Very Irish Things

[RocketPanda]

A thread of appreciation of things that only seem to happen in Ireland.

I was away for two weeks and a couple of days after I returned the postman knocked on my door with a big bag of packages ( they were sent from work, only two were very delayed orders). He realised I was away so instead of leaving them and risking theft or damage he stored them for me.

Anyone else any good stories?

@Chickenkeev - absolutely no argument from me about the rectitude of your opinion, (but some Tayto is still better than no Tayto.), and my tastebuds are jaded from too-many years of a absence of Tayto.

Did i say it was eyre square? If i didn't, you were right! Murder altogether. Tommy Tiernan stole my taxi once. (Still bitter)

Had to be that one.

Lol! We're scarred altogether 🤣

I had to google rectitude. Thanks for being my 'learn one new thing every day'! But hands down, irish tayto are the best.

I'm musing about crisps now. King are alright, but ones on the continent are shite.

My granny used to say someone was a cute hoor, meaning a schemer. Way worse than just being cute!
Also if someone was a shliveen they were sly.

I lived in Galway city in the 1990s.

Can you still get the garlic sauce to drizzle all over your chips in Supermacs?

And is the Abra-kebab-era still there?

I missed this, where did you get married?

Garlic cheese chips was de rigeur in my day!

We used to say

A roo from Cork?
I am a roo?
Do ye ate potatoes
Of course I do!
And how d'ye ate them?
Skin and all
And do they choke you
not atall!

(Had to be said in v exaggerated Cork accent)

So must be a regional variant

Cute hoor - still very common to say this.
Also schliveen cliste

Or Zig and Zag!!

Love this thread

I know the Cork version. Never heard to Donegal one before.

Shliveen is usually followed by the c word in this house. It's reserved for the worst of the worst.

What's the cliste bit mean I haven't heard that before

Cliste means clever. So cute i suppose.

I'm bringing back shliveen as an insult to our house it really does just convey how little you think of someone

Also:

I I T Y W Y B M A D

Written on walls of pubs.

And also a "carryout" hatch thing in the side of pubs where you can buy cans of beer to take away and drink in the street is that still a thing?!

Oops of course it does not feeling very cliste myself now after that

My husband is a dub with zero irish. But he introduced me to shliveen, i'd never heard it before i met him!

Got married in Galway and had our reception in the Ardilaun Hotel in Salthill back in 1990.

My friend got married there, it was lovely altogether 😍 i'm just down the road, went to school not far from there. Small world ;)

Have no idea what that means!

But yes to the hatches! Haven't seen one in years round where I am.

Tayto v Tayto