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| Finley's Irish bar & Grill |
705 Vernon St
Nelson BC
V1L 4G3
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The only place in town to be at on St Patricks day!
Green beer, some Laguna action goin' on, there was laughter, kilts and loads 'o' pretty Birds !
May the luck of the Irish be with you throughout the year and we'll look forward to seeing you for many more good times and great memories !
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Laguna was in fine form!!!
43 facts about Dublin you most likely were unaware of....
1) Dublin's O'Connell Bridge was originally made of rope and could only carry one man and a donkey at a time. It was replaced with a wooden structure in 1801. The current concrete bridge was built in 1863 and was first called "Carlisle Bridge".
2) O'Connell Bridge is the only traffic bridge in Europe which is wider than it is long and Dublin's second O'Connell Bridge is across the pond in Stephen's Green.
3) Dublin Corporation planted 43,765 deciduous trees in the Greater Dublin area in 1998.
4) Dublin's oldest workhouse closed its doors for the last time in July 1969. Based in Smithfield, the premises housed 10,037 orphan children during the one hundred and seventy years it operated. |
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5) Dublin was originally called Dubh Linn meaning Black Pool. The pool to which the name referred is the oldest known natural treacle lake in Northern Europe and currently forms the centrepiece of the penguin enclosure in Dublin Zoo.
6) There are over 1,000 prostitutes operating in the Dublin area on any given night. Most are women from outside Dublin.
7) The average Dubliner earns £19,000 per annum, giving twelve pounds to charity and a hundred and sixty two pounds in tips. The most important consideration when a man is deciding whether or not to give a barmaid a tip is the amount of her body that he can see. A quarter of all tips go to taxi drivers even though they earn, on average, four times the average wage in the city, higher than ninety six percent of their clients.
8) None of the so-called Dublin Mountains is high enough to meet the criteria required to claim mountain status. The Sugarloaf is the tallest 'Dublin Mountain' yet measures a mere 1389 feet above sea level.
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9) The headquarters of the national broadcaster RTE in Montrose was originally built for use as an abattoir.
10) Dublin's oldest traffic light is situated beside the Renault garage in Clontarf. The light, which is still in full working order, was installed in 1893 outside the home of Fergus Mitchell who was the owner of the first car in Ireland.
11) The Temple Bar area is so called because it housed the first Jewish temple built in Ireland. The word 'bar' refers to the refusal of Catholics to allow the Jewish community to enter any of the adjoining commercial premises.
12) Tiny Coliemore Harbour beside the Dalkey Island Hotel was the main harbour for Dublin from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.
13) Dublin is the IT Call Centre capital of Europe with over 100,000 people employed in the industry.
14) In 1761 a family of itinerants from Navan were refused entry to Dublin. The family settled on the outskirts of the city and created the town of Rush. Two hundred and fifty years later, almost the entire population of Rush can still trace their roots back to this one family.
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15) Ireland's longest running Internet publication www.bowsie.com was established in Dublin in 1994.
16) Dubliners drink a total of 9800 pints an hour between the hours of 5.30pm on a Friday and 3.00am the following Monday.
17) Women from Dublin are the least likely to become pregnant through casual sex. Women from Meath are the most likely.
18) Dublin is Europe's most popular destination with travelling stag and hen parties. There are an estimated six hundred 'pre wedding sessions' every weekend in the capital.
19) Harold's Cross got it's name because a tribe called the Harolds lived in the Wickow Mountains and the Archbiship of Dublin would not let them come any nearer to the city than that point.
20) Leopardstown was once known as Leperstown.
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