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Gangland criminals with respectable-sounding surnames.

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    #32
    Anthracite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭Anthracite


    Gravelly wrote: »
    Have a look at any regional paper anywhere in Ireland over a few months, and you will discover that certain surnames are strongly associated with crime in each region. This is usually far more geographically spread than can be accounted for by a single family. There are numerous surnames in Ireland that most people would immediately recognise as being associated with criminality.
    Crinnion?


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    #33
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users Posts: 19,025 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    corner of hells wrote: »
    The spacer I'm married to is related to a notorious London crime family with multiple convictions and sentences served and has their name.
    I'm hopeful she'll be arrested any day soon.




    Yer missus's name is Reggie Kray? :eek:


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    #34
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users Posts: 19,025 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Them oul' Varadkars are a notoriously criminal Irish enterprise

    :pac:


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    #35
    steve-collins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭steve-collins


    Casino park Marino is not posh. Far from it in fact.


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    #36
    political analyst
    Registered Users Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭political analyst


    Dr Brown wrote: »
    Don't forget "fatpuss".


    That's the nickname of Alan Bradley (an ordinary-sounding surname).


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    #37
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,731 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    What's an English person look like?

    They have differently shaped heads and noses, quite unlike the Celtic 'Master Race'.


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    #38
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    They have differently shaped heads and noses, quite unlike the Celtic 'Master Race'.

    They're more squinted looking, if you observe well enough you'll notice it.

    It's like Kerry people, I'm not from Kerry but their men are very good looking, dark complexion and a good jaw bone.
    The women in Kerry are quite attractive looking too.
    Clare people aren't great looking, they have a pudgy look about them.
    Galway aren't that attractive either.
    Mayo no....
    Sligo and Donegal have great looking people too...


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    #39
    goose2005
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    What's an English person look like?

    226a730eb1c4574b44d865837a557461.jpg


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    #40
    BoneIdol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭BoneIdol


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    What's an English person look like?

    Tommy Robinson


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    #41
    BoneIdol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭BoneIdol


    Danzy wrote: »
    Angus oSnodaigh TD one of the few voices in Dublin that has the Protestant working class accent still.

    A little known lingual fact.

    His no shoes wearing hippy brother and the rest of Kila should ask the queen for some smart footwear.


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    #42
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,681 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    I knew a Robin Banks once. He'd disappear every so often. When I'd ask him where he was, he'd say 'I was at me Nan's"

    'The Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Galway, As they sailed beneath the Swastika to Spain'



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    #43
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I knew a Robin Banks once. He'd disappear every so often. When I'd ask him where he was, he'd say 'I was at me Nan's"

    Ann Dover?


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    #44
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    BoneIdol wrote: »
    Tommy Robinson

    You'll never see Tommy Robinson and Andy Bell in the same room....

    Can ye see the resemblance ?


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    #45
    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    oi posh boy!

    surely there's a student somewhere who could throw together a piece on this for you OP.

    Does a surname bear such connotations as 'poshness'.


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    #46
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    nthclare wrote: »
    They're more squinted looking, if you observe well enough you'll notice it.

    It's like Kerry people, I'm not from Kerry but their men are very good looking, dark complexion and a good jaw bone.
    The women in Kerry are quite attractive looking too.
    Clare people aren't great looking, they have a pudgy look about them.
    Galway aren't that attractive either.
    Mayo no....
    Sligo and Donegal have great looking people too...

    Haha I lolled. The 3 people from Clare I know are as you described.


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    #47
    mick malones mauser
    Registered Users Posts: 576 ✭✭✭mick malones mauser


    Forget surnames..people with the most unusual surnames can be crims, it's not just the Byrnes, Smiths, Kellys etc .
    But First or Christian names among the criminal fraternity is worth doing a thesis on.
    Lets start with an analysis of the fly on the wall documentary about Dublins underworld which was called Love/Hate. Main guys nickname was Nidge, which apparently is "short " for Nigel..
    Now here is fun fact..No member of the Dublin working class was ever called Nigel..ever..Fact


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    #48
    political analyst
    Registered Users Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭political analyst


    mick malones mauser wrote: »
    Forget surnames..people with the most unusual surnames can be crims, it's not just the Byrnes, Smiths, Kellys etc .
    But First or Christian names among the criminal fraternity is worth doing a thesis on.
    Lets start with an analysis of the fly on the wall documentary about Dublins underworld which was called Love/Hate. Main guys nickname was Nidge, which apparently is "short " for Nigel..
    Now here is fun fact..No member of the Dublin working class was ever called Nigel..ever..Fact


    Usually, gangland criminals with unusual surnames are the ones whose surnames sound rough, i.e. Collopy, Dundon, Sugg.


    I'm aware that one criminal was Shane Coates, who was from the same family as the composer of the theme tune of "The Dam Busters".



    It was mentioned earlier in this thread that there used to be a significant Protestant working-class community in Dublin and that this may explain the posh-sounding "skanger" surnames. An example here is conticted drug dealer Paul Ainscough, who died earlier this year (I assumed the deceased here is the same person).



    https://rip.ie/death-notice/paul-ainscough-drimnagh-dublin/355100


    Funnily enough, there's a marriage registrar in England who has the same name!
    https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/sham-wedding-exposed-bride-groom-4968957


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    #49
    1968
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    political analyst wrote: »
    Usually, gangland criminals with unusual surnames are the ones whose surnames sound rough, i.e. Collopy, Dundon, Sugg.


    I'm aware that one criminal was Shane Coates, who was from the same family as the composer of the theme tune of "The Dam Busters".



    It was mentioned earlier in this thread that there used to be a significant Protestant working-class community in Dublin and that this may explain the posh-sounding "skanger" surnames. An example here is conticted drug dealer Paul Ainscough, who died earlier this year (I assumed the deceased here is the same person).



    https://rip.ie/death-notice/paul-ainscough-drimnagh-dublin/355100


    Funnily enough, there's a marriage registrar in England who has the same name!
    https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/sham-wedding-exposed-bride-groom-4968957

    Paul 'Gash' Ainscough actually died in June 2019

    https://rip.ie/death-notice/paul-gash-ainscough-dublin-8-dublin/391077

    He had a rap sheet going back to the late 1960s

    https://www.thefreelibrary.com/This+man+sold+hard+drugs+around+here+for+yrs%2C+now+he+knows+what+it%27s...-a083068408

    He may have been related to a former gangland Dublin character called Charles ‘Charlie’ Ainscough (aka Henchico) who was active in the 1940s-1960s. See:

    https://comeheretome.com/2018/01/30/henchico-dublins-early-underworld-kingpin/


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    1968
    Registered Users Posts: 719 ✭✭✭1968


    Zambra is another unusual/surname that has gangland connections in Dublin.

    Wayne Zambra of Lourdes Road, Maryland, Dublin 8 shot dead in 2006
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/garda%C3%AD-in-new-push-after-gang-murder-1.1040655

    Christopher 'Git' Zambra of Galtymore Road, Drimnagh shot dead in 2014
    https://www.thejournal.ie/christopher-zambra-drimnagh-1449066-May2014/

    Karl Zambra - 77 convictions
    https://www.thejournal.ie/man-jailed-for-selling-cocaine-to-undercover-gardai-4347935-Nov2018/

    Paul Zambra
    https://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0316/775314-gun-sentence/

    There was only two Zambra familes in the whole island in 1911. Living in Mercer St and Cuffe St.(around the corner from each other) in Dublin.

    A May Zambra was active in republican politics during the Civil War. She went on hunger strike while imprisoned aged 17.


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