IrishCentral.com, home to all things Irish, has compiled a list of TEN THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT IRELAND. If you have any interest in visiting the Emerald Isle, you’ll be well served by taking a refresher course of Ireland and its culture on that site.
- Technically, it is an offense to be drunk in public in Ireland.
- An Irishman founded the Argentinean Navy
- Only two members of U2 were born in Ireland
- The British Embassy in Tehran is on a street named after an Irishman
- Up until around the early 1990s, Ireland had a low per capita consumption of alcohol
- A Belfast hospital is a world leader in kneecap reconstruction
- Ireland has the fourth largest stadium in Europe
- In the summer of 2007, it rained in Ireland for 40 days straight
- Playboy was banned in Ireland until 1995
- More Guinness is sold in Nigeria than in Ireland. (Ireland is the third largest market for Guinness. Check the link for who’s number two…)