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Anyone fancy a trip to Pontins ??

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    Allinall
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Pretty unbelievable stuff this from Pontins. They have a blacklist of Irish Surnames that they do not want as guests.

    This is like a throwback to the days of no dogs no blacks no irish.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pontins-blacklist-ireland-boris-johnson-b1810387.html

    I have a week booked later this year.

    Should be ok.

    Rgds
    Winnie Joyce.


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    colm_mcm
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Pretty unbelievable stuff this from Pontins. They have a blacklist of Irish Surnames that they do not want as guests.

    This is like a throwback to the days of no dogs no blacks no irish.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pontins-blacklist-ireland-boris-johnson-b1810387.html

    An Irish company would never try and keep travelers out.


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    [Deleted User]
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Pretty unbelievable stuff this from Pontins. They have a blacklist of Irish Surnames that they do not want as guests.

    This is like a throwback to the days of no dogs no blacks no irish.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pontins-blacklist-ireland-boris-johnson-b1810387.html

    Seems valid. I wouldn’t want travellers on my holiday either.


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    [Deleted User]
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    If your surname is in that list traveller or not you wouldn't be welcome.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Honestly thought they went bust.


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    #7
    Plumbthedepths
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    Delaney? John will be gutted.


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    timmyntc
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    Don't they realise you have to be more subtle than that!


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    Your Face
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Pretty unbelievable stuff this from Pontins. They have a blacklist of Irish Surnames that they do not want as guests.

    This is like a throwback to the days of no dogs no blacks no irish.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pontins-blacklist-ireland-boris-johnson-b1810387.html


    No way Id leave my dog at Pontins.


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    #10
    biko
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    "It's a private company. They can do what they like."


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    [Deleted User]
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    Ah ha ha.

    They were so scared of being politically correct re targeting travellers they banned half of Ireland and/or people of Irish descent.

    Murphy FFS.

    Ah ha ha.


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    [Deleted User]
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Seems valid. I wouldn’t want travellers on my holiday either.

    It’s anybody with those surnames. Most aren’t really traveller names anyway.


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    DublinWriter
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    My ex-wife was from the North East of England and Butlins/Pontins was a big thing, especially going off season. Try going to Skegness in November for chills and giggles (mainly chills).

    When our son was born, we used to go to Butlins Prestatyn and Skegness (Skeggie) a lot.

    Once again, that's my ex-wife.

    I've experience of seeing some major sh1t going down during a visit to Butlins Prestatyn 2013 involving a certain group of a certain ethnicity on an extended family holiday.

    Again, we live in an age of cancel culture and I need to be careful. In my early years in the motor trade, I worked with said people from a certain group of a certain ethnicity and found them all sound.

    However, you really have to ask yourself was there anyone with any braincells working in Pontins HQ issuing a memo like that in 2018.


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    Trigger Happy
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    The spelling of those names is atrocious.
    Walch. Sheriadan.
    There must be some uneducated muckers working in head office.


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    sabat
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    Boylan, Boyle, Carney, Carr, Cash, Connors, Corcoran, Delaney, Doherty, Dorran, Gallagher, Horan, Keefe, Kell, Leahy, Lee, MacLaughlin, McAlwick, McCully, McDonagh, McGinley, McGinn, McGuiness, McHarg, McLaughan, McMahon, Millighan, Mongans, Murphy, Nolan, O’Brien, O’Connell, O’Donnell, O’Donoghue, O’Mahoney, O’Reilly, Sheriadan, Stokes, Walch, Ward.


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    timmyntc
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    sabat wrote: »
    Boylan, Boyle, Carney, Carr, Cash, Connors, Corcoran, Delaney, Doherty, Dorran, Gallagher, Horan, Keefe, Kell, Leahy, Lee, MacLaughlin, McAlwick, McCully, McDonagh, McGinley, McGinn, McGuiness, McHarg, McLaughan, McMahon, Millighan, Mongans, Murphy, Nolan, O’Brien, O’Connell, O’Donnell, O’Donoghue, O’Mahoney, O’Reilly, Sheriadan, Stokes, Walch, Ward.

