# Disproportionate number of Ireland-based dopers? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348 "2002-11-28T15:18:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/1 "2002-11-28T15:18:02Z")
As a minority country, my adopted home seems to have at least as many dopers as the UK, and possibly more than Australia, yet it has but a tiny ickle wickle population. Anyone know why? I guess a few of us can blame **yojimbo** , but what about all the rest? ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/2 "2002-11-28T15:27:15Z")
Add John to the list. He’s registered but hasn’t ever posted. Clearly, it’s the Irish work ethic influencing this phenomenon. :ducks and hides: ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/3 "2002-11-28T17:33:24Z")
I can be blamed for **jjimm** **manwithaplan** **micilin** The person who introduced me to [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) **pergau** and I can’t remember the user name of the other one :o But there are many more than that. English speaking. Clever. Inquisaitive. Most likely **Anahita** hit it on the head. Slackers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/4 "2002-11-28T17:35:00Z")
BTW JIC you don’t know there’s only 3.9(and **jjimm** 😉 ) million of us. ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/5 "2002-11-28T17:50:19Z")
I’m going to be an Irish doper very soon, as I’ve decided to get an Irish passport. Yay! (But boo! for the paperwork involved. Ah, well, it’s better than being an alien, I suppose. I couldn’t stand making the trip from Galway to Dublin every year to wait in line overnight to get my visa stuff done.) ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/6 "2002-11-28T17:54:55Z")
Yay indeed. Hope to meet ya when you come over. Galway’s a great part of the world aswell. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/7 "2002-11-28T18:00:20Z")
Nice one, **Anahita**. Maybe then I can get you to lift the voodoo hex that’s been bothering my bottom. And off the top of my head, to add to **yojimbo’s** list, there’s also **ruadh** , **UDS** , **TwistOfFate** , **Hibernicus** , from the North there’s **Aro** (and there was that geezer who styled himself “A True Son of Ulster”, but he left). There was also that Kevin Myers-alike bloke, but he’s gone too I think. There’s more too that 've forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/8 "2002-11-28T18:04:20Z")
Never too many Paddies, if you ask me. – Uke, whose paypul came from county Roscommon ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/9 "2002-11-28T18:05:34Z")
We should have a Guinness/Oyster Fest for the big Galway Festival in September. Watch the boards around that time for info. I can’t wait to get there! And what about **irish girl** and **irish man**? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/10 "2002-11-28T18:06:55Z")
**irishgirl glass onion Damhna itiki**(I think that’s spelt wrong. Dub in Sweden) and more but my brain is letting me down. I need sleep badly. Bending the elbow a bit too much of late 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/11 "2002-11-28T18:11:58Z")
Galwaydope. Excellent idea. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/12 "2002-11-28T21:16:34Z")
_stands blushing madly in the corner at having been remembered_ ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/13 "2002-11-28T21:33:56Z")
And Pushkin! Don’t forget Pushkin! (I think Irishman is actually from and based in Texas or someplace like that.) ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/14 "2002-11-28T22:32:08Z")
yeah, there’s a lot of you lot. I think we’ve got more Aussies though overall but then we have a larger population here. A tidier comparision would be with NZ which has a similar population base and there’s bugger all of us around the place. Ice Wolf, me who is resident in Australia, apollyon (but he’s MIA), guanolad, another expat… ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/15 "2002-11-28T22:39:58Z")
So Irish Dopers are not small potatos here, eh? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/16 "2002-11-28T23:24:27Z")
Hmmm…people so far have come up with a little over a dozen posters. That doesn’t seem disproportionate to almost 4 million residents. I bet there are almost as many posters from my state, which has only a little more than 1/4th of the population of Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/17 "2002-11-29T07:05:10Z")
What I think is funny is that **all** of the 26-county Dopers are in Dublin. I think we had one from Galway a couple years ago (and will have two from there in a few months :)) but that’s it. Now as behind-the-times as this country is where the internet is concerened I know for a fact they they _do_ have access out in the country so where are all the Culchie Dopers? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/18 "2002-11-29T09:07:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > \*\*where are all the Culchie Dopers? \*\* Bringin in de hay. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/19 "2002-11-29T09:09:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > \*\*Hmmm…people so far have come up with a little over a dozen posters. That doesn’t seem disproportionate to almost 4 million residents. I bet there are almost as many posters from my state, which has only a little more than 1/4th of the population of Ireland. \*\* Yeah but this is an American board. One would expect a higher proportion of American dopers on it. Which there are. ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348/20 "2002-11-29T09:10:36Z")
**ruadh** , There’s a poster called **flairgun** who lists his location as Uibh Fháile. **Anahita** , A pre-emptive welcome to Ireland. And remember, Galway may be a progressive, arty student city but your kids will still be muckers;). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disproportionate-number-of-ireland-based-dopers/139348.md?page=2)