Irish in Australia

Elmo · 01-03-2019 10:43AM #1

What's going on, it has to be strange that so many are arrested on suspicion of murder or attempted murder? What are these guys doing?

D3V!L · 01-03-2019 10:45AM

Elmo wrote: »

What are these guys doing?

Murdering ?

mad muffin · 01-03-2019 10:46AM

The heat drives them insane because the Irish weather made them weak?

Wanderer78 · 01-03-2019 10:46AM

Maybe we re lucky our building boom came to an end when it did, maybe this is what happens when they go on too long

Deebles McBeebles · 01-03-2019 10:51AM

What is this thread?

Bloody Irish will be over murdering in Poland next.

seamus · 01-03-2019 10:54AM

The US and Australia attract a larger proportion of people running from their past - criminals and such. They are english-speaking westernised countries, but they're not in the EU, which basically means that you're safe from the authorities and your criminal past.

However, Australia is a much smaller country, population-wise, so any headline crimes are much bigger news. The US has fifty murders every day. If one of them was done by an Irish emigrant, few eyes would be batted. The details of murder would be local news, not national news.

Australia sees about one murder a day, so the details tend be national news and therefore picked up easier by Irish media.

Elmo · 01-03-2019 12:11PM

seamus wrote: »

The US and Australia attract a larger proportion of people running from their past - criminals and such. They are english-speaking westernised countries, but they're not in the EU, which basically means that you're safe from the authorities and your criminal past.

However, Australia is a much smaller country, population-wise, so any headline crimes are much bigger news. The US has fifty murders every day. If one of them was done by an Irish emigrant, few eyes would be batted. The details of murder would be local news, not national news.

Australia sees about one murder a day, so the details tend be national news and therefore picked up easier by Irish media.

That's not true, if an Irishman murders anyone or is arrested for anything in any part of the world Irish Media will pick up on it. You don't see this in Canada which would be a similar type of country. In terms of population and language.

sk8erboii · 01-03-2019 12:13PM

Colin farrell was arrested for an unsolved attwmpted murder look it up. Eyewitness sketch looks exactly like him even, but they couldn’t prove it.

Strange

aido79 · 01-03-2019 12:17PM

Elmo wrote: »

What's going on, it has to be strange that so many are arrested on suspicion of murder or attempted murder? What are these guys doing?

What about the Irish murdering people in Ireland. Rte headline today
https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0301/1033614-clondalkin-death/

Why is it a bigger deal when an Irish national living abroad murders someone?

Pherekydes · 01-03-2019 12:23PM

aido79 wrote: »

What about the Irish murdering people in Ireland. Rte headline today
https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0301/1033614-clondalkin-death/

Why is it a bigger deal when an Irish national living abroad murders someone?

Who said it's a bigger deal?

Cina · 01-03-2019 12:24PM

aido79 wrote: »

What about the Irish murdering people in Ireland. Rte headline today
https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0301/1033614-clondalkin-death/

Why is it a bigger deal when an Irish national living abroad murders someone?

Whataboutism at its finest there.

orourkeda1977 · 01-03-2019 12:28PM

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Maybe we re lucky our building boom came to an end when it did, maybe this is what happens when they go on too long

We took our murder boom elsewhere.

At least they have proper police investigating them now.

partyguinness · 01-03-2019 12:29PM

Well thankfully in my home town and other rural backwaters a lot of the the local gob****es fecked off to Australia hopefully to stay.

I love when they are back visiting there is this almost: 'Jaysus Seamus is back for a few weeks. Rejoice"

"So what. He is the biggest gob****e this parish has seen in many a year and we were all delighted to see the back of him and all of a sudden we are supposed to be happy to see him back. Short memory."

gargargar · 01-03-2019 12:41PM

seamus wrote: »

The US and Australia attract a larger proportion of people running from their past - criminals and such.

You have a point there. There is a small percentage of people leaving their home countries because they are running from something.

I lived in Australia for a while and in my local there was with a guy from cork who was there 10 years and hadn't seen his family. He was intelligent but kinda a loner. Also an alcoholic. I let him stay with me for a few days when he got thrown out of his last digs. He lived above a pub where people used to drink outside on a nice evening. He was blitzed one night and pissed out his bedroom window on top of the punters :eek:

I felt sorry for him but was glad to see the back when he shot off. I never got the story of why he wouldnt see the family.

aido79 · 01-03-2019 12:43PM

Pherekydes wrote: »

Who said it's a bigger deal?

The op seems to think it is since they think there are so many Irish murderers in Australia.

Elmo · 01-03-2019 01:17PM

aido79 wrote: »

The op seems to think it is since they think there are so many Irish murderers in Australia.

No I don't, I just think its strange that there have been a number of murders involving Irishmen in the last few months. It seems strange, most will only be on a temp working visa. I was just wondering what's going on.

irishrover99 · 01-03-2019 01:21PM

They'll regret ever letting those Irish in to Australia.
Wait till they start breeding like Rabbits.

