Dubliners have romped home in first place in a poll that asked Irish people which of the country’s accents they preferred.
Budget hotel group Travelodge Ireland polled 1,000 hotel guests to establish who they liked hearing the sound of, and Dublin secured just under a third of the overall vote.
31 per cent voted for the capital while the Cork accent came in second with 18 per cent. Galway clocked up a respectable 16 per cent.
Kerry was next up with 10 per cent of the vote, Donegal got 7 per cent and Limerick 6 per cent.
Some 35 per cent of the 1,000 Travelodge hotel guests surveyed who picked the Dublin accent as their favourite accent did so because of its tone.
17 per cent, meanwhile, said the Dublin accent oozes sex appeal.
The people of Cork will have to slow down if they want to move up Ireland’s favourite accent chart as, according to the research, 20 per cent of Irish people don’t like the Cork accent and 15 per cent say Corkonians speak too fast to be understood.
Among the European accents we want to hear, 27 per cent chose Italian and Spanish accents.
Irish people are evidently still fond of our Celtic brothers with 22 per cent saying they favoured the Scottish accent.
A further 18 per cent went for the Australian accent while the Dutch proved least popular, securing just 2 per cent of the vote.
The three Irishmen with the most popular celebrity accents all hailed from Dublin, with Ronan Keating, Bono and Colin Farrell securing some 34 per cent of the female vote combined.
Irish men, meanwhile, favoured Lucy Kennedy’s accent, closely followed by Grainne Seoige.
LISTEN: You Must Be Jokin’ podcast – listen to the latest episode now!
