Regional Accents

[bennydorano]

I listen to Michael Meehan speaking and think you would never pick that out as  Galway accent or am I off the mark there? Is that maybe a well to do Galway accent??

Similarly with Lee Keegan, is that a bona-fide Westport / Mayo accent?

[Rossfan]

They're kind of media standard 3rd level educated accents.

[fearsiuil]

Meehan accent sounds a bit Galway city. Keegan has a good touch of Cavan still in the talk.

[SouthOfThe Bann]

Alot of the Galway city lads and just outside it on Galway team have very well spoken accents I've noticed.

Meehan is Caltra though isn't he?

[SouthOfThe Bann]

Interesting topic though... Which county has the greatest contrast in accents?

Armagh Louth and Meath contenders id reckon. Dublin also

[oakleaflad]

Interesting topic though... Which county has the greatest contrast in accents?

Armagh Louth and Meath contenders id reckon. Dublin also

Be doing well to find as big a contrast as Derry City and South Derry. 

[ardtole]

The Mourne accent and Bangor accent would be quite different, although a few mile down the road from Bangor, around Portavogie, their accent would be more similar to the Mourne accent although it's probably 40+ mile away.

[Brendan]

Interesting topic though... Which county has the greatest contrast in accents?

Armagh Louth and Meath contenders id reckon. Dublin also

Be doing well to find as big a contrast as Derry City and South Derry. 

Or Derry City and North Derry for that matter sir...

[mrdeeds]

Meath massive contrast. Nobber to Ashbourne are not even distant relations.

[SouthOfThe Bann]

Interesting topic though... Which county has the greatest contrast in accents?

Armagh Louth and Meath contenders id reckon. Dublin also

Be doing well to find as big a contrast as Derry City and South Derry. 

Or Derry City and North Derry for that matter sir...

That is true. South Derry definitely has a twang to it. Chrissy McKaiuge I think of straight away. Conan Doherty totally different to that.

[SouthOfThe Bann]

The Mourne accent and Bangor accent would be quite different, although a few mile down the road from Bangor, around Portavogie, their accent would be more similar to the Mourne accent although it's probably 40+ mile away.

Down is one county I can't pick out of the ulster counties.

Id know a Tyrone Donegal Derry South Armagh Belfast or North Antrim accent if I heard it and it was strong enough but can never pick out a Down accent.

[The Subbie]

Interesting topic though... Which county has the greatest contrast in accents?

Monaghan -the  difference between a North Monaghan accent & South Monaghan accent is staggering

There's noticeable specific parochial accents through out Co Monaghan
E.G a Clones/ Currin accent will contrast greatly with a Castleblayney (hi)  accent whilst an Emyvale accent is worlds apart from a Magheracloone(hi) accent

Even either side of Monaghan town a Tydavnet accent is noticeably different to a Clontibret accent

Now that's very likely the same in all counties where a local will always hear and pick up on the subtleties in anyone's accent

Also outside of my own county but still close to home - the differences between a Dundalk /Ardee (hi) / Drogheda accent is unreal !!

[SouthOfThe Bann]

Interesting topic though... Which county has the greatest contrast in accents?

Monaghan -the  difference between a North Monaghan accent & South Monaghan accent is staggering

There's noticeable specific parochial accents through out Co Monaghan
E.G a Clones/ Currin accent will contrast greatly with a Castleblayney (hi)  accent whilst an Emyvale accent is worlds apart from a Magheracloone(hi) accent

Even either side of Monaghan town a Tydavnet accent is noticeably different to a Clontibret accent

Now that's very likely the same in all counties where a local will always hear and pick up on the subtleties in anyone's accent

Also outside of my own county but still close to home - the differences between a Dundalk /Ardee (hi) / Drogheda accent is unreal !!

Monaghan Armagh Louth and Meath all have big contrasts north and south.

Parts of north Meath and a north Louth accent would have similarities to South Armagh South Monaghan and Cavan.

Listen to Rian ONeill talk for example or Oisin McConville they sound very southern

[SaffronSports]

Belfast and North Antrim would have some difference

[Substandard]

I (with my quintessential mucksavage Ros accent) clocked in a good few summers back in the day TEFL teaching in UCG (it'll always be UCG to me, no matter how many iterations it goes through).
Spaniards in particular used to always be amazed at the range of accents, across the different teachers, the staff, taxi drivers and bus drivers, and so on, even if we didn't particularly notice ourselves.  One of them one time, very woebegone, reckoned we speak 100 different Englishes in this country.
Based on that, I used to always tell them the clearest pronunciation they would hear in English would be in Conamara.  Something about the way they clip certain syllables,  it always sounded very precise,  and not the typical weshtern sthicks and sthones stereotype.
I'm a long time in Offaly now- was very surprised day one that everyone doesn't speak Pure Mule.  In fact, in the younger generations it's hard to find a pure Offaly accent- could be that it's in danger of dying out!!