Relax, this isn't another yawn-fest bound to descend into the usual North/South/Brits Out quagmire that most other threads seem to. At least I hope it doesn't anyway. Merely a tongue in cheek stereotypical look at each county in the country. Feel free to add to it. Try and keep it reasonably clean!

Just gonna do Ulster to start with:

1. Antrim - tatooed "hardmen" from the city. Think they're great at playing pool but aren't, failing to realise that the reason they're not very good is that it's difficult to queue up a shot on top of a heap of sovereign rings.
Folk from the glens generally nice and laid back.

2. Armagh - farming folk in the south who are also experts in cross-border trading. Tight, close-knit communities where the main pass times are winning multiple county championships, decapitating full-forwards, skulling Buckfast and scaring the Bejaysus out of British soldiers.

3. Cavan - Penurious. Miserly. Stingy. Just some adjectives to describe the people of this county, more colloquially known as tight ********! An original accent to say the least, these people can be found reminiscing about past glory days or fixing potholes.

4. Derry - they want to punch everyone they meet in the face. Incredible chips on their shoulders but quickly back down if stood up to or put under real threat.

5. Donegal - fishermen and farmers who love nothing more than getting off their heads on the auld booze. Likely to find them in any part of the world, propping up a bar.

6. Down - arrogant, self-assured people who consider themselves a cut above the rest of Ulster. They enjoy jaunts to the capital where they can mix with like-minded people.

7. Fermanagh - generally nice, mannerly people who other counties have no problem with. Mainly due to the fact that they're not seen as a threat or will be any time soon.

8. Monaghan - the phrase, "the thick and the ignorant have opinions too" is apt when describing these folk. Another county with an inordinate chip on its shoulder. Full of empty shopping centres but well serviced by national roads and motorway. Just as well.

9. Tyrone - a county-wide state of amnesia for anything before 2003. These people have overcome tragedy and power to them. They enjoy a good sup like the Donegal lads but are nowhere near as likely to hold their drink or behave. The women in the county make up for this fault however.

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9524 - 14/04/2011 11:37:19    911327

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTmppqu3-6U

jarhead (Westmeath) - Posts: 285 - 14/04/2011 12:20:20    911370

In London this is how they appear

Down - tanned boys that work in the city
Tyrone/Armagh/derry teachers or tradesmen who love the GAA a bit too much
Antrim - mix with the locals
Cavan/monaghan/fermanagh - simpletons that build things
Donegal literally crying into their pints about Dungloe or Milford or some other barren wasteland, dont amount to much and usually end up on the park bench, the womenfolk end up with a surname like Patel or Khan

CheFinny (UK) - Posts: 1358 - 14/04/2011 14:39:39    911546

Donegal - Aran jumpers with beer stains down the front of them in an old tweet cap and a good oul pair of waterboots covered in muck or picnics in the bogs on a sunny afternoon or when the nights stretch with a sup of tay
Tyrone - Bland dull sour bakes with no sense of humour at all, As dire as anything,
Dublin - Council Estate druggies with that high pitched accent selling their hats scarves or headbands and trying to make a kill on all Ireland Final day
Louth - Watch you dont call a wrong decision or your bate! these boys would go through you for a shortcut
Galway - Stuck way out in the back arse of no where with the sheep and the cattle running wild, just one bowl in the dresser youd need subtitles to communicate with them, Not used to company
Antrim - Brand new trackies and goin upa falls for a carryout on a saturday night, The riots are fierce craic to mateeee. Ringing the cops for the craic because their fearless b******s
Kerry - Thon Kerry ones would start a row in an empty house oul man with a 1970 kerry jersey washed out, From the baby can walk its out belting the ball over the bar, Winning all Ireland is just another day of the year
Derry - Some people have yet to discover the GAA, but sure their getting there, Up the town on the 12th for the craic, Half the population is called Caolan or Conor, But lately some new exotic names are becoming in fashion. Bombing places like their going out of style.

Orlaith (Derry) - Posts: 4282 - 14/04/2011 19:05:44    911830

Armagh (south) = fuel, wagons

Meath_bhoy (Meath) - Posts: 590 - 14/04/2011 19:18:39    911841

Dublin - Council Estate druggies with that high pitched accent selling their hats scarves or headbands and trying to make a kill on all Ireland Final day

You obviously don't get to the capital much! Ever heard of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly?? :)

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4734 - 14/04/2011 19:56:11    911870

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Obviously the whole concept of a STEREOTYPE is lost on you. Have you a dictionary handy?

Break_er (Donegal) - Posts: 798 - 14/04/2011 20:02:31    911876

reak_er
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Joxer
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Obviously the whole concept of a STEREOTYPE is lost on you. Have you a dictionary handy?

