Ireland

I didn't know there was a Donegal Tramore. But I guess there's a few if it just means big beach? Isnt it all surfies in Enniscrone?

A fellow traveller I see! The gin reference is close lol. Plenty of reed weavers and off grid types up there too, lots of ze Germans aswell and plenty of boats. All grand.

It's a strange one, I'd like if it remained off piste, but at the same time would love it to be more appreciated generally. Difficult to have both.

Careful @anyzen . You'll wake up to a bustling creative hub before you know it. Specially handcrafted Leitrim gin ahoy. I'm coming up to write me novel. Breifne noir you know. I feel so Connected cuz my granda was from Mohill.
When the Booker prize winner DBC Pierre moved there I feared for the place.

Just to add, since I have nominated the "up yer arse" towns, that my NOT up it piece of heaven is in Co. Leitrim on the shores of Lough Allen. Few go there but enough to make it interesting. Oh and the surrounding areas are as beautiful as some of the places mentioned in West Cork/Kerry and elsewhere. Rare to find relatively unspoilt spots these days.

When I first saw the orange lads in a boat I wondered if they were heading back to the Ayrshire Coast - whence most of them came . Actually all those pallets would make a handy Ark? They could make it to Trumpland. St Brendan did it in an oul currach....

Add Westport and Doolin . Ballydehob.

TBF, if you've spent all day hoiking pallets up one of those magnificent structures¹, you probably don't have a lot of energy left for brainwork.

¹ Viewed purely as feats of physical creation they are magnificent. Certainly when compared with my local one which is more 'flytipped heap' - at least half of which is either not flammable (glass, metal) or not flammable safely (paint tins, vinyl sofas, cordless vacuum cleaners).

How abut Enniscrone, and Tramore in Donegal.

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Tis a bit flat earther

I nominate Malahide, Foxrock village, Rosslare, Dunmore East, Schull, Louisburgh and Roundstone.

For now.

If you visited Moygashel in Tyrone you'd see this, ready to be burnt on the Twelfth skyscraper-of-pallets bonfire.

They are against illegal immigrants coming by boat? Do they think the people who were settled in Ulster to replace the ethnically-cleansed native population during the Plantation of Ulster came over on Ryanair or something??
History is obviously not their best subject... nor irony, nor self-awareness.

Long time no see Greystones with its treacherous undertow and shingle beach. I suppose Dalkey is too up itself to enter. Yeah my mam loved to watch an ancient video called Beautiful West Cork , being from there. But she would be incensed when they got to Kinsale - ' that's not West Cork!' 😆

I nominate Greystones.

I'm in West Cork right now (well not quite - Kinsale) and the vibe here is strong, to be fair.

I think the community school went all out on the LGBTQ front, which surprised me not a jot.

To balance Tidy Towns we should have Up Itself Village of the Year. Though West Cork would be over represented. Maybe Dingle Co Kerry could give them a fight. Then in da Nort you'd have the Gold Coast and Causeway places ? The prize 🏆 to be jointly funded by the Guardian and Irish Times.

I’ve been travelling around various parts of Norn Iron a bit lately and it seems like it’s all jumbo-sized flegs everywhere this year: it’s a garish riot of territory marking colours between union jacks and GAA county flegs. And let’s not forget painting the cribbies in the appropriate streets in the appropriate colors.

Oh, how I miss the laugh emoji reaction!!! Fegs, begs, windees!!! Love them all, especially during this particular month, what with all the flegs and bonefires!!! 😂

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OK, for no reason whatsoever I just have to post my favourite Belfast threat that I once heard one wee lad yell at another wee lad on the Falls Road: ‘You’re goin’ home wi’ your knees in a Spar beg, so y’are!'

Of course, there’s always my second favourite threat that I heard there too: 'We know where you live, we’ll do your windees!' <- not a kind offer to help with basic housekeeping tasks 😂

I have been arguing for years for no smoking signs that say 'nick yer fegs' 😁

Not enough people use 'thon' these days, such a handy slang word. Slightly more polite than 'yer one' or 'yer man' 😬😁

I like West Cork but unfortunately it's just the kind of place to attract Rita and her ilk, and who could be annoyed with thon?

But nowhere in Ireland is safe. Not even Tyrone, for the wee lad who runs Omagh Pride (turnout: five gay fellas watched by a bemused sheepdog) is on the BBC every week demanding the Supreme Court be ignored.

Totally 😁. Away with yeer scented candles and wind chimes. The devil 👿 mend yeer curated menus and workshops . That Rita one and her blaggarding. She'd ate a fry if twas put in front of her!

Simon Harris has ruled out any further humiliating defeats rerun of the Referendum.
https://x.com/griptmedia/status/1942575729449001442?t=7SPvOKJL9a6ZZi5BCDFumQ&s=19

I have given her a follow.
The hypocrisy of these supposedly tolerant people who generally seem to be the most intolerant of them all.
https://x.com/molly_omahony/status/1942240157911994448?t=kXOAmNU-w52Z0sSt8T544g&s=19

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Blow ins! Causing upheavals with their 'notions'! 🙄

I've followed Molly on Instagram although I don't really go on there. Also Twix and FB.
The person behind the pile on seems to be some foodie/ eco / forager ' based in West Cork' . I think that's New Age speak for ' I'm not from here but I feel so Connected to my pagan goddess ancestors in this elemental crucible of divine energy etc etc'. Rita Wild by name.
And Molly isn't the only person she has tried to get cancelled apparently. Ugh. Ghastly people....make the Legion of Mary look fun