Attack on students in Gaeltacht

SoulTrader · 06-08-2010 05:48PM

genericguy wrote: »

personally i get more annoyed than worried by such pricks, but it's tiresome and i just don't have the time of day for anyone of the boy-racer age bracket up there. every last one of them is a boy-racer too.

genericguy wrote: »

and, btw, i am aware that i'm generalising, and that there are some good people in donegal. however, the concentration of pricks up there is extraordinarily high compared to anywhere else i've ever been.

Ok, I'm glad you corrected the generalisation there. Trust me, we don't all drive honda civics and sneer at those who wear suits. But you're right, it's disappointing as a Donegal person to say this, but there are an awful lot of assholes up there. I don't know if it's any worse than other parts of the country or not, but it's certainly bad. At the same time, there are a lot of decent, friendly, hard-working people in Donegal, and I'd argue that point for eternity.

Your story reminded me of one of my own. Once, when in a pub at home, there was a guy sitting at the bar doing a damn good impression of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh. Well, some redneck with his chest puffed out and too many vodkas and red bull consumed approached this guy, and warned him that "there's a lot of us GAA boys in here tonight, you'd better keep your mouth shut". For God's sake, imagine wanting to start a fight with someone because they did a comedic impression of a GAA commentator :mad:

scientific1982 · 06-08-2010 06:34PM

major bill wrote: »

thats your opinion ive worked all over ireland and can say parts of claire go untouched for beauty i never saw what the fuss was about when it comes to donegal the people put me off aswell not having a go at you but 8 out 10 donegal people i have had the unfortunate pleasure of talking to are pr1cks some people might say this about cork/dublin people but nowhere on a scale to some of the hicks up there.

*must be an ulster thing*

Fair enough if thats your opinion. Any tourists ive met have had the exact opposite view.

johngalway · 06-08-2010 07:31PM

"It is understood the students, all from Northern Ireland."

My Spidey sense is tingling Batman.

Noreen1 · 06-08-2010 09:21PM

scientific1982 wrote: »

It was the city folk who had the hurley sticks which were then taken off them. Im from the area and while I dont condone what happened, theres always two sides to every story.

Thanks scientific1982. I had wondered where the hurley sticks came from - I didn't think you'd find them to buy in the immediate locality, but I wasn't sure. I doubt very much if there's a local team, either?
If what you say is true, (and I have no reason to disbelieve you - for the reasons stated above, and in my previous post!) - it makes you wonder who the actual intended victims were..........

Based on the fact that I've driven through Loughanure countless times, and never experienced a problem apart from some unruly "Irish language" students, my gut instinct is to suspect that if the full truth of this story ever emerges, some posters in this thread are going to look just a little foolish....

I also have to agree with your comment on students walking in the middle of the road. For some mysterious reason, even the well-behaved students seem to do it - and it's very annoying. On a brighter note, though - It seems there aren't too many joyriders around Loughanure, - otherwise several students would end up dead every Summer, since said students don't seem to realise that people actually drive cars on the roads in Donegal!:D:D

Noreen

K-9 · 07-08-2010 02:15AM

Donegalists.

Laughing at people using this to back up their prejudice against Donegal people. We are no worse nor no better than any where else.

We have our fair share of in breds though! Proably on a par to Mayo, Kerry, Meath, Clare or Westmeath.

Dudess · 07-08-2010 02:30AM

Yeah, this thing which could happen anywhere else happened in Donegal, that thing which could happen anywhere else happened in Donegal... therefore Donegal is a cesspit of depravity.

Pretty dumb really.

Orizio · 07-08-2010 02:37AM

I heard this story days ago and I still don't believe it - people from Armagh and Donegal with hurley's?

Come on now...

Orizio · 07-08-2010 02:45AM

major bill wrote: »

horrific attack using hurley sticks very brave men.

culchies decades behind proper city folk.:)

:rolleyes: It was the kids (the 'city folk', who were GAA players from Armagh) who were attacked who owned the hurley's, which were stolen off them - are your comprehension skills really this pathetic? Did they not bother to teach you basic literacy skills in school to counter your bigotry and prejudices?

