This Art Deco Donnybrook house has been adapted for multi-generational living
This Art Deco Donnybrook house has been adapted for multi-generational living

Megan Burns

‘Father’s Day, to me, is a lot like being single on Valentine’s Day’
‘Father’s Day, to me, is a lot like being single on Valentine’s Day’

Sarah Gill

Page Turners: ‘Thirst Trap’ author Gráinne O’Hare
Page Turners: ‘Thirst Trap’ author Gráinne O’Hare

Sarah Gill

Social photos from our Beyond the Awards: Stories of Success and Impact event
Social photos from our Beyond the Awards: Stories of Success and Impact event

Sarah Gill

Here are the interiors trends we’ll all be searching this summer (and how to shop them)
Here are the interiors trends we’ll all be searching this summer (and how to shop...

Megan Burns

‘Virtually everyone experiences imposter syndrome, from interns to C-suite executives’
‘Virtually everyone experiences imposter syndrome, from interns to C-suite executives’

Megan Burns

The best events happening around Ireland this weekend
The best events happening around Ireland this weekend

Sarah Gill

In Her Shoes: Silvana Landa McAdam of LANDA
In Her Shoes: Silvana Landa McAdam of LANDA

IMAGE

Conductor Orla Flanagan: ‘This concert explores human existence in different spheres’
Conductor Orla Flanagan: ‘This concert explores human existence in different spheres’

Sarah Gill

This 1970s Galway semi-d has been refreshed and revived
This 1970s Galway semi-d has been refreshed and revived

Nathalie Marquez Courtney

Image / Editorial

30 Signs You’re Irish in 2015


By IMAGE
08th May 2015
30 Signs You’re Irish in 2015

We’ve read countless ’10 signs you’re Irish’ kinda posts. But what are the signs that you’re Irish in 2015? Below we round up some key signs you’re with it in 2015, sure to recall the familiar for many a reader.

Which one relates mostly to you? Do tell.

1. Your weekends have become so packed with brunch dates you’re now verging on brunch contempt. You long for the good auld days of a bowl of Corn Flakes and at best, a glass of Tropicana.

2. You can’t do anything – be it a brunch date, referenced above, or getting a millimetre chopped off your hair – without giving it the full 360 on social media. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, you’ll probably add it to your Snapchat story too.

3. You no longer toy with the photo filters on your iPhone let alone on Instagram, you go straight for that super enhancing, tanning effect on Snapchat.

4. You cannot sit idle for one minute without checking your phone.

5. Because of said phone obsession and the corresponding Carpal Tunnel, you try to impose technological bans on yourself an hour before bed.

6. You meditate.

7. You google ‘mindfulness’.

8. You’re over juicing now and you’ve been there, done that as far as sweet potato fries or pulled pork are concerned.

9. You’ve been playing Tag Rugby for a few years now.

10. You will NOT be buying floral headbands to wear at this year’s festivals.

11. In fact, you’ll probably just wear jeans and runners to all festivals because you’re over Sally Hansen leg spray and Urban Outfitters short shorts.

12. You keep pondering how mad it is that your old Nike Airmax are now back in fashion.

13. You’re delighted that Asics aren’t your only option anymore for comfortable shoes to walk to work in.

13. You used to loathe the idea of black runners; you now love them.

14. When you’re in a taxi you no longer talk about the weather, you talk about the marriage equality referendum and you do so with gusto.

15. You can’t believe it’s been 15 years since the Millenium and you regularly work out how many years have passed since 9/11 (probably not Irish specific but still)

16. Spin 1038’s Noughty Threesome baffles you; it seems like just yesterday that those songs were in the charts.

17. You’ve got a FitBit.

18. You’ve got an InStyler.

19. You own a pair of Culottes and you’re big into midi length skirts.

20. You’re feeling particularly patriotic on account of Ireland’s Six Nations win. You refer to Ian Madigan as Mad Dog, like you know him.

21. You think Balayage is so 2014.

22. You know more about the Jenners now than you do the Kardashians.

23. In fact, you know more about the Jenners than you do Irish politics.

24. You make Dad-like jokes about how you’ll have to start rationing the water, now that we’re paying for it.

25. Your favourite app is the Parking Tag app. Who needs change in 2015?

26. You gorge on TLC’s trash TV after a hard day’s work.

27. You’re no longer the Irish who go on holidays to Spain; you go to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Copenhagen or you island hop off the coast of Croatia.

28. You follow several dogs on Instagram. You might have a profile for your own pet too.

29. You don’t know why you forked out for an iPhone 6. Or an iPad.

30. You don’t go for tapas; you go for japas.

@CarolineForan