    Big Joe Joyce still welcome


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    [Deleted User]
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    It’s anybody with those surnames. Most aren’t really traveller names anyway.

    Seems fair though. You’re banning more than you want, but you’re banning everyone you want to ban. Some extra people are just caught up in the flack.


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    sabat
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Seems fair though. You’re banning more than you want, but you’re banning everyone you want to ban. Some extra people are just caught up in the flack.

    Between Murphy, O’Brien, O'Reilly and Walsh alone you're talking about hundreds of thousands of people.


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    Purple Mountain
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Ah ha ha.

    They were so scared of being politically correct re targeting travellers they banned half of Ireland and/or people of Irish descent.

    Murphy FFS.

    Ah ha ha.
    Maybe they just don't want Cork people.

    To thine own self be true



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    Masala
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    sabat wrote: »
    Boylan, Boyle, Carney, Carr, Cash, Connors, Corcoran, Delaney, Doherty, Dorran, Gallagher, Horan, Keefe, Kell, Leahy, Lee, MacLaughlin, McAlwick, McCully, McDonagh, McGinley, McGinn, McGuiness, McHarg, McLaughan, McMahon, Millighan, Mongans, Murphy, Nolan, O’Brien, O’Connell, O’Donnell, O’Donoghue, O’Mahoney, O’Reilly, Sheriadan, Stokes, Walch, Ward.

    Well ... thats half of Kerry barred (o'Donoghue) and probably most of Cavan (O'Reilly)


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    #21
    [Deleted User]
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    Hey.

    Only Irish people are allowed treat Travellers like this.


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    #22
    [Deleted User]
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Seems fair though. You’re banning more than you want, but you’re banning everyone you want to ban. Some extra people are just caught up in the flack.

    That said I wouldn’t do it with traditionally black or Jewish surnames. Were I them.


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    Fake Scores
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    Joyce, the quintessential traveller name -even with it - this is also
    a name in some of the most well-heeled familys in south Dublin. And
    widely represented in the legal, medical professions etc.


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    #24
    [Deleted User]
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    ecoli3136 wrote: »
    Hey.

    Only Irish people are allowed treat Travellers like this.

    They aren’t discriminating against travellers though. That would be a simpler operation.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Masala wrote: »

    Well ... thats half of Kerry barred (o'Donoghue) and probably most of Cavan (O'Reilly)

    Murphy is a big one. It’s rugby star Peter O’Mahoney I feel sorry for.


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    Plumbthedepths
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    sabat wrote: »
    Boylan, Boyle, Carney, Carr, Cash, Connors, Corcoran, Delaney, Doherty, Dorran, Gallagher, Horan, Keefe, Kell, Leahy, Lee, MacLaughlin, McAlwick, McCully, McDonagh, McGinley, McGinn, McGuiness, McHarg, McLaughan, McMahon, Millighan, Mongans, Murphy, Nolan, O’Brien, O’Connell, O’Donnell, O’Donoghue, O’Mahoney, O’Reilly, Sheriadan, Stokes, Walch, Ward.

    My name is not on the list but happy to bar myself. Those places look absolutely grim and miserable.


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    #27
    [Deleted User]
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Murphy is a big one. It’s rugby star Peter O’Mahoney I feel sorry for.

    He's allowed to go, that's not his surname.


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    #28
    Feisar
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    Would they not send round a list of youtube vids and say, "anyone sounds like that it's a no no."

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #29
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Of course there will be outward rage over this but an honest media would ask why a company would want to turn away customers

    What has happened in these camps previously for Poitins to have come up with this

    Not a few isolated incidents I would imagine


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    happyoutscan
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    Only 9 names on that list I'd associate with travelers. Boss.


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    Snickers Man
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    timmyntc wrote: »
    Big Joe Joyce still welcome

    There's some fairly prominent, and very British, people whose names are on that list.

    Mark Carney, Governor of Bank of England;
    Bill Cash, doyen of the Brexit movement;
    Lord McGuinness, Unionist peer and politician;
    Ben Stokes, vice captain of English cricket team;

    to name just a few. None of whom would be welcome at Pontins.

    I bet they'll be gutted!!
    :D:D:D


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