What are some unique facts about Ireland?

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Priscilla Duck

We drink more tea per head of population than any other country.
We send more text messages than any other country.
We call a cupboard a press.
We call an airing cupboard a hot press.
We show the bells of the angelus ringing at 6pm on our national tv station.
If you live in the countryside, you 'salute' all the drivers coming from the opposite direction, which is a friendly gesture where you lift a finger or two from the steering wheel to sort of wave at them.
The names of the recently dead are announced about four times a day on local radio.
Our biggest tv stars are puppets.
One of those puppets represented Ireland in the Eurovision song contest.
We say 'yer man' to refer to a male third party and 'yer one' to refer to a female third party.
We drink red lemonade.
We eat loads of dairy products.
Our milk is special.
People wear their 'good clothes' on Sundays.
People don't talk to each other in elevators.
We know how to queue and get very upset when someone skips.
We like to be told we're lovely.
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Edit: Why thank you Soul Jacker [fluttering of eyelashes], you're quite lovely too!

Down these parts, we assume everyone is a Catholic and if someone says they're not, we react as if they've told us they're terribly unwell, kind of pitying and sad. We're pathetic! Graham Norton is hilarious on this topic, he said it was easier to come out as gay than to come out as Protestant...

Soul Jacker

We say thank you to our bus drivers, that's one think that amazes people form Spain.

Until very recently Ireland was the only place in Europe where you could fail your driving test, leave the instructor off at the test centre and drive yourself home unaccompanied.

This is because there was a loophole in the law which said that everyone on their second provisional driving licence did not have to have a qualified driver sitting next to them in the car.

The loophole's been closed up now but it hasn't stopped 1000s of provisional drivers still driving themselves unaccompanied around the country.

Pretty unique no?

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Priscilla you're lovely, as are your posts.

We're also generally very self deprecating(unless your a Dub or from Kerry).
We say 'there you go' when giving someone something

And finally one that may be peculiar to us Northerners. When we meet another Northerner who we don't know the first thing we'll try to do is try and work out what religious background that person comes from, covertly of course.
This isn't malicious by the way it's just something we (northerners) always do.

Christine

Besides from being able to talk about next to nothing and everything for hours Ireland produced 4 noble prize winners for literature from 1900 to 1999 (that's good considering there is only 4 million of us)
An Irish immigrant designed the White house, em..... Robert Emmets speech before being sent to death was paraphrased by Lincoln.

We call debit card 'laser' cards. The word brutal has a totally different meaning to anywhere else. And we've our own swear words, which seems to haved leaked out of the country.......and we won the Eurovision more times than any other country...as you can tell with that I'm running out of facts. LOL

Harry Enzyme Jr.

Unlike England it was never conquered by the Romans.

Podge and Rodge Tribute Band

A unique fact about Ireland is this:
There's a political party in this country be the name of Fianna Fail who have turned the practice of corruption and brown envelope taking into an art form. Now the unique thing is that this shower of Gombeen Men are continually voted back into government and the people of Ireland (most of whom voted for them) spend the next 5 years complaining about Fianna Fail!
Isn't that a bit Irish??!

Brenda K

We don't all know each other.

barbara b

in the supermarket, the person on the till, usually a woman will discuss your shopping with you. Stuff like, "Oh, haven't tried that, is it nice". Or "how do you cook that? "

A few years back I bought mange tout of a street vendor who didn't know what they were, so she gave them to me for next to nothing, once I told her what they were and how to use them in cookery.

99% of the population is superstitious, and we are suspicious of the 1% that aren't.

fred k

The pedestrian crossing buttons vibrate, for the deaf and blind

o0pippa0o11

Newgrange, thats super interesting(Google it)
But thats a seriously hard question to ask, I mean can you tell me a unique fact about America which, i presume, is where you are from

shonoel

In 1647 a Scottish raiding party entered Ireland looking for plunder.
The Irish drove them back and all they managed to steal was one quart bottle of Irish whiskey.

They have been watering it down ever since.

OK, seriously, Irish folk music and dancing performed in pubs.

Orla C

No snakes.
No postal codes outside of Dublin (in the Republic).
Often no house numbers either.
People say hello when out walking (in rural areas).

Marxist President Obama

there are no snakes in Ireland.

Just Me

I know Ireland has leperchauns. That's for sure.

yamummypopjustin

My cousins live there and they told me that they once saw a leprechuan and once found a four-leaved clover where they found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

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