Attack on students in Gaeltacht

Snickers Man · 05-08-2010 03:41PM #1

Just saw this disturbing report in the Irish Times.

A group of teenage students at Irish college in the Loughanure Gaeltacth of Donegal were assaulted by a gang of locals wielding hurleys and suffered quite severe injuries.

I remember in my day (the 70s) in the neighbouring Gaeltacht of Rannafast that there were, er, tensions between the male students and those whom we dismissively called the Munchies, a corruption of muintir na h-aite, or local people.

In fact many of the Munchies were Scottish, the nephews and cousins of people from the area whose families had emigrated to Scotland and who would come back for the summer. Mostly, it was all talk and no action, but occasionally it would break out into scuffles.

Never anything as bad as this though.

Anybody had any violent experiences in Irish college, in recent years or times long past?

genericguy · 05-08-2010 03:44PM

the people responsible for that are a shower of cowardly scumbags, and i hope they get caught, named and shamed and punished appropriately.

ElaElaElano · 05-08-2010 03:44PM

That's a horrific read.

I was at the Gaeltacht in Donegal once, the year before the Leaving, and while it was mostly brilliant three of us did get our heads kicked in by a bunch of local kids one night- no hurls or anything, just relentless kicking...although, in fairness, we were after escaping from the house by jumping out the upstairs bathroom window (it was 3am) so maybe it was karma.

genericguy · 05-08-2010 03:46PM

ElaElaElano wrote: »

maybe it was karma.

that's not karma man, karma is what happens to bastards like this in the prison showers.

fakearms123 · 05-08-2010 03:48PM

I was at the Gaeltacht in Rinne, Waterford a few years ago and I remember one of the lads in the Gaeltacht scored a local girl and let just say her local boyfriend was not happy at all! He didn't fight the lad one on one, oh no he wasnt man enough for that, he had to get all his local friends to jump the guy after a ceili, very sad indeed

easyeason3 · 05-08-2010 03:48PM

Maybe they heard them speaking English instead of Irish...

05-08-2010 03:49PM

Disturbing reports killed my father and raped my mother.. Down with this sort of thing.

PeterIanStaker · 05-08-2010 03:50PM

Damn forridners

CreepingDeath · 05-08-2010 03:52PM

Daniel O'Donnell supporters... they're a rough lot.

Fratton Fred · 05-08-2010 03:53PM

WTF was this for? just thugs looking for kicks?

The fact they used hurleys kind of implies that they aren't adverse to a bit of Irish culture, so why give people learning da lingo a kicking?

ElaElaElano · 05-08-2010 03:54PM

genericguy wrote: »

that's not karma man, karma is what happens to bastards like this in the prison showers.

True, no dinner for one night would probably have been sufficient. Problem is, we were afraid to tell the bean an tí or the college heads about it, cos we thought they'd go mental about us escaping. Silly, looking back.

minidazzler · 05-08-2010 03:55PM

Pfft, when I was in the Gaeltacht it was a glorified orgy!

Cape Clear rules!

mikom · 05-08-2010 04:02PM

Snickers Man wrote: »

Anybody had any violent experiences in Irish college, in recent years or times long past?

I was raped by the Modh Coinníollach once, if that counts.

topper75 · 05-08-2010 04:05PM

Donegal is the least wealthy county, but a good sliothar is €10 ffs!

CreepingDeath · 05-08-2010 04:08PM

Maybe they were startled by the Northern lights last night and saw it as a bad omen which required a sacrifice.

mikom · 05-08-2010 04:12PM

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Maybe they were startled by the Northern lights last night and saw it as a bad omen which required a sacrifice.

Should have toked some Northern lights......... might have calmed them down.

Ricosruffneck · 05-08-2010 04:14PM

I'm from that part of donegal.

I'm just astounded nothing has been put in place to protect the kids coming to learn Irish.

They have to walk from their surrogate homes to the college, they're basically main roads wit stereotypical donegal drivers.

