Ireland

[SuperSleepyBaby]

Reading about the Sandi Peggy case and the various issues that have arisen in Scotland - the rape crisis centre, secret cameras in mixed sex toilets in schools, Isla Bryson, Katies Dolatowski etc - it makes me think, is there just as much issues in Ireland?

i know Barbie Kardashian, the male player on a women’s GAA team. Are there as many issues in Ireland as there is in Scotland, but not really reported on in Ireland?

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.

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

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

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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 😂

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!!! 😂

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.

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 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.

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!' 😆

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.

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

For now.

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Tis a bit flat earther

How abut Enniscrone, and Tramore in Donegal.

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).

Add Westport and Doolin . Ballydehob.

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....

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.

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.

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.

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?

Yes , plenty of shops selling Franfurter Allgemeine up there. Spent a long holiday in Longford when the kids were young. Bliss. Lakes everywhere - and it's a tourist desert. It was literally the cheapest house to rent in the Irish Post lol. But that was then of course. Though I can't see it ever being cool? Not that it makes any sense. There was an article about the least desirable place in Ireland for homebuyers. Mitchelstown Co Cork. Near the Galtee mountains. Only beautiful ffs,?

I am off to stay with my family in Cork in a few weeks. Not in West Cork and not up it's own arse as I don't think people would have much truck with that. I am spending a couple of nights in Clonakilty in West Cork though. I've not been there for years. I wonder if it would qualify 🤔

@Abhannmor Not cool will soon be cool I think. Wait and see. I agree about midland lakeland. Stunning, quiet, ordinary. Suits me to a T.

Totally. Having said that it's got great beaches. And good music. Met an Aussie here in desperately unfashionable part of Cork. Weren't you tempted by West Cork I asked. ' Nah , everything West of Clonakilty is the Pom Riviera ' he replied. Blow ins come to get away from each other after all...

Oh god 100% yes to Clonakilty. It's right up there.

Make sure you get to Inchydoney when you're there, gorgeous. And the model railway village is very sweet.

Clon is also home to - hands down - the best supermarket in Ireland. The SuperValu there is stunning, like a Wholefoods. It makes Dunnes in Cornelscourt look like a dump. I try to go once a year to bask in its magnificence. 🤩