The longest place name in Ireland is Muckanaghederdauhaulia, in County Galway
An odd Irish birthday tradition is to lift the birthday child upside down and give his head a few gentle bumps on the floor for good luck. The number of bumps should allegedly correspond to the child's age plus one.
So long paddy wacker. Wooden truncheons, which have been carried by Irish police since the 1800s, will finally be phased out this year, and replaced by lightweight retractable batons. The truncheons, with notches, fancy carvings and names cut into them, were often passed down generations of gardai.
The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000 year lease on it's property, at a perpetual rate of 45 Irish pounds per year.
IRELAND FACT: A ROUGH HANGOVER CURE...I'll just take the hangover, thanks: One traditional Irish cure for a hangover was to be buried up to the neck in moist river sand.
