[RATM]

Interestingly the owner of the hostel is Irish himself.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...318966338.html

A DUBLIN man who runs a pub and hostel in the north Queensland town of Prosperpine is refusing to accommodate any more Irish backpackers after a series of drunken and property-damaging incidents.

The latest episode saw two Irish men being arrested at the hostel adjoining O’Duinns bar after they allegedly caused damage by breaking chairs, windows and a table.

Thomas Dunne, whose business is close to the famous Airlie Beach resort, said: “We have security here from 11 o’clock at night because people are getting up at five for work [on local farms] and it’s usually the Irish ones who are causing all the problems.

“The security tell me they are getting the same from the Irish at pubs in Airlie Beach, giving them lots of lip.

“It used to be the English,” he added, “now it’s the Irish.”

Mr Dunne’s 55-bed backpacker hostel is used by young people on working holiday visas who work on farms for three months in order to get a second-year visa.

He said some local farmers no longer wanted to hire Irish people because of their poor work.

“We’ve just been told by one farm a couple of days ago ‘We’re not taking any more Irish or English, no Europeans at all. All we want is Koreans’.

“So we sent 40 Koreans out to that farm.”

After these and other incidents, including an alleged arson attack by an Irish woman, Mr Dunne no longer wants Irish people staying on his premises.

“If Irish people ring up we say ‘Sorry, we’re full’.

“If they’re going to be here for three months [working on a farm] you don’t want all that trouble, that’s why we knock them back straight away.”

Mr Dunne added: “It’s distressing for my wife. She’s just gone to the police now because she can’t put up with it. And also my 17-year-old daughter, who is working here in the bar with us: she is all distressed about what’s happening.”

Mr Dunne, who also has a 15- year-old son and a 19-year-old daughter who is currently in Dublin, contrasted the behaviour of some Irish backpackers with that of asylum-seekers trying to get to Australia.

“Hundreds of poor boat people died last week trying to get into Australia,” he said, “and these guys who could not get a job in Ireland have been given the opportunity to work and the opportunity to extend their visa an extra year by working 12 weeks on a farm.”

He said “low-lifes” who caused damage should be kept in Ireland to “give the real refugees a chance”.

Another Irish racist so.....just this time he's racist against his own

[Nothingbetter2d]

Originally Posted by RATM

Interestingly the owner of the hostel is Irish himself.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...318966338.html



Another Irish racist so.....just this time he's racist against his own

sounds like he is running a korean slave farm

[CodyJarrett]

Ah well, there's no place like home sure.

/Clicks heels three times.

[Dr.Strange]

Sounds like he would prefer getting people straight from the boats and into his hostel to rent them out to the farms for work.

[humbert]

I read these sort of articles and think it's odd that the Irish are causing so much trouble. Then I think about the people I know who've chosen to travel there and it clicks into place.

[Scioch]

Its his business I assume he has a right to refuse entry to whoever he wants and he's of the opinion that an Irish person is more likely to cause damage to his property given his experiences.

Racism or good business ?

[darragh16]

Meh, no surprise really. I've done the J1 and been away with the Irish a good few times and some of the people on them trips. Especially the younger ones who are just doing their 1 year away from home, just up for havin the laugh and gettin wrecked

[dan1895]

I'm not saying he's right or wrong but I don't blame him, there's a large amount of Irish over there who are (a) Ass-holes and (b) can't stay off the drink for ten minutes.

[Yo! MTV SUCKS]

^^^^^ THIS, crime has been cut in half in my town since the great flight to oz,couldnt be ****ing happier these low lifes are leaving our country

[biko]

Originally Posted by RATM

Another Irish racist so.....just this time he's racist against his own

Irish is a race now?

Tbh, I understand him and I've heard of other places having the same policy, just that they don't say it out loud.

[DEFTLEFTHAND]

Bloody apes, can they not behave themselves. The drunken Paddy shtick has grown old and is appealing to nobody.

[Dr.Strange]

Originally Posted by DEFTLEFTHAND

Bloody apes, can they not behave themselves. The drunken Paddy shtick has grown old and is appealing to nobody.

But it's a right of passage to go abroad and fulfill the stereotype of being an obnoxious drunken Arse hole.

[Scioch]

Originally Posted by humbert

I read these sort of articles and think it's odd that the Irish are causing so much trouble. Then I think about the people I know who've chosen to travel there and it clicks into place.

