Kicked out of a Taxi for speaking Irish.

GaelMise · 08-01-2014 08:16PM #1

Kathleen McAleer, 21, a mental health nurse, was travelling in the car with three other passengers in the early hours of December 16 in Glasgow. She was travelling across the city with her friend and two first cousins from Donegal. Her cousins, Joseph and Anthony Blair, 19 and 21, are native Irish speakers.Ms McAleer claimed: "The taxi driver turned around and said to [her cousins] 'Stop speaking in that language'.
"We didn't really know how to take it. He said: 'When you are in Britain, it is English you speak.'
"I said to the driver 'Excuse me', shocked that somebody would say that to them. "She told the taxi driver that he was out of order, and she claims that he told the group to get out of his taxi.

Independant

Unfortunatly not all that surprising, plenty of people in Ireland that are just as intolerent of the Irish language.

J_E · 08-01-2014 08:17PM

Any link to this? Bets on it being Daily Mail, by the way? Or Indo

Edit: That'll do

"An Irish woman has claimed that the taxi driver, who has not been named, threw the passengers out of his taxi at the side of the road at 2am after they objected to his demand that they stop speaking in Irish."

This sounds fishy...especially when Scottish Gaelic isn't all that different.

GaelMise · 08-01-2014 08:18PM

Cydoniac wrote: »

Any link to this? Bets on it being Daily Mail, by the way? Or Indo

Edited OP. from the Independant

SEPT 23 1989 · 08-01-2014 08:23PM

Not this sh1te again:(

Jimoslimos · 08-01-2014 08:23PM

I'm not overly surprised. There is an element of anti-Irish sentiment in parts of Scotland, not quite as overt as the sectarianism up North but still present.

keith16 · 08-01-2014 08:23PM

Can't she just complain to the relevant authorities in Glasgow and we can all get on with our lives?

kneemos · 08-01-2014 08:25PM

What's Scotland without racism?

J_E · 08-01-2014 08:25PM

keith16 wrote: »

Can't she just complain to the relevant authorities in Glasgow and we can all get on with our lives?

Not with the valiant Daithi O Se at the helm! Boy, are they in for trouble now :pac:

anncoates · 08-01-2014 08:26PM

Up the Ra..

Santa Cruz · 08-01-2014 08:26PM

Have a trip up the Gorgie Road when Hearts are playing Hibs or Celtic and you will see how overt the anti Irish and anti Catholic sectarianism is.
Anyone who thinks an independent Scotland will be friends of Ireland are in for a shock

Amirani · 08-01-2014 08:27PM

Could well imagine that there's Irish taxi drivers about who would throw Arabic speakers out of their taxi. There's intolerant douchebags everywhere, best thing you can do is ignore them - they're bound to earn themselves a Darwin award eventually.

Santa Cruz · 08-01-2014 08:27PM

anncoates wrote: »

Up the Ra..

Which shows why sectarianism is on both sides

tdv123 · 08-01-2014 08:27PM

Well that's Loyalism for ya.

tdv123 · 08-01-2014 08:30PM

Santa Cruz wrote: »

Which shows why sectarianism is on both sides

What was sectarian about what the post or what the driver said?

anncoates · 08-01-2014 08:31PM

Santa Cruz wrote: »

Which shows why sectarianism is on both sides

That's unpatriotic Brit talk.

pablomakaveli · 08-01-2014 08:32PM

Not surprised. In my personal experience people from certain parts of Scotland hate Irish people and not afraid to show it. Funnily enough when i've met people from NI from a unionist background over here, i've never had any problems with them. Scottish people on the other hand i have.

Fred Swanson · 08-01-2014 08:35PM

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humanji · 08-01-2014 08:39PM

Were they kicked out for not speaking English, or for speaking Irish? That's the thing. I know we all love a good "Why does everyone hate Irish" thread from time to time, but it can be a simple case of classic general racism.

WilyCoyote · 08-01-2014 08:40PM

Cydoniac wrote: »

Any link to this? Bets on it being Daily Mail, by the way? Or Indo

Edit: That'll do

"An Irish woman has claimed that the taxi driver, who has not been named, threw the passengers out of his taxi at the side of the road at 2am after they objected to his demand that they stop speaking in Irish."

This sounds fishy...especially when Scottish Gaelic isn't all that different.

I hear you Cydoniac. But some Donegal people (like Ms Danielle O Donnell) speak Irish with an American accent and that could have been very disconcerting to a Hun taxi driver

Jimoslimos · 08-01-2014 08:43PM

I wonder if the driver would have kicked out two deaf people conversing in BSL, a language with the exact same status as Irish in the UK - an officially recognised minority language.

Daqster · 08-01-2014 08:43PM

Cydoniac wrote: »

Bets on it being Daily Mail, by the way? Or Indo

Will The Mirror suffice?

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/stop-speaking-language-taxi-driver-2999820

Or perhaps I could interest you in The Evening Times?

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/taxi-driver-in-irish-rant-probe-147474n.23005857

nxbyveromdwjpg · 08-01-2014 08:56PM

But why were they speaking Irish anyway?
Seriously. It's 2013.

tdv123 · 08-01-2014 08:59PM

humanji wrote: »

Were they kicked out for not speaking English, or for speaking Irish? That's the thing. I know we all love a good "Why does everyone hate Irish" thread from time to time, but it can be a simple case of classic general racism.

Because of our freedom.

tdv123 · 08-01-2014 09:00PM

nm wrote: »

But why were they speaking Irish anyway?
Seriously. It's 2013.

No, it's not.

nxbyveromdwjpg · 08-01-2014 09:01PM

tdv123 wrote: »

No, it's not.

You win

Jimoslimos · 08-01-2014 09:02PM

nm wrote: »

But why were they speaking Irish anyway?
Seriously. It's 2013.

Well whatever year it is, languages will come and go but good old-fashioned intolerance will never die.

Pumpkinseeds · 08-01-2014 09:04PM

Slow news day? Not another fcuking pointless thread about the Irish language, news flash, most of us don't give a sh*t about the Irish language, the sooner it dies out the better. Nothing personal, I'm just sick and tired of hearing some nonsense about the Irish language, it's been done to death at this point, if only it was stickied.

woodoo · 08-01-2014 09:09PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Slow news day? Not another fcuking pointless thread about the Irish language, news flash, most of us don't give a sh*t about the Irish language, the sooner it dies out the better. Nothing personal, I'm just sick and tired of hearing some nonsense about the Irish language, it's been done to death at this point, if only it was stickied.

Why do you think you have the right to decide what threads appear on boards. There is a very simple solution if you aren't interested in a particular subject.. don't look into it.

WilyCoyote · 08-01-2014 09:11PM

nm wrote: »

But why were they speaking Irish anyway?
Seriously. It's 2013.

I wouldn't believe a thing you say after that.

The Backwards Man · 08-01-2014 09:14PM

There's more than a little stench of fish from that story. If you can find a 19 and 21 year old speaking Irish in the Rosses at 2am on a Monday morning I'll give you €1000, never mind in a different country.

woodoo · 08-01-2014 09:15PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

There's more than a little stench of fish from that story. If you can find a 19 and 21 year old speaking Irish in the Rosses at 2am on a Monday morning I'll give you €1000, never mind in a different country.

More likely to speak it abroad. I spoke more irish working in holland than i ever did here.

Kicked out of a Taxi for speaking Irish.

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