Most unfriendly county?

pgj2015

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

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).

Ulster

ancapailldorcha

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

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

Ulster's a county now?

ancapailldorcha

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

Ulster says no.

elperello

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

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

Sound like a right unfriendly lot so

ancapailldorcha

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

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

But a good fry.

Mad_maxx

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

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

Kilkenny, woefully ignorant

Mad_maxx

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

cnoc

Xander10

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.

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

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

washiskin

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

Strange how?

Dr Karl

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.

+1 for Meath & Galway people aswell.

tayto lover

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

You must be from Monaghan.

Graces7

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

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!

FazyLucker

By the time this pointless thread is finished, every county will have got a mention based on 1-2 individual experience.

"The waitress in County <here> was so rude, so the whole county is rude...."

Sephiroth_dude

Mod

Moved from CA as Its a better fit for After Hours.

happyoutscan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120266305#Comment_120266305

That's island folk for you. Hardly representative of people on the mainland, you should know that.

Montage of Feck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265959#Comment_120265959

You really should make a distinction between west and east Galway.

gameoverdude

Limerick. Especially a couple of areas.

Wanderer78

arseholes be everywhere on this planet!

If you're finding a whole county to be unfriendly you can console yourself with the thought that it's probably just because their lives are complete sh*t. So there's that, I suppose.

I'm usually a "everyone is the same everywhere" person but since I started working in sales, I do notice patterns! Stuff about people from Ulster being rude is nonsense - they're dry humoured all right, but overwhelmingly sound. Cork - very nice but that's probably because I too am from Cork and they hear it. Dublin, the west, southeast - all grand. The Midlands has the most standoffish folk. And of course these are all general patterns - the opposite can apply too, but significantly less so.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120266530#Comment_120266530

East Galway is all about the local , if Brad Pitt walked into a dinner dance at the local , he’d be sat in the corner for the evening while Tommy ( ten chins ) K who scored the winner in the under 16 county final 1991 would have all the local lassies on his good knee

FrancieBrady

Been in every county in Ireland and the place I found it hardest to engage with people was Cork. Went several days without chatting to anyone more than cursory questions or requests to buy a pint or a bite to eat. Never had a break like it to be honest, home or abroad.

BingCrosbee

Worked in every county. Roscommon by far the friendliest and unpretentious. Mullingar is a lovely town, very friendly also. Ireland is generally a very friendly country with a minority of unfriendly people thrown into the mix.

Straight Talker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120266652#Comment_120266652

I'm sorry to hear that, i like to think we're a sound bunch but everywhere has it's share of assholes. Was this Cork city or the county or both? As for the thread title i can't really answer tbh.

The counties i've been to outside of Cork are Kerry, Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford, Dublin, Galway and Mayo. In all those places i encountered some nice people and some not so nice people, but i find from my experience that people in Limerick Waterford and Mayo are the friendliest imo.

brookers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120265888#Comment_120265888

Edinburgh very unfriendly and not a bit interested in Irish people. Dublin people lovely and Wicklow people.

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120266703#Comment_120266703

Cork City. I booked a place for a break away on my own and to be honest the only person in the 4 days I engaged with in terms of banter/chat was the dorrman of a nightclub with an English accent. I don't think it was me, I am not socially shy and never had a problem anywhere in Ireland or abroad.

Curious thing is that since that, I have come to know a Corkonian well through her marrying family and she is great, and would talk the proverbial hind legs off and is sound as a pound.

blackcard

A man was looking to buy a new house and went to the wise old man to find out what the locals were like. The wise old man asked him what the locals were like in the area he was currently living in. 'They , are unfriendly, bitter, backstabbing people' said the man. The wise old man said that you will find that the people here are exactly the same.

A second man was looking to buy the house and also went to the wise old man to find out what the locals were like. The wise old man asked him what the locals were like where he currently lived. 'They are friendly, kind and generous' he said. The wise old man said you will find that the people here are exactly the same

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120266724#Comment_120266724

Was Edinburgh once. The Leicester fans were sound.

I find Cork City challenging at the best of times tbh. It's just not friendly. It feels more coldly urban than even Dublin. There's an edge of sarcasm to every interaction and I just sometimes don't know how to interact with that. West Cork and other areas of the county aren't like that at all. It's all bubbly and would put you in great humor. They're really friendly. There's just this totally unwarranted air of aloofness from some of the city centre types and it's quite the opposite to Dublin actually. I find Dublin traders, publicans, shop keepers and so on tend to be more likely to be all banter and super friendly.

I've also had some of the most obnoxious taxi trips ever from certain Corkonian taxi drivers, such as sitting into a cab at Cork airport and getting:

"Nice for some!... Off on your hols were you?" "Yeah, I was..." "Must be nice to be able to just jet off like that.. Some of us have to work for a living!"

I was like WTF did I do here?!? Is that meant to be smart arse slagging humour that I'm supposed to find entertaining? Or, do they genuinely hate me? I never know which it is.

I've just had some very weird interactions over the years that despite living here sometimes make me feel like I'm not part of the city at all. Yet I could spend a week in West Cork and it's all banter and chat and come away feeling totally uplifted.

Larbre34

I'll second Kilkenny actually.

Their hurling supporters are pr1cks.

I've lived for years in Carlow and Kilkenny. I can tell you from experience people in Kilkenny are far nicer.

Straight Talker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120266752#Comment_120266752

I've experienced rude shop assistants and unfriendly people in Dublin and other places as well, i've met some friendly shop assistants and friendly people too. It would be a 50/50 mix overall i'd say. I think taxi drivers in general can be arseholes.

I once said to a taxi driver in Galway it's a bad day today, jesus i didn't know that at all was the reply! He said it in a really angry tone of voice as well, and there was no further words exchanged until i paid him his fare without tip!😁 I'm sorry that your experience of our city wasn't the best, but i'm glad that you enjoyed West Cork at least!

Mister Vain

Cork

Wanderer2010

Another boring reply maybe but i have met friendly and unfriendly people from all over the country so its not a characteristic you can pinpoint on one particular county. People are people..some nice some not so much. Its the same the world over.

AyeGer

Carlow

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120266862#Comment_120266862

Langer

(Say it with Roy Keane attitude 🙂)