Exactly, the majority of people that I know who traveled are the young tradesman types who when here spent their 1k a week on drink, drugs and boy racer cars.

Add to that the fact that they go over thinking its going to be a year long holiday in the sun and you end up with quite a few of them causing trouble.

I dont think its anything to do with any particular nationality but when you have young people emigrating in groups going out and drinking heavily there is going to be trouble. Emigrating in large groups doesnt allow people to integrate either which doesnt help.

[prinz]

Originally Posted by DEFTLEFTHAND

Bloody apes, can they not behave themselves. The drunken Paddy shtick has grown old and is appealing to nobody.

...all the while trying to convince ourselves that everybody thinks we're great.

[Biggins]

I post this just for further debate - it just concerns Australia:

Is Australia tainted by the Irish?
Thursday, December 15th, 2011 at 1:00 pm

The Irish baby boomers in Australia like to make merry because they have something to celebrate, having left a country that promised them everything but left them with nothing. But do they deserve their loutish reputation, asks Shaunagh Connaire.

There is an estimated 300,000 Irish living in Australia and a few months ago I travelled there to visit the manifold emigrants of Generation Y, better known as my siblings and friends. Admittedly, I entered the country with many pre-conceived prejudices about the Irish backpacker lifestyle Down Under. Quite frankly, I did not want to meet this ill mannered and oafish plague, whose panache for drinking ‘Goon’ in the company of their county colour comrades have prompted many to shun the Australian visa, even in these difficult times. Remarkably though, after four weeks of Sydney, Gold Coast and Perth bliss, I seem to have eschewed this stereotype.

This is what I did observe. The untold story if you will.

My first acquaintance was with an Irish engineer in her twenties, based in Sydney and working full time in the medical industry. Every Wednesday evening she volunteers for ‘Active After School Community’ (AASC), an Australian government-led initiative. This programme provides disadvantaged children with the opportunity to participate in sport after school in an effort to reduce future health costs, by preventing children from requiring treatment for obesity.

When probed about the typical Irish stereotype down under, she says: ‘There is no doubt that the Irish, including myself, enjoy a few drinks over here but being verbally attacked constantly by our own national media is becoming tedious, not to mention unoriginal. I pay Australian taxes like most other Irish people here and I try to give back to the community when I can. It’s just a shame that the minority always catch the attention of the press and we all get pigeonholed in the process.’

Another Irish engineer, early thirties, spends his weekends teaching Aussies between the ages of 6-12 Gaelic football. Along with other Irish volunteers, he helps to organize kids’ tournaments between AFL teams and newly formed GAA teams in order to promote the Irish sport Down Under. In a bid to make the sport more sustainable in Australia, this group of volunteers are trying to reduce the dependence on the fleeting nature of the Irish backpacking community, and involve Australian kids in GAA from a young age.

My third acquaintance: an Irish tradesman living in Brisbane, working full time in the air-conditioning and refrigerating industry. When cyclone Yasi hit Queensland in February he decided to set up his own ‘mud army’ and go from door to door to help with the clean-up and use his expertise wherever possible. Thousands registered with Brisbane council to help the worst hit areas, and this Irish tradesman says that many of these were young Irish people who saw the damage on TV and wanted to do their part.

When asked about the typical Irish stereotype in Australia he says: ‘I have heard some things about the backpackers but its a lot worse in certain areas of Australia I think. I don’t think police or locals have much time for them down at Bondi or other party areas where there’s alcohol involved.’

Yes. The Irish baby boomers in Australia like to drink. They like to make merry because they have something to celebrate. They have left a country that promised them everything but left them with nothing. They have left a country where white-collar crime remains unscathed while unemployment soars above 14%.

1,000 people are expected to leave Ireland every week in 2011. This is a huge problem, which will have inconceivable repercussions for the future of our aging nation. So while we continue to publicly decry our own for their ostensible debauchery in Australia, maybe we should think again. It is the minority who warrant this typecast. The majority are an assiduous and admirable bunch and we should think before we begin to vilify and alienate them. This is the generation that we should want to come home. This is the generation that will have the resources and experience to lead Ireland and restore any archaic ideals that we are in fact a nation to be taken seriously. And we are not a nation who turns its back on its own.

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gene...-by-the-irish/

Over time in the last few years, I have to sadly admit, I've read more and more countless articles on the troublemaking of Irish people abroad.
This saddens me greatly.
We used to be welcomed everywhere.
I'd hate this to change.