Ireland

Tá beirt deartháir agus beirt deirfiúr agam

Ireland is an island and has been isolated in that regard, making it more difficult for some creatures to have settled and survived in Ireland. Ireland has been an island since after the last ice age, so it was difficult to access thousands of years ago. Other than in zoos, there are no real dangerous animals in Ireland. Some domestic animals can obviously be dangerous, like a dog or a bull, but there are not any really dangerous ones, like large fierce creatures or poisonous ones. That is just the way nature has developed in Ireland.

Some tourist attractions may accept US Dollars, due to the amount of US visitors. The Giant's Causeway is one such attraction, but there are very few others.

It is much easier just to convert your money to Pound Sterling (GBP) for Northern Ireland (or Euro (EUR) for Ireland).

They are called butterflies in Ireland too.

lordmayor@dublincity.ie

Saint Patrick didn't actually remove anything from Ireland. He did not actually remove any 'snakes', but the term 'Saint Patrick got the snakes out of Ireland' is used to describe how he converted Irish people to Catholicism and Christianity and got rid of paganism, which in this case was the 'snakes'he believed to be in Ireland.

Bus, Train www.cie.ie or Fly www.aerarann.com

During the 1840s, potato blight affected potatoes in Ireland, causing a famine.

In the 1840s the potato was the main crop and a major part of the diet of the Irish people. A blight destroyed the potato crop from 1845 to the early 1850s, creating a major famine.

about 90 km

Gaelic Football is an ancient sport, going back hundreds of years. Like all ball sports, it has emerged and evolved. Games like soccer, rugby, American Football, Australian Rules Football and Gaelic Football basically all evolved out of people kicking balls around and then slowly coming up with rules and starting new games. Even now, the rules of all of these sports continue to change. There are records of a form of Gaelic Football going back to 1670, but many catch and kick ball games go much further back than that, so it is not possible to put a specific date on it.

On the 1st of November 1884 the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) was set up. It is the governing body of Gaelic Football, Hurling and several other sports. It helped to put more structure on the playing of the game including rules, competitions, teams, clubs etc.

The area called Castleknock is in Ireland. Its specific location is in the city of Dublin. Now the area is known for many different country clubs in this area of Ireland.

The Mayor is Councillor John Giligan. Former well-known mayors include TDs Donogh O'Malley, Stephen Coughlan, Michael Lipper, Jim Kemmy and Jan O'Sullivan

Go to the Website: www.cso.ie that's for the Central Statistics Office in Ireland.

Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Galway, Clare, Kerry or Cork.

It can be done in just under 3 hours now. The roads between the two cities are being improved, which will further shorten the time, as it will be nearly all motorway when the works are complete. A lot of it is already motorway, so the journey is a lot quicker now than it used to be.

The IRA are still safe they will always be about but they are just not as big an army just now

Brenda Fricker was in the BBC television series Casualty.

Athlone is the largest town on the river Shannon. Only the city of Limerick would be bigger.

innealtóir

No, they are from Mexico

Start with a Google search of their name. This will often get you an address and phone number and sometimes their approximate age. If you want personal information like credit reports, criminal history, etc., the search engine will probably link you to several websites that will research these things for a fee.

the irish taxpayer

Any good toy shop, of which there are many, would have them. Smyths on Jervis Street is one good example, but there are many shops, even ordinary ones that sell them.

The lower case "d" has been used to identify various values of a penny since the Roman occupation of Britain.

The very earliest British Penny was modelled on the Roman denarius, a coin of similar value. The "d" comes from the Roman "denarius".