But what about the Muslims....

goat2 · 01-03-2019 01:26PM

I thought they do background research on people entering the country, I often watch the Canadian border patrol programme on tv, and if the truth is not forthcoming from the incoming person, they soon find it, and sent them packing, same with Australia,

ohnonotgmail · 01-03-2019 01:28PM

goat2 wrote: »

I thought they do background research on people entering the country, I often watch the Canadian border patrol programme on tv, and if the truth is not forthcoming from the incoming person, they soon find it, and sent them packing, same with Australia,

THey have a similar tv show for Oz and they do the same thing.

whisky_galore · 01-03-2019 01:36PM

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

What is this thread?

Bloody Irish will be over murdering in Poland next.

No they won't.
Learning another language is too much like hard work.

aido79 · 01-03-2019 02:15PM

Elmo wrote: »

No I don't, I just think its strange that there have been a number of murders involving Irishmen in the last few months. It seems strange, most will only be on a temp working visa. I was just wondering what's going on.

What other murders?

Reviews and Books Galore · 01-03-2019 02:43PM

Yeah, Irish people have a long fuse, but, in comparison to other countries, keep anger for MUCH longer. A latin man would be screaming and shouting and waving his hands, but an Irish person would probably bottle all the anger up for years and explode.

Coupled with the isolation, the amount of people trying to scam a foreigner, the culture shock and the heat (the heat, the heat, the heat. The murders skyrocket in American cities during a heatwave and drop exponentially during the winter), then it can lead to some angry outburst.

Elmo · 01-03-2019 02:55PM

aido79 wrote: »

What other murders?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/victim-named-as-two-donegal-men-charged-with-murder-by-australian-police-896312.html

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2019/0301/1033596-irishmen-attempted-murder-australia/

aido79 · 01-03-2019 11:15PM

Elmo wrote: »

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/victim-named-as-two-donegal-men-charged-with-murder-by-australian-police-896312.html

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2019/0301/1033596-irishmen-attempted-murder-australia/

I live in Australia and I was completely unaware of these...

Pauliedragon · 01-03-2019 11:32PM

Elmo wrote: »

That's not true, if an Irishman murders anyone or is arrested for anything in any part of the world Irish Media will pick up on it. You don't see this in Canada which would be a similar type of country. In terms of population and language.

Cops in Australia particularly Sydney hate Irish people. We annoy them so they love spilling things to the media over there about any Irish people connected with crimes. It's not just us it's the Brits too they don't like.

Mad_maxx · 01-03-2019 11:37PM

seamus wrote: »

The US and Australia attract a larger proportion of people running from their past - criminals and such. They are english-speaking westernised countries, but they're not in the EU, which basically means that you're safe from the authorities and your criminal past.

However, Australia is a much smaller country, population-wise, so any headline crimes are much bigger news. The US has fifty murders every day. If one of them was done by an Irish emigrant, few eyes would be batted. The details of murder would be local news, not national news.

Australia sees about one murder a day, so the details tend be national news and therefore picked up easier by Irish media.

Came across a story this evening online about a guy I haven't thought about in nearly twenty five years, in my class in secondary school, complete knacker who was a particularly nasty and dirty fighter, anyway It appears he is director of a very large construction company in Queensland but had some problems with thee old tax man

You always expect a gurrier who does well - gets rich to make it in concrete or drugs

Harry Palmr · 02-03-2019 12:38AM

The Irish in Australia are probably like the Easties here - young men displaced, restless, living in close quarters too many hours of the day, prone to looking for solace in a bottle and arguing a lot.

dd973 · 02-03-2019 12:53AM

I thought there was a spate of Irish men, usually under the influence being victims of attacks down there after gobbing off.

Aussies can be proud, thin-skinned aggressive f**kers, completely unlike the majority of English or Irish North Americans who'll encounter a mouthy Irish bloke in a bar and either completely get their vibe and hit it off with them or just think 'yeah, whatever' if they come across as obnoxious.

con___manx1 · 02-03-2019 12:57AM

I knew a few people from my home town that were on the run from the garda and met a few over there in australia. One guy I met in a bar was running from an assault charge. He told me he had to stay out of the country 3 years before it was safe to go back without worrying about charges when he went home. Not sure if its true or not im no legal expert.

raxy · 02-03-2019 01:04AM

Pauliedragon wrote: »

Cops in Australia particularly Sydney hate Irish people. We annoy them so they love spilling things to the media over there about any Irish people connected with crimes. It's not just us it's the Brits too they don't like.

Well to be fair everyone hates the Brits so we won't hold that against them.

castletownman · 02-03-2019 01:07AM

I do think the climate plays a part. Well that combined with the percentage of mad bastards that emigrate over there and a bigger hallucinogen culture than here. A lethal combination when added to often powder-keg personalities of locals, who I hear have the same opinion of the Irish today that the Brits had of us during the 80s.

But it is a growing problem. There may be more murders per day in the US, but considering if an Irish person farted abroad it would make the news here, the fact so few seem to have committed murder in the States compared to Australia, then there has to be an underlying issue.

Irish in Australia

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