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# Manners

Last year
2023
Sinn Féin says 'putting manners on you' comments were not directed at Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
All time
A plea to contestants on First Dates Ireland: if you don’t want to go on a second date, speak first
This grandma asked Google the most polite question, and got an excellent reply
Munster call on fans to show respect in wake of jeers for Keatley
Everyone is impressed with how ridiculously polite Japanese One Direction fans are
The Burning Question*: Is it ok to eat on public transport?
The 8 rules of table manners everyone needs to know
Meet the little kid who says "f**k you" instead of "thank you"
8 slightly rude things you do all the time
16 unspoken rules everyone should live by
China is worried about how their citizens behave when on holidays
The worst possible Irish faux-pas, ranked in order
Paris tries to convince locals to be nicer to tourists
8 things that'd seem totally reasonable... anywhere except Ireland
Weird Wide Web: Arrested development, Pac-Man post-its and the world's smallest charger
PIC: Restaurant gives mum discount for 'well behaved kids'
VIDEO: Meet the most polite toddler in the world
The burning question*: Do you lick the yoghurt foil lid or not?
Bourne supreme? Mother-in-law's savage email goes viral