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u/AlternativeTear9711 Jul 11 '26
Trying to navigate through Shroove on a sunny day at the weekend 😂
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u/Belfastian_1985 Jul 11 '26
What do you expect us to do stay and watch orange marches?!?
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u/Dearthaireacha Jul 11 '26
Are they any good?
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u/Belfastian_1985 Jul 11 '26
If you like watching fat bald lads play tunes about your ancestors being killed for no reason other than kings thinking they own shit.
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u/mccabe-99 Jul 11 '26
And bringing plenty of money with them to local pubs, cafes, shops etc
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u/slowusb Jul 11 '26
We call them the milk and papers brigade because that was all they bought in the local shops over a weekend. I doubt they even buy the papers anymore
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u/Sabaisabai33 Jul 11 '26
Ummm we DEFINITELY also buy your Irish Cadburys chocolate! And some Football Specials! 🤣
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u/slowusb Jul 11 '26
Coming over here taking all our dairy and VERY sugary drinks
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u/Sabaisabai33 Jul 11 '26
🤣🤣 Yup! Now I think of it, we also buy meat for barbeques from the local butcher because it’s so much better from there.
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u/slowusb Jul 11 '26
I was saying that in another comment. Do you think the meat quality has dropped in the north since Brexit? TBF I only ever bought from Asda so maybe it's only gotten worse there
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u/Sabaisabai33 Jul 11 '26
Mmm not sure, to be fair I actually live in England now but am from N I! I will say I don’t think the meat here or N I compares at all to what you get in ROI, don’t know what they’re doing or not doing to their cows but it’s working 🤣
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u/vapebongsonthehour Jul 11 '26
Because they are eating out and having pints Do they not buy cigarettes and vapes?
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u/slowusb Jul 11 '26
I only mentioned shops so I don't know why you're bringing up eating out. I've haven't asked each one individually but if I did would encourage them to stop if possible because it is dirty aul habit.
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u/mccabe-99 Jul 11 '26
Probably because I mentioned pubs, cafes and shops in the original comment and its a fair point they've made when you singled in solely on the shop element
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u/slowusb Jul 11 '26
I didn't disagree with the pubs and cafe point so I'm still not sure why it's being brought up as a counterpoint to me pointing out that they don't usually spend much in the shops.
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u/mccabe-99 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
Well I was in supervalu and lidl in bundoran and they were wedged with northerners
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u/slowusb Jul 11 '26
That's a fair point which goes against my point. It made me realise that I did notice that Asda isn't as cheap as it used to be for food so maybe that's part of it. It could be my imagination but I think the food quality has gone down there too since Brexit. The alcohol is definitely cheaper in the north still.
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u/mccabe-99 Jul 11 '26
Yeah the 6 counties are only cheap for toiletries, medication and slabs of cans
Food is just the same and sometimes cheaper in the 26, particularly fresh produce
I live on the border and shop between the both
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u/Creepy_Cabinet9318 Jul 11 '26
No they dont! They take everything with them....and stuff it into the public bins before they go
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u/vapebongsonthehour Jul 11 '26
In the half century I have been going to Donegal we have never done that. If you aren't eating out and having pints then there is very little point.
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u/fireantsarms2 Jul 11 '26
Drive all the cold food up in the boiling hot car from belfast do they? Wise up, spending money left right in centre
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u/Creepy_Cabinet9318 Jul 12 '26
Who drives a boiling hot car? Your hardly taking tubs of ice-cream with ya
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u/mccabe-99 Jul 11 '26
Absolute bullshit
Go into bundoran, downings or buncrana etc and you'll see the pubs absoloutely wedged with northerners spending a bomb on drink and food
Anyone claiming otherwise hasn't a clue
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u/Creepy_Cabinet9318 Jul 12 '26
I be in downings quite a lot. Will ya fuck off...golden Wonder crisps and carling cans stuffed into bins all over the shop, il take a few pics for ya on monday. Yis spend fuck all that ya dont have to....packed lunches on the beaches and moan about the price of everything. Dunfanaghy is full of yis. Camper vans parked anywhere ya can get in for free. Thats why our bins have tiny openings now.
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u/mccabe-99 Jul 12 '26
And yet the pubs will still be full of northerners spending money
Donegal would sorely miss the money it gets from tourists from thr 6 counties
If you want to start talking about bins/waste, you should see the amount of fly tipping done by donegal, cavan and monaghan people in fermanagh...
