I love that you mentioned about going outside of the cities here and visiting the smaller towns and rural areas and mixing with the locals. As someone who works in Tourism here it's always my advice to do all the main things (if you have time) but most certainly take a trip or stop at the small towns and villages along the way to get a great insight into Ireland and our culture. I hope there's more Ireland videos to come, I've been a long time subscriber and even messaged you on Facebook years ago about coming to Ireland and seeing a gaelic football or hurling game but it looks like you did get some experience of that with the Mayo fans in Westport. All the best Conner, you done a grand job showing your stay here on our wee island.
The agri diesel is ths same as as what you would put in your car. It has a lower excise duty on it. It is dyed green to prevent people putting it in their cars.
As an Indian I don't like most of the part of the British colonial legacy but this particular thing,driving on left is logical. From Sword in right hand to Steering in right hand it had stood the testimony of time. Love to British and Irish people!❤️💯
The Agri-diesel is much cheaper than normal diesel or petrol as it has a lower tax applied to it, on the basis that it is used solely for agricultural uses. It is the exact same as normal diesel but with a coloured dye added to it. The Revenue (similar to the IRS), in conjunction with the Gardai (police) carry out random checkpoints where they will dip the tank of diesel vehicles to ensure they are using the appropriate type of diesel.
I know you didn't mean anything derrogatory about saying the life is simple in the countryside but it its wrong many commute to jobs in town and either the farmers wife or he himself or both have jobs off farm very few are full time farmers.Irish planning laws were lax up to recently which meant living in the countryside was very easy and cheap to build houses which is very different to the rest of europe where you can only build in urban areas.They are thoroughly plugged into modern life a bit quieter and close to nature but its not like living in a wilderness miles from civilization
Ireland was an (unwilling) part of the UK from 1801 to 1922, the left hand driving rule was introduced in 1835. We didn't have much of a say in the matter unfortunately! 🤷
No choice in the matter most of the ireland is independent but six counties are in the UK so if we changed to the right and the brits didn't we would have severe difficulties trading with northern ireland .
@@yermanoffthetellySo why didn’t they switch when they gained independence in 1922. Sweden changed sides in 1967, so no one was stopping Ireland. It’s a cop out to blame the Brits.
@@spymo9360 Because 90% of Swedes already drove left hand vehicles on the "wrong" side of the road pre switch leading to high levels of road fatalities when overtaking. All neighbouring countries to Sweden already drove on the right and weren't going to change. Made sense. That wasn't the case in Ireland, in fact it would have created the same problem Sweden faced pre switch, especially for anyone venturing over the border.
