... regards weather. Parents the length and breath of the country will be losing sleep and WAtching gray hairs grow at the thought of having less options to keep the kiddos entertained with. Ireland does not exactly have a wealth of things to do indoors for kids. There are some indoor playgrounds, but those can be a bit costly, especially if you're paying for 2 or 3 kids. For example a local place in Cork is charging €7.50 per kid. That's over €22 if you've got 3 little ones with a bag Full of energy to burn. There are some malls (not many outside of Dublin I ...

... to them) more lax in Ireland. The Road Safety Authority has the official info. They give an approximate age of "Birth to 12-15 months" for rear-facing infant seats. Full details at the link I WAs quite horrified on my return last year to see kids as young as 6 years old sitting in the front seats of cars going to school. Of course this isn't the norm, but I observed more of that behaviour in Ireland than in the US.

There WAs an interesting article in the Irish Independent a few days ago, written by David McWilliams, about what kind of incentives could be afforded to Irish citizens abroad, in an effort to encourage them to consider moving ‘home’. The article describes how there were literally thousands upon thousands of Irish people who have left Ireland in recent years, many of which would now love to return to Ireland and settle here. Coincidentally, just a couple of days before reading the article, I had a conversation via email with a member of this site on exactl ...

... be good for a newcomer to know about, and might help them settle in their new home. I'm going to keep it easy and just ask for 1 - 3 suggestions. Here are mine: 1. I'm going to go with a Cork theme as this is the city I am most familiar with. The first place I think everyone living in Cork should know of is Fitzgerald's Park, which runs along the River Lee near UCC. Whether you like a nice casual stroll, a great place for your kids to play, a nice place to read a book under a tree or a place to catch an occasional outdoor performance, Fitzgerald's park won ...

... platform to allow you to get involved on the site. You'll find the link to the forum under the 'Community' menu item above. I have restricted use of the forum to members-only, purely because I WAnt it to be used in a positive WAy to help people who are serious about moving to Ireland, or who have moved here already. I don't have the time to moderate a Full blown public forum, so I think/hope by restricting it, I won't have any issues with spam/trolling/etc. Membership remains open to anyone with an interest in the site. I will post some general guidelines ...