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?
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.
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.
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.
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?! 😉
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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.
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.
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.
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!
Spend 5 days a week twice a day on the M50 and you too will experience road rage.
Not at all the d4 crowd are a proper bunch of knobheads!
I think some Dubs feel that way towards Cork people as well, so overall it all kind of balances itself out!
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!
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.
Austria.
They appear to have a tumour in their humour.
roflol! My first home in Ireland was in Leitrim ... yep sparse population!
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.
Dunno... but on related matter, hate it when people pronounce that 'Ireland is the friendliest country in the world' blah, blah.. Complete self delusion.
We are not friendly we are nosy. We want to know everything about you so will come across as friendly in a conversational sense. Outside of that we aren't too friendly at all.
It’s not that the people are in anyway bad or anything, it’s just the whole manner and local culture which sometimes involves being not particularly generous of spirit
some of the roughest parts of the country have very friendly people but I wouldn’t want to live there
I don't like to tar everyone in Limerick City with the same brush, but at the end of the day I can also only comment on my own personal experience.
I've never been threatened with physical violence by random strangers whom I've never laid eyes on in my life more often than has happened me in Limerick City. I've been to 66 countries, there was actual wars going on in six of them. Limerick was the closest and most often I've come to needing a serious medical emergency response.
I find most people in Galway to be grand, but whilst i do love connemara/aran islands and the scenery there, i find quite a few people from that part of county Galway to have a sly and devious sense of cunning to them!
Didn't Saoirse Ronan grow up in Carlow? Sure that's good enough for me!
I've never been to Donegal, but i've met about ten Donegal people in my whole life, and i have a negative impression of all of them! I'm sure there is nice Donegal folk out there, but the ones i had the misfortune of meeting were all total and utter arseholes!
Not all of it. Some parts of Donegal are the soul of hospitality but there are a few towns/villages that aren't for dome reason.
Austrians and Germans are so similar.
100% vast majority of this country is incredibly placid , rural ireland might be boring in compared to dublin but you would find it hard to find one unfriendly county in this country
Haven’t found any county to be unfriendly…good and bad people everywhere… anytime I’ve traveled I’ve had nice experiences pretty much 100% of the time,
My home county of Antrim and I'll start with Belfast where I'm from, pass remarkable two faced twats. Horrid people and town, I'm quite lovely.
Agree fully... Well said. Folk react as they are treated..
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