Originally posted by blade68Not too sure about that. It could well be true, but I'm not sure an Irish passport allows you to have an Irish license automatically- wouldn't you need to pass the test here for that? Good luck there- there's a two-year waiting list minimum.
I've heard that if we can get an Irish driving licence it'll be clean of all points accrued in the UK... is there any validity to this?
'Cos if there is, that's why people might be applying for passports.
The article was more on about the English keeping a low profile in the present political enviroment, in order to avoid recriminations for old Blair's poodling antics, actually, was the main gist of it.
Still, not sure how many were planning a holiday in Islamabad anyway, apart from the Al Quaeda Campers.
Originally posted by sjegI was lead to believe that if you already had a UK licence you could automatically get an Irish one without taking a test in Ireland.
[b]Not too sure about that. It could well be true, but I'm not sure an Irish passport allows you to have an Irish license automatically- wouldn't you need to pass the test here for that? Good luck there- there's a two-year waiting list minimum.
The attraction of being a dual licence holder is obviously to ease the burden of our ridiculous '3 points on exiting our driveway' laws...
Originally posted by sjegYeah you're right.... it's just that the guy I know in Cork always uses the word langer when he's talking about a Dub.
That's Corkese for penis. They use the word everywhere. Example:
As in 'Go on McCarthy, sure everyone knows you're only an English langer!'
Copyright Roy Keane, Saipan, 2002.
In Dublin, on the other hand, we tend to use the word 'g o b s h ! t e' to describe Roy Keane. It's a rich lexicon we have over here. 😉
I suddenly feel really sorry for Bernard Langer!
Originally posted by blade68It's just part of a boring inferiority complex.
Yeah you're right.... it's just that the guy I know in Cork always uses the word langer when he's talking about a Dub.
I suddenly feel really sorry for Bernard Langer!
'Cork's the European Capital of Culture, I tell oo, we should be capital of Ireland, not Dublin, like, the langers'.
Bless.
If you really want to annoy a Corkman, just say this. 'Oh Cork, yes I've been there. It's a lovely little town.'
Inevitably, he will cry in response:
'CORK IS A CITY!!!' in a high-pitched whine.
Tragic. But very funny. 😉
Originally posted by sjegHa ha ha... I more or less had the same conversation with the guy I know down there - and his response was exactly as you say! "But Caark is a Citee"!!!
It's just part of a boring inferiority complex.
'Cork's the European Capital of Culture, I tell oo, we should be capital of Ireland, not Dublin, like, the langers'.
Bless.
If you really want to annoy a Corkman, just say this. 'Oh Cork, yes I've been there. It's a lovely little town.'
Inevitably, he will cry in response:
'[b]CORK IS A CITY!!!' in a high-pitched whine.
Tragic. But very funny. 😉[/b]
Another story - I was on holiday a couple of years back in Fuertaventura, heard the guy a couple of sunbeds away talking to his missus... I leaned across "Are you from Cork?". He confirmed that he was and almost took my hand and kissed it!!! "Everyone hears an Irish accent and automatically thinks they're a Dub", he said.
Originally posted by catfoodtimman, sorry little child who obviously knows nothing, that is the biggest pile of crap i have ever read on these forums. "Catholic and Protestant alike are all viewed with suspicion in the 'South'." take a walk around ireland ask people what they think of catholic and Protestant people in the north.
1. Northern Ireland. Who no one in the rest of Ireland likes. Catholic and Protestant alike are all viewed with suspicion in the 'South'. If they speak that funny they must be British. As the Irish say: "Never trust a Nordy¹"
coming from an irish person living in n. ireland you sir are the biggest tool in the whole of europe.
PS just because you don't like u2 doesn't mean they weren't a great band. now go back to watching your british tv.
Originally posted by blade68a friend of mine was caught speeding (who lives in n.ireland) in ireland, he got a fine but he couldn't get any points on his british driving licence, so i 'm guessing that it might be true.
I've heard that if we can get an Irish driving licence it'll be clean of all points accrued in the UK... is there any validity to this?
'Cos if there is, that's why people might be applying for passports.
Originally posted by catfoodtimi'm not from derry.
Trevor this isn't something I've plucked out of my arse to irritate smeg. I'm basing this on my experience of living in Ireland.
It surprised me too.
I know you'll find it hard to swallow as you're from Derry,but you know as well as I do that people see a Northern registered car on the roads and call you British drivers (who all drive too fast be ...[text shortened]... nt. I can appreciate its a bitter pill to swallow.
*which I would find debatable.
yes i have heard 'never trust a nordy" but don't take everything you here in ireland seriously.
You're lumped in with the British by your own people* and can't handle it. You want to be Irish, the Dubs want to be British. God.
what are you on about? i am irish. i can't speck for all dubs but the ones i've spoke to are very much irish and wouldn't have it any other way. all mayer cities are very similar so yes dublin does look/feel like parts of england, i think belfast is like manchester but that doesn't make there people the same.