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Is Mayo becoming a no-go area?

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    #32
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    Just another day in the wild wesht!


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    #33
    gurramok
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    Robbo wrote: »
    They were attacked with immensely thick liquid?

    That's the kind of ill-thought out AH scaremongering I can get behind, like an agrarian remake of The Blob.

    Assaulted aka kicks and punches!!

    And twice in the night by the same group of men according to gardai!!

    Now, you wouldn't expect that to happen in a country town in Mayo?!


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    #34
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    gurramok wrote: »
    Assaulted aka kicks and punches!!

    And twice in the night by the same group of men according to gardai!!

    Now, you wouldn't expect that to happen in a country town in Mayo?!

    Why wouldn't you expect it? There is no cultural divide in this country anymore. Violence is widespread and a daily occurrence in every town and village the world over. Why is it that I believe that you read the Daily Mail.


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    #35
    Armin_Tamzarian
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    It wasn't always like that, Mayoites used to plod along harmlessly.
    That is until that feckin song came along and got them all full of hopes and dreams...

    May-O, Mayyyyyy-O
    SAM Maguire is comin home to May-O...

    All across Mayo the people got their hopes up, confidence brimmed and the omnipresent darkness
    that hangs over the place finally started to disperse.

    But alas, SAM Maguire didn't go to Mayo at all.
    No, instead he fecked off Kerry.
    Leaving the Mayoites to wallow in their own misery, their spirits crushed.
    Soon their depression turned to anger and pretty soon the limited socitey that had existed just collapsed.
    Lawlessness took over and it's just been downhill ever since...


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    #36
    gurramok
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Why wouldn't you expect it? There is no cultural divide in this country anymore. Violence is widespread and a daily occurrence in every town and village the world over. Why is it that I believe that you read the Daily Mail.

    Daily Mail?!

    I quoted RTE news stories!

    Mayo is alot in the news lately for bad reasons, i'm asking why??


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    #37
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    gurramok wrote: »
    Mayo is alot in the news lately for bad reasons, i'm asking why??

    Slow news day?


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    #38
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    Slow news day?

    But its Mayo!! :P

    As far as i can remember Mayo was rarely in the news till recently, from an attempted murder of a garda to a murder of a civilian to 4 vicious assaults of people walking home after a night out, why has the place gone so bad?


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    Robbo
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    gurramok wrote: »
    Assaulted aka kicks and punches!!

    And twice in the night by the same group of men according to gardai!!

    Now, you wouldn't expect that to happen in a country town in Mayo?!
    I fully expect it.

    As a Galwegian, I'm sick of Mayo people coming down here and being given "grants" and told to attend college. They then try to marry themselves to Galwegian women and then never want to leave, so called claiming so called asylum. I'm reliably informed that they get free prams and cars from the Social and €204 a week to not work! I'm not racist but Galway for Galwegians is what I say. Some of my best friends are from Roscommon but what these Mayo types do sickens me.


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    #40
    Captain Slow IRL
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    ....... Driving past I saw a group of 3 or 4 people chasing another guy and smacking him in the back of the skull with a bat.

    I'm surprised I didn't hear about that!


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    #41
    WesternNight
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    These latest two assaults are suspected to have been carried out by the same gang of men. It's pretty creepy to think they're assaulting people on New Street and then the same again on the Neale Road a while later. Sounds more like hunters than opportunists.

    Used to live in Ballinrobe. Never noticed anything rough about it. Although that was a long time ago now.


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    #42
    galwayrush
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    To add to Robbo's post above, wtf is it with Mayo people and Roundabouts in Galway, there are rules ffs,.:rolleyes:


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    #43
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    gurramok wrote: »
    Daily Mail?!

    I quoted RTE news stories!

    Mayo is alot in the news lately for bad reasons, i'm asking why??
    gurramok wrote: »
    But its Mayo!! :P

    As far as i can remember Mayo was rarely in the news till recently, from an attempted murder of a garda to a murder of a civilian to 4 vicious assaults of people walking home after a night out, why has the place gone so bad?

