What is the most rubbish Irish county?

Basically all of them that aren't Dublin. You heard.

louth for being louth but for sheer pointlessness surely offaly or leitrim. although offaly do have the hurling. so leitrim.

Cavan seems pretty pointless and shit, agreed. Armagh's a bit rubbish as well.

Ed Ian Paisley is not from Dublin. I rest my case.

d.arraghmac is right about Cork and Galway cities, but few good bands ever go to either, and this is kind of my barometer of cool places to live at the mo.

Donegal has got to be the worst. Cut off from the rest of the country, haemorraghing jobs like there's no tomorrow (and there isn't if you live in Donegal), and woe betide you if you fall ill up there. The health services are appalling.

http://www.monaghantourism.com/images/moncountymap.gif

(DV, did not realise that you are *back*, the postcard was wonderful and such a pleasant surprise).

I think the fact that the Booker nominees live in Leitrim says it all. Nothing to see, nothing to do, no will to go outside for fear of the locals = productive writer.

roscommon's of no worth also

bmbx, you're a fuckin liar, you've never been to leitrim!

No-one I know from Monaghan has a good word to say about Monaghan, though, so it's got to be a contender, surely?

I notice no one is defending Carlow.

did we ever decide between carlow and leitrim? am doing a lot of nationwide travel with work at the moment, and for my money lietrim is still the carbuncle on the otherwise pretty nose of connaught.

Sorry, but you all pay way too much attention to Dustin, Leitrim is really beautiful. At least the rest of Ireland is beautiful countryside and actually Ireland. Dublin is just a second rate version of London, as in, just as expensive as London minus good markets, record shops, galleries. It's a pretty piss poor capital overall, if I was a tourist there, I could fill maybe six hours. It beats Brussels for most homogenised European capital. I mean, it's bigger than Helsinki, but have you been to Helsinki? It's cool! It feels like Helsinki! Dublin just feels like a shopping centre with a lot of british high street chains with the odd phil lynott statue. Also, dubliners talk louder than anyone else in the world srsly, the most self-important residents of the most bland city.

IMMA has to be the worst national modern Art museum I have been in, so embarrassing for such a rich country. They just blow their money on not good exhibitions by big names (Lucian Freud, Michael Craig Martin, Howard Hodgkin) once a year and then try to fill the rest of the time with really bland random shows. Kumu in Tallinn is a really good example of how arts funding can really be put to good use, mental architecture and energetic, interesting shows that mix lesser known estonian artists with clever choices of international loans. I mean, collins barracks is like a local heritage site, the thought of it as a national museum is baffling.

Dublin is just a second rate version of London, as in, just as expensive as London minus good markets, record shops, galleries. It's a pretty piss poor capital overall, if I was a tourist there, I could fill maybe six hours. It beats Brussels for most homogenised European capital. I mean, it's bigger than Helsinki, but have you been to Helsinki? It's cool! It feels like Helsinki! Dublin just feels like a shopping centre with a lot of british high street chains with the odd phil lynott statue. Also, dubliners talk louder than anyone else in the world srsly, the most self-important residents of the most bland city.

Says the man in Galway! There's bugger all there except horribly overpriced twee little pubs and shops. Everyone up their own arses about living in out there away from the resented Dublin. Hating what you want to be = neither cool or original.

We also send all the retards who can't get in to one of our fine universities there. I believe Cork does the same.

I'm not so sure about your Brussels point.

Helsinki would be cool because you were on holiday. That would cloud your judgement.

We talk louder to drown out the bleating accents of our country 'cousins'.

The Lucien Freud exhibition was fantastic! IMMA is a wasted space, true enough.

Heritage is history! Of course it should be in a museum!

THIS IS LIKE THE FRY THREAD ALL OVER AGAIN!

Says the man in Galway! There's bugger all there except horribly overpriced twee little pubs and shops. Everyone up their own arses about living in out there away from the resented Dublin. Hating what you want to be = neither cool or original.