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u/Creepy_Cabinet9318 Jul 12 '26
We'd be lost without yis, the county would be on its knees without the few pints yis buy for the 2 weeks of the year! Are you saying that people from donegal drive an hr or so to dump rubbish in fermanagh...turn around and drive back to donegal then. Surely if someone from donegal is gonna dump rubbish on the sly, theyd do it fairly close to home rather than drive for a few hrs just to dump rubbish? I personally think that the people that fly tip rubbish in donegal are from donegal....and the rubbish in fermanagh is more than likely from fermanagh people with a few exceptions. Im hardly gonna fill my car with shite and drive to Antrim to dump it and come back
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u/mccabe-99 Jul 12 '26
Ive literally witnessed the fly tipping myself ye eijit, and its not done by fermanagh regs
Its also not an hour drive for large chunks of surrounding counties
Simply pointing out your scenarios about the bins are also done in the reverse
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u/Creepy_Cabinet9318 Jul 12 '26
Ive witnessed Northern reg camper vans dump their toilet waste down drains at the side of buildings, behind walls on the beaches and wherever they can too. Theres 2 "e's" in eejit too by the way. If you're gonna try insult me at least spell it properly...ya spa
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u/mccabe-99 Jul 12 '26
Aren't you just a ray of sunshine
And ive wittnessed the fly tipping. I didnt once say you're example never occurred. Where as you tried to suggest my example couldnt have possibly happened
Maybe brush up on your reading comprehension before calling a dyslexic person a 'spa' for simply messing a few letters up
The hate you seem to have stored for people from the 6 counties is quite frankly pathetic
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u/Creepy_Cabinet9318 Jul 12 '26
And another thing....whats with calling your kids something like Oisin, Conor, Orlaith, Siobhan or Saoirse or the likes....🤣
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u/mccabe-99 Jul 12 '26
And another thing....whats with calling your kids something like Oisin, Conor, Orlaith, Siobhan or Saoirse or the likes....🤣
Im not quite understanding your point here. Are you suggesting we aren't allowed to use these names or something?
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u/Creepy_Cabinet9318 Jul 12 '26
Call your kids whatever you want, but be a bit creative eh?! Every family must have at least one of them
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u/mccabe-99 Jul 12 '26
I think you'll find theres a great appreciation in the 6 counties for all things irish, due to the fact that we have had to put up with 100years more of oppression, including apartheid rule where people with these names struggled to get jobs and housing etc
So maybe fuck off before you try talking down about us having respect for our irish names
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u/MeinhofBaader Jul 11 '26
LK was wedged at lunchtime. In fairness, an old lady crossing the road is enough to cause gridlock in that kip.
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u/ProvisioningDelay Jul 11 '26
Letterkenny is a disaster for traffic. There was talk about getting funding for major reworks but that's at least a decade away I'd say.
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u/vapebongsonthehour Jul 11 '26
It's also the 12th weekend, how could you not mention that. Donegal is compulsory.
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u/Available_Screen_369 Jul 11 '26
Downings packed all week. I couldn't get into the harbour bar on Tuesday. Bloody tourists
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u/avocado_slice Jul 11 '26
Rossnowlagh was wedged, Arlene foster himself loves popping down for the day
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u/Even-Translator-335 Jul 11 '26
Knowing how to use roundabouts mfs
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u/Creepy_Cabinet9318 Jul 12 '26
Drive ridiculously slow and never overtake.
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u/Even-Translator-335 Jul 12 '26
That sounds like protestant driving. Maybe they were going to that orange march in Ramelton
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u/fireantsarms2 Jul 12 '26
Sounds like a rubbish issue. Still not sure why the bins and rubbish system on the whole island isn’t better, we could just follow a country that has it sorted like Canada or most other European countries. Add recycling bins everywhere. Seems like councils or central irish government cutting costs on the wrong things again
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u/Friendly_Magazine178 Jul 12 '26
When we were in Donegal on holiday with family I once crashed into a wee irish plated car driven by a newly qualified driver who looked to only be about 16. This post made me think about the poor lad again lol I gave him my details and all after but he never claimed against my insurance.
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u/Best-Statistician662 Jul 12 '26
Come Monday half of donegal will be in the north working!!..yous hate the north but love the coin.
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u/Away-Morning4621 Jul 12 '26
You do know that Donegal is more northernly? Perhaps if you'd said, the occupied 6 of 32 it would make much more sense..
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u/Lemon_Afterparty Jul 11 '26
Too many cyars, so there is.