    The reason it's in the news is because papers such as the Daily Mail are blowing these incidents out of all proportion. There is no such thing as news these days. The broadsheets are all opinion pieces, the middle class papers such as the Daily Mail are all campaigns to get something changed or blowing violent incidents out of all proportion while asking why someone wont think of the children. Last but nut least are the rags such as the Sun which basically cover nothing but Z list celebrity celebrity panty shots and over sensationalised crime.

    Mayo is no more violent than it was year years back, it's jsut that in the current climate this type of news sells papers. I got mugged in Dublin a few years back by a junkie who held a syringe and broken bottle to my throat, would it be newsworthy if I had went to the papers back then? Not a hope but if it happened to day you could pretty much guarantee I could get a piece written about it and the decline of humanity.


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    #44
    gurramok
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    Robbo wrote: »
    I fully expect it.

    As a Galwegian, I'm sick of Mayo people coming down here and being given "grants" and told to attend college. They then try to marry themselves to Galwegian women and then never want to leave, so called claiming so called asylum. I'm reliably informed that they get free prams and cars from the Social and €204 a week to not work! I'm not racist but Galway for Galwegians is what I say. Some of my best friends are from Roscommon but what these Mayo types do sickens me.

    Sounds like Mayo is indeed a no-go area with people feeling from there! :D


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    #45
    gurramok
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The reason it's in the news is because papers such as the Daily Mail are blowing these incidents out of all proportion. There is no such thing as news these days. The broadsheets are all opinion pieces, the middle class papers such as the Daily Mail are all campaigns to get something changed or blowing violent incidents out of all proportion while asking why someone wont think of the children. Last but nut least are the rags such as the Sun which basically cover nothing but Z list celebrity celebrity panty shots and over sensationalised crime.

    Mayo is no more violent than it was year years back, it's jsut that in the current climate this type of news sells papers. I got mugged in Dublin a few years back by a junkie who held a syringe and broken bottle to my throat, would it be newsworthy if I had went to the papers back then? Not a hope but if it happened to day you could pretty much guarantee I could get a piece written about it and the decline of humanity.

    Why do you keep quoting the Daily Mail when these horrific incidents happened in real life and are all over the other mainstream newspapers?

    One bloke is fighting for his life in Beaumont hospital as a result of the assaults. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0816/breaking124.htm


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    #46
    rossie1977
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    gurramok wrote: »
    But its Mayo!! :P

    As far as i can remember Mayo was rarely in the news till recently, from an attempted murder of a garda to a murder of a civilian to 4 vicious assaults of people walking home after a night out, why has the place gone so bad?

    its ballinrobe man, if you have ever been there you would understand, baghdad has nothing on that place

    i kid, i kid, i know quite a few people from ballinrobe, nice town, the only problem is the mayo people living there :P


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    gurramok wrote: »
    Why do you keep quoting the Daily Mail when these horrific incidents happened in real life and are all over the other mainstream newspapers?

    One bloke is fighting for his life in Beaumont hospital as a result of the assaults. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0816/breaking124.htm

    I'm not quoting the Daily Mail merely pointing out that it's down to papers such as the Mail and the Sun that cases like this are receiving so much attention. The reason news such as this is recieving so much attention is down to those sort of papers. Think back to the whole Jonathan Ross debacle last year, nothing would have came from it were it not for the Mail and similar rags.

    Once it became big news in the rags the mainstream papers picked up for the simple reason that it sold papers. News these days is about making money, there is no such thing as unbiased news reporting. Years ago news was about reporting fact not speculation.

    Had the incident occurred in Dublin or Limerick would it be so newsworthy?


