To seriously recommend Ireland

Read my post. It says ex fiance.

I like your enthusiasm OP!

I like being Irish & living in Ireland. But u recognise it has its challenges, which will very according to where you live.

The rain is not as bad as stated! (Except for right now which has been a January of daily rain 😬).

I live in Dublin & don’t find it rainy, having grown up in Limerick and lived in Cork, so comparatively, it’s dry.

Broadly, Irish people are friendly and welcoming - but there are sadly, plenty of exceptions to that too.

I love visiting the UK, of course it’s only been for short trios and holidays but I’ve met lovely, welcoming, chatty people there too.

Ireland will suit some people, not others - like anywhere.

Yes, bungalow blight or Dallas Palace or McMansions we call them!

half Indian & a total misogynist? & a muppet.

We went to Co. Clare last year for a week and had the same impression. Beautiful natural landscape but really ugly built landscape. Bungalows everywhere!

Good because our leprechauns are a protected species ;)

For what she said, yes I think calling her a cunt and saying fuck you is justified.

That’s how you described your MIL, Brenda…as a ‘nasty cunt’.

So you can surely then see that addressing a pp by your MIL’s name is rude by implication @DandyDenimScroller ?

West Brit is a slur. It dismisses our considerable Anglo Irish history which of course had much bad but some good points. Shame as I was in Kilmainham Gaol recently and it brought home how many of the 1916 heroes were from Anglo Irish and Scottish Irish backgrounds.

People assume that those of us who are talking about Northern Ireland femicide aren’t Irish which is a bit of an insult in my case. Born and bred Irish, strong NI links, lived between UK and Ireland and beyond at different times. We are not talking about someone who came on the boat for 5 days and doesn’t realise which side of the border they’re on.
Of course I know the Gardai don’t have jurisdiction in NI but this much more than a point about the culture of women suffering and dying than about policing.

@Anonanonanonagainliterally no-one is talking in clichés like leprechauns.

So your issue is the fact that you're Irish and don't like my experience, so you resort to saying I'm not intelligent.

Where did I say I thought it was ok to say that

Im irish plenty of men go out of there way to make women feel afraid, dosmetic abuse is massive here

I have never noticed an anti brit thing here and I am here most of my life. Up North possibly but not in Ireland. We do take the piss out of the English it has to be said and West Brit is a common joke aimed at people, its not a slur but it would be a negative connotation!

Leos father is Indian so i am not sure where the Egyptian thing is coming from. His father was from Mumbai and correct he is not married but he could be such is our laws :)

I have an Irish passport and an Irish parent and was brought up in a community where 70% of us had one or both parents who were born in Ireland. What is important to remember is there is sadly still a very strong anti British feeling among many Irish. A friend (both parents Irish but brought up UK now married to an Irish man) who has lived in Ireland most of her adult life says: she experiences a lot of prejudice. I love Ireland, but outside the comfort of close relatives and polite hotel workers, I’m not sure I’d do it.

Leo isn’t married to Matt!

I elaborated to the person who asked. If you think what she said about my dad is ok then you are just as vile as she is. And I'm so sorry for the use of shorthand text. For what she said, yes I think calling her a cunt and saying fuck you is justified.

How? I elaborated. She didn't like my shorthand and got stroppy because of my experience? Unless her name is actually Brenda then that's not my problem.

You were rude to that poster first to be fair @DandyDenimScroller

Well I rest my case. Another awful rude Irish person.

It’s why Irish people seem so warm and friendly. The more personal space you have, the happier you feel. It’s the same with Australia. British people will say “god the Aussies are so much friendlier than people back home.” But that’s because they’ve got room to move and breathe.

When you cram too many people together, they get on each other’s nerves. I’m in rural Essex (Colchester) and it’s a f-ing nightmare. Developers are jamming new houses onto every bit of available land. The traffic is hell, and even driving to the shops is an ordeal. We’re not meant to live like this. Look at Zoo animals. What happens when you cram too many animals in the same cage? They bite each other!!

Tis indeed. Wales where I live is exactly this. Not one nation at all. Our regional variations are delineated.

Still laughing at some of the replies - I am only waiting on someone to comment on our over abundance of leprechauns now to add to the incorrect assumptions about our island and please stop confusing NI with Ireland. Two countries on one island thanks to a certain 'kingdom' trying to take us over. We are not the same. NI is very very different to Ireland.