We also send all the retards who can't get in to one of our fine universities there. I believe Cork does the same.

ah now, I don't know anyone living in Galway that wants to live in Dublin. Galway is a cool city. Dublin isn't as bad as we like to pretend, but it's no Achill Island.

also -Galway girls (retarded students or otherwise) are extremely, achingly and confusingly attractive.

legit never heard of them til like six months ago

can confirm the hype is real

will still eat one of these out of the lamha now and again

http://c3.thejournal.ie/media/2016/04/easi-752x501.jpg

never had a spice bag either

imagine the driest food you've ever eaten...now multiply it by ten. Like eating packing foam coated in hot sand

not bad after eight pints or so tbf

easi singles are grand, i remember them. a lot more fondly than galtee tho tbh theyd never be let in the door of the house now that lidl do five types of sliced actual cheese cheaper

bridie and eamon are good imo not fr ted good or nailing it every time good but good anyway the housewife of the year episode bit where he or she just fucks a load of stillwrapped easi singles on top of a lasagne and throws it in the oven i mean god rest her but my mum definitely was in or around that zone like

thats my most recent thought about easi singles

yr mum used to try and make lasagne hah oooh la de da

nope but twas the zone man the zone

We were pretty lucky because we lived near the institution that is JCs supermarket, so a massive block of JCs own-brand cheddar was always way cheaper than Easi Singles (and far less disgusting. Never liked those things, even as a child). We also never ate Galtee sausages or rashers or pudding, always JCs own.

had a spice bag when home for a funeral earlier in the year. decided to try something new you never know when you're going to go.

in fairness the sausages and rashers were grand

superquinn ftw. but yeah galtee was grand, my granny always had galtee sausages and rashers. maybe denny was more popular for rashers? can barely remember.

spice bag was p good when i had it but i don't think i had a great example of one. i'm definitely getting one at christmas, it's prob more exciting than anything else about christmas.

spice bags depend on the venue like anything else, the ones I saw online have dryish chili salt chicken but the one I had at home had shredded chilli chicken with sauce and it was like crack

if we can edge back towards cheese shame for a minute, himself always makes fun of "orange cheese" BUT IT'S SO GOOD

also, Denny for rashers in our house. Don't think we ever had galtee, we were avonmore all the way

which orange cheese now

cheddar like. Avonmore cheese slices but also like kilmeaden and any cheese you get from a supermarket off the cheese counter and/or wrapped in clingfilm

and what could be wrong with that! like tasty earwax

Well

I was having lunch with a fellow irishlxor and member of this parish earlier today and later we escaped Storm Gerrit via a train station waiting room

Anyway we got to talking about idk GAA maybe and I said something about Offaly being in Leinster

What? says he

What? says I

Is Offaly in Leinster? he says

This is a tedious bit, I say, mindful of our captive audience

No seriously, he insists, I wouldn’t have thought Leinster

What kind of fucking hedge school did you go to, I charmingly say

This then degenerated into a conversation about the vibes based theory of Irish geography.

Should be anonymous ilxor, the floor is yours.

presuming plax tbh?

everyone would be aware offaly is square bang in leinster id have thought

You’d be surprised

tell you what would surprise me

the posters who would say

"lines on a map define a people"

very

interesting

viewpoint

did Connolly die so that the people of edenlondonderry would be forced to cheer on the lødz of lawnstir

Ok but did your school not teach the national curriculum or what

whats nationalist about it

self determination for the border na mona counties i say

Yeah that’s why we’re in Leinster

libelled itt. I would never discuss GAA.

very rude.

look at how they pronounce labelled lol

xp what are your thoughts on the vibe based theory of geography

Leinster I kind of think of as misc.

You would

a very broad 'Other' category that's bigger than any of the actual categories

this is a stock approach i take to being offered any type of list of categories as a rule tbf

What kind of fucking hedge school did you go to, I charmingly say

ye may imagine the spite with which this was hissed btw i couldnt comment

btw dye think is there a mural in edenderry objecting to being associated with eden

Live pic of darragh after I made this highly insightful remark

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVgyvHhWkAg96_Y?format=jpg&name=900x900

Btw I told my dad about the jokes we (me and you know who) make about Mayo GAA and he thought we were hilarious

It was formerly known as King's County, in honour of Philip II of Spain.

So hear me out here..

not wrong

Spain is nice

but tisnt in leinster

Am I at the hedge school now is that it?

You’re at the hedge school of the psyche

its down past the foul rag and bone shop of the heart

Offaly?

No you’d be looking around the back end of Connacht I’d say. Btw none of ye know the pain of being married to an Englishman and having him trying to correct your pronunciation of Connacht.

comparable to marrying a provinceless Irishwoman who cannot pronounce connacht youd have to think

Im sorry you made that decision

fair