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Do you know where Leitrim is?

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    #32
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Mairt wrote:
    probably nothing to do with Leitrim
    Don't go back, just in case.


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    #33
    luckat
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    Leitrim, the lovely country full of woods and hills and lakes. (And mosquitoes, but we'll forgive it them.) Just don't try to cycle through it - it takes days, because people are so friendly that you're dragged in for a cup of tea every time you pass a gate.


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    #34
    super_furry
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    I'm not convinced Leitrim actually exists. It's all an ellaborate tax-scam.


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    #35
    Dub13
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    What does Leitrim add to the Irish economy...?

    Who is the most famous person to come out of Leitrim in the last 20 years...?


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    #36
    Wishbone Ash
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    Dub13 wrote:
    Who is the most famous person to come out of Leitrim in the last 20 years...?
    Paul Williams?
    Professor Brendan Drumm CEO HSE
    The lads who won the Eurovision with 'Rock 'n' Roll Kids'.


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    #37
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
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    Dub13 wrote:
    What does Leitrim add to the Irish economy...?
    I hear they make a good cuppa


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    #38
    Feral Mutant
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    luckat wrote:
    Leitrim, the lovely country full of woods and hills and lakes. (And mosquitoes, but we'll forgive it them.) Just don't try to cycle through it - it takes days, because people are so friendly that you're dragged in for a cup of tea every time you pass a gate.
    Some people would consider that kidnapping.
    Guy cycling through: Er, yeah I really should be going . . .
    Leitrim Guy: It rubs the tea on its skin or else it gets the hose again.


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    #39
    stepbar
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    Wishbone Ash wrote:
    Paul Williams?
    Professor Brendan Drumm CEO HSE
    The lads who won the Eurovision with 'Rock 'n' Roll Kids'.

    John McGahern
    Colm O'Rourke was born in Leitrim
    John Joe McGirl (IRA Chief of Staff
    Sean Mc Dermott (of Easter Rising fame)
    Eleanor Shanley
    Shane Flynn - Vice president of MBNA


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    #40
    Dub13
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    stepbar wrote:
    John Joe McGirl IRA Chief of Staff


    Now thats scraping the barrel big time.


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    #41
    stepbar
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    The other counties surrounding Leitrim should envelop bits of it until it is no more.

    and perhaps you should get out some more.....


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    #42
    stepbar
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    Dub13 wrote:
    Now thats scraping the barrel big time.

    :D


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    #43
    Wishbone Ash
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    stepbar wrote:
    Colm O'Rourke was born in Leitrim
    John Joe McGirl (IRA Chief of Staff
    Sean Mc Dermott (of Easter Rising fame)
    He did say "in the last 20 years" :D


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    #44
    Húrin
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    The_Dazzler wrote:
    The shocking thing is 90% of the people did not know where Leitrim(My homeplace) was.One girl even suggested it was part of Kildare.Do they really not teach Geography inside the pale?:p
    Let's face it, Leitrim is an obscure county. I know where it is and so do most people I know, but I can understand some people's ignorance.
    Another occasion was when a gang of Donnybrook hens came down.
    Many young D4 heads are self-absorbed fools. That explains the rest.


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    #45
    Húrin
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    Gurgle wrote:
    Southsiders, do any of you know where glasnevin is?
    Of course I do. you'd have to be truly stupid not to.


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    #46
    Pythia
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    One of my best friends is from North Leitrim, so I'd be killed if I didn't know where it is.
    Of course I knew where it was before, as I know where all the counties are.


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    #47
    eirmail
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    leitrim got their first traffic light about 2 and a half years ago. I read this in the paper at the time a friend wouldn't believe me so I had to bet a pint on it with him.


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    #48
    stepbar
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    This conversation actually happened in the grounds of Trinity.... Girl 2 is related to me -

    Girl 1 - What part of Dublin are you from?
    Girl 2 - Eh, Im not from Dublin... Im from Leitrim
    Girl 1 - Oh really.... <short silence while she gathers her thoughts>.... Ah well.... at least its along the East coast..... :D

    Girl 1 was a southsider :D

    Look Leitrim will never make the headlines for anything much apart from being the hideaway for Dubliners who dream of that large second home.... but not knowing where it is, what its main town is just pure ignorant and insulting TBH. It is to me anyhow, in fact if I met you I could prob tell you something about your county, someone I know or tell you about a time I was there etc etc.

    People from Leitrim get about their job quietly and I know quite a few who are millionaires many times over. There are also quite a few who made their fortune in America and beyond. You wont hear about them in the news paper either. TBH if a county is judged by the amount of "famous" people that come out of it well then that is quite sad.