And apart from drivers you have to worry about pricks like that. Madness.

They'll have to start giving the kids weapons.
And the attackers will only get a slap on the wrist that won't require stitches.

Snickers Man · 05-08-2010 04:17PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

WTF was this for? just thugs looking for kicks?

The fact they used hurleys kind of implies that they aren't adverse to a bit of Irish culture, so why give people learning da lingo a kicking?

I can virtually guarantee you that whatever this was about, it was not about differing views on the importance of Gaelic culture.

I'm betting it was a lot more primeval than that.

Almost at the level of territorial pissings.

Just my guess.

spinandscribble · 05-08-2010 04:18PM

Thats really fecking awful. Hope they get what is coming to them.

fontanalis · 05-08-2010 04:25PM

They were probably just practising for the Limelight this weekend.

PARARORY · 05-08-2010 04:26PM

They'll have to start giving the kids weapons.

That would just cause many many more problems...

I'v been to Irish College almost 6 times in the last few years and I worked there as well and I never encountered something like this. From what I can remember there was only one fight and that was between some students over something stupid and got sorted out immediately..

The cheek of the locals worrying that this will damage the industry for them up there - in a small town like that , the chances are that the scumbags involved are their children are quite high!

Ricosruffneck · 05-08-2010 04:31PM

PARARORY wrote: »

That would just cause many many more problems...

I'v been to Irish College almost 6 times in the last few years and I worked there as well and I never encountered something like this. From what I can remember there was only one fight and that was between some students over something stupid and got sorted out immediately..

The cheek of the locals worrying that this will damage the industry for them up there - in a small town like that , the chances are that the scumbags involved are their children are quite high!

I was not being serious.

Ricosruffneck · 05-08-2010 04:44PM

And why shouldn't they be worried about this industry closing up shop as a result of this.

It's one of the only industries in that area of the world. When everything is shutting up you hold on to what business you can.

PARARORY · 05-08-2010 05:02PM

And why shouldn't they be worried about this industry closing up shop as a result of this.

It's one of the only industries in that area of the world. When everything is shutting up you hold on to what business you can.

Well If I had kids and I was sending them to the Gaeltacht I would definitley steer clear of this one after hearing the story - of course It could happen anywhere but I've been to the Gaeltacht many times , both as a student and working and I've never had to deal with a situation like this.

Also , Irish College isn't cheap at all - when your paying alot of money for your kids to go learn irish,have fun etc you would presume that they would be safe!

Amhran Nua · 05-08-2010 05:10PM

Is there a lot of random violence in rural Ireland that we don't hear about? I know the worst offenders when it comes to fighting on the streets in the wee hours in Galway definetely wandered in from the hinterlands, and treat the city like a gladiatorial arena, but I assumed that was just the locality.

Ricosruffneck · 05-08-2010 05:13PM

You said 'the cheek of them'. Cheek to be worried about their families income? Money for the basics like sending their own kids to school, food, bills etc.

I'm asking why shouldn't they be worried.

I think safer practice should have been introduced years ago. Parents are under the impression that their kids are minded. They're not supervised for a good while during the evening

stovelid · 05-08-2010 05:14PM

At least they were attacked with hurleys and not British-themed weapons.

maninasia · 05-08-2010 05:19PM

In my day it was the trusted shillalegh..times change, sigh.

dlofnep · 05-08-2010 05:28PM

I fail to see the relevance of whether it was a Gaeltacht area or not. I see lads getting the complete and utter tripe kicked out of them here in Waterford on a regular basis. Never a mention in the papers.

Scum will be scum. It's sad that it happened there, as I've always found the Gaeltachtaí to be friendly places.

moonpurple · 05-08-2010 05:30PM

only in

donegal

again:pac:

dlofnep · 05-08-2010 05:32PM

moonpurple wrote: »

only in

donegal

again:pac:

Did anyone try look for a hidden message in this post?

Attack on students in Gaeltacht

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