I melt with desire at the sound of an Irish accent. .

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I just got off the train. Youngish but not too young Irish guy opposite was on his mobile phone talking away... I barely made it back home.. The accent sounded so hot cannot describe it. Wld be interested to hear what voice turns my fellow MNs on if any..Time for a recuperative red wine in the garden. .

I'm from Northern Ireland and we have a huge range of accents too, my inlaws would be horrified if anyone thought they were from Belfast!

Ah I know him zas1, well least I knew his brother, Colm, better. We had a great weekend in Mayo at a
murder/mystery weekend, called in to his Ma's on the way home for a feed and ye man was there too.

I am from Ireland and while we can distinguish the different accents here I can see how it would be difficult for anyone who is not Irish. If I heard someone from France speaking I would know it was a lovely French accent but I am sure a French person could distinguish the area too.

I agree with someone above, I like a deep voice.

Definitely! I'm quite ignorant and can't tell the difference between Irish accents so they all do it for me. Always have.

Italian for me...throw in a bit of cheffy and I'd probably do anything

even the oldies... Gennaro Contaldo, Carluccio...all that Ciao and chopping!

Also an honourable mention for what I perceive as New Yorkers Anthony Bourdain and Adam Richman. Oh yes.

Suddenly realises why Mr Ventamiglia is a lot less keen to go to NY than I am

I fell in love with an Irish accent five years ago. That's how long I haven't been having an affair in my head with the young twenty something soldier who told me the name of his barracks (because I asked by way of conversation when I was buying a fundraising rubber band that he was selling) at a military display in his soft N.I. accent.

Just one word, that's all it took. I don't 'moon' over his photo, the one I took on my phone, oh no, that's not me. I'm a happily married middle aged woman.

That's why I've developed a taste for the accents of Liam Neeson and James Nesbit. I accept they are a good deal older but that one word from a young soldier flicked a switch in my head for Irish accents.

More please.

I once worked with a bloke who had the softest most seductive French accent. I believe he was from Normandy.

I could develop an taste for soft, kind South African accents. Like the one a bloke had I once worked with. Who, whilst not conventionally handsome could have charmed talked his way into my knickers. Did we flirt ? Who ? Us ? what would our spouses think ?

South shields accents seem to hold my attention. Some Scots accents are their own foreplay !

I feel in love with and married a Dublin accent!

Moln I'm sure Colm is nice too. This guy looked like a Cian or Cillian to me. Enormous long lashed green sparkling eyes like the Irish actor who plays in the wind that shakes the barley. I used to hate getting the train but I'm all a flutter now. .

My Aunt actually does live on the Limerick to Shannon Rd. (Ennis Rd)
I'll ask her about Mary.

Anyone heard Aiden Turner being interviewed?

I work for someone from the Tipperary area - when he bellows your name for about the fiftieth time it kind of loses its appeal

I work with 139 people with Irish accents, thankfully I don't melt on hearing them!!! Would be awkward otherwise.

They of course may swoon about mine. Seems likely I feel.

When dh rings the payroll department there's a certain woman who just loves his Irish accent. She gets him to repeat bonus and overtime because she likes how it sounds.

Oh I love a naice Northern Irish accent. It's why I like the BBC news, they always have a lovely accent on it.

I also love a soft northern England accent, somewhere around Runcorn type.

Thanks for reminding me of an old boyfriend - his voice was like velvet gravel. I can still feel it tickling my ear.

There are some terrible NI accents too though.

I once had to phone someone there because of work, and I could not work out a single thing he was saying, like literally not a clue. I did the Ask Three Times thing, which is when I'd normally give up and do a polite non-committal "ah right, okay". But I really needed to know the answer. So I asked three more times and apologised profusely. I still didn't get it...

I then asked if I could please just email him, but he said they didn't have email there yet.

This was about 4 years ago...

I love an Irish accent, but you know what is even better? A Trinidadian one. Especially someone with a really deep voice. Melt!

There's no such thing as "southern Irish accent" it's like saying everyone from the north of England sounds the same, cos you know everyone in Liverpool sounds just like everyone in Newcastle! Southern Irish where? Oh you mean the Republic, er Where?

Any way this might help!

Maybe I'm unusual, I like Irish and Scots accents, mainly cork and highlander accents.

But I'm a real sucker for new yoik and southern gentleman accents, not Texas so much which is a tad harsh i think, more deep south, a Georgia accent has me in a puddle!

I don't know why people are getting so offended by non-Irish people not knowing all the different Irish accents! How would they?

In Ireland we watch a lot of English programmes so have a good idea of regional English accents.

I might say someone has a Scottish or Welsh accent but not be able to pinpoint the region.

Me too HumphriesCushion a Dublin 4 accent, via Bilbao - don't ask!

We live in Spain, DS is fluent in English, Spanish and Catalan and says 'filum'.

South African. Yum

My Aunt actually does live on the Limerick to Shannon Rd. (Ennis Rd) I'll ask her about Mary

She's bound to know her - Mary is a pillar of the community.

I'm off to Ireland in a couple of hours from now. Ferry to Dublin, then to Doolin, and to Ennis. Not sure I'll see Mary.

As a hearing-impaired Englishwoman, I think my chances of differentiating between accents are limited, but I'll give it a go.

I once got very very pissed in Doolin.

I dunno, I like some Irish accents, but dare I say it its a bit of a patronising cliché to assume all Irish accents are sexy isn't it?

I've met some Irish blokes with lovely voices, I've also met some boneheaded macho Irish twats who f and blind with every second word and it can be extremely offputting.

Its a little bit like Americans who think all English accents are lovely. Some are, some are hideous....