Scarriff is the name of a place here in Ireland, so most of us thought that was amusing when we saw the film!

Back in the early days of nuclear weapons, it’s a miracle that there weren’t full scale accidental detonations. Read “Command and Control” by Schlosser for scary details!

Apple (or anyone else) doesn’t get any special deal here in Ireland. If you have good enough lawyers, you can exploit more loopholes. That’s how the likes of Apple don’t pay anything like the already generous 12.5% corporation tax that they are supposed to pay here. Of course, the Irish government are afraid to take…

*imagine

I’m a big fan of the original and have seen it in its various cuts multiple times. I was therefore really looking to this, but unfortunately I was very disappointed. Paint dries faster than this film as the plot (such as it is) inches on over its extremely long running time. I have never before willed a film to…

I have been to the British Museum a few times and I have never seen or even heard of this pot! On the other hand, the Elgin Marbles (stolen from the Greek) are very impressive and the Rosetta Stone (stolen from the French, who stole it from the Egyptians) is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. The Moai…

I’m Irish & that was undeniably true up to my parents’ generation (born in first half of 20th century) and maybe a little beyond, when the Catholic Church ran the country and there was no TV (as the old joke here goes) or even electricity. Condoms were actually illegal here when I started high school in the…

That guy has obviously got a couple of extra letters in his surname!!

That’s true, but they could have brought some with them. Would have been of more use, less weight & lower maintenance than the motorised tractor & probably the ponies, as it turned out.

Amundsen spent a lot of time with the Inuit learning from them during his time navigating the North West Passage. The snow on the ice shelf that year was of unusual consistency (probably related to the high temperature) and made pulling the heavy sled much harder on Scott’s team, who pulled manually most of the way.…

I actually bought that game and played it for a while before it annoyed me too much!

It would be a shoo-in for the Oscar alright!!!

“dirty little hands”, surely?!!

“Heroin overdose deaths rates have tripped since 2010". Apt typo, I presume!

Unfortunately not! It’s almost all bog and the main town (Belmullet) where I’m from is somewhat famous in Ireland for being at the end of nowhere! Beautiful scenery though, if you ever get the weather to enjoy it!

I come from an area called Erris in Ireland - it’s smaller and only marginally less remote than its almost homonym!!

Might be the same here soon with the dick measuring contest between those two mad morons in charge of NK & the US!

Even though the Commodore 64 was my first ever computer and instantly invokes intense feelings of nostalgia, this guy had way too much time on his hands!!

It boggles the mind how such an immature twat ever got a job of any responsibility or ever got anyone to work for him. I’m sure his new prison buddies will be delighted to take this arrogant fish down a peg or two!

You can easily identify us Irish, because we’ll be the pale freckled ones eating the potatoes! I agree though - generally speaking, native Northern, Eastern, Continental & British/Irish all look distinct.