Tourism ‘welcome’ far from inviting

I recently travelled to Ireland with my wife, son and daughter-in-law. It had been six years since my wife had been to Ireland.

We arrived in Dublin airport, paid for our rental car and headed to the rental car company’s pick-up location. We boarded the van. My wife exclaimed “I am so happy to be in Ireland. I missed it so much”.

Our driver responded with the following comment: “Ireland is a dump. I wouldn’t tell anyone to visit here. It is so expensive.” Needless to say that was the end of our conversation.