Tiny small country :)

[Chickenkeev]

I commented on a random story, on a regional newspaper, that i follow because my mam is from that particular area. And the next thing i know i''m chatting to a woman who knew my mam growing up. I have a different name now (married name), i live in a different city, never lived in that particular city, but the lady was telling me my nanny was a 'real lady'. In one way it's scary, in another it's the lovliest and most irish thing ever 😀

It's not something I ever really consider day to day, but then something like 'oh this famous singer is your second cousin' pops up, and you realise there are cities with bigger populations than the entire country, and it does sink in a bit for sure!

This was a tiny, nothing thing. But i got a randomer who knew my mam for years. Ireland is really so tiny that way. It's freakish. Another example would be, we were down in cork one day, randomly on our holidays, and my husband got chatting to a randomer, just totally random buying a sandwich, the randomer was a fella he used to play football with a million years ago. Ireland is gas that way!

It really is. I'm from wicklow and was over in connemara a while ago with my dad, stopped by in a village to fill up your man there at the station was his old school teachers brother who used to give him and his sister a lift home on a Friday on the back of his tractor!

I went to a funeral recently and was surprised to bump into a retired colleague. Turns out his brother is married to my cousin!

Loving all the stories btw

I'm currently visiting Galway and my car broke down today. The mechanic who fixed my car his daughter went to college in Waterford with my husband's niece and did the same course.

So many random stories,!

My Dad passed away and a lovely lady I knew was planning to go to the funeral to pay her respects. She told her husband that she was going to a funeral mass. He replied he was also going out to a funeral. Where's your funeral on, she said. He told her. But that's where my funeral is on, she said. It turns out they were both going to my Dad's funeral. She was going on my account and he was going because he knew my Dad's brother's wife, so they went together.

It may be six degrees of separation elsewhere but three degrees in Ireland.

Exactly :)

Aw now , you could not make it up …
delicious stories .. thank you

This happens in other countries too, still an Irish thing though.

Checking in at a hotel in Canada recently with Canadian sil, she starts chatting to guy next to us checking in who's from Dublin but that she knew through sport, we went on to bump into him and his family at the pool at a restaurant in the town we were in later that night too.

It's gas. It never happens to me, ever! But my husband gets it a lot. My strangest one was on the ferry to Ellis Island in NY and there were people on it from our estate. Which was pretty random tbf!