Well I'd agree with him, I'd have two very different stereotypes of Dublin dependin on what side of the Liffey we're talking about

Royal_Girl2k9 (Meath) - Posts: 2107 - 14/04/2011 21:11:57    911921

Armagh Tyrone Antrim. Pro fairness and equality as long as it applies to them only. Cannot accept that others would be entitled to it also. Spend every day considering ways that the state can discriminate against them

N16Calling (UK) - Posts: 260 - 15/04/2011 09:27:03    911991

Northside Dubs: dashing go-getters, friendly at all times particularly to our country friends, known for our wit and charm, and above all are charismatic sophistication.

The other 31: Well balanced with chips on each shoulder, don't pay tax and married to their cousins. They all sound the same.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13780 - 15/04/2011 10:38:09    912049

Can we split Derry into 3.
North, South and the City, i dont want to labelled with them feckers from south and city Derry lol

bosch (Derry) - Posts: 873 - 15/04/2011 10:48:51    912056

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912049 Northside Dubs: dashing go-getters, friendly at all times particularly to our country friends, known for our wit and charm, and above all are charismatic sophistication.

The other 31: Well balanced with chips on each shoulder, don't pay tax and married to their cousins. They all sound the same.

There's nothing I love better than an enlightening conversation on the topical issues of the day with the cognoscenti outside the Sunset House!

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9524 - 15/04/2011 12:03:13    912120

Donegal : boy racers in honda civics one hand on wheel and one tanned hand out the window racing around country roads thinking they are Sebatian Loeb

Posh Northside Dub i.e(clontarf,malahide) : rugby top collar up wearing cricket fan into sailing most likely to find in gibneys of malahide with the goys

Northside Dub :baseball cap wearing facing upwards drives a scooter most likely to find at hatch 23

Posh Southside Dub : Leinster top collar up wearing fine gael supporter most likely to find in kielys of donnybrook

Southside Dub : Dublin hooded top wearing salt of the earth good looking most likely to find in work ;-) (tongue firmly in cheek)

b.mullins (Dublin) - Posts: 1413 - 15/04/2011 12:07:03    912124

Clare: Wild, most of them have a slightly demented look in their eyes. They all claim to be descended from Brian Boru... which would explain a lot. Love traditional music and blood stained, 90s era hurling jerseys. Hate Tipperary. Thanks to Biddie Earley they all believe in fairies.

roundball (Tipperary) - Posts: 2514 - 15/04/2011 13:45:54    912197

orlaith.
thats the last time i am standing up for you cheeky ;D.

ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 15/04/2011 14:32:45    912239

Mayo: Cloth eared simpletons whose breath smells of turf.
Dublin: Emaciated druggy looking oiks in filthy tracksuits with rotten teeth and 'sovs' on each knuckle.
Donegal: Vomit stained shoes with brylcreemed hair.
Cork: Misplaced sense of superiority. Unaware that everyone dislikes their arrogant ways.

And in the interests of fairness ~

Galway:
City - Wannabe trendy lentil eating fashionistas who wouldn't know a hard days graft if it jumped up and stole their latte.
Country - Poitin sozzled farmers with red diesel driven cars and a close eye on the third cousin. Sure dat's allowed.

Wests_Awake (Galway) - Posts: 877 - 15/04/2011 17:02:48    912363

You wouldn't want to be sensitive reading these.

mikeoc (Kerry) - Posts: 567 - 15/04/2011 17:48:43    912413

Cork- Major Superiority complex. See langer jibes and Tommy Tiernan routines not as insults, but simply as confirmation that they are in fact different from everyone else. Pride themselves on being narky and rebellious (see Roy Keane and any other Cork Sports Star).

Tipperary- Most don't really see the need to ever or leave Tipp, especially if they're the eldest. Sure hasn't it the best of land? Things that Tipp men like include talking about hurling, hurling, talking about mass, mass, talking about agricultural machinery, using agricultural machinery, talking about hurling and agricultural machinery in mass, brown sauce and Bulmers.

Kerry- The Ultimate Cute Hoors. The art of spouting absolute raimeas has helped them in both skinning Yank tourists and bamboozling journalists and opposition alike in the run up to All Irelands.

Killkenny- Despite their "city" supposedly being a "cultural centre", Killkenny people have an almost tragic lack of interests outside hurling and the accumulation Celtic Cross medals.

roundball (Tipperary) - Posts: 2514 - 15/04/2011 18:02:09    912429

This is what I was always thought in school about other places I'd (In a word):

Cavan = mean

Louth = jealous ;-)

Dublin North = skangers

Dublin South = obnoxious

Wicklow = violent

North = dangerous!!!

South = backwards

West = inbred

Mid-lands = depressing

Meath = AWESOME!!!


Of course now that I'm much older and I've been to all these places regularly I can asure you that these bloody stereotypes are all completely............SPOT ON, HA!!! :-)

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 15/04/2011 18:12:26    912438

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>Obviously the whole concept of a STEREOTYPE is lost on you. Have you a dictionary handy?

>Well I'd agree with him, I'd have two very different stereotypes of Dublin dependin on what side of the Liffey we're talking about

Exactly Royal_Girl. Somebody with a bit of brains. Guess that was lost on the Donegal chap. Another stereotype perhaps! :)

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4734 - 15/04/2011 20:58:16    912545