Just saw a horse carriage going into the Finglas tesco parking lot. I’m new in Ireland is this the norm here?

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  1. It’s the norm in Cardiff too, makes a nice change.
    Even seen the horses tied up outside restaurants, locals love the opportunity to smooth the horses

  2. Ah yes our residential untouchables going for a quick trot to tescos. Walked into a pile of horseshit just the other day.

  3. I love how this post blew up I was only surprised because the only time I’ve seen something like that is in the states and they were Amish Ireland’s a weird country and I’m starting to like it more the more I find out

  4. they’re travellers. the ones you’d see inside cities and towns usually aren’t too nice but the ones i’ve come into contact with out in the country side have been pretty nice actually.

  5. Yes, better get use to it on the roads. Also welcome 😁 please be careful at the zebra crossing just around the corner there before Burger King, my little brother got knocked down there, it’s a death trap that crossing. Barely visible

  6. They’re members of the Irish Amish community. There’s about 200,000 of them spread across the country. They’re good people. Taking new members in too, I heard!

  7. More common than most places, there’s a family go about our roads on Sundays with their horse and cart too.

  8. In Ireland we still use horse and cart for most journeys. There’s one person on my street with a car, I think he’s a drug dealer.

  9. For Finglas, that’s normal. There are horses grazing the grass along in the estates. Sulkies are common sight. We once had a horse inside that Tesco. That was a little over the top, but doing errands with horses and sulkies is not unusual.

  10. Hey OP, if you wanna know what’s going on (and you should get to know about this sooner or later), just google “Irish travellers” and read a bit about them. They’re an ethnic group who have a pretty different way of life. Any serious discussion about them here results in threads being locked because it eventually devolves to racism.

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