Most embarrassing county to say your from?

Statso

Wexford cos everyone seems to think your from Northern Ireland for some reason and they don't believe you when you say your not. They blame the accent.

Cool_CM

Longford

Dishonourable mention: "Roscompton" (purely because I have met people who refer to it as that, in a feeble attempt to make it cool)

BloodSugarSex

all the dirty nordie countys that think there irish......d only gud thing to come out of nordie land is harp

Frisbee

Leitrim.
Without a shadow of a doubt.



Leitrim.

Pighead

There is no more embarrassing sentence than "Hi, how are ya doing. I'm from Westmeath"

Actually, maybe there is. "Hi, how are ya doing. I'm from Westmeath and I'm snypers mother "

Piste

Westmeath is just a poor man's Meath tbh.

SantryRed

Cork.

I hate the place and I hate the people.

TPD

Donegal accent isnt too bad. Moved here about 5 years ago and had no trouble, familys from here. Once you learn the slang its grand.

While in college my mum convinced a fellow student that 'wain' (wean/wein/wee-un) was a real word, using the proof that the song is actually 'A wain in a manger' rather than 'Away in a manger'.

I vote cork, hate the accent, and it's unholy hearing it from a child.

Dudess

SantryRed wrote: »

Cork.

I hate the place and I hate the people.

I and my fellow Cork buddy lived in Santry for a while.

joker77

Offaly - imagine being proud calling yourself a Biffo!?!

Too far away from water those people...

turf

cavan.. worst rep goin.

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turf wrote: »

cavan.. worst rep goin.

ya dirty huar

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rossie1977 wrote: »

first president of ireland a certain Douglas Hyde, Percy French, albert reynolds, hollywood actress Maureen O' Sullivan, William Wilde, the great Jimmy Murray

I thought Albert Reynolds was from Longford?

Pighead wrote: »

There is no more embarrassing sentence than "Hi, how are ya doing. I'm from Westmeath"

Actually, maybe there is. "Hi, how are ya doing. I'm from Westmeath and I'm snypers mother "

You're not letting poor aul snyper have a seconds peace today.

Heisenberg.

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rossie1977

elviscostello wrote: »

I thought Albert Reynolds was from Longford?

living there doesn't mean you are from there albert was born and raised in Rooskey county roscommon http://www.nndb.com/people/232/000111896/

kmart6

Leitrim!

rossie1977

the week long festival every summer in ballinamore county leitrim is hard beat for all out craic, mental drinking altogether, the pubs are just jammed every night that week and the fireworks at the end are great

never saw a county express so much emotion as when leitrim won the connaught title in 1994, i heard Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh talking about this too, he was amazed at the scenes that day

bantee

rossie1977 wrote: »

the week long festival every summer in ballinamore county leitrim is hard beat for all out craic, mental drinking altogether, the pubs are just jammed every night that week and the fireworks at the end are great

never saw a county express so much emotion as when leitrim won the connaught title in 1994, i heard Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh talking about this too, he was amazed at the scenes that day

Festivals, well why didn't you say so earlier? Well it has to be Leitrim FTW as the most wicked county then!!!!!

SantryRed

Dudess wrote: »

I and my fellow Cork buddy lived in Santry for a while.

Bit of a kip isn't it?:p

The Scientist wrote: »

Another disgruntled EL fan cursing the long, losing bus journey from Turners Cross back up to the Pale.

It's been a couple of years man.:o

Ruu_Old

Cavan people get some shockin' abuse, lad. Mainly from neighbouring counties as posted already (coming from a Meath man).

Dudess

spank_inferno wrote: »

Apparently when you hear a cork person they are deepening their voice as much as possible. The real cork accent is so high pitched it can only be heard by dogs!

To be fair, that IS true.

dfx-

The Scientist wrote: »

Another disgruntled EL fan cursing the long, losing bus journey from Turners Cross back up to the Pale.

Being searched going in last year will be a memory not to forget. Grunting is the best description for the Cark accent I was faced with. I stood in silence until someone else said it in comprehensible English.

The draw this season is another memory :pac:

Westmeath, Cork, Offaly, Monaghan, Roscommon

Heisenberg.

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dfx-

Robbing Cork of three points is worth it. :pac:

Finding that a grunt = "You an away fan?" is also worth it

Dudess

I'm getting mixed messages here: we're high-pitched, we grunt... which is it? :pac:

Kold

I'm glad I held onto my English accent

funk-you

BloodSugarSex wrote: »

all the dirty nordie countys that think there irish......d only gud thing to come out of nordie land is harp

Well they do live in Ireland. Some of the sexiest accents around too.

-Funk

dfx-

Dudess wrote: »

I'm getting mixed messages here: we're high-pitched, we grunt... which is it? :pac:

See if it was one or the other, we could get accustomed and decipher some words, but it's a mix, so it's impossible to get used to either

Complicated thing, the Cark accent :pac:

phenomenon

My vote goes to Louth purely because of the horrible accent. Steve Staunton's "Am the gaff-uh he-yuh" anyone? There sems to be a gradient as the accent gets worse as you move north from Drogheda to Ardee to Dundalk where the native speech becomes unintelligible! I cringe when I'm standing on the train platform in the evening and hear a convo between Louth commuters.

anonymousman

Tipperary North, not even the good part of Tipperary.