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    Captain Slow IRL
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    galwayrush wrote: »
    To add to Robbo's post above, wtf is it with Mayo people and Roundabouts in Galway, there are rules ffs,.:rolleyes:

    Change the record, would you?:rolleyes:

    I used to live in Gort Na Corribe and had to negotiate that ass of a roundabout every day - it's not just Mayo reg cars that don't know how to go around it - or any of the other roundabouts in the town.


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    #49
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    Captain Slow IRL wrote: »
    I'm surprised I didn't hear about that!

    It was pretty nasty. The last day my mom picked me up from the bus station we passed a man face down in a pool of blood lieing by the side of the road. Two cops were standing over him waiting for an ambulance. Half an hour later there was a retaliation beating and a friend who lives down the road from the area said that there were 4 more retaliations that night.


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    rossie1977
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    Captain Slow IRL wrote: »
    Change the record, would you?:rolleyes:

    I used to live in Gort Na Corribe and had to negotiate that ass of a roundabout every day - it's not just Mayo reg cars that don't know how to go around it - or any of the other roundabouts in the town.

    mayo and donegal drivers are the worst in the country, mad they are :eek:


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    rossie1977 wrote: »
    mayo and donegal drivers are the worst in the country, mad they are :eek:

    I think you'll find that female drivers irrelevant of county are the worst in this country.


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    #52
    MayoForSam
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    Those regular beatings we are taken in Croker are beginning to take their toll.


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    #53
    gurramok
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    rossie1977 wrote: »
    its ballinrobe man, if you have ever been there you would understand, baghdad has nothing on that place

    i kid, i kid, i know quite a few people from ballinrobe, nice town, the only problem is the mayo people living there :P

    I see, this Ballinrobe place place is the source of Mayo's ills :)
    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm not quoting the Daily Mail merely pointing out that it's down to papers such as the Mail and the Sun that cases like this are receivin0g so much attention. The reason news such as this is recieving so much attention is down to those sort of papers. Think back to the whole Jonathan Ross debacle last year, nothing would have came from it were it not for the Mail and similar rags.

    Once it became big news in the rags the mainstream papers picked up for the simple reason that it sold papers. News these days is about making money, there is no such thing as unbiased news reporting. Years ago news was about reporting fact not speculation.

    Had the incident occurred in Dublin or Limerick would it be so newsworthy?

    No, it always happens here!! Dublin mostly urban pop-1.1m, Mayo vastly rural 123,000


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    rossie1977
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    I think you'll find that female drivers irrelevant of county are the worst in this country.

    its a good job there is no women on the interweb to complain about this post, but yes i agree and mayo women are the worst :pac:


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    rossie1977 wrote: »
    its a good job there is no women on the interweb to complain about this post, but yes i agree and mayo women are the worst :pac:

    If a woman is on the internet then someone somewhere isn't doing their job. Back to the kitchen with them.


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    #56
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    gurramok wrote: »
    No, it always happens here!! Dublin mostly urban pop-1.1m, Mayo vastly rural 123,000

    What has population got to do with it? The only difference between the incidents of violence in Mayo and Dublin is that there are far more in Dublin given the larger population.


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    #57
    hullaballoo
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    Mneh, most of Mayo's grand. Except the towns.


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    #58
    JACK_the_LAD
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    The thing which is NOT being reported is that both the stabbings in Westport & Kiltimagh were perpetrated by people resettled from DUBLIN!!!!!!!!!!

    So much fer the quite life? Eh?


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    #59
    JONJO THE MISER
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    :eek: Just reading this thread jayus i was often in Ballinrobe and always had a good time, were these people who were attacking people local? I mean ballinrobe is a small town so its a shame to see this kind of skuldugeery happening.


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    AlmightyCushion
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    JACK_the_LAD wrote: »
    The thing which is NOT being reported is that both the stabbings in Westport & Kiltimagh were perpetrated by people resettled from DUBLIN!!!!!!!!!!

    So much fer the quite life? Eh?
    Have you got anything to back this up?


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    #61
    K-9
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    Chef or Heinze instead maybe?

    AH covered this one already.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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