Ireland is a hard place to live

[Mooshamoo]

Just watching the video of the black child being not given a medal by Irish gymnastics.

I was wondering if there is anyone else on here on craicnet, who is not Irish, living in Ireland. What your experiences are.

I think that Ireland can be a very hard place to live if you are not fully white and fully irish.

I'm half Irish. I was bullied all the way through school for not having an Irish surname. Then when I grew up and lived in the same small town, all of the same girls from my school were living in that town. And as adults they refused to talk to me.

I see the women who are fully Irish, being popular , having great lives.

To be totally acceptable and popular in ireland, you have to have a rich family, brothers/father who play gaa etc.

All the rich girls in my school hung around together. And again as adults all the rich Irish women hung around together in small town Ireland.

If you were foreign, from a single parent family, seen as poor, you were not accepted at all.

And it's who you know

I think this makes Ireland a very difficult place to live

I guess in response to you, I would say seek out some mixed social groups or Irish who have been abroad and come back. I had a lot more understanding from those who had lived away like many of those in Universities or doctors etc.

If you need to stay in Ireland, I think accepting your local area is not going to change and cut your losses. Just be with people who you love. I gave up with my local area and my in laws. They never wanted me, I just made everyone uncomfortable with my foreignness.

Dublin I find a bit rough at the moment but it’s still got a lot of great stuff going on and a lot of nice people.

@Chickenkeev you're not making a lot of sense

When you said "You can't randomly accuse me of something that i clearly didn't do and wander off. "

What are you talking about? What did I accuse you of doing that you didn't do?

Thanks for that. I'm sorry you couldn't fit in, in your local area in Ireland. Yes there is a lot going on in Dublin alright

What happened to you in your local town? Coukd you say in a bit more detail if its jot too hard for you. Id be really interested to know. And I can empathise

I'm terribly sorry if i didn't meet your high standards. But it seems like you're missing my point. If you don't like it here, take a hike. We don't ask for much, no more than the brits afaik, but if it's too painful for you, head off. I don't think we'll ever get on, so lets leave it here.

She was probably murdered. Which you would love. You are odd.

For context, OP has previously posted about all women being cruel, English people being rude and now Irish people being racist.

If you're genuine OP, I think you need to get some proper mental health support. It's not normal to view the world the way you do, to think entire groups of people are out to get you. I hope you can get that help and find a way to live a happier life.

Eh ok that was weird of you. She was talking about her bullying experiences. People are sharing their bullying experiencea on here.

Not murder. You made a bit of a very strange leap there.

You are a very generous lady ❤️

Night night.

That was so so predictable of you. I saw that one coming.

It's so predictable of bullies.
If you don't like what someone is saying - call them mentally ill.

Are you discounting the 20+ people on here who have had the exact same experiences as me in Ireland then.

Why are you ignoring what they are saying.

You're so predictable

Youre going. Thank god.

I'm sorry that you also had a bad experience in small town ireland. It can be tough for sure.

Totally agree with OP.
I am Half Irish, here 10 years and married to an English man.
People are nice enough to you on the surface, but really hard to break into existing groups here if you are different/ not from here and Irish.
Lived all over UK and America and it is different here. People are less open to new people, or something.....

Let em off, there's no accounting for crazy.

Says you , when you randomly started talking about murder. You're not sounding normal. Your posts are extremely weird. Are you ok?

"so many posters are willing to engage".

Maybe because they are talking about their lived experiences in Ireland. Many people on this thread now have talked about their struggles with living in small town Ireland.

It's great that people are able to talk and to support each other.

Idk if you hate me (weird) or Ireland ( equally weird) but off you pop love. I'll survive withoit you, and so will Ireland. You can stew in your mysterious bitterness.

Thanks for sharing your experince. yes I agree with you. It can be hard. Are you still living in Ireland

OP, I mean this kindly, but you are clearly suffering from a lot of unresolved trauma from different incidents in your life. I recognise your name from various threads recently, no advanced search or anything.
I notice you haven't responded to anyone who's asked about or suggested counselling but I'll reiterate it anyway. It could change your life.

Im not sure why you strangely felt the need to post that previous thread.

In that thread I said the girls bullied me at school. In this thread I said the girls bullied me at school.

If anything it proves I am consistent about what happened. So it just makes you look odd

@Sakura7 you wrote some very very immature posts.

People have come on here and given detailed heartfelt accounts of struggles that they have gone through in Ireland.

And you have dismissed them all as "Irish bashing".

Youre being heartless.

It's called intergenerational trauma. Many families in Ireland are still dealing with the effect of it, even if it was 100 years ago and not in "living memory"
My grandparent that lived through it only died 20 years ago. Not a long time in the grand scheme of things.

I think it can be easier in the UK and USA as they are more multicultural societies. I'm sorry to hear about your issues here in ireland. It can be tough to get into groups.

Sometimes meetup groups can be good in Ireland as they have locals and foreigners