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10 surprising Irish facts



This guy better be careful: technically, it's an offense to be drunk in public in Ireland Bobby Sands Street in Tehran is the location of the British Embassy The Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast is a world leader in kneecap reconstruction More Guinness is sold in Nigeria than in Ireland Only two members of U2 were born in Ireland Playboy magazine was banned in Ireland until 1995 Irishman William Brown founded the Argentinean Navy Despite the stereotypes, until around the early 1990s, Ireland had a low per capita consumption of alcohol Dublin's Croke Park, the headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association, is the fourth largest stadium in Europe - Tourism Ireland In the summer of 2007, it rained in Ireland for 40 days straight


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maddyooch | Dec 07, 2009, 08:57 AM EST
I think they got a lotta practice crackin the knee caps and then repairing them

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Posted by maddyooch on December 7,2009 | 05:57AM
I think they got a lotta practice crackin the knee caps and then repairing them
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