Why you should love the Irish!

Not only because 10% of the Irish population have red hair and to be honest - red headed people are the most beautiful in the world (maybe this does not apply to male people, so lets say red headed girls are the most beautiful people in the world) but mainly because they are a quite funny nation, perfectly shown by taking the example of some pretty senseless laws you can find on the Internet. No matter if they are true or just invented, they are very funny: 

General Public Laws:

Law: It is illegal to be drunk in a pub.

Probably no Irish person has ever heard of it or they are just evidently ignoring it, as it is not even executed.

Law: It is illegal to smoke tobacco on Grafton Street.

Obviously it is the same as with the first law – nobody knows about it or it is just being ignored and not executed. There are even two tobacco shops in this street.

Law: If a Leprechaun calls at your door you must, by law, give him a share of your dinner. Yep, nothing to say against that law! But of course only, if the Leprechaun promises you luck for the rest of your life.

Law: Holders of the freedom of Dublin have the right to pasture sheep on common ground within the city boundaries.

Oh, yes of course, why not?!

Law: Crossing a railway track on a bicycle is illegal whereas you can drive across it legally.

This one is one of the most pointless laws because there is no difference in safety.

Law: It is illegal to perform any form of witchcraft in the city.

Of course it is illegal, as there are so many red headed women and we all know that these women are witches. J

Student Laws:

Law: In Trinity College, students can demand a glass of wine during the exam.

Great law! Austria should think about bringing it into use as well.

Law: It is illegal for a student to walk through Trinity College without a sword.

Very ridiculously but sadly no one observes this law.

Law: You can shoot someone and kill them from the top of the bell tower in Trinity on a particular day of the year and not be charged with murder.

The catch is that nobody knows this very date. J

Past Laws:

Law: The penalty for suicide was death by hanging. 

Yeah, that does make a lot of sense. This law was indeed carried out – people who killed themselves were hanged directly after they have committed this “crime”.

Those laws are of course way more harmless than most of the ridiculous laws in the USA but some of them are also very funny and pointless.