I belong to the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America and can testify that my Irish friends cover the full rnage of heights and weights. Stereotypes tend to come from somewhere but I've never heard that the Irish are a short people. My father was 6'2" and I'm 5'11". My wife is Irish and is about 5'8" but my mother is a shortish 5'2". You just have to take some comments with a grain of salt.