Niall

[cailin maith]

(AtW's comment: ffs, why not use some ordinary name like John or Smith? Niall is probably his initials and 24 bit checksum of his postcode)

We don't have postcodes in Ireland. Except for inner Dublin and even then they are a bit random.

HTH

[Mich the Tester]

Erm, I seem to remember that I carried some pints back from the bar for you - cheeky fe<ker!!

Of course, once you got back to EO's table there was only half a pint left, but fair enough. We can't call you lazy.

[NotAllThere]

No way. The bank then has a bad debt, which they cover by taking more from customers, or from taxpayers.

Unless he had bought indemnity insurance, in which case the bank claims on that, and the bad debt belongs to the insurance company.

[Mich the Tester]

We don't have postcodes in Ireland. Except for inner Dublin and even then they are a bit random.

HTH

I once saw a telly program about the Irish post office. Apparently if people send letters to small villages and can't remember the address they regularly write things like 'Mr O'Neill who lives nextdoor to the primary school, <village name>, <County>', and the post gets there. Brilliant; we need an efficient system like that in the rest of Europe.

[DimPrawn]

Niall is 31 and manager of a successful fruit farm just outside Dublin.

I thought this was going to be a thread about a special friend you've met on the Internet.

[EternalOptimist]

obviously Im not including attractive birds.

What have the Irish(attractive birds excl) ever done for us. Coming over here with their Pogueish singing ways and black beer

[Mich the Tester]

obviously Im not including attractive birds.

What have the Irish(attractive birds excl) ever done for us. Coming over here with their Pogueish singing ways and black beer

The Pogues were English. Plastic Paddies, as the Oirish say.

[Mich the Tester]

Oh, and they provided Liverpool with a population.

[alreadypacked]

I once saw a telly program about the Irish post office. Apparently if people send letters to small villages and can't remember the address they regularly write things like 'Mr O'Neill who lives nextdoor to the primary school, <village name>, <County>', and the post gets there. Brilliant; we need an efficient system like that in the rest of Europe.

It's not because he does not remember, outside the cities many streets/roads don't have names signs and houses don't have numbers.

So 'Mr O'Neill who lives nextdoor to the primary school, <village name>, <County> is the address.

However I did notice last time I was back that if you use satnav names do appear, but as there is no street name signs, no one knows what they are.

HTH

[EternalOptimist]

Oh, and they provided Liverpool with a population.

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