{"id":58147,"date":"2025-10-02T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/58147\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:18:07","slug":"ireland-is-not-a-kip-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/58147\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland is not a kip \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Sir, \u2013 I couldn\u2019t agree more with C\u00e9ire Sadlier that Ireland isn\u2019t a kip (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-style\/2025\/10\/01\/dont-call-ireland-a-kip-i-get-defensive-when-people-who-have-moved-away-scoff-about-it\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-style\/2025\/10\/01\/dont-call-ireland-a-kip-i-get-defensive-when-people-who-have-moved-away-scoff-about-it\/\">Don\u2019t call Ireland a kip: I get defensive when people who have moved away scoff about it<\/a>,\u201d October 1st). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It\u2019s not perfect, but compared to most countries it is a great place to live in. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Over the years, when I have heard or read that ill-informed comment, I have challenged the relevant individual to list five countries that are better than Ireland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">I have also inquired as to why they haven\u2019t gone to live in one of them. I have never received a coherent response to my questions. I wonder why? \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">BRIAN CULLEN,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rathfarnham,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 I couldn\u2019t agree more with C\u00e9ire Sadlier that Ireland isn\u2019t a kip (\u201cDon\u2019t call Ireland a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,39639,43],"class_list":["post-58147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-letter-of-the-day","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}