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10 Feelings Irish People Get When It Rains

10 Feelings Irish People Get When It Rains


10. The Washing 

You just put the washing on the line and boom it starts lashing. Mothers across the nation start flooding inboxes: ‘Will ya take in the washing’. There is a mad dash to all the collective lines to get the washing in. Another cycle ruined, when we will ever learn. 



9. TV Binging 

Netflix binging is  totally acceptable when it's lashing – watching an entire series in one day is completely justifiable. In fact, it is encouraged, drop any obligation and attach yourself to the couch and strap in for 12 hours in front of the screen. 


8. Hermit Why Leave the House 

Why ever leave the house or get dressed – I can now avoid the entire world in my PJs wearing a duvet as a cape. You can order food, build a fort, sit in your own filth and loiter around the house. And it is ok, all you have to say ‘it's awful out’. 


7.  Dressing 

How can I dress myself for this rain? It’s warm, it’s cold, it’s wet- there is no real way to cover yourself for this. Really wearing wellies, having an umbrella and a giant rain coat would be perfect but for some reason you have left the house in toms or cons- or some form of canvas shoe and will spend the rest of the day with wet feet, squelching around. Let us not even mention the odd feeling of sweating in a rain coat. There is no dignity in rain.


6. Denial

‘Sure that sun was too hot, grand bit of relief, didn’t like the heat anyways’. You can tell yourself, you like the rain, all you want but really we all know, we want the sun back so stop trying to pretend that you like the relief of the rain. 


5. Eating 

‘Now that it is raining, I no longer need a beach body so I shall eat all around me’ is a common thought for Irish people. Nothing says I don’t care like shoving a packet of biscuits, or a cake in your face with some tea. Sure, what else would we be doing?


4. Lift

Beg your Mum, Dad, Boyfriend, Girlfriend, anyone with a car for a lift to work/bus anywhere to avoid getting wet. You look at cars like these amazing rain proof vessels and vow to learn to drive but then you hit traffic and realise the pain of driving in the rain. The car steams up and it’s all damp like sitting inside a wet dog’s fur and you almost feeling like walking would be better than this.


3.  Sick

You feel a cold coming on, the rain slightly drizzles and your noise goes like a broken tap. You say things like ‘I can feel it in my bones’ despite not being 70. That can do attitude turns to ‘not bothered, why try, who cares, where is my bed’?’.  Agh the old rain apathy!


2. Check The Weather App Constantly 

Well at ten past two there will be a dry spell and then gain at 03:41- so it is not all doom and gloom. Planning your life on based on the weather app becomes a reality. From the work commute to the lunch time jaunt to get lunch is all hanging on the oracle that is the weather app. It better be right or Siri is getting a smack. 


1. Time to Book a Holiday

Nothing like a bleak Monday for the price of flights to jump up in price as we all look up cheap flights out of here. How cheap, fast and far away can I get from this miserably soggy island? After hours of trawling the web you see a chink of sunshine peeking out from the clouds and your faith in the nation is returned. Why would I ever need to leave – where else would you be than in Ireland (in the sunshine). *Clearly, we are trying escape when it rains. 






Siobhan Perry | Web Team | 11:25 

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