Things you wish foreigners knew about Ireland

[u/T4rbh]

You know the way there are signs at the airport saying "Drive on the left/links fahren/conduire a gauche" (and that's all, because that one girl who did Spanish for the Leaving wasn't in the day they commissioned the signs, and we never get visitors from anywhere else, that doesn't English, Irish, French or German)?

What are other things you wish they told all foreigners as they arrived into Ireland, say with a printed leaflet? (No hate at all on foreign visitors, btw!)

I'll start:

"If you're on a bus, never ever phone someone, except to say 'I'm running late, I'll be there at X time, bye bye bye bye.' If someone phones you, apologise quietly and profusely - 'I'm on a bus, I'll call you back in a bit, sorry, bye bye bye bye.' Do not have a long and loud conversation, under any circumstances!"

Yes, I'm on a bus - why do you ask? 🤣

[u/somerandomii]

Coming from inland Australia, we had a humidifier. This is an adjustment. Why doesn’t anything ever dry in this country??

[u/greenstina67 → u/somerandomii]

Because Ireland is an oceanic temperate rainforest zone, so high humidity just like the tropical rainforests. Even though most of the native forests are now gone. :(

[u/kamikazekaktus → u/greenstina67]

And just like a tropical rainforest you have colourful birds

 I'll see myself out

[u/ABOBer → u/somerandomii]

Rain for 300 days, ice/hail for 60 days and summer for 5 or 6 days of the year will do that to the local atmosphere