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Australian police hunt for 'Irish tourists'

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  • #52
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    This story is getting plenty of media coverage over here.

    "clogging the toilet with potatoes" like wtf.

    https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/some-irish-scammers-flee-after-targeting-restaurants-businesses-20180312-p4z3wo.html

    To be honest I'm far from impressed at how the Aussies handle these stories and theres been more than a few. It doesn't reflect well on the majority of hard working Irish out here making a valuable contribution to the country.

    These pikeys don't represent us.

    This was on Joe Duffy today . Horrendous.


  • #53
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Graces7 wrote: »
    This was on Joe Duffy today . Horrendous.

    Welcome back to Boards. Missed you the last few months:D.


  • #54
    RustyNut
    Registered Users Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    Graces7 wrote: »
    This was on Joe Duffy today . Horrendous.

    Joe Duffy is horrendous every day..


  • #55
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,305 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    dd972 wrote: »


    Mind you, Hayes is such a s**thole, I'm surprised even they're there.
    Ah here. Stop laughing, and reload!


  • #56
    Mongfinder General
    Registered Users Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Mongfinder General


    the_syco wrote: »
    Ah here. Stop laughing, and reload!

    Animals, absolute animals.


  • #57
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    RustyNut wrote: »
    Joe Duffy is horrendous every day..

    I rather enjoy it.. In my no power months all I had was a tiny battery radio and learned a lot, and some of his work eg the versantis debate, was perfect. People need to sound off


  • #58
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    They played a recording of one of the messages left to the landlord whos place they trashed.
    They sounded more English than Irish - in so far as one who moves frequently can be "from" a place.


  • #59
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Zulu wrote: »
    They played a recording of one of the messages left to the landlord whos place they trashed.
    They sounded more English than Irish - in so far as one who moves frequently can be "from" a place.

    Yes that was queried when they played that but they said they were Irish


  • #60
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Zulu wrote: »
    They played a recording of one of the messages left to the landlord whos place they trashed.
    They sounded more English than Irish - in so far as one who moves frequently can be "from" a place.
    Graces7 wrote: »
    Yes that was queried when they played that but they said they were Irish


    There are probably more "Irish" travellers in england than there are in ireland.


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  • #61
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Yes that was queried when they played that but they said they were Irish
    Well the Australian said Irish, but I wouldn't expect her to be able tell the subtle difference.


  • #62
    Shurimgreat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,133 ✭✭✭Shurimgreat


    I thought they wanted to be known as a distinct ethnic group?
    If so they cannot be considered Irish and the media should have ran with the headline "Distinct ethnic group known as Travellers cause havoc across Australia" or words to that effect.


  • #63
    garbo speaks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 300 ✭✭garbo speaks


    Those k****ers must have robbed alot of houses here to have been able to go out and rob alot of houses in Australia.


  • #64
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Our name must be mud out there.

    Between this and all the other goons who went in the recession.


  • #65
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Shurimgreat wrote: »
    I thought they wanted to be known as a distinct ethnic group?
    If so they cannot be considered Irish and the media should have ran with the headline "Distinct ethnic group known as Travellers cause havoc across Australia" or words to that effect.

    Nationality (noun) is the relationship between a person and the political state to which he belongs or is affiliated.

    Ethnicity (noun) is the identification of a person with a particular racial, cultural, or religious group.


  • #66
    Dr Brown
    Registered Users Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭Dr Brown


    Shurimgreat wrote: »
    I thought they wanted to be known as a distinct ethnic group?
    If so they cannot be considered Irish and the media should have ran with the headline "Distinct ethnic group known as Travellers cause havoc across Australia" or words to that effect.


    They should be given "traveller" passports.


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  • #67
    maxwell smart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    I think they have all headed to Hawaii now!

    What did I ever do wrong with my life? Oh yes, paid my taxes.

    Stupid me


  • #68
    RustyNut
    Registered Users Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    maxwell smart wrote: »
    I think they have all headed to Hawaii now!

    What did I ever do wrong with my life? Oh yes, paid my taxes.

    Stupid me


    What did the poor Hawaiians do wrong to deserve what's coming.


  • #69
    Sacrolyte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭Sacrolyte


    To be fair the grass skirts will probably suit the women folk.


  • #70
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    "The cheap surfboard was too good to be true", Brad Tyler told the Honolulu Herald, "and it just disintegrated on contact with the salt water. I guess I was taken by him respectfully referring to me as the boss."


  • #71
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,424 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    But what about all The Ozs who rob and all that


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  • #72
    Yeah_Right
    Registered Users Posts: 6,036 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    maxwell smart wrote: »
    I think they have all headed to Hawaii now!

    Imagine them trying to play the race card in the States. It would be hilarious. And probably result in them getting a beating. Or shot.


  • #73
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,084 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    silverharp wrote: »
    do they ever pop up in those border patrol programmes, the conversations must be hilarious (once they get an interpreter in)

    To your average Occer cop or border patrol guard, an Irish traveller would sound exactly the same as someone from Belfast or Dublin or Cork.


  • #74
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Graces7 wrote: »
    I rather enjoy it.. In my no power months all I had was a tiny battery radio and learned a lot, and some of his work eg the versantis debate, was perfect. People need to sound off

    Graces I wouldn’t take everything (I mean anything ) I hear in Liveline as fact.
    A whole show will go by with absolutely wrong information allowed to go unchallenged .


  • #75
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Zulu wrote: »
    They played a recording of one of the messages left to the landlord whos place they trashed.
    They sounded more English than Irish - in so far as one who moves frequently can be "from" a place.

    I don’t know what you were listening to but what I was listening to was Traveller Irish.
    The “smelly” insult is almost exclusively used by them in their frequent vile diatribes against anyone who dares to challenge them.
    What part of England would you have placed them in?


  • #76
    crustybla
    Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭crustybla


    garbo speaks wrote: »
    Those k****ers must have robbed alot of houses here to have been able to go out and rob alot of houses in Australia.

    Why a warning, op is right. Caught a couple of them red handed trying to rob my house just before Christmas. Too much political correctness in this country. We bend over for everybody lest we offend.


  • #77
    garbo speaks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 300 ✭✭garbo speaks


    crustybla wrote: »
    Why a warning, op is right. Caught a couple of them red handed trying to rob my house just before Christmas. Too much political correctness in this country. We bend over for everybody lest we offend.

    Tell me about it-the p.c. snowflake moderators here are laughable.


  • #78
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭Odelay


    garbo speaks wrote: »
    Tell me about it-the p.c. snowflake moderators here are laughable.

    Well maybe you should set up your own discussion website?


  • #79
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    splinter65 wrote: »
    What part of England would you have placed them in?
    No part in particular - they were travelers :confused:
    But there was a distinct english twang(?) I felt.

    But it's splitting hairs really.


  • #80
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Regarding the accent in my experience they do so much travelling over and back between here and the UK many of them now have a blended accent -it sounds horrendous btw


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