From Gina:
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Donegal is the most northernly county in Ireland true, but we ARE NOT part of Northern Ireland.
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At school, we did Junior and Leaving Cert’s…NOT 11 plus’, GCSE or A-levels!
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We DO NOT use sterling as our official currency.
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Our car licence plates are like
eg: “06-DL-1234” and NOT “YIBA 7HA99”
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Contrary to what some Dub’s think, we DO get a clear 2fm signal.
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We DO get TV3.
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We sell and drink BULMERS, not MAGNERS!
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Our nightclubs DO stay open past 1:30am unlike the north.
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“Aye”,”wee”,”staysh”,”yon” are all perfectly good forms of the English language.
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Yes, we did win the All-Ireland once (1992 was not the stone-age either) and been in 2 of the last 3 Ulster Finals!
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There is nothing wrong in being from a county where accents vary dramatically from Ballyshannon to Letterkenny to Buncrana to Gweedore to Glenswilly.
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Dunfanaghy is pronounced “Dun fan a hee”, NOT “Dun fonn a gee!”
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Ardara is pronounced “Ard Ra” NOT “Are Dara!”
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We dont’ not shag sheep and ride our cousins…. bar Glenswilly.
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So what if Newtoncunningham is all just one big inbred family.
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MacCumhaill Park in Ballybofey is NOT named after Fionn MacCumhaill.
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Rory Delap of Letterkenny and Gary Doherty of Carndonagh are not our favourite sons when it comes to what we gave to the Ireland soccer team.
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Nor is Mickey Joe Harte of Lifford when it came to the Eurovision in 2003.
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Yes we do have a townland in the north of the county called Muff and then Killybegs actually smells like one!
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We gave the world Daniel O’Donnell, Packie Bonner, Enya, Shay Given and McDaid’s Football Special drink….what has your county done!!!