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Herald adjacency

Back in the day, newspapers had employees who would check for "adjacencies" like this, because they knew the advertisers would refuse to pay for their ads. Looks like Pat Purcell owes Aer Lingus a do-over.

Tip o' the scally cap to the actual Herald reader who forwarded this.

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Look for this on a Monday night on Leno's show soon.

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No thanks. He's no Emmy-nominated host, like Conan O'Brien.

/I'm with Team CoCo!

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Who somehow, has superior ratings.

I didn't say let's all watch Leno, just that Leno will be using the headline.

I like Conan too. I could swear I saw him drive off from Pino's pizza once. Now THAT's keepin' it real. Too bad I hardly ever watch TV during the week anymore or I'd have a lot more to say on the matter!

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New Rochelle, NY is local...if you're a Yankee fan.

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Once a local, always a local.

Conan has roots in Brookline
Jay has roots in Andover.

Neither spent their entire life in the area, I guess that makes them both stinking rotten outsider yankee fans, right? Eeka's recent post explains it the best.

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Ay, Dublin and Shannon are both in The Republic of Ireland not Northern Ireland. Nobody wants to go to Northern Ireland anyway.

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Seems to be a popular attraction.

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some people still go there. people with relatives.

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I guess Aer Lingus flying two planes a day to Boston in the summer and one in the winter counts as "some people." Plus the daily flights out of Newark, JFK, and Chicago; "some people." Just a few, I guess. People must like Ireland, I guess, some people, I guess.

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Derry is high on my list of fav. international cities. We were there about 2 weeks ago and saw the murals, the painted curbs, and the pile of firewood they were making for the marches. Other places in the North of Ireland are absolutely gorgeous, as well.

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I had a wonderful time in the North, including Belfast and Derry. I met some amazing people with stories that absolutely floored me, and made me appreciate my upbringing in a place NOT torn apart by violence. Also, as beautiful as the rest of Ireland is, nothing compares to Giant's Causeway, Carrick-a-Rede or Dunluce Castle.

Aaaand, this is where I start counting the days until I touch down there in a couple of weeks. :-)

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The main point you all seem to have missed is that it is not the same country. Northern Ireland is part of the UK and southern Ireland is the Republic of Ireland. So violence in the north does not detract from a vacation in the south. It would be as if something bad happened in Canada and an ad for Boston was running next to it.

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is part of ireland but the fucking british took and wont give it back.

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If you were offering vacations to South Korea would you want to advertise them alongside news items about nuclear warheads in North Korea?

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Having to show my passport to cross onto British soil (at a guarded military checkpoint, no less) tipped me off that it's a different country. I was responding to your assertion that no one wants to go there, which I find both true and sad, because it was a wonderful place to visit and could benefit from the tourism. Also, I thought the ad looked like it was placed by Aerlingus, who fly in and out of Belfast.

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I may also be a little biased, I agree with Bostonkid that it was stolen by the British... but I am an Irish American who was shocked when I got older and found out the IRA did some pretty nasty stuff in England. I had always heard things about the south and bad things about the north.

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I assume that although it seems wrong to have a plane departing Ireland over the Cliffs of Moher in an ad about coming to Ireland, the plane heading in the other direction could be misconstrued.

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basic cable channels did a multi-part documentary on notable maritime disasters. It was sponsored by Carnival Cruise Lines.

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