As others see us - An enviable hat-trick

Amidst crisis after crisis, trauma heaped upon trauma, it is indeed cheering that three Irish cities are ranked in the top 20 of the world’s friendliest.

Kilkenny has been named Europe’s friendliest by readers of the Condé Nast Traveler magazine. Dublin was 12th and Cork 20th, where the locals were described as “consistently friendly and helpful”. Kilkenny was the only European city to make the top 10.

At a moment when we are questioning so much of what we do and how we behave, it is rewarding to see eternal, essential human values recognised.