Ireland from a Polish perspective

A couple of times I mentioned Polish troublemakers in Ireland and growing numbers of Poles involved in crimes, fights and acts of vandalism. It seems there is no change for better or bad, but the problem touch not only Poles but all non-nationals from new EU countries, Russia, Ukraine and so on.

The aggressive individuals stand out especially during the weekends after the payday. You can find them in the bigger pubs and in the nightclubs (I am glad that they are not visit a smaller pubs). Groups of muscle men with the faces of ?Äúsmartarses?ÄÌ. Some of them wear red t-shirts with Polish white eagle ?Äï they don’t care that being drunk and aggressive has nothing to do with patriotism and it is rather an insult to their compatriots. They are going to the nightclubs to meet girls (doesn’t matter Polish, Russian, Czech, Lithuanian o Irish) and to provoke ?ÄúIrys??w?ÄÌ (Irishmen in a Polish slang in Ireland) to show them who is the master here in Ireland. In the opinion of the aggressive Poles (or other Eastern European emigrants) ?Äï we are the masters and Irish are fools or dumbs. As I wrote almost year ago, non-national troublemakers don’t speak English enough to be understood properly , that usually prevents of fight. Usually… but not always, because Irishmen scallywags are not better (or worse) than Polish troublemakers, and if they are insulted they won’t let you wait for the reply. That’s why sometimes, in the passing of time, more often, we can see fighting in the front of the nightclubs. Last time I saw it on Friday night in Nenagh in the front of Maximus nightclub. There were Irish fighting versus some Easter Europeans. The two Garda officers that arrived at place were scarred and they were trying to talk to the fighters.

There is not only a problem with non-nationals. There is high crime rate among the Irish community itself. Let me mention a gang war in Limerick which is probably one of the most dangerous places in Ireland if not in the whole European Union (at least in my opinion). The explosion of the consumption of drugs make the gangs strong and very active. Most of the Poles in Limerick hadn’t met such problem before they left Poland. We don’t have people shooting shotguns on the streets in the areas almost completely off the jurisdiction of Garda and town authorities.

In some parts of Poland we have high level of crime, and mafia structures, but not gangs like in Limerick. Many of them (some of my friends too) were attacked at their places by a young gang members just because they tried to prevent them of i.e. pissing in the garden. Of course there is no witnesses and the investigation got stuck in place though the attack was recorded by cameras of the nearby gas station.

In my opinion there is a growing problem of crime caused by both Easter European emigrants and Irish themselves. It is probably the effect of the high consumerism ?Äï consumption style of life of nationals and its dark side ?Äï a growing drug market. It is also an effect of the clash of the native and alien cultures, especially both native and alien troublemakers.

The thing that made me think the most is a visible lack of Garda forces, especially in the towns like Limerick, and some areas of Dublin. I don’t know if Garda has something like American SWAT units, but it would be a good solution for some problems. The gang areas of Limerick and of other town are not so big, they are rather small, so the military action of Garda special forces should solve the problem, or at least prevent the gang members of committing crimes. If there is no forces like SWAT, then why don’t the government use the Irish Army against the mobs?

Another question is a role of regular Garda officers in the small towns like Carlow, Nenagh etc. There is a number of fight during the night at weekend. Maybe police forces should be armed to be respected by drunken troublemakers, because at present the picture is both funny and grim. Garda officers fear the troublemakers and they don’t fear Garda at all.

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