Sausage-smuggling habits revealed

So you think Irish life today is all about surviving the recession, the winter weather, and water charges? Well think again.

A survey has identified 75 quirky and insightful facts which show there’s way more to it than that.

A fifth of us smuggle sausages on holidays, more than half of us make a pot of tea in a crisis, 80% of us love crisp sandwiches, most of us can pull a pint, 40% of us have a tin whistle in the house, and nearly all of us (94%) thank the bus driver at the end of our journey.