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Personal Insights: Come on Ireland, why not take a compliment for a change

After living in Ireland for 15 years Polish native, Anna Dokurno, reflects on the Irish inability to take a compliment and many of her own countrymen's inability to give them.

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Mon, 25 Nov, 2019 - 19:29

After living in Ireland for 15 years Polish native, Anna Dokurno, reflects on the Irish inability to take a compliment and many of her own countrymen's inability to give them.

I often ask myself why are the Irish so bad at taking a compliment?

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