Worst accent in Ireland hi!

[Eamonnca1]

Eamon, can't believe your hometown never got a shout out? Your neighbors a few miles over the road in Portyadine no mention either..

Puts my head astray when people refer to Lurgan or Portadown as "Craigavon."

[easytiger95]

Personal one this - I'm from the Northside of Dublin, but i have had my accent described as southside. Now let me stress, that is southside (as in quite neutral) rather than D4. As muppet described earlier there are various denizens of D4 who don't sound anything like the Ross O'Carroll Kelly parody, which is actually a new-ish phenomenon (last 20 years has heard it spread like a particularly noxious social disease).

To be honest with you, it is becoming as prevalent in some areas of the Northside now as D4. I blame it on TV mainly - all that crap Disney/Nickleodeon stuff that kids watch, that couldn't be, loike, more annoying, if it troied, yeah? Totes.

But is rare that you hear it full blown, turned up to 11. i had the misfortune only a couple of months ago. I was on my lunch break and I popped into Eddie Rockets in Donnybrook for the chicken tenders (very partial to a tender) when i heard these two young wans honking away. They were mid 20s, wearing hockey uniforms and giving it loads about how "I just rang Jonty, and he is SO coming to Davos for the apres ski, roysh?" i actually thought i was in a hidden camera show.

The only time I ever left a tender on the plate, let me tell ya.

[muppet]

Personal one this - I'm from the Northside of Dublin, but i have had my accent described as southside. Now let me stress, that is southside (as in quite neutral) rather than D4. As muppet described earlier there are various denizens of D4 who don't sound anything like the Ross O'Carroll Kelly parody, which is actually a new-ish phenomenon (last 20 years has heard it spread like a particularly noxious social disease).

To be honest with you, it is becoming as prevalent in some areas of the Northside now as D4. I blame it on TV mainly - all that crap Disney/Nickleodeon stuff that kids watch, that couldn't be, loike, more annoying, if it troied, yeah? Totes.

But is rare that you hear it full blown, turned up to 11. i had the misfortune only a couple of months ago. I was on my lunch break and I popped into Eddie Rockets in Donnybrook for the chicken tenders (very partial to a tender) when i heard these two young wans honking away. They were mid 20s, wearing hockey uniforms and giving it loads about how "I just rang Jonty, and he is SO coming to Davos for the apres ski, roysh?" i actually thought i was in a hidden camera show.

The only time I ever left a tender on the plate, let me tell ya.

I sat in front of an older version of this at the Ireland - France game. She was annoying everyone around her talking about nonsense, for example translating (for no one) everything the announcers were saying, into french, at the top of her voice, even though there were no French supporters near us. French in D4 is hideous, almost as bad as English in D4.

When she got bored with that, she then started hitting those in front of her, trying to get them to sing The Fields of Athenry. At this stage I just started laughing at her because we were seated in the middle of a very obvious group of northerners, who at that minute were about as likely to sing the Fields of Athenry, as I was likely to start singing Blame it on the Boogie. They kept turning around and putting on their best 'wool I fock sing the Fields of Athenry' faces at her but her social intelligence wasn't very high so she was telling them the words.

[nrico2006]

Eamon, can't believe your hometown never got a shout out? Your neighbors a few miles over the road in Portyadine no mention either..

Puts my head astray when people refer to Lurgan or Portadown as "Craigavon."

Is there really much difference in Lurgan and Craigavon, pretty much the one place. 

[general_lee]

I watched a bit of the school's rugby and the posh Belfast accent of the commentators is hilarious! Not too far off the D4 accent in some ways!

[Eamonnca1]

Eamon, can't believe your hometown never got a shout out? Your neighbors a few miles over the road in Portyadine no mention either..

Puts my head astray when people refer to Lurgan or Portadown as "Craigavon."

Is there really much difference in Lurgan and Craigavon, pretty much the one place.

 

OK. 

I'll bite.

Lurgan and Portadown are towns with history and character.

Craigavon is a bundle of housing estates and a retail park between the two towns.

[nrico2006]

Eamon, can't believe your hometown never got a shout out? Your neighbors a few miles over the road in Portyadine no mention either..

Puts my head astray when people refer to Lurgan or Portadown as "Craigavon."

Is there really much difference in Lurgan and Craigavon, pretty much the one place.

 

OK. 

I'll bite.

Lurgan and Portadown are towns with history and character.

Craigavon is a bundle of housing estates and a retail park between the two towns.

Lurgan and Craigavon just seem to be one large urban area.  If you lived down on the Gilpinson Road direction in Lurgan for example, is the estate across the road (Tullygally) really a different town/area?

[illdecide]

Says the man who lives in the borough of Craigavon There is a massive difference between Lurgan/Portadown and Craigavon. Majority of Craigavon are Belfast people from the 70's who moved there for the money on offer (the rest were put out of Belfast). Lurgan & Portadown are just sandwiched in-between unfortunately.