Irish Passport Qualification (lighthearted)

[Happylittlethoughts]

So my Ancestry DNA report says I'm 60% Irish and only 40% Scottish. AIBU to appeal to the Irish Government that this great grounds to qualify for a passport?
Anyone else got special grounds of appeal for another country?

My DH (from Dublin) says "Roll it there, Roisin!" What is that from?

Messages definitely an NI thing. And gutties, I think.

I was very confused in my ILs at first when we'd be in the kitchen and they would say "should we go inside?", meaning the living room.

😂 apparently one of the Irish scientists spilled some flat 7-up when they were at Pfizer abd that’s how they came up with the Covid vaccine. Everyone knows it fixes anything.

Flat 7-up obviously.

But only if they're gravely ill.

Deadringer aaahh, you've just shone a light on something. We're in the North but DH has some kind of aversion to the big light and I refuse to sit in darkness. The perils of a mixed marriage

This thread has made my day!

@Runssometimes

You basically need to be able to answer all these correctly.

British people applying for Irish passports will now face the following questions;

Q1: Please explain why the 6pm national news is broadcast at exactly one minute after 6pm?

Q2: Sean: "You wouldn't put the kettle on would you?"
Mary: "I will yeah"
Is Mary going to put the kettle on for Sean?

Q3: “Mammy is after going to get the messages.” Explain.

Q4: "Give 5 examples of where/when you can apply the word 'yoke'"

Q5: The immersion. Discuss.

Q6: In the event that you lose your passport, should you
(a) report it lost and apply for a new one
(b) apply for a temporary passport or
(c) pray to St Anthony?

Q7: A local man becomes successful. Discuss the reactions that this may illicit among his neighbours (300 pages or less)

Q8: Where were Miley and Fidelma caught?

Q9: Give 6 examples of how to use 'grand'

Q10: Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye’ is an appropriate way to end a phone conversation, yes or no?

Q11: What does 'put the delph in the press' mean?

Q12: How well should you have known someone to attend their funeral?

Q13: Fill in the blank..."roll it there

Q14: If you living in one part of the country, having grown up in another part of the country - which is 'home' and which is 'home, home'
Supplementary question - What is the difference between going 'out' and going 'out, out'?

Q15: Can you explain where yer man from up above lives ?

Q16: Aoifes leaving cert is next week. What concrete steps can Aoifes grandmother take to ensure her success?

Q17: Bridie: Are you going to take the dog for a walk at all? Dónal: I'll do that now in a minute
When will Dónal take the dog for a walk: -Now -In a minute -Other - please specify.

No googling-im a Londoner. My dad was Irish, my maternal grandparents were Irish, my husband is from northern Ireland. Growing up I went to Ireland annually for holiday. My parents retired there so as an adult continued to visit, then in-laws as well. Still visit regularly despite parents and in-laws all having died-was there two nights in Feb as it was 25 years since my dad died and he's buried there, and went in September for 2 weeks for holiday up north. I'm in the middle of applying for an Irish passport but lockdown has slowed it down. I've always had a UK one but want an EU one

1. because the Angelus is on first and you need to say your prayers
2. yes
3. she's gone to the shops, post office, bank
4. you're a useless yoke You need the yoke to fix that You can buy one of those yokes in Easons A plumber should have a yoke like that can't think of another yoke
5. the boiler for the water/ heating. Is it on? Does it work ok?
6. c 7)he's done well for himself, the quare fella. I think he was bribing the garda 8 don't know

9)grand house
Grand weather
Last night was grand
I saw your mum in the post office. She looks grand for her age
Mary's had a new baby....he was a grand size, 8lb 2oz
10 yes
11 delph- don't know but press is cupboard
12 you don't need to know them
13 don't know
14 home-where you live, home home is where you come from and where your parents are
out-nipping to the local for a quick one, no need to get dressed up. Out, out-going into town centre to a club (or dance!) Best clothes,/hair/make up
15 up the road. Or maybe heaven
16 say a decade of the rosary/arrange a novena/ go to church daily
17 he'll do it soon
bonus -gutties are plimsolls

@Runssometimes

To be honest I’m surprised the Child of Prague isn’t in the list. Nor any reference to someone still having their communion money. I didn’t write the list. It’s a bit of a joke going round about people applying for Irish passports.

I was just about to add "what should be done with the Child of Prague the night before a wedding" to your list

Roll it there Roisin/Colette is from The Late Late Show when Gay Byrne hosted it.

Dublin here...messages here too.

I think they need to ask for a clear explanation of yer man/ yer wan. Anyone that can correctly use 'yizzer' and 'yis' gets bonus points. As does knowing about the magical powers of Triple A Golden Maverick against white scour. In fact if you know that last one you either are really Irish or are a very well trained spy.

I know this is all very lighthearted but I do find people saying EU passport when they are talking about a ROI passport specifically quite offensive. The right to have a distinct Irish passport was hard won, if you are fortunate enough to perhaps be entitled to it then please do the country and its citizens the courtesy of referring to it as an Irish passport bot an EU one. Thanks.

And the 'snib'

the snib on the door.

@CherryValancor a hot red lemonade.......

I didn't know to "give out" was an Irish phrase until Mumsnet

I remember getting a bollocking off a teacher in school about runners and the wearing of runners by ladies and at the end off the lecture she filtered off with "except in Limerick where they call them tackies" the relevance of this being zero but who'd have know 20 years later I'd be glad of the knowledge.

Messages are not just northern, used everywhere in Ireland for shopping, but mainly older generations.
I’m Irish and have lived in Waterford, Galway, Cork and Dublin and it’s common everywhere.
Never heard of gutties. I’ve heard someone from Clare refer to runners as tackles. I just call them runners.
banjaxed is used for broken.

@Sweetmotherofallthatisholyabov and if you’ve been very bold someone might give out yards to you.

@Runssometimes

😂 apparently one of the Irish scientists spilled some flat 7-up when they were at Pfizer abd that’s how they came up with the Covid vaccine. Everyone knows it fixes anything.

Right back at the start of all this Covid business there was a picture doing the rounds of the streets being sprayed with flat 7-Up to eradicate the virus

@CherryValanc love it.

Why has nobody mentioned sudocreme? Magical ointment. Cures everything from nappy rash to acne to leprosy.

It was Collette, then in later years Roisin.

The thread the other day about 'giving out' to the kids.....i knew what the OP was on about.....i didn't even realise it was Irish Until others not knowing what she meant!

I also had no idea 'give out' was Irish. Every day is a school day!

Ahh snibs! Red lemonade!

I give you.....Kimberley biscuits, barm brack (no, not harm Barack autocorrect) and a Cadbury Tiffin

Oh and a peat fire. Love that smell, takes me back to my paternal grandparents in the 70s.

I raise you Flahavans oats, Barry's tea and olde time marmalade with the orange label

Apparently.... (ie I heard on Ray Darcy or somewhere)

The name Sudocrem came from the Dublin way of pronouncing ‘soothing cream’

Could be an urban legend

Kimberly Mikado and Coconut creams, someone you love would love some mum!

@CherryValanc
My dad used to boil white lemonade when he had a cold