - the burren
Cork - langers
Derry - Londonderry
Donegal - Finn Harps
Down - Up down
Galway - stag do(s)
Kerry - gaelic football
Kildare - horse racing
Kilkenny - hurling
Laois - portlaoise prison
Leitrim - nothing at all
Limerick - stab city
Longford - Longford Town FC
Louth - Dundalkkk
Mayo - westport beach
Meath - Naaaaavan
Monaghan - My dad's home
Offaly - BIFFO
Roscommon - A showjumper I was with in Rooskey
Sligo - Sligo Rovers
Tipperary - Tipperary water
Tyrone - red hand
Waterford - Tramore
Westmeath - being stuck for 4 hours in kinnegad
Wexford - Rosslare
Wicklow - mountains
20/12/2007, 8:18 AM
Magicme

Monaghan: Barry McGuigan, Kevin McBride, Jonathon Douglas, Patrick Kavanagh, Eugene McCabe, John Deighan, Thomas Bracken, beautiful rolling hills, Castle Leslie & the wonderful Sir Jack, Golf, Fishing, Rally School of Ireland, Pat McGuigan (Barry's da who was in eurovision), Big Tom, The Flaws, Charles Gavin Duffy, Don Juan McKenna, Carrickmacross Lace and Clones Crystal, Mushrooms, Furniture and Bill Clinton's family are from just on the border between Monaghan and Fermanagh.

First county to elect a Sinn Feinner to the Dail, and just this week, first county to have a Sinn Fein Chairperson of a VEC.

Monaghan used to also have the highest number of luxury cars per captita but not sure it still does.

We are now, thanks to recent news stories, also famous for oil smuggling and political beatings.

Now to play Dodge's game:

Antrim - giants causeway
Armagh - sainsbury's
Carlow - a mate throwing up on the back of my neck with projectile vomit while I was driving
Cavan - tight feckers with a high percentage of mentlers
Clare - the burren
Cork - Hen night
Derry - Halloween
Donegal - Letterkenny - party town!
Down - Yuri (russian mate used to be called Yuri County Down coz of Newry county Down)
Galway - Favourite place in Ireland
Kerry - only county I have never been in.
Kildare - Oxeygen
Kilkenny - Anna, my sisters godmother
Laois - where babydaddy lives
Leitrim - does it exist?
Limerick - my fella
Longford - Flansiro
Louth - Louuud - Fusion niteclub
Mayo - Foxford Debs
Meath - necessary evil on route to Dublin
Monaghan - Home sweet home
Offaly - it was offaly nice of you to start this game Dodge
Roscommon - Mates wedding
Sligo - Yeats Village appartments & partying with Sligo Rovers players.......
Tipperary - The trip to Tipp - Feile
Tyrone - My mammy and childhood trips to the bog with my Grandad (RIP)
Waterford - Crystal
Westmeath - The Dog & Duck
Wexford - Kilmore Quay - summer spent there
Wicklow - Dustin singing "arkla arkla county wickla"
20/12/2007, 9:06 AM
paul_oshea

its funny i think londonderry too.
20/12/2007, 9:17 AM
Raheny Red

Laois: The only county which borders other counties that have no coastline!

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