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Irish Mirror
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David Kent

St Patrick's Day: Dublin Airport issue hilarious advice for tourists to avoid annoying Irish people

Dublin Airport has had another brilliant bit of social media posting - as they provided some helpful "advice" for any tourists coming to Ireland for St Patrick's Day.

It's estimated that over a million people will take to the streets around the country at various parades this year, with thousands more flying into the various airports to get a taste of the island on our national holiday.

Which is why Dublin Airport decided to give some helpful tips to anyone here for their first time, in a brilliant Twitter thread.

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They started up with some handy ways to endear yourself to the people.

On Wednesday, they wrote: "If you're coming to Ireland to celebrate St Patrick's Day this year, here are our top 3 tips to fit right in:

  1. Do not accept compliments
  2. Be your most stubborn self
  3. Swear consistently

But they weren't done there!

As everyone here knows, both St Patrick's Day and Friday are Bank Holidays this year.

And thousands of people will be waking up with sore heads on both mornings - which is where the Airport steps in to assist once more.

"Our last piece of Paddy's Day advice: our top 3 tips to deal with a hangover while you're here:

  1. Flat 7Up will solve (almost) all of your problems
  2. A breakfast roll will solve the rest
  3. Complaining will not help but, you may as well do it anyway.

Hundreds of people entered the replies to give their own helpful advice to foreign arrivals.

One person urged: "Thank your bus driver. Keep your phone glued to your ear at the checkout constantly." with a second laughing: "Say “sorry” all the time - for everything!"

A third got to the point early, writing: "Don't do our accent, you can't, don't even try. No, we don't know your uncle from Kerry. If we say "yeah I will" know we absolutely WILL NOT"

While a fourth called on an Irish institution in their advice: "Say grand to everything, know you can't go into Penneys just for socks cos you'll leave with everything bar the socks, talk about the weather and mention the grand stretch in the evening"

But we'll leave the last word to the airport itself on St Patrick's morning!

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