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?
Most of D4 is actually places like Sandymount, Irishtown and Ringsend and so on.
Sandymount is expensive and Ballsbridge is basically a typical ‘embassy district’ with a few extremely pricy streets, Ringsend and Irishtown are basically old docklands and have plenty of old social housing and so on, but none of those places are home to the D4 accent. I know a few ppl who grew up on D4 and they’ve clear but very much city centre Dub accents.
The weird concoction that is the D4 accent seems to have originated way out in the Foxrock type areas, probably bits of Stillorgan and Blackrock and so on - nouveau riche suburbs and a handful of fee paying schools. The only reason it got blamed on Dublin 4 seems to be because of RTE’s address.
roflol! My first home in Ireland was in Leitrim ... yep sparse population!
Austria.
They appear to have a tumour in their humour.
No matter where you go in the country, and the world for that matter, there are friendly people and some not so friendly. It is unfair to tar a whole county because of the behaviour of half a dozen people or whatever.
Indeed stay away and don't be bothering us.😁 We should put up a sign at all entry points into the county, saying this is Cork go away and leave us alone.😁 Leave us alone and stop bothering us will ye!
I think some Dubs feel that way towards Cork people as well, so overall it all kind of balances itself out!
Not at all the d4 crowd are a proper bunch of knobheads!
Spend 5 days a week twice a day on the M50 and you too will experience road rage.
Can't say Dubliners are unfriendly to me anyway. Must be in my experience South Tipperary, always seem to end up in some kind of argument with them!
I'll wade in here.
We're nice people and for the most part as sound as can be.
I think for answering a question like this you need to remove experiences related to GAA matches etc as they are nowhere near representative of the people of a county. You really need to visit a county - and a few places within that county - to get a vibe about the people.
I don't think Irish are anywhere near as friendly as we were before the Celtic Tiger but still quite friendly.
As for counties, my only experience of people from Antrim was on a holiday in Portugal, this couple got talking to me in a bar as they heard my Dublin accent. They proceeded to tell me they didn't like the bar and don't usually come in because its full of English people. Now it is english owned but the clientele were 50/50 Irish and English who were all friendly and chatting to each other. They had a very stuck up and nasty vibe about them. Funnily enough they were yearly visitors to that part of Portugal which always has lots of English people.
As a Dub i'm absolutely gobsmacked (and pleased) that this thread isn't another 'Dublin is sh1te' pile on. 😁
Most unfriendly for me would be Wexford/Waterford.
Up vote for Cork. Always found rebels to be sound. Great banter.
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Don't let Sarah hear you bad mouthing Cavan .... wonder which side of the fence she would be on though?!
nothing beats a yellow belly though, right?! 😉
The least fun answer is there are no unfriendly counties in Ireland. You might run into rough areas of Limerick or Dublin but they don't reflect the whole counties and I agree with others, I think the Dubs are possibly the most friendly of the bunch.
Like this guy? Good call. Also they are huge Garth Brooks fans (1 in 3 of them went to his gigs in croke park) so there is definitely something wrong with them.
Worry not! I thought it was hilarious! But others have reacted as you did... I tend to accept folk as they are! And the ferrymen are pure gold. And it was...different.. lol... Others I have told have reacted as you did! Still not sure why he asked that as it was not his house I was about to rent! I was able to reassure him that I do have Irish ancestry which is what was behind the question... Mayo is HOME as nowhere else has been. and I have lived in Donegal ( a close second to Mayo) Leitrim, Kerry, West Cork..and coming back to Mayo ...and offshore.... was coming home.
Is that why the road rage in Dublin is the worst in Ireland?
People are very friendly to outsiders in busy tourism counties where it's worth their while to be friendly to outsiders.
Roscommon, anyone I've ever met from there was was either humourless, defensive, obnoxious or tight with money/information.
I'm not sure what their problem is, is it that they haven't decided if they are in the Midlands or the West and are jealous that other Connacht counties have a coastline. They love slagging off Mayo for failing to win a senior All Ireland since the 1950s yet Roscommon last won one in the 1940s. Their county town is one of the smallest and most miserable ones in the country.
we spent several days in bushmills about five years ago, around new years, and have to say that we were basically shunned by most of the locals when in the village.
you'd think local restaurants would welcome business during the off peak, but the most obvious example was walking into a restaurant with no-one seated at any tables and being told 'sorry, we're fully booked'. we walked past the place an hour or two later and it was still nearly empty.
Monaghan folk are very friendly too , wouldn’t trust a Monaghan man as far as I’d throw one but they are likeable cowboys
East Galway is the most cliquey place I’ve ever lived, unless you’re seed, breed and generation, they view you as an alien , unbelievably narrow minded folk
Yep , bunch of Neanderthals
Leitrim I think. But in fairness, it's hard to be friendly/unfriendly when there's nobody there.
Im too lazy to read back through the thread, any county that hasn’t been named yet??
You can't judge people based on arbitrary lines drawn by the Brits.
Also the answer is Cork.
I find people in Cork City have strange attitude towards Dubs,
Very paranoid or something always think your trying get one over on them even in simple conversations, Its like they think Dubs think there superior its all very strange ,
I found East Galway the unfriendliest & unwelcoming area and Donegal the most disrespectful of other people, the way the drive for example.
Dublin the friendliest followed by Cork and Sligo with city and town people being more open, less reserved & less likely to suffer from the whole "keeping up with the jones’s" superior attitude.
SAYS NO!
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