K-9 · 07-08-2010 02:45AM

Orizio wrote: »

I heard this story days ago and I still don't believe it - people from Armagh and Donegal with hurley's?

Come on now...

Thousands of baseball bats were sold in Northern Ireland over the last few decades. I'd say it was one of those. We are very good at baseball.

Orizio · 07-08-2010 02:49AM

K-9 wrote: »

Thousands of baseball bats were sold in Northern Ireland over the last few decades. I'd say it was one of those. We are very good at baseball.

We'll there we have it, the MLB were to blame for the 'troubles'.

Soundless logic.

Orizio · 07-08-2010 02:50AM

stovelid wrote: »

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

Obsessed. As always.

Dudess · 07-08-2010 02:51AM

Orizio, can you not just take a joke when it's about rural Ireland?

K-9 · 07-08-2010 02:55AM

Orizio wrote: »

We'll there we have it, the MLB were to blame for the 'troubles'.

Soundless logic.

Who mentioned the troubles?

I just mentioned how there is a huge interest in baseball bats in Northern Ireland.

Sectarianist.

ElaElaElano · 07-08-2010 02:58AM

owenc wrote: »

Jealousy.;) But still they tend to brag on too people, not that i'd get jealous of dublin like, its personally rubbish.

Funny even by your standards.

I have to say, this anti-Dublin agenda people are talking about is foreign to me, any time I've traveled to and stayed in other areas- Galway, Cork (lived there for a couple of years), Wexford, the midlands- 99% of people have been really friendly. No chips on shoulders or anything like that. The getting beaten up in Donegal thing was an isolated incident and could've happened anywhere.

I love Dublin and think it's a fantastic city, with mostly great people, but still have encountered more nastiness here than in other parts of the country.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 07-08-2010 03:06AM

owenc wrote: »

not that i'd get jealous of dublin like, its personally rubbish.

You made Dublin rubbish? Explains a lot.

kumate_champ07 · 07-08-2010 03:06AM

Snickers Man wrote: »

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?

my dad went there in the 70's, Im actually in Rannafast now. when I did the summer Gaeltacht course back around 1999 we never had problems with the locals.

K-9 · 07-08-2010 03:09AM

Kasabian wrote: »

Donegal has it's fair share of scum bags , I always put it down to the fact that no one wants them. Even the Brits couldn't be arsed pulling them in. They are just isolated .

:pac:

Actually, the Brits did want part of Donegal.

If events and a stroke of a pen had gone differently, I'd be posting this from Northern Ireland. Parts of Armagh could be in the ROI.

No doubt the irony will be lost on AH.

Saila · 07-08-2010 03:10AM

Ricosruffneck wrote: »

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.

I honestly cant tell if thats a pisstake or not

ah no wait its serious.

major bill · 07-08-2010 03:12AM

Orizio wrote: »

:rolleyes: It was the kids (the 'city folk', who were GAA players from Armagh) who were attacked who owned the hurley's, which were stolen off them - are your comprehension skills really this pathetic? Did they not bother to teach you basic literacy skills in school to counter your bigotry and prejudices?

no they thought me to hate prods and people from outside the pale:rolleyes: its after hours if you really took my post as offensive then you have taken the bait and obviously i win, take it they didnt teach you common sense or social skills to understand when someone is actually taken the p1ss.

kumate_champ07 · 07-08-2010 03:12AM

major bill wrote: »

thats your opinion ive worked all over ireland and can say parts of claire go untouched for beauty i never saw what the fuss was about when it comes to donegal the people put me off aswell not having a go at you but 8 out 10 donegal people i have had the unfortunate pleasure of talking to are pr1cks some people might say this about cork/dublin people but nowhere on a scale to some of the hicks up there.

*must be an ulster thing*

which parts of Donegal have you been to? It's a pretty big county. lots of natural beauty

Attack on students in Gaeltacht

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