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Anyone fancy a trip to Pontins ??

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    #32
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    There was a bit more to it than just the list, Irish accent and English phone number was the big sign where you had to call over a supervisor


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    #33
    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,942 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Seems valid. I wouldn’t want travellers on my holiday either.

    Isn't everyone on holiday a traveller? Especially since they have left their country.


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    #34
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,785 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Fake Scores wrote: »
    Joyce, the quintessential traveller name -even with it - this is also
    a name in some of the most well-heeled familys in south Dublin. And
    widely represented in the legal, medical professions etc.

    And people can call themselves Seoige, or some variation of that.


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    #35
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,782 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    If they matched the Pontins list with Garda Pulse it's probably not too far off to be fair though.


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    #36
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    My names there, but with. Mc prefix which I’ve never seen.

    Does that put me out of the crocodile club?


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    #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    He's allowed to go, that's not his surname.

    Yeh but O’Mahoney is on the list. Keep up Jeremy.


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    #38
    [Deleted User]
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    Fann Linn wrote: »
    If they matched the Pontins list with Garda Pulse it's probably not too far off to be fair though.

    Yeh but that’s because they included everybody. All of the Irish names.


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    #39
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,782 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Yeh but that’s because they included everybody. All of the Irish names.

    Thankfully I can go, however I'm gonna go home now and tell the wife and her gang they're not.


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    #40
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users Posts: 35,831 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    It's hard to name and shame people when those people have no shame.


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    #41
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    FFS, absolutely disgusting, like something from the 1950s.

    At least it was the last time I was in Prestatyn anyway.


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    #42
    Fake Scores
    Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Fake Scores


    Del2005 wrote: »
    Isn't everyone on holiday a traveller? Especially since they have left their country.

    I am a traveller.
    You are a tourist.
    He is a backpacker.


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    #43
    I Am The Law
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭I Am The Law


    Fake Scores wrote: »
    I am a traveller.
    You are a tourist.
    He is a backpacker.

    I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler, I'm a long way from home......


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    #44
    bullpost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭bullpost


    Fake Scores wrote: »
    Joyce, the quintessential traveller name -even with it - this is also
    a name in some of the most well-heeled familys in south Dublin. And
    widely represented in the legal, medical professions etc.

    The most famous of them all , James, was well travelled.


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    #45
    Buddy Bubs
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    I, for one, am outraged! Not really though. I lived in England for a year and got the anti irish stuff a good bit and didn't care one bit.

    Who cares? A load of people that weren't going to Pontins anyway.


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    #46
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Buddy Bubs wrote: »
    I, for one, am outraged! Not really though. I lived in England for a year and got the anti irish stuff a good bit and didn't care one bit.

    Who cares? A load of people that weren't going to Pontins anyway.

    Never had it myself. Back in the swingin nineties

    Was planning my vacation this is a big deal....


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    #47
    Fake Scores
    Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Fake Scores


    A grim specter - the traditional English stay-at-home holiday. Fortune tellers, donkey rides, fish and chips, the promenade,


    pontins.png


    wheresmewashboard.jpg


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    #48
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 8,997 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    They probably had loads of claims made from travellers, stupid to print out such a list though. if it was refusing them just because they are Irish it would be a disgrace but I don't blame them to be honest. sure every pub closes in Ireland when there is a traveller funeral on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1soT59JcTY


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    #49
    uptherebels
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    biko wrote: »
    "It's a private company. They can do what they like."

    Would you like some mayo for that chip


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    #50
    FileNotFound
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    pgj2015 wrote: »
    They probably had loads of claims made from travellers, stupid to print out such a list though. if it was refusing them just because they are Irish it would be a disgrace but I don't blame them to be honest. sure every pub closes in Ireland when there is a traveller funeral on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1soT59JcTY

    Just a bit simple minded in the way they went about it to be fair...

    What a bunch of muppets haha.


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    #51
    thelad95
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    Drawing up the list like that was stupid but being pragmatic, I'm sure they've had previous encounters with such "I'll pay cash boss" guests for them to need to try and pin such an exclusion.

    It obviously got out of hand though and the beautiful irony of all this is that most of the surnames are spelled not just incorrectly but in a way that makes no grammatical sense whatsoever.


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    #52
    [Deleted User]
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    uptherebels wrote: »
    Would you like some mayo for that chip

    Where’s his chip? It’s a quote.


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    #53
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,275 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    I wouldn't want Jimmy Carr at my resort either.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    #54
    py2006
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    Those kind of holiday places attract a certain sort anyway. I'm not surprised they have had bad experiences from certain Irish going over there.

    When they ain't busy protestin


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    #55
    POBox19
    Registered Users Posts: 667 ✭✭✭POBox19


    Can’t say I’d condone this overt practice. Cannot condemn them either having seen the behaviour of a certain group of Irish extraction on their alcoholiday in a good hotel in Malta. Thankfully they were thrown out after a 24 hour nightmare for everyone else.


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    #56
    Hotblack Desiato
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    Fake Scores wrote: »
    I am a traveller.
    You are a tourist.
    He is a backpacker.

    Me, ex-pat.
    You, immigrant!

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #57
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,279 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I see Spike Milligan can't go to Pontin's


















    because he's dead.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #58
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    py2006 wrote: »
    Those kind of holiday places attract a certain sort anyway. I'm not surprised they have had bad experiences from certain Irish going over there.

    Are you finished pontificating?


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    #59
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    c'mon now let's be honest if you were running a hotel, guesthouse, b&b etc....and you had a rough sounding fella on the phone with one of those surnames trying to make a booking..what would you do??

    in short > i don't blame them

    although silly of them to make it public


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    #60
    Dr. Bre
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    Not today boss


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    #61
    freshpopcorn
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    Is this a new thing?
    I know with hotels you'd basically be told to be careful if you got a call asking to book a room and to try and get the surname before agreeing to anything.


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