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Irish in Australia

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  • #32
    Floppybits
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    Thought we only sent our best and brightest to Australia. That's all you would hear in the media. I thought it was pretty insulting to those of us who continued to live and work here, made us out to be to thick to leave the country.


  • #33
    maninasia
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    Floppybits wrote: »
    Thought we only sent our best and brightest to Australia. That's all you would hear in the media. I thought it was pretty insulting to those of us who continued to live and work here, made us out to be to thick to leave the country.

    Could you please repeat that in English?


  • #34
    Cookie_Monster
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    well its a prison colony innit, make sense there are more murderers there


  • #35
    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    They’re a pretty racist bunch themselves. Notice that they never come here - lots go to London but never Ireland.


  • #36
    VeryTerry
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    dd973 wrote: »
    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.

    I don't know about that. I always found Australians to be up for a bit of slagging and messing. North Americans on the other hand are likely to completely lose the rag at that sort of behavior.


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  • #37
    Airyfairy12
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    Not always the case but generally allot of scumbags jumped on the bandwagon and went to Australia.
    Most of the scumbags I knew growing up or lived around the area went to Australia, they were the type to joyride at all hours of the night, start fights, deal drugs and beat people up around town when they where drunk. Australia offered them manual labor for decent pay.


  • #38
    dd973
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


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

    What about the Scots or the Welsh? Even some Cornish people would take umbridge as being described as 'a Brit', I think you mean the other lot over there..


  • #39
    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    dd973 wrote: »
    What about the Scots or the Welsh? Even some Cornish people would take umbridge as being described as 'a Brit', I think you mean the other lot over there..

    All British.


  • #40
    pgj2015
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    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.




    and Irish women. a lot of riff raff left Ireland in the last 10 years for australia, they were causing trouble over here before they left and continued in the same way over there, they would have just killed someone here if they stayed most likely.


  • #41
    ChikiChiki
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    castletownman wrote: »
    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.

    To be honest I find a lot if Australians especially from the city warm to the Irish. I have many Australian and kiwi mates. The Australians from regional areas tend to be more hostile to outsiders.

    I was surprised as the opinion I always had was that we were despised. Not the case. I've had a couple of Aussie gfs who are always welcoming of the Irish factor.

    Sydney is like a cocktail of cultures but I have noticed a lot of the Irish here just socialise together instead of broadening their horizons. For all the scumbags evading the law there are a lot of successfull Irish here. Just look at some of the heads in Qantas, CBA, Optus, Diona, etc. Irish people.


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  • #42
    Giveaway
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    Fine Irish names on the two who allegedly shot the estate agent in the face.


  • #43
    Moghead
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    Anyone hear what part of Ireland they are from?


  • #44
    Giveaway
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    Moghead wrote: »
    Anyone hear what part of Ireland they are from?
    Presumably one of the home counties


  • #45
    Pauliedragon
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    Moghead wrote: »
    Anyone hear what part of Ireland they are from?
    One of them is from Ballymun apparently.


  • #46
    Standard Toaster
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    Santry. Dixon is from Navan, a real nut job.


  • #47
    mandrake04
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    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.

    This made me laugh, I been living in Sydney 15 years never had a problem or even heard of a problem with Police. I have quite a few friends that are cops including one that works Eastern suburbs and does deal with a lot of Irish around that area and 90% of that is your run of the mill drink related problems you find in Dublin. As for spilling things into the media when Irish are involved it’s often not that well reported until word hits the Irish media.

    On the general topic of the thread the Irish abroad are exactly like Irish at home, you have a population of useful professionals and then you have useless idiots and varying shades in between. I certainly don’t buy into the best and brightest clap trap and been saying this for years.

    Holiday visas like the Working Holiday visa or the old 457 visa didn’t require a Garda check, it was a self declaration on the form which people can lie although most of these incidents are hardly career criminals.

    When it comes to a lot of incidents of Irish either as perpetrators or victims nearly always involves drink consumed....No surprise there.


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