Wild Geese

Irish people working abroad tell their stories

An Irish woman in Malta: ‘I miss my family and the greenery of home but not the driving rain’

Solicitor Fiona Healy cites the lower cost of living, the international focus and the ease of doing business as reasons why she loves living on the Mediterranean island

Chef Ryan O’Sullivan: ‘I was like, I have to get back to the States and make something of myself’

O’Sullivan, who hails from Cork, won season 22 of Gordon Ramsay’s US television show Hell’s Kitchen

An Irishman in Paris: ‘Getting under the many layers of Parisian culture is a fascinating but neverending endeavour’

Wild Geese: Eoghan MacDonagh is a senior associate with the law firm Clifford Chance

‘The Czechs like to own property, like the Irish’

Wild Geese: Richard Curran, Prague

‘In New York, everything has to be done yesterday’

Wild Geese: Sophie Colgan, New Jersey-based charity auctioneer

‘We have six cars, one for each of the kids and one for the dog, who has nerve issues’

Wild Geese: Jonathan O’Connor lives in Atlanta, Georgia

‘There are stereotypes which may infer Spaniards are not sincere, but that has not been my experience’

Wild Geese: For Dubliner John McGrail, what began as a six-month trip to Spain after graduation turned into a lifelong love affair with the country

‘The minute you start murdering their language, they stop you’

Wild Geese: Sharon O'Flaherty Dehmel

‘In the US I found myself apologising for my humour, as in Ireland we are inclined to be sarcastic’

Wild Geese: Aedhmar Hynes, Connecticut

‘Being away for so long heightens your appreciation of how special Ireland is’

Wild Geese: Brian Horgan, Rhode Island

‘In New York, it doesn’t matter what you know, it’s who you know’

Wild Geese: Seamus Keane on leaving Mayo for the Big Apple and setting up a gym business

Primark’s Irish man in Spain: ‘We sell roughly the same number of coats in Madrid as we do in Dublin’

Wild Geese: Stephen Mullen, Madrid

‘I have a great friend here and his name is Santiago O’Reilly, which always makes me smile’

Wild Geese: Mike Gallagher works for US software company Switcher in Buenos Aires

‘The idea that there’s endless opportunity appeals to me’

Wild Geese: Alice Maria Murphy, California: 'I always knew I wanted to go and see what else was out there'

‘The work ethic here is unbelievable’: Meet the Dublin fashion designer who has created the Irish Olympic team’s costumes

Working on Jill Biden’s presidential inauguration outfit resulted in a spike in Weber’s public profile and her business has thrived since

‘Philadelphia has always played second fiddle to New York and we kind of like it that way’

Wild Geese: Declan Duggan builds up beverage brands in the US

A chance interview at ESB led to an international career in energy

Wild Geese: Catherine Hurley, Malta

Selling Ireland to the Spanish: ‘The majority prefer to stay at home, so you need to offer a strong proposition’

Wild Geese: Susan Bolger works for Tourism Ireland in Madrid

‘This is a land that is all about giving people a go’

Wild Geese: Colm Hamrogue, Christchurch, New Zealand

Irish in Germany: ‘There’s a good appreciation of work-life balance’ but ‘in the beginning you can easily fall foul of the rules’

Wild Geese: Claire Molloy, Munich

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