No Dogs or Irish?

[ber]

Is history about to repeat itself? It seems that some of the Irish are beginning to get a bad rep in Australlia.
The backpackers in particular are coming in for alot of criticism with some Hostels now refusing to accomodate
them because of Anti-Social behaviour. One of these hostels is even actually run by a guy from Dublin and he
says he has had enough, the problems ranged from drunkness,vandalism to disturbing other guests.
The Australian Farmers are also no too keen now to hire the Irish backpackers as they find them more trouble
than they are worth, fruit picking etc would traditionally be a big income stream for backpackers.
The police in the major cities have also reported a much increased incidence of Irish involved in public order
offences particularly at weekends . We also had the recent incidents at the rugby in New Zealand where the
drunken Irish caused alot of hassle and were not left into some games.
Is our love of binge drinking going to come bite us on the ass? We have a reputation as the drinking partying
Irish but if we continue getting bad press it will tarnish our image and we may find its not so easy to get it back.

[Ray]

Your right, but you will find it is the few doing this, and the press making a fucking hugh thing out of it, thats just my opinion

Is history about to repeat itself? It seems that some of the Irish are beginning to get a bad rep in Australlia.
The backpackers in particular are coming in for alot of criticism with some Hostels now refusing to accomodate
them because of Anti-Social behaviour. One of these hostels is even actually run by a guy from Dublin and he
says he has had enough, the problems ranged from drunkness,vandalism to disturbing other guests.
The Australian Farmers are also no too keen now to hire the Irish backpackers as they find them more trouble
than they are worth, fruit picking etc would traditionally be a big income stream for backpackers.
The police in the major cities have also reported a much increased incidence of Irish involved in public order
offences particularly at weekends . We also had the recent incidents at the rugby in New Zealand where the
drunken Irish caused alot of hassle and were not left into some games.
Is our love of binge drinking going to come bite us on the ass? We have a reputation as the drinking partying
Irish but if we continue getting bad press it will tarnish our image and we may find its not so easy to get it back.

[Martin Ward]

Is history about to repeat itself? It seems that some of the Irish are beginning to get a bad rep in Australlia.
The backpackers in particular are coming in for alot of criticism with some Hostels now refusing to accomodate
them because of Anti-Social behaviour. One of these hostels is even actually run by a guy from Dublin and he
says he has had enough, the problems ranged from drunkness,vandalism to disturbing other guests.
The Australian Farmers are also no too keen now to hire the Irish backpackers as they find them more trouble
than they are worth, fruit picking etc would traditionally be a big income stream for backpackers.
The police in the major cities have also reported a much increased incidence of Irish involved in public order
offences particularly at weekends . We also had the recent incidents at the rugby in New Zealand where the
drunken Irish caused alot of hassle and were not left into some games.
Is our love of binge drinking going to come bite us on the ass? We have a reputation as the drinking partying
Irish but if we continue getting bad press it will tarnish our image and we may find its not so easy to get it back.

I went to Berlin with my Mrs a few years back. After a great tour we were asked if we would go on the pub crawl. I expected to see some decent bars and enjoy German culture.

To cut a long story I was surrounded by yobbo English and Irish acting like, well, yobbo's. The Germans just looked at us like we were scraped off their shoe...I felt like screaming 'I am nothing to do with these, I am nothing like them"

Your post doesn't surprise me, we are out of step with foreign drinking culture. Pity.

[Sexy Sandy 69]

It's always the same, the minority ruin things for the majority. The general public in whatever country will make assumptions about certain nationalities based on the info they are fed via the media & stereotypes. I'm sure that for every group of trouble makers there's more Irish getting on with their work & making a living, but the media aren't going to do an article about the positive image of the Irish as opposed to the trouble makers, the story of the trouble makers grabs more headlines hence sells more newspapers. This is the way the media works, it seems to be a worldwide characteristic that goes hand in hand with journalists.

Busty Sandy x

[Doozer]

Yeah but we all know the Aussies are convicts so they cant talk lol

[WatWatWat]

My dog wont pick fruit or drive a tractor. Wat kind of dogs are these.

[nibb]

Is history about to repeat itself? It seems that some of the Irish are beginning to get a bad rep in Australlia.
The backpackers in particular are coming in for alot of criticism with some Hostels now refusing to accomodate
them because of Anti-Social behaviour. One of these hostels is even actually run by a guy from Dublin and he
says he has had enough, the problems ranged from drunkness,vandalism to disturbing other guests.
The Australian Farmers are also no too keen now to hire the Irish backpackers as they find them more trouble
than they are worth, fruit picking etc would traditionally be a big income stream for backpackers.
The police in the major cities have also reported a much increased incidence of Irish involved in public order
offences particularly at weekends . We also had the recent incidents at the rugby in New Zealand where the
drunken Irish caused alot of hassle and were not left into some games.
Is our love of binge drinking going to come bite us on the ass? We have a reputation as the drinking partying
Irish but if we continue getting bad press it will tarnish our image and we may find its not so easy to get it back.

Just look at the irish in london in fifties and sixtys it was the same.there are thousands of forgotten irish living in places like arlington house in london andother cities.all drink related

[Mousey]

We have an enormous problem with alcohol in this country. Let's raise the drinking age to 21, bring the drink-drive limit to absolute zero, slap 50% onto the price of a pint, and seriously restrict nightclub/late licences.

[AbsoluteNoob]

We have an enormous problem with alcohol in this country. Let's raise the drinking age to 21, bring the drink-drive limit to absolute zero, slap 50% onto the price of a pint, and seriously restrict nightclub/late licences.

GTF outta here!

Thank God you aren't the minister for finance.

[olddantucker]

Your right, but you will find it is the few doing this, and the press making a fucking hugh thing out of it, thats just my opinion

Sorry but you are wrong there Ray,
Just go into any town with a collage in it and see the mayhem and anti social behav from students,
Also look outside any nightclub at weekends, fighting, puking and breaking anything they can,
Sadly this is our now land of saints & scollars!