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Any Ol' Leprechaun can sneak run up, sneak in, and grab the gold!
Consider this a tribute to the Irish Families who's roots grew up on the Emerald Isle.
This cache is a family friendly cache. Be sure to let the kids out on the safe side of the road.
Everything inside is GOLD or GREEN. Help this theme along and add gold or green swag.
FTF will find this cache stuffed to the brim with Irish cache. There are many surpises under this rainbow. There is also a new travelbug ready to hop away. This cache was placed in the town of Rainbow, under a rainbow. Look for a leprechaun in the area, they are quick and hard to spot. The rainbow will always be there, but the leprechaun seems to vanish.
IRISH FACTS:
Guinness-2 billion pints sold annually world wide
Guinness-2,304,000 pints can be fermented in one brewing at the original St. James Gate brewery
10,000 Dubliners who are dependent on the Guinness brewery for their livelihood, one in 30 residents
198 calories in a pint of Guiness, less than OJ or skim milk
Whiskey spelled with an "e" is Irish, Whisky without an "e" is Scotch.
The first license to distill whiskey was granted to Bushmills in 1608, making it the oldest distillery in the world.
5% of all Ireland's total milk production goes to making Baileys Irish Cream.
40,000 cows sole purpose is to supply milk to Baileys. Ireland has twice as many cattle as people.
Baileys has a shelf live of 24 months.
The "classic" Irish combo of corned beef and cabbage is barely 100 years old, and is more a product of the isand of Manhattan than of the Emerald Isle. Early Irish immigrants to the USA has settled on NYs Lower East Side, the Jewish area, and bacon and cured ham was hard to come by, to they did what the Jews did and bought brisket instead, brined it in kosher salt, and served "corned beef" for dinner.
Starching shirts cam from Ireland. The Irish would use the left over water after boiling potatoes to iron into shirts and make stiff, tight, clean-cut collars.
There is only one city in all of Ireland not situated on the coast; Kilkenny.
It has not reached 90 degrees anywhere in Ireland since 1887, the normal summer high is 78 degrees.
Its cloudy or rainy 250 days a year in Ireland.
Snakes are not native to Ireland. St. Partick gets all the credit, but the truth is snakes were never there.
Legend states that St. Patrick used the clover to explain the Holy Trinity.
The Celtic harp is the national symbol of Ireland.
The Red Hand of Ulster, (which you will see on many Irish flags and other items) is the ancient Celtic symbol that now repersents Norther Irish Protestant identity, reportedly originated when two chieftains were fighting each other to rule Ulster. They decided to settle their dispute with a race; the one whose hand touched Ulster first would be the new king. When they reached the river that fronted the province, one swam across, while the other took off his sword, cut off his hand, and threw it onto the opposite bank. Thus, he claimed that he was the first to touch Ulster, and he became king.
Bono of U2 is the only person who has been nominated for and Oscar, a Grammy, a Golden Globe, and a Nobel Peace Prize.
Ireland has the second-highest wealth per capita (33,000 millionaires) ahead of the USA, the UK, France, and Germany, only behind Japan.
Additional Hints
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Vs lbh frr gur envaobj, lbh ner va gur evtug fcbg.