impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
According to the lonely planet
The chat, the craic and the porter black remain Ireland’s best lures to draw tourists to our shores and not our new-fangled chai lattes, spas and Pilates classes, the new edition of ‘Lonely Planet Ireland’ claims.
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Ironically, for a country associated with 40 shades of one colour, we are not as ‘green’ as we should be, mostly because “it’s hard to tell a nation that got wealthy a wet week ago after pissing potless for centuries that they shouldn’t buy an SUV or go on four holidays a year”.
Also in the independent:
Last November, Lonely Planet editors chose Cork as one of the top 10 cities in the world to visit this year. To the resounding cry of Cork natives saying: “I told you so,” the ‘Real Capital’ was celebrated by ‘Best in Travel 2010′, which praised it as a “beguiling city” with a admirable sense of its own self-worth.
In January 2008, the LP criticised us as a nation of dirty binge drinkers with little regard for caring for our environment.
“By 3am the only culture on display is in the pools of vomit and urine that give the whole area the aroma of a sewer,” one writer complained.
Ugh.
If you were here and wanted to leave during the week on a ryanair flight then you would be stuck for a while according to their email to passengers:
“Your Ryanair reservation has been CANCELLED
Due to industrial action by overpaid and underworked Air Traffic Controllers in Ireland, Ryanair has been forced to cancel 48 flights tomorrow 20th January 2010 affecting over 6,000 passengers.Ryanair sincerely regret to advise that the below flight scheduled to operate on the 20th January is now cancelled. Please advise all other passengers booked on this reservation of the cancellation.
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Passengers affected by these cancelation should seeks compensation from IMPACT General Secretary Peter McLoone at tgriffin@impact.ie or on 00353-1- 8171529.TO REBOOK FREE ONLINE:
Click on the link below to rebook to the same destination airport on an alternative flight free of charge, subject to availability. Customers can access this link up to the 22/01/2010 for travel on flights up to the 02/02/2010.
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