[Reaganwuzthebest]

You won't find Muslim culture too welcome in Catholic Ireland...believe me!!!

Hope not... one of these days I'm going to visit the old country and when I do it would sure be nice if it's still the old country.

[Happygal]

Well we don't sit around peat fires anymore.

But you will find an accommodating, (and even though they might think they are liberal, because they condone divorce), a conservative people.

We're progressive, certainly.

And idealistic...most probably.

But the family (always was) and remains the core of Irish society.

And we REMAIN a friendly, all-encompassing nation. Yeah, we got a lot of wealth with the Celtic Tiger, and became a very progressive nation. Now we have inflation at nearly 5%, so that changes the 'progressiveness'. But, I've yet to meet a visitor to my country to go away without feeling welcome, (loved, almost), and utterly at home.