i know many of the Bangladeshi community in kilkenny and have been invited to their national day celebrated in st patricks on the drumcondra rd where i learned of the large network they have in Ireland .My . . . . How things have changed these last couple of years? . . . and we always had an Indian/asian component in town but now . . . . ???
ALL the Indian restaurants in kilkenny and in the county are owned and staffed by Bangladeshis and the main supplier of them is BD TRADING who i buy fish and other items at wholesale from --all the community know i have travelled throughout Bangladesh and most of them are from sylet where i was based for a while .
i also am involved with the kearla community of south india who number about 300 in kilkenny -- most are very religious catholics and have their own prayer day in knock where 7000 ish attend .
they are beautiful people and you would be very lucky to have a family from kearla living beside you -- they have way more morals and true Christianity than us and i am glad i know them and when i was hospitalized in st lukes they cared for me and it was an honor to deal with them as was my time in ardkeen Waterford where hundreds more live and our health service would collapse without them .