Most unfriendly county?

pgj2015 · 20-02-2023 2:12pm #1

I think it is cavan. Was there lately and found the people so grumpy and unfriendly, ignorant as well. What is their problem?

Clare is up there as well.

Anyone another other suggestions?

Tombo2001 · 20-02-2023 3:48pm

I will say this - I spent more than a year backpacking. Along the way I'd meet various punters from all over the world, and the odd Irish person, every couple of days. As a general rule, of the Irish people I met, the Dubs were by far the friendliest. Cant pick out the least friendly, but definitely the Dubs were the friendliest (and I'm not from Dublin).

thinkabouit · 20-02-2023 3:54pm

Ulster

ancapailldorcha · 20-02-2023 4:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265616#Comment_120265616

I'd agree. If Dubs abroad were any friendlier or if I wasn't Irish, I'd dismiss them as scammers.

Notmything · 20-02-2023 4:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265639#Comment_120265639

Ulster's a county now?

ancapailldorcha · 20-02-2023 4:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265723#Comment_120265723

Ulster says no.

elperello · 20-02-2023 4:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265639#Comment_120265639

It will be a short thread at this rate.

Clare and Cavan already bit the dust in the OP.

Now you've knobbled the rest of Ulster's counties in one fell swoop.

Notmything · 20-02-2023 4:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265749#Comment_120265749

Sound like a right unfriendly lot so

ancapailldorcha · 20-02-2023 4:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265766#Comment_120265766

Ulster's brilliant. Lived in NI for a while and it's a very friendly place.

elperello · 20-02-2023 4:20pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265766#Comment_120265766

But a good fry.

Mad_maxx · 20-02-2023 4:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058285085/most-unfriendly-county

Cavan folk are very friendly, unpretentious and down to earth,Galway people are friendly ( providing they can trace you’re lineage back at least three generations , unbelievably clannish)

Quitelife · 20-02-2023 4:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265772#Comment_120265772

Id think loyalist towns are highly unfriendly to anyone from the South or the modern world generally - had the misfortune of spending time in Larne & Antrim Town on a couple of occassions, toxic to anyone from the South.

Spent time in Newry & Derry, the opposite very friendly.

mulbot · 20-02-2023 4:35pm

Kilkenny, woefully ignorant

Mad_maxx · 20-02-2023 4:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265616#Comment_120265616

Dublin has the best and worst of Irish people but I agree , Dublin folk are warm and judge you based on character, not whether you’re grandfather lined out for the parish

20-02-2023 4:44pm

North Tipperary I found to be particularly friendly, was spoken to by almost everybody I encountered.

20-02-2023 4:48pm

I’m sitting right beside posh Proddies from Co Down in a Dublin café, I gather from their chat together they are musicians. Talking about church atm. Seem very relaxed & friendly.

Edit - I hear they are divinity students

Supercell · 20-02-2023 4:50pm

Gwynedd in Wales, what a dour bunch, was on holidays there a few years ago and had to the say the locals were not friendly at all, wouldnt go back.

CinderKone · 20-02-2023 4:51pm

Meath people can be a little strange whereas Kerry people are on the whole friendly except for a couple of parts of Tralee.

Not very scientific I suppose.

cnoc · 20-02-2023 4:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265616#Comment_120265616

Yes, I've always found Dublin people very friendly.

cnoc

Xander10 · 20-02-2023 4:54pm

it's not the answer the OP wants, but obviously, there are friendly and unfriendly people in every county. Can't say I've encountered a blanket unfriendliness in a particular county.

thinkabouit · 20-02-2023 4:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265723#Comment_120265723

Couldn’t pick just 1 off the counties there all that bad

washiskin · 20-02-2023 4:57pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265892#Comment_120265892

Strange how?

Dr Karl · 20-02-2023 5:02pm

Westmeath. Especially Mullingar/Kinnegad. Awful accent as well, sounds like they want to tarmac your drive. Very sectarian obsessed with the Catholic Church, although not very Christian, and the GAA, but also very anti Northern Irish, even fellow gaels.

thinkabouit · 20-02-2023 5:06pm

+1 for Meath & Galway people aswell.

tayto lover · 20-02-2023 6:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058285085/most-unfriendly-county

You must be from Monaghan.

Graces7 · 20-02-2023 6:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265798#Comment_120265798

Same in mayo.. I literally had to list my family connections to the ferryman here..

Graces7 · 20-02-2023 6:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265944#Comment_120265944

Cannot agree as I ( English by the way) was made very welcome in Westmeath whenever I was there. Many good sincere Catholics. wonder what you said to evoke what you say you heard!