Psychotic Mongooses
15-05-2006, 16:24
I blame the invention of the inter-ma-net. No longer dancing at the crossroads or having a pint o' the black stchuff with friends, and despite being the best place to live in the world for quality of life*, Irish people are the loneliest in the world.
Not to worry though, those Antipodeans are nearly as lonely. Maybe it has something to do with being on islands so far away from everyone else....
DUBLIN, Ireland (Reuters) -- Ireland may be enjoying stellar economic growth and seen as one of the best places in the world to live, but its inhabitants are apparently also the globe's loneliest.
Google Trends, which works out how many searches have been done via the Internet search engine on particular terms, showed the word "lonely" was entered most frequently by Internet users in Ireland....
Ireland's capital, Dublin, topped the city list for "lonely" searches, followed by Melbourne, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/05/15/ireland.lonely.reut/index.html
*As named by The Economist in 2004
Not to worry though, those Antipodeans are nearly as lonely. Maybe it has something to do with being on islands so far away from everyone else....
DUBLIN, Ireland (Reuters) -- Ireland may be enjoying stellar economic growth and seen as one of the best places in the world to live, but its inhabitants are apparently also the globe's loneliest.
Google Trends, which works out how many searches have been done via the Internet search engine on particular terms, showed the word "lonely" was entered most frequently by Internet users in Ireland....
Ireland's capital, Dublin, topped the city list for "lonely" searches, followed by Melbourne, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/05/15/ireland.lonely.reut/index.html
*As named by The Economist in 2004