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    #49
    Flukey
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    As someone said about Glasnevin:
    "It is the dead centre of Dublin." :)

    Anyway, for the record, the provinces and counties are:

    Leinster (12)
    Dublin
    Meath
    Kildare
    Louth
    Laois
    Longford
    Wexford
    Westmeath
    Wicklow
    Offaly
    Carlow
    Kilkenny

    Ulster (9)
    Donegal
    Fermanagh
    Antrim
    Tyrone
    Cavan
    Down
    Armagh
    Derry
    Monaghan

    Munster (6)
    Cork
    Kerry
    Waterford
    Limerick
    Clare
    Tipperary

    Connacht (5)
    *Leitrim!!!!
    Roscommon
    Mayo
    Sligo
    Galway

    An awful lot of people think Clare is in Connaught, because it is on the other side of the Shannon to the rest of Munster. That is the most common one that people mistake in terms of a county in a province.


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    #50
    Sparky
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    My mam is from Leitrim, just between Mohil an Cloone (sp?). When I'm sometimes down there maybe twice a year, our family normall head for Foxes pub.


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    #51
    Tar.Aldarion
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    stepbar wrote:
    John McGahern
    Colm O'Rourke was born in Leitrim
    John Joe McGirl (IRA Chief of Staff
    Sean Mc Dermott (of Easter Rising fame)
    Eleanor Shanley
    Shane Flynn - Vice president of MBNA
    Who?
    leitrim got their first traffic light about 2 and a half years ago. I read this in the paper at the time a friend wouldn't believe me so I had to bet a pint on it with him.
    It was taken down again.


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    #52
    stepbar
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    Who?.

    Let me see... :rolleyes:

    Na fcuk it go and research it yourself you lazy git....

    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    It was taken down again.

    Have you got a source for that?


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    #53
    Tar.Aldarion
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    The person in charge of putting it up, I found it to be a very solid source...

    EDIT: unless they were joking, but it didn't sound like it...dunno.


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    #54
    stepbar
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    The person in charge of putting it up, I found it to be a very solid source...

    EDIT: unless they were joking, but it didn't sound like it...dunno.

    Who would he/she be so? :confused: Do you have a name?


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    #55
    Gurgle
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    eirmail wrote:
    leitrim got their first traffic light about 2 and a half years ago. I read this in the paper at the time a friend wouldn't believe me so I had to bet a pint on it with him.
    There was a set of traffic lights in Kiltyclogher 15 years ago, which apparently were the only ones in Leitrim at the time. Maybe they took them down again.


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    #56
    Rb
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    Flukey wrote:
    As someone said about Glasnevin:
    "It is the dead centre of Dublin." :)

    Anyway, for the record, the provinces and counties are:

    Leinster (12)
    Dublin
    Meath
    Kildare
    Louth
    Laois
    Longford
    Wexford
    Westmeath
    Wicklow
    Offaly
    Carlow
    Kilkenny

    Ulster (9)
    Donegal
    Fermanagh
    Antrim
    Tyrone
    Cavan
    Down
    Armagh
    Derry
    Monaghan

    Munster (6)
    Cork
    Kerry
    Waterford
    Limerick
    Clare
    Tipperary

    Connacht (5)
    *Leitrim!!!!
    Roscommon
    Mayo
    Sligo
    Galway

    An awful lot of people think Clare is in Connaught, because it is on the other side of the Shannon to the rest of Munster. That is the most common one that people mistake in terms of a county in a province.
    I don't know where 9 of the counties listed are, including Leitrim, which actually surprised me as I thought it'd be more.

    I blame my 1st to 3rd year Geography teacher, absolutely useless and bitter cow who made the subject an absolute pain.


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    #57
    stepbar
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    rb_ie wrote:
    I don't know where 9 of the counties listed are, including Leitrim, which actually surprised me as I thought it'd be more.

    I blame my 1st to 3rd year Geography teacher, absolutely useless and bitter cow who made the subject an absolute pain.

    Thank God I got a good education thats all I'll say.... I dont know what school you went to but in fairness if you dont know the location of each and every county on the list above then its a sad reflection on the state of schooling in Ireland today........


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    #58
    stepbar
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    stepbar wrote:
    Who would he/she be so? :confused: Do you have a name?

    Didnt think you had..... doesnt surprise me cause you were talking out of ur arse in the first place :rolleyes:


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    #59
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    No I wasn't, my name nor anybody I know is none of your business. It's rude to even ask.
    Go find out for yourself if you want to know if they are still there.


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    #60
    stepbar
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    No I wasn't, my name nor anybody I know is none of your business. It's rude to even ask.
    Go find out for yourself if you want to know if they are still there.

    Dont be talking out of your arse will ya :rolleyes: If you knew who it was you wouldnt have a problem saying, WOULD YOU? :rolleyes:


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    #61
    Flukey
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    It doesn't have to be down to geography. We hear the names of counties and provinces every day, in all sorts of contexts. News, music, sport, poetry, talk, people, travel etc. People visiting the country never went to school here, but they know the locations and names of many counties. School and geography teachers should have very little to do with it. There are all sorts of sources for the information that we get every day.


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