What are counties actually famous for?

[paul_oshea]

i couldnt be arsed typing all them out so ill just go with these few:

dublin - sh1thole.
galway - great place for a **** up ( but no longer ) and ensure you are wearing the correct "attire" - on that point im going tomorrow so it should be good craic when i wear my black canvas shoes to see if i can get in anywhere other than cuba or that other place beside it.
mayo - i like it
cork - loud people
kerry - arrogant people
cavan - definitely tight people
donegal - (ex)girlfriends ( thats 3! over 5/6 years )

[RogerMilla]

seems to me mayo is expressly defined by its gaelic football , jaysis cant we just win one sam in the modern era and let croagh patrick , ceide fields , achill or any other bloody thing come to the fore!!

[Ash]

1.Antrim - Lagan+Patterson the hurling keeper
2.Armagh - Orchards
3.Carlow - Mad GAA jersey
4.Cavan - Mrs Ash works there
5.Clare - The Burren
6.Cork - Ramblers
7.Derry - Badgers Bar
8.Down - Up
9. Dublin - Scobie
10. Fermanagh -Shopping in Enniskillen
11.Galway - Balinasloe Fair
12.Kerry - Paudi O'Se
13.Kildare - Curragh
14.Kilkenny - Hurling/Missing the turn for Buckley Park 4 times in 1 trip
15.Laois - Portlaois Prision
16.Leitrim - Manorhamilton Rangers
17.Limerick - Jackman Park
18.Longford - Pure Hatred /Killashee/Marty Stapo
19.Louth - Dundalk away on a Thursday
20.Mayo - Crossmolina-Deel Rovers
21.Meath - Graham Gerathy
22.Monaghan - Mon dogs
23.Offaly - Brian Whealahan
24.Roscommon - Sheep steelers
25.Sligo - Sligo RTC (good times)
26.Tipperary - Nicky English
27.Tyrone - Work mates bird
28.Waterford - The Forum
29.Westmeath - Athlone Town
30.Wexford - Mick wallace/Martin Storey
31.Wicklow - Wannabe Dublin (DART in Bray)

[ollie]

1.Antrim - Falls Road/Belfast
2.Armagh - Garvahy Road
3.Carlow - Fruit pastiles Ice lolly
4.Cavan - Lakes and Slieve Russell Hotel
5.Clare - The Burren
6.Cork - Home
7.Derry - Savage Accent
8.Down - Up Down
9. Dublin - Home Farm(my mother's home place)
10. Fermanagh - Enniskillen
11.Galway - Ros na Rún (Cá bhfuil mo Sensor Excell?)
12.Kerry - The enemy
13.Kildare - The curragh and it's flat land
14.Kilkenny - Hurling
15.Laois - By Pass and the feeling you're not long from Dublin
16.Leitrim - Carrick On Shannon and sparsity
17.Limerick - The Lodge
18.Longford - Longford Arms. (balls of county to put in when doing the jigsaw of ireland when I was younger-that and carlow!)
19.Louth - United Park
20.Mayo - Ballina
21.Meath - Colm O Rourke
22.Monaghan - Drumlins
23.Offaly - 4 minute final(or was it 3?)
24.Roscommon - Shane Curran and those Kicking tees
25.Sligo - Sigerson Cup
26.Tipperary - Rock Of Cashel and Munster Final Day in Thurles
27.Tyrone - Aidan McAnespie's(What a lovely bunch)
28.Waterford - An Rinn
29.Westmeath - Dessie Dolan
30.Wexford - Strawberries
31.Wicklow - Micko
Just noticed I missed one: Donegal - Gaoth Dobhair and Next years Comortas Peile Na Gaeltachta being held in the county. session on!

[GuisaSaigon]

Monaghan: Mushrooms

That explains a lot

[EAFC_rdfl]

ok Ash whatever you say! You didnt include Donegal in your list, must be the jealousy of the harps coming out!!
didnt know the comortas is up home next year!

[GuisaSaigon]

1.Antrim - Titanic
2.Armagh - Bandit Country
3.Carlow - Worst GAA shirts ever
4.Cavan - Cyavan
5.Clare - The Burren
6.Cork - Langers
7.Derry - Bogside
8.Down - Up
9. Dublin - Skangers
10. Fermanagh - Enniskillen
11.Galway - Races
12.Kerry - Jackie Healy Rae
13.Kildare - The curragh
14.Kilkenny - Hurling
15.Laois - Prison
16.Leitrim - Tumbleweed
17.Limerick - Drug Wars
18.Longford - Tractors
19.Louth - Maxi
20.Mayo - Immigration to Galway
21.Meath - Drogheda United
22.Monaghan -Stony Grey Soil
23.Offaly - Offaly Sorry
24.Roscommon - Ming the Merciless
25.Sligo - Beastiality
26.Tipperary - Trip To Tipp
27.Tyrone - That mechanic in Coronation Street
28.Waterford - Crystal ( to glass not the stoned horse)
29.Westmeath - Farmers
30.Wexford - Mick Wallace
31.Wicklow - Bray (Tuam Beside the Sea)
32. Donegal - Rally freaks.

[paul_oshea]

it appears donegal is "the forgotten county" by most.....just the way they like it!

[Ash]

ok Ash whatever you say! You didnt include Donegal in your list, must be the jealousy of the harps coming out!!
didnt know the comortas is up home next year!

Doh, I just copied the county list from another post ...
Away in Ballybofey is deffo the Donegal thought ... that and the pub
with the pint of Heiniken painted on the side wall

[ollie]

didnt know the comortas is up home next year!

Yeah its on in Gleann Cholm Cille. What's that part of the county like?

[paul_oshea]

I always thought it was glencolmcille.

