Annie Angelopoulou had never been to the west of Ireland before she moved in 2017 from her native Greece to Ennis, Co Clare.
“I had been to Ireland once, the year before,” when attending the Christmas party of the IT company she works for, says the 60-year-old. “I knew that [Ennis] was a small town as I’d seen pictures of it.”
Angelopoulou first spent time with Irish people when working on an IT project in Montenegro, as her boss there was Irish. “That was a really challenging project ... but I was the team leader there and managed it well.”
At the end of the project, Angelopoulou was offered a permanent position in Ireland.
“At first it was a shock, a good shock, but I was frightened.”
Her husband, Dimitris Tsotsos, told her to follow her dreams. He also works in IT and had previously taken a job in Copenhagen for four years.
“I just dived into the
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