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Quiz: Which Irish town are you in?

Test yourself.

YOU GET DROPPED from a spaceship in an Irish town.

Would you know which one you were in? Test yourself.

This is...
Tallaght
Blanchardstown

Clondalkin
Lucan
This is...
Dundalk
Drogheda

Ardee
Julianstown
This is...
Gort
Barna

Connemara
Salthill
This is...
Ennis
Kilrush

Spanish Point
Lahinch
This is...
Kenmare
Dingle

Ballybunion
Caherciveen
This is...
Bantry
Schull

Skibbereen
Baltimore
This is...
Dungarvan
Dunmore East

Ardmore
Youghal
This is...
Durrow
Portlaoise

Duhallow
Abbeyleix
This is...
Leixlip
Maynooth

Celbridge
Naas
This is...
Navan
Trim

Kells
Dunshaughlin
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Top Dog!
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Clever Cat!
Almost purrfect!
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Fin-tastic!
Flippin' good.
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What are ewe doing?
That's baaaaaaad.
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Turtle-y awful!
Shell of a bad effort.
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    Mute David Dickenson
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    Oct 9th 2016, 3:43 PM

    I don’t even remember getting on the damn spaceship in the first place.

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    Mute joe o hare
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    Oct 9th 2016, 3:58 PM

    Where is Connemara town?

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    Mute Paul A Whelan
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    Oct 9th 2016, 3:19 PM

    5/10. Gosh we have really destroyed some of our towns with dreadful new buildings and ESB wires.

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    Mute David Dickenson
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    Oct 9th 2016, 3:51 PM

    @Paul A Whelan:I’m glad that I am not the only one worried about this electrification thingy.

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    Mute wiklagirl
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:16 PM

    Don’t worry, ’tis only a fad – it’ll never catch on

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    Mute ⚡ SCO Electrical ⚡
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:52 PM

    I hope you’re wrong!!!!

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    Mute wiklagirl
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:54 PM

    SCO Gaslamps not good enough for you, ha ?

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    Mute Seán Ó Briain
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    Oct 9th 2016, 3:37 PM

    7/10 and 9 of them were guesses.

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    Mute mcgoo
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    Oct 9th 2016, 3:42 PM

    My annual 40k+ miles stood me in good stead with a 10!

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    Mute lavbeer
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    Oct 9th 2016, 5:54 PM

    I got 8. And the two I missed I have driven through many times. Might be the age catching up with me.

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    Mute Noel C Lynam
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:19 PM

    Duhallow isn’t a town I’m afraid, it’s a barony in north west cork, Kanturk would be the main town there, the Dalua and Allow rivers meet in the middle of town.

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    Mute Robbie Farrell
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    Oct 9th 2016, 5:06 PM

    So, I gather from the selection of towns in this list that in order to have any relevance you either need to be a commuter town to Dublin, or else a renowned coastal location?

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    Mute Jimmyjoe Wallace
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    Oct 9th 2016, 6:03 PM

    Sure half the towns in the country are commuter towns for Dublin at this stage

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    Mute Tír Eoghain Gael
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:16 PM

    Ulster neglected again :(

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    Mute Get Lost Eircodes
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:31 PM

    Most of it is a different country

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    Mute Tír Eoghain Gael
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:50 PM

    Really? If most of Ulster isn’t in Ireland then by that logic there was no such thing as Ireland until 1921. Clown.

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    Mute Suzie Sunshine
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    Oct 9th 2016, 5:16 PM

    Tír .. maybe they just forgot …

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    Mute Jimmyjoe Wallace
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    Oct 9th 2016, 7:37 PM

    Neglecting ulster is a good idea, it’s full of knob heads and bigotts like you Tir Eoghin

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    Mute Tír Eoghain Gael
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    Oct 9th 2016, 10:50 PM

    Good man Jimmy. Care to quote me making a bigoted statement? P.s. I assume the irony of using a derogatory term to define an entire population of people, yet feeling qualifield to call someone else a bigot, has sailed right over your head?

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    Mute Conor Power
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    Oct 9th 2016, 3:59 PM

    Or is it Lehinch :)

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    Mute wiklagirl
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:30 PM

    Yes!! Wtf is that about – it’s always been Lahinch but in recent years the signposts in Clare want to direct me to Lehinch .. just as well I know where I’m going

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    Mute Clíodhna
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:32 PM

    That’s the question!

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    Mute Margie Murph
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:26 PM

    7/10. All guesses but some fairly educated guesses. Like Trim having a castle, etc.

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    Mute Get Lost Eircodes
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    Oct 9th 2016, 3:07 PM

    Shiite got the Salthill one wrong

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    Mute Hidden Connemara
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    Oct 9th 2016, 3:20 PM

    Looks like you could do with Eircodes after all. ;)

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    Mute Get Lost Eircodes
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:31 PM

    Salthill doesn’t have an Eircode

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    Mute lavbeer
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    Oct 9th 2016, 5:55 PM

    Still haven’t used it. Waste of money.

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    Mute stevenocarroll
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    Oct 9th 2016, 6:54 PM

    @Get Lost Eircodes:

    I wonder do the Ballyhaunis Irish recognise they are still in Ballyhaunis?

    Irish’ people account for 40 percent of the town’s population, while the local national school, Scoil Íosa, has 28 percent ‘white Irish’ pupils among their roll of 322 children.
    http://www.mayonews.ie/news/26885-social-cohesion-of-ballyhaunis-under-threat

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    Mute Juan Carr
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    Oct 9th 2016, 4:16 PM

    Im so fing thick i dont know. Hang on., in so high on kinihan product i dont know. I love the guards.

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    Mute Seán Domhnall O'Sullivan
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    Oct 10th 2016, 2:47 AM

    really thought pic 8 was Durrow

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Oct 11th 2016, 10:38 AM

    Fundalk made it, who knew lol.

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Oct 11th 2016, 3:31 AM

    You scored 4 out of 10!
    What are ewe doing?
    That’s baaaaaaad.

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    Mute Veroníca
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    Oct 10th 2016, 7:14 AM

    8/10 & only a out two of them i actually knew the rest i took a gamble on!

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