Daily Telegraph says the Irish are a violent race.

Koloman

The recent child abuse report has confirmed British prejudices about the Irish being a violent race, so says the Daily Telegraph!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/edwest/blog/2009/05/27/is_this_a_bad_time_to_bring_up_corporal_punishment

These guys never change do they?

mike65

Oh noes a right wing blogging columist uses the Irish/Catholic kiddie abuse as a weapon to bring back corporal punishment in teh UK! Thats a tendentious, mendacious, mixed up article, and Ed West is a Catholic.

deadhead13

I didn't read beyond the headline - no point really.

jdivision

daily mail far worse TBH

Koloman

jdivision wrote: »

daily mail far worse TBH

Over the years there has been a lot of this kind of stuff in the Daily Mail as well which seems to magically disappear from the Irish version!

The Telegraph have now produced this gem of an article!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/05/28/the_latest_child_abuse_scandal_is_as_irish_as_it_is_catholic?com_num=20&com_pg=2

mike65

From that blog piece

He explained that Ireland has for centuries tolerated levels of domestic violence and alcoholism that are much higher than those in other Catholic cultures. There's no single, neat explanation for this - but the brutality of English colonial oppression certainly rubbed off on society. Rural Ireland until the 1970s was basically a Third World country; it still had a peasantry (thanks in part to the English)

See it all the Brits fault

Elmo

mike65 wrote: »

See it all the Brits fault

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I think we are quite nice on this side of the Irish sea