To seriously recommend Ireland

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Before I start I completely get that it can be expensive, the weather is bad and many Irish residents are emigrating for accommodation & opportunities. But....
A very very large proportion of the Irish people seem put on earth specifically to restore visitors faith in human nature. Genuine and warm, great sense of humour
Many women in particular supposedly find Ireland blissfully relaxing, not just because it is a laidback culture but because the general male culture seems to revolve less around making women feel uncomfortable than in other countries.

Some of the countryside and heritage is literally heavenly. Co. Waterford, especially its western extremities eg Dungarvan. Ardmore, Lismore, is an undiscovered gem.

Yes its not cheap but the food can be exceptional.

Most ordinary people seem exceptionally well disposed to foreign visitors and many have relatives abroad.

In rural Ireland you can drive for miles without seeing a car.

The music is brilliant and the people seem enormously invested in live music.

Well, that's my tuppence.

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.

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.

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 ?

Good because our leprechauns are a protected species ;)

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!

half Indian & a total misogynist? & a muppet.

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

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.

Read my post. It says ex fiance.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

Yep absolutely a WHOLE country and all we do is try desperately to cause trouble. Sure what else would we be doing with ourselves like.

Yes, MIL-to-be I should have said.
Surprised that’s the only thing you took from my post 😅

No, I am from Northern Ireland and absolutely consider myself Irish, as being from Ireland; I was born on the island of Ireland and have an Irish passport. I live abroad but my official nationality on all of my documents is 'Irish'. It wouldn't cross my mind that I am anything other than Irish, as much as I don't rate the place much.

Well aren't you lucky no one has said anything nasty like that about your dad. Honestly, some of these posters...and I'm the unintelligent one 🙄

Isn't Ireland just like Britain but with a different accent, more beer and Taytos instead of Walkers crisps?
Its not like going to Japan or Portugal

Yeah, you’re kind of right. But the people see themselves as completely different to the British culturally. They see themselves as European, with more in common with say the Spanish than the English.

To expand: the outlook and perspective on the world is totally different IMO. The thinking is not the same. Im doing some family history and within living memory, if you played rugby as opposed to the Gaelic sports, you would not be allowed to play Gaelic sports in the future. And the Irish hate being tacked on to the British (especially the English 😂).

Yeah I certainly don't see myself as British. Northern Irish maybe in that we have a very specific shared legacy in trauma in the North but I still see it as the North of Ireland. I certainly don't feel any connection to the English for example.

And I think this is amplified for those living in border areas who are spending as much time in the south as in the North. Both are home.

many of us believe it is Ireland. The clue is in its name. Northern ‘Ireland’

Worked for an Irish company and sexual harassment was rampant and brushed under the carpet. OP
sees to live in some fantasy world

Did you live in Ireland and was this your experience in your day to day life here?

100%

And I get irked by non Irish people telling me I am not from Ireland. Northern Ireland is a very specific type of Irishness, as you said, but Irish all the same.