But either way - go to Newgrange, visit Galway, Waterford or Cork (all beautiful cities), and if you're here for St. Patrick's Day get up early to enjoy the day before the crowds get too drunk/rowdy.

Does it include St Patrick's Day? Because that will drastically change the situation and the recommendations you should take on board

The most beautiful little touch ❤️

The entire country thanks you for it

The way I went to check mine after reading this 😂
I live in a house with solar panels so it's actually better for us to leave it on in summer (yes it feels wrong) but I couldn't remember whether we'd done the winter switchover yet! The immediate worry of it!

This exact situation is why I often ended up accidentally speaking French in Irish class in school and vice versa. Used to drive my teachers mad. My brain would latch on to one of the many words like these and would just switch language. Still happens when I visit France!

Yeah there's pride in it - in Ireland we have a lot of jokes about how you can go nowhere without bumping into a distant relative or a friend of a friend of a friend.

And as a result, it's managed to avoid the absolute peak and subsequent decline of being the "next new thing". It's been the "next new thing" over and over again for new groups of people as more and more folks have reached their threshold of wanting to leave their existing platform(s).

This is interesting, because I actually think Bluesky has benefited from this exact phenomenon instead of having to overcome it - over the last year or so there have been multiple waves of people leaving the other platforms (not just Twitter) so it's been able to replenish users over and over again