| Facts About Dublin | ||
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1. The Temple Bar area is so called because it housed the first Jewish
temple built in Ireland. The word 'bar' refers to the refusal of Catholics
to allow the Jewish community to enter any of the adjoining commercial premises |
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| 2. Dubliners drink a total of 9800 pints an hour between the hours of 5.30pm on a Friday and 3.00am the following Monday. | ||
| 3. Dublin is Europe's most popular destination with travelling stag and hen parties. There are an estimated six hundred 'pre wedding sessions' every weekend in the capital. | ||
| 4. There are twelve Dublins in the United States and six in Australia. | ||
| 5. Dubliners are more likely to buy a stranger a drink than locals from any other area of the country are. | ||
| 6. There are five areas in Dublin whose names end in the letter 'O'. Fewer than one Dubliner in 20,000 can name them off by heart. Theyare.....Rialto, Marino, Portobello, Phibsboro and Pimlico | ||
| 7. The largest cake ever baked in Dublin weighed a whopping 190lb's and was made to celebrate the 1988 city millennium. The cake stood untouched in the Mansion House until 1991 when it was thrown out. | ||
| 8. The average 25-year-old Dubliner still lives with his/her parents preferring to spend their money on fast cars and clothes rather than a mortgage. | ||
| 9. Dublin was originally called Dubh Linn meaning Black Pool. The pool to which the name referred is the oldest known natural treacle lake in Northern Europe and currently forms the centrepiece of the penguin enclosure in Dublin Zoo. | ||
| 10. The statue in Dublin's O'Connell Street is commonly known as the 'Floozy in the Jacuzzi' while the one at the bottom of Grafton Street is best known as the 'Tart with the Cart'. The women at the Ha'Penny bridge are the "Hags with the bags". | ||