[ollie]

I always thought it was glencolmcille.

well it will prob be called that for 51 weeks of next year

[kingdom hoop]

Ok, here goes for the most cringe-inducing post in the history of this forum.....I'll just go for a quick run through, let's see what my brain can muster!

Ant-rim; not what you want your bird's lips to taste like
Ar-magh; my brothers and me think she's just the greatest
Car-low; boy racers are so cool!
Ca-van; ugh, possibly the ugliest prototype ever
Clare; luvely gurrel so she is
Cork....screw 'em
Derry; hmmm, how about I get a flan, you get a chalice, and we put em all together and see becomes of it
Donegal
Down....town, waiting for you tonight
Galway
Kerry - ah shur she's the love of me life
Kil-dare; no, truth please, unless Ealing Green is playing of course
Kilkenny; oooooh my god like, haven't they, like, killed him sooooo many times already?
Laois - where else better to keep your criminals on a tight rein?
Leitrim......med himself up and got back on the team, well done lee!
Lime-rick - no, lemon please Bob
Long-ford - stretched fiesta, party on!
Louth
Mayo....naysers
Meath....ing point for crusties
Monaghan
O-ffaly.....crap county
Ros-common....ly rues his birthplace
Sligo
Tipperary
Ty-rone....an up and beat the living sh!t out of his gammy ginger head
Water-ford - they'll need one with global warming eh
Westmeath
Wexford
Wicklow - must be time to say goodnight folks!


I think Mayo may the best. Liked the Cork one as well. Mostly crap, brain not functioning at optimum level, but I gave a shot!

My head hurts even more now though. Damn you all

[Jerry The Saint]

mayo - i like it

Isn't that the local tourist board's slogan?

Come to think of it, all of them are!

dublin - sh1thole.
galway - great place for a **** up ( but no longer )
cork - loud people
kerry - arrogant people
cavan - definitely tight people
donegal - (ex)girlfriends ( thats 3! over 5/6 years )

[sligoman]

25.Sligo - Sligo RTC (good times)

It's Sligo I.T. ...get with the times old man

[Ash]

It's Sligo I.T. ...get with the times old man

I had my good times back in the days of the RTC ...
had 1 year there as an IT and wasnt that great

[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. 'Stoopid' and arrogant though??

Come on Paul drop that inferiority complex of yours. Arrogant? WTF?Kerry people could hardly be less arrogant. Proud, yes, we like our county, but that never boils over into arrogance. To generalise, I'd say we're probably the most unassuming 'race' in the country. You must have missed Keith Duggan's Sideline Cut around the time of the All-Ireland Final. Basically, in a typically witty and amusing fashion, he said that despite the reams of titles we've won he still couldn't possibly bring himself to dislike Kerry people because of their warm, unassuming nature, never boastful when we win, and when we lose we graciously accept defeat. Interestingly, my dad's least favourite people are Roscommon people, I might just begin to take after him the way that rapscallion O'Shea is carrying on.

And just on that stoopid point (I don't think it was meant in the Kerryman joke fashion, sorry if I misconstrued BGR!) but I was going to bring it up anyway as I think it might be something a lot of people don't, or haven't here anyway, recognise Kerry as being famous for; namely that the county has produced a plethora of great writers and poets, north Kerry in particular is a bit of a literary hotbed. As for examples from the area all in the last few decades; John B. Keane, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Bryan McMahon, Brendan Kennelly, and John Moriarity (who was apparently Ireland's leading philosopher (maybe only though!) until his untimely death earlier this year, looking forward to reading his works sometime). Going back a bit you've the Blasketeers then as well. I think that maybe the story-telling culture lived on longer in Kerry and that it might have been a significant factor in fostering a love of, well, story telling.

I suppose golf courses would have to be thrown in there too, Ballybunion, Tralee, Waterville, Killarney, are all world-class courses, attracting thousands of yanks to our shores.

I suppose there's loads of touristy kinda things as well. Highest mountain(s). Killarney. Ring of Kerry. Blaskets are pretty famous. And don't forget Inishvickallaun!! Surfing/beaches. Valentia being the site of the first transatlantic telegraph line. That big rock in the middle of the ocean some crazy monks decided to live on. And who could forget Fungi!

If you're looking for a bit of controversy Padjoe, then we have the babies, the philandering bishop, and loads of nationalist history to delve into. Oh yeah, and of course the people are incredibly arrogant.

[strangeirish]

Did ya hear the one about the Kerryman on Foot.ie....?
How about the old song by Chris De Burgh, Don't pay the Kerryman

[kingdom hoop]

Did ya hear the one about the Kerryman on Foot.ie....?

Go on, what is it?


Oh wait.....



damnit, haven't slept in a day, mental acuity for jokes at despairing nadir that tune just dramatically perked spirits though, cheers!

[Donegalred]

Antrim - H & W
Armagh - buck mad birds
Carlow - great men for sugar
Cavan - mean, mean , mean
Clare - Want to go on the beer? go to here...lahinch
Cork - Shocker of an accent
Derry - The brandywell
Donegal - We're different up here
Down - Downpatrick
Galway - Let yourself go....at the races
Kerry - GAA
Kildare - Dublin
Kilkenny - Iomaniocht
Laois - Queen's country?
Leitrim - Mental spot for a night out....actually
Limerick - Munster
Longford - For being in longford
Louth - Even worse accent than cork's
Mayo - Chokers
Meath - Tommy tiernan
Monaghan - Clones
Offaly - Bord na Mona
Roscommon - Rednecks
Sligo - The rovers
Tipperary - The piggery
Tyrone - Omagh
Waterford - Crystal
Westmeath - Glasson the village of the roses
Wexford - Vinegar hill
Wicklow - Glendalough