The London Irish

ballsymchugh · 21-03-2013 6:46pm #1

so, the london irish centre's twitter machine is very lively about this today. Channel 4 are putting on this show which seems to be about the latest influx from ireland binge drinking all the time.

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/london-irish

the blurb sounds like a channel 5 documentary along the lines of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9al-mpqXjc

but just wondering what you may think of this.

out near me, the weekend ritual for the locals is to get plastered in the local weatherspoons as quickly as possible on a friday and saturday. there are plenty of natives in more .. eh.. 'salubrious' establishments in the likes of surbiton doing the very same. despite what the stereotype may say, it's no worse a situation at home, or among any irish crowds that i've been out with in 11 years here.

so does this girl from derry have a chip on her shoulder about who she gets to socialise with? if this blurb is accurate, then i plainly think it's a load of bollox.

i suppose i should add, i'm teetotal.

Reekwind · 22-03-2013 10:05am

I've not seen this yet (has it aired?) but I'd be willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. I've often found that beneath the ridiculous sensationalism of the titles and marketing, many of these C4 documentaries are actually pretty even-handed and considerate

Or it may be another My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. We'll see

Playboy · 22-03-2013 10:48am

Not sure what to make of the blurb tbh. Sounds like the protagonists are a bunch of xenophobic idiots. Can't live in Ireland with the Irish or in England with the English? Well **** off somewhere else then... Maybe if they tried to stop boozing for 5 minutes they could save enough money to go live with the aboriginals in the outback of Australia and away from the rest of us! Looks like its just going to reinforce the typical stereotypes about the Irish... Hope I'm wrong though

biZrb · 29-09-2013 9:37am

This started on Channel 4 last week.

The opening scene has the characters talking about how the British binge drink but the Irish drink before they go out, while they are out and when they come home and effectively drink themselves sober.

I only managed to watch 7 minutes of it, but that was mainly to see how bad their Northern Irish accents could get.