Dubliner's have the Best Accent says New Poll

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DUBLINERS HAVE THE BEST ACCENT SAYS NEW POLL
NEW RESEARCH FROM TRAVELODGE REVEALS MOST POPULAR IRISH ACCENTS!

· 31% think Dubliners have nicest accent in Ireland
· 20% think Cork accent is least attractive
· 17% claim the Dublin accent oozes sex appeal!
· Spanish and Italian accents are the most popular foreign accents
· Colin Farrell and Ronan Keating have the sexiest male accents
· Lucy Kennedy has the sexiest female accent

Wednesday 23rd September, 2009: New research from leading budget hotel group, Travelodge Ireland, has revealed that Irish people prefer the sound of the Dublin accent to any other Irish accent! The Dubs top the Travelodge poll of 1,000 hotel guests for the favourite Irish accent with 31% of the vote followed by the Cork accent in second place with 18% of the vote, Galway with 16%, Kerry with 10%, Donegal with 7% and Limerick with 6% of the vote.

35% of the 1,000 Travelodge hotel guests surveyed who picked the Dublin accent as their favourite accent did so because of its tone, with 17% claiming the Dublin accent oozes sex appeal.

Ireland’s 10 most popular accents are as follows:
Dublin - 31%
Cork - 18%
Galway - 16%
Kerry - 10%
Donegal - 7%
Waterford - 6%
Limerick - 6%
Mayo -3%
Belfast - 2%
Offaly - 1%

The people of Cork will have to slow down if they want to move up Ireland’s favourite accent chart as, according to the research, 20% of the Irish people don’t like the Cork accent with 15% claiming Corkonians speak too fast and they simply couldn’t understand the accent.
Among the European accents we want to hear, 27% chose Italian and Spanish accents as they their favourite European accents. Irish people are still seduced by our celtic brothers with 22% of confessing to loving the Scottish accent with a further 18% giving their vote down under and going for the Australian accent. The Dutch accent was least popular only managing to get 2% of the vote.

Pop star Ronan Keating and hunky actor Colin Farrell, both Dubs, topped the favourite Irish accent poll among Irish women, getting 20% of the female vote. U2 front man, Bono came in second with 14% of the vote. 35% of Irish men confess to loving the accent of TV starlet Lucy Kennedy. Lucy was followed closely by her fellow TV star and Galwegian, Grainne Seoige with 20% of males choosing the day time TV babe as the lady with the nicest sounding accent.

The top 10 male and female accents according to the Travelodge survey are:

Colin Farrell - 22% Lucy Kennedy - 35%
Ronan Keating - 22% Grainne Seoige - 20%
Bono - 14% Andrea Corr - 12%
Ian Dempsey - 8% Miriam O Callaghan - 8%
Matt Cooper - 4% Lorraine Keane - 8%
Gerry Ryan - 4% Anne Doyle - 4%
Niall Breslin - 4% Pamela Flood - 3%
Ryan Tubridy - 3% Kathryn Thomas - 3%
Joe Duffy - 3% Laura Woods - 2%
Diarmuid Gavin - 2% Amy Huberman - 2%


The survey was carried out by Travelodge Ireland among 1,000 hotel guests. For more information on rooms and availability please visit www.travelodge.ie and all major hotel booking websites.

Travelodge Ireland - Room Reductions for the Football Final

Attention all Kerry & Cork Football Supporters

The weekend is finally here and the all Munster final is two days away.

It will be the third clash between Cork and Kerry this year as Kerry pursue their 36th All-Ireland title – and their fifth this decade – while Cork are seeking their first title since 1990.

This is a match not to me missed.

Travelodge Ireland has fantastic room reductions for this mouth watering clash on Sunday.
We have family rooms available in our Dublin hotels for a cracking rate of €49.

Travelodge Dublin Airport Swords – 01- 8079400
Travelodge Dublin Airport Ballymun – 01-8422000
Travelodge Dublin Castleknock – 01-8202626
Travelodge Dublin City Rathmines – 01- 4911402

Alternatively visit www.travelodge.ie

Travelodge Ireland would like to take this opportunity to wish both teams the best of luck!

Travelodge Ireland Spring Sale - €12 per room

Travelodge is Ireland leading provider in budget accommodation.

Today we launch our Spring Sale offering rooms from €12, for stay between January & April 2010.

These excellent value rooms are available in all 11 Travelodge Hotels across Ireland and in over 373 Travelodge hotels in the UK.

Our hotels are located in DUBLIN * CORK * LIMERICK * GALWAY* WATERFORD* BELFAST* DERRY.

In conjunction with our fantastic Spring Sale we have opened €39 rooms for stays dates in September & October.

All saver rooms are non refundable – non transferable.

As always – Hurry they’re selling out fast!!!

CLICK HERE TO FIND A SPRING BARGAIN
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/saver_rooms