New To The Parish

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From Portugal to Ireland: ‘There was some part of me that started to be a bit more awake’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

‘I knew nothing about this island’: From Venezuela to Ireland irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

‘Life in Dublin was very chaotic. It was bad then and I’m sure it’s worse now’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

‘Dublin has a really good energy. It’s easy to have a nice night out and chat with people’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

‘In Türkiye, on public transport, you should be very quiet. I was shocked by the behaviour in Ireland’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

A Palestinian in Ireland: ‘I like Cork more than Dublin, to be brutally honest. It’s a very lovely place’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

‘If I’m walking to work, I will say hi to almost 10 people and everybody asks how I am. In Mozambique it’s not like that’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

‘I used to have a firearm for protection. In Ireland I walk home at 10 o’clock at night by myself’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

There is a nagging sense that Marion Jones suffered a lot more than some other celebrated drug cheats of her generation, writes Dave Hannigan, via @IrishTimesSport irishtimes.com/sport/athletic…

An Englishman on Irish life: ‘There is an underlying positivity in Ireland, certainly in comparison to your Anglo-Saxon neighbours’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

‘I love Ireland. Ireland is 100% different to back home. It’s peace, calm’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

‘Ireland is a country of people who are very friendly, no shooting’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

‘I feel that it is possible to become Irish in a way it would never be possible to become German or to become Japanese’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

Really interesting @NewToTheParish here, as Joy Nesbitt speaks about her family's ancestral connections to Irish slave owner Dr John Good irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

irishtimes.com/life-style/peo… via @shaunabowerss

News to the Parish: Ukrainians and Irish ‘understand each other because we have been through similar problems’ says Elvira Sieitablaieva irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

Rosie McDonagh from St Albans, near London: 'If you’re in a sticky situation... Irish people are happy to weigh in and help' irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

When Laura Devides first moved to Dublin, she lived in some 'very bad places', including one rental where she shared a double bed, before moving to a mattress on the floor.’ Now she shares a rental with her long-term boyfriend in Bray, Co Wicklow. irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

New to the Parish: ‘So many Brazilians come and then stay. We’re very like Irish people’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

‘I am obsessed with hurling. It’s probably one of the most complicated sports that I’ve ever tried’, via @NewToTheParish irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…