Suspect is 'A white male in his 40s with an Irish accent'

Irish accent is just as vague, as we've many of them, and our communities aren't all natives to the area. And you latching onto half of the argument, while ignoring the other half about skin color. You'd never see: a crime committed by a black man, a brown man, or any other similar variant.

They didn’t need to, as they weren’t looking for the suspects. They knew where they were.

It's vague because there's many Irish accents, which is my point. It could be any of the 32.

Were you privy to the information the guards had at the time?

No, which is why I am not suggesting how they should carry out their investigations.

I suggest you refrain from doing so as well.

One can be Irish without having an Irish accent. Thousands of second generation Irish emigrants who have returned speak with cockney, Scottish, Liverpudlian accents etc.

Similarly a white male with a non Irish ethnicity can speak with an Irish accent.

Furthermore some young Irish people now speak in accents which are difficult to “Irish”.

Well GreeBo, your post reflects what I was trying to say, but with less (as in, no) faffing around than I used. God, my creator would be turning in his grave.

It's a description that really narrows down the matter. It could have been a Cork or Dublin or a local accent. Could that detail not have been provided by AGS? It is reasonable to assume the details provided by the victim have not been clearly relayed. Journal.ie itself would have copied another news service.

If the offender is a member of protected class like Irish Traveller or migrant, the description will be as vague as humanly possible, the danger to future victims be damned. People are left to read between the lines. Descriptions like 'Eastern European accent' are still better than nothing, and correct in a loose way. Most would not be able to distinguish between the inhabitants of any of those small Baltic states. That detail can be supplemented by a physical description.

Descriptions have to be useful and not useless. I hope the perpetrator was caught.

What are you going to do then? This "we must do something, but I don't know what stuff" is useless, and common sadly. And we're not "going up against people" who are trying to do something about if they really are, we're up against people who make it a whole gender blame game, which it shouldn't be. It's really odd, because certain people seem to think individual men have control over other men, when we really have none. Me telling a scumbag not to be one isn't going to do a damn thing. Do you think Teddy Bundy would of said "I'm changing my way because people think I'm bad?" They are psychopaths, they are deviants, theirs brains are literally wired differently than the rest of us. They know what they are and they aren't going to change. Creating gender wars over stuff like, when you've no solution, is nothing but dangerous.

I think it was terrible that a young woman gets attacked and the complaints are that the guards described the perp as a white irish guy. It's insane how people take huge issue with that and don't even comment on the attack. I wonder if they would still be up in arms if the guy was described as having an Eastern European accent or some other trait like that. It really is sad to see the victim of such a terrifying attack get overlooked by these people so they can make a point about being victims. It's not really a surprise that it happened on this forum to be honest.