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11th Feb 2019

PIC: An English town’s bizarre map of Ireland is head-scratching stuff

Alan Loughnane

Ireland map

Geography lesson needed.

We understand that Ireland is not the largest country in the world and we are but a small island sitting in the Atlantic on the western coast of Europe.

But we didn’t realise that other people thought Ireland was quite this small…

Newquay is a town on the north coast of Cornwall, in southwest England and it has a tourism website dedicated to encouraging people to visit the area.

It has been voted one of the UK’s favourite seaside towns, with some lovely beaches and is known as a great family holiday destination.

So in a bid to highlight how accessible the town is for tourists, a website provides a handy little map of the destinations that fly to the area.

This is the map they use…

Now, we’re no experts in geography, but something about this seems a little bit off when it comes to the map of Ireland and the placement of Dublin.

We can’t quite put our finger on it though…

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Topics:

Brexit,Ireland,UK