Anne turned to me and said, we need to move somewhere where it rains,” Hillyard says. That was climate change in your face.”Though his family were from California, Hillyard grew up in Mississippi as his father worked for Nasa. My dad was held accountable for 800 years of occupation of Ireland all my life.”When Hillyard was 17, his family moved back to California. When Ireland entered lockdown, they had friends from California visiting who ended up being unable to get back home for months. We would like to hear from people who have moved to Ireland in the past 10 years.

Source: The Irish Times December 23, 2025 12:00 UTC