I once met old Irish man here in Canada who told me he was 75 and never had a drink in his life...that would be same if you met someone in Italy who never heard of Ferrari...I guess anything is possible : - )
Anyway, maybe Im biased, but I absolutely love Cork, Ireland, best place ever! But yes, you are correct, I had situation once where lots of weird things happened, as customer inadvertantly blocked Ireland, but we totally forgot that S1C CP mgmt instance was running out of there, so took us few hours to sort that out.
Andy