Should I worry going to Ireland as a Pole?

as a Pole?

why do you want to go to Ireland? Everyone leaves it... even Irish ;)

Cead Mile Failte!

With a glint in your eye and a kick in your step, you'll have a great time!

about gettin a job? is that what you mean.

If you want to just go for the summer next year and work as a waitress or something like that you'll be fine, also there's still jobs in IT and software design, but for anything connected with finance/banking/property/construction then stay here because you probably won't find a sniff of work.

And if you mean about being Polish in Ireland then no, of course not...I've never heard of a xenophobic attack on a Pole..sure Poles have been attacked, a couple were killed too, but it wasn't to do with their nationality, more to do with them being in the wrong place at the wrong time

Since they say "as a Pole" I assume they think their nationality might be a problem - it won't.

As Smurf says, a minority of thugs and a$$holes that you get in every country but no real issues. I have Polish friends who have been living in Ireland for the past 7 or 8 years. No problems or concerns. In fact, a few of them say that they now prefer it here to Poland.

The Irish tend to be quite hospitable but even smaller dogs can bite ;) ;) There are some that will make a Pole a scapegoat and we all know about the guilty by association concept and how it is applied.

In short, I'd be careful but you will be fine in most places.

Get yourself a shotgun just in case ;)

Have you been to Ireland yet?

every1 welcome specially poles;}

Joe biden is going to Ireland right after Easter.
I think he was supposed to go to Poland but got mixed up and now he is going to Ireland.
Don't be surprised if he falls down the stairs from Air Force One and yells, "Hello Warsaw !"

A lovely place but expensive now.

Great food.

Which, for example?

Try their sausages and bacon. Cashel cheese too and any dairy product there which isn't from a factory.

The bread is quite good too. And if you've not had potato farls, try them.

Irish wheaten bread is highly addictive.


Definitely go for seafood.

The beef. Our beef is some of the best in the world. Also our milk, cream and butter are exceptional.

@Atch
Yes, I use Irish Kerrygold butter to make my son's sandwiches. It is always soft even after taking it out of the fridge. How do you do it? Do you add any oil to it?

I can vouch for that. Even the tinned beef from Ireland is top quality.

As Feniks says, the seafood there is excellent. I was surprised recently when I saw on TV that a lot of Dublin Bay prawns come from Britain however it's the same sea between us so I suppose that's logical.

I'm not sure if there's an exact Polish word for Dublin Bay prawns. In the UK we either call them that or sometimes langoustines.

Definitely not! It's partly the nature of grass-fed milk from which it's made and partly the churning process.

So why is the Irish government thinking of crippling the industry in the name of abstratc and unclear climate goals?

Will the people put up with that?

The farmers won't.

Let's hope not! Especially since any cutbacks in Ireland's dairy industry will simply be filled by other countries (the idiocy of the climate panickers doesn't seem to realize that).

It's very unusual for the government in Ireland to actually just 'do' something. There always has to be a long rigmarole of 'consultation' with those who might be affected. There is always a huge reluctance on the part of the government to give orders or make anything mandatory because they know the people don't like it. You have to persuade Irish people that something is a good idea/in their best interests and convince them to agree to it. Farmers won't agree to kill their cows.

Then where will beef come from?

For that matter, dairy products depend on calves being killed vor veal (and/or mostly separated from mothers and grown into beef cows)

Just being myself, a pedantic twit.....

To paraphrase Churchill, "beef curtains are descending over Europe".

I haven't seen veal in England for many years.............Irish food produce is exceptional,from beef to dairy products,seafood and even alcohol.
Just top quality!

There are breeding methods which reduce the number of male calves born. Ireland uses such methods in an effort to keep the number of male calves low. It is sad though :(

NO !
It has become very dangerous place to go with foreigners being attacked.
A language teacher in Dublin has described the sorts of attacks experienced by some of her students in Dublin.
It comes after the US Embassy issued a security alert to tourists visiting Ireland following a number of media reports of attacks in Dublin.

Dublin's always been kind of dangerous IINM. Some years ago an Irish colleague went home (to Dublin) and got assaulted for his trouble (randomly beat up on the street at night with no real motivation besides him being in the wrong place at the wrong time). It seemed pretty normal to him....

This same colleague was impressed with the cleanliness of McDonald's in Poland (he claimed that in Dublin people would just throw the trash on the floor and not use the trash cans).

He also claimed at that time that Ireland was still extremely conservative in social and religious terms... one of the first things his sister said when she came to visit was along the lines of "If these Polish girls are catholic then why are their skirts so short?"

This was years before the big Polish migration to Ireland of course....

You do have to exercise caution there. Even thirty years ago, I wouldn't walk down the main thoroughfare, O'Connell Street, after ten o'clock at night. You would in a group, but not on your own. On the other hand I'd have no problem even now, walking down Grafton Street at eleven o'clock at night. Obviously it helps to know the city well. The city centre is generally quite safe during the day but at night you have to be very careful and even during the day there are streets you should avoid. Unfortunately tourists often forget when they're on holiday to take the kind of precautions they would at home. I once saw an elderly American man standing in the middle of the street with his wallet open, sorting through it. He was standing outside the Pro-Cathedral in Marlborough Street. The funny thing is he probably feels 'safe' because he's outside a church, the Department of Education offices are directly across from it and there's a priests' outfitters right next door. The buildings are old and gracious and the street looks pleasant but it's the north inner city which has a host of social problems. I went up to him and told him 'it's not wise to open your wallet in the middle of the street anywhere in the city centre but especially round here, this neigbourhood is not the safest' .


Ireland as a whole is very safe, much safer than the USA. Dublin has unique problems resulting from a huge underclass of teenage scumbags and a very weak response to them by the courts.

That goes for the U.S.A. too Atch.
If you go to any Democrat run city in the U.S.at night by yourself, you are asking for trouble from the Black underclasss scumbags.

Their own upstanding people won't even go out at night.


Same here Atch, there is so many murders (33 in Chicago last week end) that the courts don't have time to prosecute assaults and when they do the punks get a slap on the hand.

And like parts of Ireland, where I live, I would feel safe walking down the streets in my hometown all night long by myself.
Thank you for your enlightening response, Atch.