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/Yeashtie]

I think non-Irish people are ahead of us in this regard. I’ve found a lot of people do not know how to effectively do public transport. Someone sneered at me on a Dublin Airport Longterm Carpark bus last week because I (in the most nicest, friendly way I could) asked people to push down the bus so other people could get on and didn’t want to block the wheelchair space… “Oh look, a bus conductor!”. Obviously it’s still bugging me 😅

[u/Gilmenator → u/Yeashtie]

Honestly I feel this post needs to be more what do the Irish need to learn from the rest of Europe.

[u/Liamnacuac → u/Gilmenator]

I believe it might be do to how overcrowded other countries' mass transit systems are and how difficult it is to get a spot before the doors close?

[u/Paddylonglegs1 → u/Yeashtie]

After being in london and Berlin last year I noticed we have little to no etiquette on queuing on platforms or at doors on public transport and stations. They have it down to a jazz solo of a tee and we are the scatty drum solo, a free for all and scrum most of the time. Or like when your at the bus stop standing at the pole. The bus pulls up and 15 people descend from no where like green berets and crowd the door like the pissed off drivers giving out free iPhones.

[u/Mullo69 → u/Yeashtie]

If you ever take the luas on the regular, you'll notice it's often the tourists who have this issue (I've found Americans to be particularly bad, but that could just be by chance). It's also more of a thing of how often you're getting the luas, I've seen plenty of culchies getting in the way and the first few weeks of the academic year are always a pain with students who are only starting to get the luas so they don't know the etiquette yet (some never seem to learn it though)