The country has a special snake sanctuary called dáil eireann
I remember seeing a lizard in my garden when I was like 12 years old and thought I was losing my mind. Some things you just don’t realise are possible such as a lizard native to Ireland
I also remember being on holidays in France as a teenager too, nice hot day just sitting in the shade at a water park when a fucking green snake slithered over my foot. I honestly freaked out because I didn’t realise there was snakes anywhere outside the jungle / desert lmao
Lick it’s belly or something, apparently you get the cure for burns. If anyone gets a burn you just lick them on the burn and it won’t scar. My old neighbour had the gift, so I was told.
As mentioned above that looks like a newt. There are lizards too. I’ve only ever seen the lizards when walking up Mount Errigal in Donegal. But they are called the common lizard. The lizard is significantly larger than the newt and had large scales.
That’s Newts to me
My friend had a lizard that found it’s way into his room and would crawl along the walls
Someone get saint patrick back around here and tell him to finish the job 😤
Finding this out in my 30s was some mad mandela effect shit for me. I was obsessed with lizards as a kid. I read loads of books about them, had lizard tshirts, had a bearded dragon pet and even wore lizard necklaces. I had always been totally under the impression that we had none over here, which was weird considering I could list off most of the native reptiles in Britain.
My partner mentioned something about always seeing loads of lizards out their back as a kid and if not for google I would died on the hill that we have no native reptiles in Ireland. Still amazes me years later.
He could be the last of them.
Think that is smooth newt, never knew we had them either until I found one a few years ago and he was identified by a reptile rescue.
A lizard is never late..
99% sure it’s Komodo Dragon
My uncle refused to believe we have them, even though we told him we’ve seen a fair few around our house.
Pretty sure that’s a newt, not a lizard. Still an awesome find!
We have the common lizard here, but that looks like a female newt. Do you have a body of water nearby?
It’s on holiday.
That little guy is an amphibian, not a lizard, theyre called common or smooth newts. Probably looking for a nice pond somewhere.
Lizards eat insects. I’m in Houston, and I’m a lizard landlord. Many, many tenants in my garden. Y’all probably don’t have the kind of mosquitoes we do – ours are bad. Lizards eat bugs.
Lizards good, bugs bad.
That’s a newt
That’s a varadkar of the Fine Gael genus species
The viviparous lizard. One of the few lizards to give live birth rather than laying eggs.
That’s a Rebecca.
This is a smooth newt, an amphibian. The only native reptile we have is common lizard which are shy and well camouflaged. There is a small population of introduced slow worm, also a lizard, in the Burren
Salamanders…
OP: ‘I am fibbin ye!’
Definitely a newt, not a lizard
Although that’s an amphibian in the picture, Ireland does have an ingenious lizard.
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The common lizard, our only native reptile.
There’s also the slow worm, a legless lizard that was introduced here; mainly found around the Burren.
Loadza snakes round here hun
They are indeed, but I think that’s a newt. It has more of a rounded nose than our lizards have
Ireland has only one native reptile species, the common lizard.
We have three amphibians, the common frog, smooth newt, and natterjack toad.
He’s gorgeous! I’ve never seen one here, only abroad.
There’s loads of lizards, they’re even running the show in Dáil Éireann
I don’t get anything in my back garden, can’t even find an ant!
That’s a newt (head like a frog’s), our [common lizard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Common_Viviparous_Lizard_%28Zootoca_vivipara%29_%286161781876%29.jpg) has scaly skin and clawed feet.
Saw one or 2 around glendalough awhile back
The country has a special snake sanctuary called dáil eireann
I remember seeing a lizard in my garden when I was like 12 years old and thought I was losing my mind. Some things you just don’t realise are possible such as a lizard native to Ireland
I also remember being on holidays in France as a teenager too, nice hot day just sitting in the shade at a water park when a fucking green snake slithered over my foot. I honestly freaked out because I didn’t realise there was snakes anywhere outside the jungle / desert lmao
Lick it’s belly or something, apparently you get the cure for burns. If anyone gets a burn you just lick them on the burn and it won’t scar. My old neighbour had the gift, so I was told.
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4701769/4701261/4727091?ChapterID=4701769#:~:text=Burns%3A%20A%20person%20who%20licks,the%20burn%20by%20licking%20it.
As mentioned above that looks like a newt. There are lizards too. I’ve only ever seen the lizards when walking up Mount Errigal in Donegal. But they are called the common lizard. The lizard is significantly larger than the newt and had large scales.
That’s Newts to me
My friend had a lizard that found it’s way into his room and would crawl along the walls
Someone get saint patrick back around here and tell him to finish the job 😤
Finding this out in my 30s was some mad mandela effect shit for me. I was obsessed with lizards as a kid. I read loads of books about them, had lizard tshirts, had a bearded dragon pet and even wore lizard necklaces. I had always been totally under the impression that we had none over here, which was weird considering I could list off most of the native reptiles in Britain.
My partner mentioned something about always seeing loads of lizards out their back as a kid and if not for google I would died on the hill that we have no native reptiles in Ireland. Still amazes me years later.
He could be the last of them.
Think that is smooth newt, never knew we had them either until I found one a few years ago and he was identified by a reptile rescue.
A lizard is never late..
99% sure it’s Komodo Dragon
My uncle refused to believe we have them, even though we told him we’ve seen a fair few around our house.
https://preview.redd.it/g0vgiibvfgza1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=9ba8ae4ed2170443b3d24beb14eb50933d93acbd
See them all the time when I read the meter
Pretty sure that’s a newt, not a lizard. Still an awesome find!
We have the common lizard here, but that looks like a female newt. Do you have a body of water nearby?
It’s on holiday.
That little guy is an amphibian, not a lizard, theyre called common or smooth newts. Probably looking for a nice pond somewhere.
Lizards eat insects. I’m in Houston, and I’m a lizard landlord. Many, many tenants in my garden. Y’all probably don’t have the kind of mosquitoes we do – ours are bad. Lizards eat bugs.
Lizards good, bugs bad.
That’s a newt
That’s a varadkar of the Fine Gael genus species
The viviparous lizard. One of the few lizards to give live birth rather than laying eggs.
That’s a Rebecca.
This is a smooth newt, an amphibian. The only native reptile we have is common lizard which are shy and well camouflaged. There is a small population of introduced slow worm, also a lizard, in the Burren
Salamanders…
OP: ‘I am fibbin ye!’
Definitely a newt, not a lizard
Although that’s an amphibian in the picture, Ireland does have an ingenious lizard.
https://iwt.ie/what-we-do/citizen-science/national-reptile-survey/#:~:text=The%20common%20or%20viviparous%20lizard,eggs%20in%20order%20to%20reproduce.
Palmate newt. Absent from NI though.
Arlene foster
St Patrick lied
STOP posting pictures of TDs from Dáil Éireann….!!!
Seen a lizard on the bog once as a kid in Mayo. Don’t talk to me about Dragonflies though…
are you getting ready to cook him or something? lol
Nobody tells me nothin