Fight on Eyre Street

Wompa1

Looks like Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a fight involving about a dozen people around 2:30 this afternoon. Three African men were seen being chased.

The Galway Advertiser called it a racial riot and then removed the post and re-posted 30 minutes later without the term racial riot. Anybody know more or see anything. It would be worth reporting it

snubbleste

It would be news if there was no fight in Eyre Sq.
No offence to anyone who got bruises.

inisboffin

Wompa1 wrote: »

Looks like Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a fight involving about a dozen people around 2:30 this afternoon. Three African men were seen being chased.

The Galway Advertiser called it a racial riot and then removed the post and re-posted 30 minutes later without the term racial riot. Anybody know more or see anything. It would be worth reporting it

I saw that on the advertiser page. Kind of odd wording I thought - "A racial riot"?
Surely all riots are racial, as they have people from a race rioting? :rolleyes:
I'm assuming they meant something like 'racially motivated attack'?

c_man

So a Race War hasn't broken out in town? Good.

snubbleste

c_man wrote: »

So a Race War hasn't broken out in town? Good.

Eastside v. Westside

my friend

Wompa1 wrote: »

Looks like Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a fight involving about a dozen people around 2:30 this afternoon. Three African men were seen being chased.

The Galway Advertiser called it a racial riot and then removed the post and re-posted 30 minutes later without the term racial riot. Anybody know more or see anything. It would be worth reporting it

Official Ireland has been in denial since 2005 with respect to this matter.
Idiots tried to convince themselves that 'we were doing things differently'
Well, turns out we weren't

Redhairedguy

I'm seeing nothing on the Galway Advertiser page. Anyone have any official sources?

snubbleste

http://connachttribune.ie/gardai-investigate-street-fight-in-city-centre/

ronnie3585

Rattlesnakes vs Slashers?

blinding

Well thats it now. The end of the world.

Sofa King

Street Brawl!

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/gardai-investigate-galway-street-brawl-684300.html

snubbleste

Sofa King wrote: »

Street Brawl!

A public donnybrook!

Sounds like it would have been a decent bit of entertainment of a Monday afternoon :pac: (from a safe vantage point of course).

Redhairedguy

All I can think of, is that scene from anchorman...

snubbleste

This is what happens when the schools close for the summer

fergiesfolly

Until I see videos on Facebook, it didn't happen.........









Waits expectantly for said videos to be posted

Free Hat

snubbleste wrote: »

Eastside v. Westside

Surely Eashtside vs Weshtside?

TheCitizen

Did nobody get the phone out? Must be a video of this somewhere.

Redhairedguy

This thread could easily get off topic and we could descend into places best left undescended... So let's only stick to the facts here please guys.

galwaycyclist

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Rattlesnakes vs Slashers?

If my memory for Galway graffiti is accurate, shud that not be spelt "Rattlesnaks" - like?

Barnavave

Redhairedguy wrote: »

This thread could easily get off topic and we could descend into places best left undescended... So let's only stick to the facts here please guys.

Why was my post deleted? Simple enough question.

sasta le

Has been few big race fights in Dublin but as someone said glossed over

biko

Barnavave wrote: »

Why was my post deleted? Simple enough question.

PM a mod and you'll get your answer.

tightropetom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNqUnroNAW4

This looks like part of the incident - although it doesn't show much fighting.

Wompa1

tightropetom wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNqUnroNAW4

This looks like part of the incident - although it doesn't show much fighting.

Could say something about the look of the lads by the internet cafe...

Fair old cowards too. They had the three guys outnumbered. The two guys also probably shouldn't left their friend alone. Looked like handbags...no big deal

Wompa1

Facebook post from Advertiser is here: https://www.facebook.com/GalwayAdvertiser?fref=ts

Panthro

I could not understand a word of that.

ronnie3585

Panthro wrote: »

I could not understand a word of that.

Lots of dead men apparently.

ben.schlomo

A simple misunderstanding about whose corner it was, surely.

blinding

The World had a lucky escape there. If that had kicked off I'd say the end of the World would be just around the corner.

ArtyC

That car went the wrong way down st Brendan's?!!!

Pure thuggery, I hope the guards use this and they get heavily penalised. This should never be ok

_Whimsical_

Yeah, hope it's forwarded on to the guards. Looks like a pretty scummy element there.

Was that the extent of it then? The advertiser fb had a post yesterday about people going into Dunnes and breaking glass vases so they could use them as weapons. Seemed unlikely enough for the general fb community to reflect on how uncannily resourceful that was but I would hope it wasn't true and didn't escalate to that.

tightropetom

Panthro wrote: »

I could not understand a word of that.

It's particularly hard to understand from 1:18 onwards. The "local" lads seem very fluent in some Slavic language or other.

marklazarcovic

it was polish lads fighting some africans ,young lad knows a few of them from his previous school

Could be any town in Ireland.

That video shows sfa.

JONJO THE MISER

marklazarcovic wrote: »

it was polish lads fighting some africans ,young lad knows a few of them from his previous school

And all happening in neutral Ireland:D

Intifada

Presumably they came back after and actually started batin each other? Situation seems fairly diffused at that point in the vid. Hard to tell which party was in the wrong either (if not both), and thankfully no sign of the racial element that most people seemed to assume.

ThebitterLemon

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Rattlesnakes vs Slashers?

Haha! Showing your age there Ronnie!

I'd say that went over most people's heads.

TbL

ChunkyLover54

marklazarcovic wrote: »

it was polish lads fighting some africans ,young lad knows a few of them from his previous school

Hooray for diversity!

Tunnel snakes rule!

Wompa1

Intifada wrote: »

Presumably they came back after and actually started batin each other? Situation seems fairly diffused at that point in the vid. Hard to tell which party was in the wrong either (if not both), and thankfully no sign of the racial element that most people seemed to assume.

I would have assumed it happened before that since a few of them were picking stuff up off the road.

Intifada

Wompa1 wrote: »

I would have assumed it happened before that since a few of them were picking stuff up off the road.

They all seemed in pretty good nick considering the reports of all out war involving weapons etc :rolleyes:

Mrs OBumble

Intifada wrote: »

They all seemed in pretty good nick considering the reports of all out war involving weapons etc :rolleyes:

Indeed. And the fact that the African guy got away unscathed after his no-so-much mates abandoned him.

There must have been enough yelling beforehand to have prompted the camera-operator to pull out his/her phone and start recording.

But I'd guess that the vases from Dunnes etc parts were all generated by our of-so-efficient rumour mill rather than any actual observations.

Intifada

I know a few who work in that Dunnes so will return with fresh rumours soon

marklazarcovic

dont forget the shannies lads.. not to be trifled at

Long Gone

ben.schlomo wrote: »

A simple misunderstanding about whose corner it was, surely.

Or about whose round it was ?

ben.schlomo

Long Gone wrote: »

Or about whose round it was ?

No.

Long Gone

ben.schlomo wrote: »

No.

How do you know ? Were you there ? Were you involved ?

ben.schlomo

Long Gone wrote: »

How do you know ? Were you there ? Were you involved ?

You didnt get the reference in my post, if you did you wouldnt be asking the above questions.