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Pole On the Dole In a Hole Plays the Troll

  • 01-02-2012 09:04AM
    #1
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/polish-waitress-packs-in-job-for-good-life-on-welfare-3005781.html

    A POLISH waitress living here has sparked fury after she boasted about living the good life on Irish welfare benefits. 'Magda' (36), not her real name, described her life on the dole in Donegal as a 'Hawaiian massage'.

    She revealed how she had packed in her job so she could spend her days walking along beaches with her partner.

    He in turn bragged about the county's wonderful golf courses.

    Magda claimed she earned €67 more a week on the dole than she did while working and that her welfare payments are €182 more every week than back in her native Poland.

    The shocking boasts in a Polish newspaper have ignited another debate on welfare tourism, with one Labour senator last night offering to pay for her flight home.

    The ex-waitress told the Polish newspaper 'Gazeta Wyborcza' that instead of working she takes advantage of free education courses and goes surfing.

    "How do I live? Wonderfully. I get an allowance of €188 a week plus €59 for the flat. In the winter I get an extra €20 for fuel. It's €267 a week," she said.

    Magda doesn't identify the town in Co Donegal where she lives but she does call it a "s***hole".

    Man it's going to be an awkward couple of weeks for all the Poles in Donegal, as everyone tries to figure out who "Magda" is.

    She must be a bit dim to go to the press actually boasting about it tho. Is this the price we have to pay to ensure that families in genuine need of help get it? Or should needy families go without to ensure we don't fund lifestyles like this? (Nationality irrelevant, btw)

    Edit: Bit of balance, from Volthar:

    Volthar wrote: »
    Original article in the Polish newspaper, although it angered all working Polish that I know, also mentioned that it was Social Welfare officer that encouraged "Magda" to stay on benefits for another 6 months so she can claim back to work allowance scheme. Aparently the girl was almost ready to open her own massage / spa studio. Here comes "Hawaiian massage" to play. The context was that one of the things that she is qualified in is amongst other therapies the said type of massage.

    Also expression "sh..t hole" had a totally different meaning... all she said is "Donegal is a county on the north end of Ireland - for some the most beautiful place in the world, for the others a sh..t hole. You can find everything here but jobs. Half population of Donegal emigrated, the other half is on dole."

    Independent's re-print also fails to mention savings that the girl makes in order to start own business.

    Shame on you Independent!

    Edit two: Indo have now withdrawn the story: (original url links to this text: )
    YESTERDAY'S story about a Polish woman living on welfare payments in Ireland sparked much discussion and controversy.

    Some parts of the original interview, on which the story was based, were inaccurately translated.

    You can read a fuller version of the interview with 'Magda', written by journalist Katarzyna Brejwo, here.


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Comments

  • #2
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    I should definitely sign on.


  • #3
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Half of Poland have bought plane tickets to Ireland since the original article was published.


  • #4
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Thread title of the year.....:pac:


  • #5
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    The system is wrong.


  • #6
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    A slap in the face to just about 95% of the country. Nice one.


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  • #7
    Father Damo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    She must be truly lazy when she could just as easily claim the same amount by flying here regularly whilst working and living back home.

    Do they still have that rule about returning Irish being unable to claim?


  • #8
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    If she's walking along beaches with her partner, when she's supposed to be working, would it be safe to guess he's on the scratcher as well ?


  • #9
    ringadingding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭ringadingding


    I read that article and came running to after hours


    * catches breath*


  • #10
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    I can't wait for the **** storm this will cause. Subscribing to this thread.


  • #11
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Probably seen a significant amount of Irish doing it and assumed it was a cultural norm?


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  • #12
    MagicMarker
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    marcsignal wrote: »
    If she's walking along beaches with her partner, when she's supposed to be working, would it be safe to guess he's on the scratcher as well ?
    But of course...


  • #13
    baaaa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 606 ✭✭✭baaaa


    this is a made up story to prep us for major cuts to welfare.


  • #14
    micropig
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    marcsignal wrote: »
    If she's walking along beaches with her partner, when she's supposed to be working, would it be safe to guess he's on the scratcher as well ?


    probably disability :p


  • #15
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,712 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    No Hawaiian Massage for the doleheads in Limerick.


  • #16
    Gummy Panda
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    ringadingding wrote: »
    I read that article and came running to after hours


    * catches breath*

    I thought we had a six month rule where you had to be paying tax in the state to claim the dole.


  • #17
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,712 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    micropig wrote: »
    probably disability :p

    Wonder what his handicap is?


  • #18
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Has to be Bundoran, right? I don't think Rossnowlagh would be called a ****hole...


  • #19
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    Thread title of the year.....:pac:

    thanks for coming up with the thread title: 0
    Thanks for praising the thread title: 3 :p
    micropig wrote: »
    Probably seen a significant amount of Irish doing it and assumed it was a cultural norm?

    A comment on the indo site says that the original article (in a Polish newspaper) has a bit on how she was instructed on how to claim by an Irish person.


  • #20
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    I say we round up all the Poles and ride them!


    My pole in there hole pumping like a mole that is partial to bowls and they will then feel cajoled to quit claiming the dole.


  • #21
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    YFlyer wrote: »
    No Hawaiian Massage for the doleheads in Limerick.

    Is this being cut, quite frankly I'm outraged, they need their massages :D


    Or where the polish people in the story giving the massages, either way I'm outraged


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  • #22
    Volthar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Volthar


    Original article in the Polish newspaper, although it angered all working Polish that I know, also mentioned that it was Social Welfare officer that encouraged "Magda" to stay on benefits for another 6 months so she can claim back to work allowance scheme. Aparently the girl was almost ready to open her own massage / spa studio. Here comes "Hawaiian massage" to play. The context was that one of the things that she is qualified in is amongst other therapies the said type of massage.

    Also expression "sh..t hole" had a totally different meaning... all she said is "Donegal is a county on the north end of Ireland - for some the most beautiful place in the world, for the others a sh..t hole. You can find everything here but jobs. Half population of Donegal emigrated, the other half is on dole."

    Independent's re-print also fails to mention savings that the girl makes in order to start own business.

    Shame on you Independent!


  • #23
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Wonder what his handicap is?

    17 on an 18 par course


  • #24
    dx22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭dx22


    Does a hawaiian massage mean you get rubbed with pineapples?


  • #25
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    tbh wrote: »
    thanks for coming up with the thread title: 0
    Thanks for praising the thread title: 3 :p



    A comment on the indo site says that the original article (in a Polish newspaper) has a bit on how she was instructed on how to claim by an Irish person.

    We don't need facts, they only stunt the conversation


  • #26
    mikemac1
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    Irish Indo plus no names and anonymous quotes = lies


  • #27
    Father Damo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Must be the first time the words beaches, Hawaiian and Donegal have been used in the same breath.


  • #28
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Lynch mob in......


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    Did it happen yet...


  • #29
    Gummy Panda
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    dx22 wrote: »
    Does a hawaiian massage mean you get rubbed with pineapples?

    I thought it meant a tug and rug


  • #30
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Irish Indo plus no names and anonymous quotes = lies

    :eek::eek: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!


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  • #31
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig




    hawaiian massage?


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