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?
Personally I found North Tipperary the friendliest place in Ireland, now that was from a short visit to Terryglass during the pandemic when everyone spontaneously seemed to start chatting with me, maybe out of curiosity but they were chatting about themselves too and not just “gathering information on the stranger in town”. I got a great lunch and superb value for money.
Not me.
I agree we also lack confidence I think. I lived in oz for a long time and are confident to the point of arrogance which will do your head in but we do need a happy medium. Even when we do well in sport say you hear the groans "ah sur what's the point we'll just lose next week anyway"
Irish people are quite self conscious and a bit odd, we come out of our shell a bit with drink. What we confuse as unfriendliness can just be shyness or being a bit odd.
Well Texas is known as the friendly state so no wonder. Lots of cowboys..
Brad Pitt never scored the winner in a county final..
Thats only because Tommy (ten chins) K has a farm with a bit of road frontage, and they would not know who Brad Pitt was.
Most unfriendly town first and and county second is Drogheda co Louth. The people are curt, pig ignorant, rude and thick.
Total bull dust. Irish are clannish strange and unfriendly plus extremely odd a lot.
Achill
I made more friends living in Texas for two months than I did living in Mullingar for over two years.
Speak for yourself!!
I'm not from Carlow, and I don't live or work there either, but I do work with a load of people from there. I get on fine with most of them but they can be very clannish and negative (although that could just be my colleagues). Still, as I said, I get on fine with most of them but that could be down to my own ultra-tolerant, laid-back attitude. 😄 😉
From my experience Armagh people aren’t that friendly. More due to paranoia and suspicion of who you are/from.
I’ve only met one person from Carlow and that was a nurse who was ‘looking after’ me after an operation in Dublin a few years back. She was cruel and evil and in no way suited to the nursing profession.
Granted one person is not a lot to go on but it’s all I have atm.
What's this "we" business.
Exactly... And that is pleasant if you realise the reality...
Agree fully... Well said. Folk react as they are treated..
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.
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,
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
Austrians and Germans are so similar.
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.
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!
Didn't Saoirse Ronan grow up in Carlow? Sure that's good enough for me!
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!
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.
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
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.
Dunno... but on related matter, hate it when people pronounce that 'Ireland is the friendliest country in the world' blah, blah.. Complete self delusion.
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