I was nine years old when I found out we were leaving Reigate, our hometown of five years. My reaction wasn’t quite what you would expect, no tears or anger, I was upset to leave my friends and the memories I had made. However, those feelings were cancelled out by my...

I asked my friend Michaela about her recent move to Dublin. She relocated from Co. Cavan to Dublin with her family in 2019 when her parents decided to move. She told me about her initial reaction to finding out, she had a great reaction and told me that she was really...

I knew a master’s degree in physiotherapy was going to be challenging, let alone choosing to study abroad in a country that I had never been and didn’t know a single person. To top it all off, I got to experience all of this in the midst of a global pandemic! I was...

The Story of the “G” Family’s Relocation to Dublin. The Highlights, Stresses and Lessons Learned as told by Mrs G. Why?  Was the first question I asked when Mr G called me last summer, why do you want to move your family from the beautiful beaches of Sydney to rainy...

By Julia Mahony The day we decided to move to Ireland, my mind shot to the practicalities of shifting a young family overseas. With our eldest daughter about to start secondary school, my husband had been offered a secondment to a government job in Dublin. It seemed...