Facts you didn’t know about Ireland

Posted on: August 31st, 2010 by Leigh No Comments

Want to know some neat facts about Ireland? (Well I’d hope so as you are reading this blog!) Well here are a few lesser known facts:

It is an offense to be drunk in public in Ireland. Last year regulations brought in last year give the police the right to issue on-the-spot fines for anyone caught drunk in public.

Another interesting fact? Only two members of U2 were actually born in Ireland. Considering their assumed to be Irish based it actually interesting that two of their members are originally Englanders.

Also what ties Ireland to Argentina? William Brown (known in Spanish as “Guillermo Brown”) Argentinean national hero, “father of the Argentine navy” (amongst other things) and an Irishman.

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