The brutal attack on two Polish lads who died in the hospital is the most clear example of the “dead end” of changes in Irish society. I don’t know what was the picture of the Irish society 10 or even 5 years ago, but the newspapers provide me the information about the scale of changes and the growing crime and brutality among the Irish society, especially teenagers. According to the Irish Independent (Tuesday 4 March 2008)?? knife crime in Ireland had?? risen 300pc in four years. The scale and the brutality of the crimes and attacks committed by the Irish teenagers is also horrifying. All the suspects involved in the attack on two Polish lads are in the age of 14, 15, 17 and 19. They youngest o them ?Äï 14 years old girl was arrested couple of days ago. The other four teenagers were held by Gardai being involved in a murder of 21 year old man near Grand Canal in Dublin.?? I remember many such stories that were described in the Irish newspapers in the last 2 years.
The nationality of those two Polish lads had probably nothing to do with the reason of the attack. There was probably no reason at all. The young thugs were just looking for trouble and looking for the target. How many thugs like the ones who killed my two compatriots are still walking down the streets of Irish cities and towns? According to the all crime reports that were published in the newspapers in the last two years I dare say there is many of them.
How many of the decent people ?Äï Irish, Polish, Lithuanian, English or other nations ?Äï have to be killed by young thugs to open the eyes of the Irish society, Gardai and the politics?
Some of the readers of my blog are cross with me?? becasue of my opinions (that are critical sometimes) about Ireland and Irish people that I present on my blog. Many of them always complains on my compatriots. It is true ?Äï we are far from perfect, and there is many Polish troublemakers in Ireland for sure. You can believe or not in the stupid rumors that we hunt swans etc (swans are not in Polish menu), you can accuse us of making troubles, taking your jobs etc. but why many of Irish turn the blind eye on the growing problem of crime and brutality in their own society, or maybe the 300pc rise of the knife crime is also our Polish fault? The crime among the teenagers is really big problem. Can you imagine that those teenage thugs will be adults one day?
By the way, in the same issue of Irish Independent there is more crime stories: one is about 27 years old man who killed his girlfriend and another story is about two mothers who hid cocaine in the childs’ buggy and about the shootings in Limerick.
Have you seen the great film ?ÄúBoondock Saints?ÄÌ? Do you remember the first scene in the church and the homily of the priest?
“Of course we must fear evil men, but there is another evil that we must fear more?Ä? and that is the indifference of good men.”
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I have just came up against the article in Saturday’s Irish Independent about a few Franciscan monks who moved into Moyross district of Limerick and set up the Franciscans friary in a 3 council’s houses previously burnt down, probably by gang members. Moyross is a part of Limerick well known from the gang feud. It seems that what was not done by Garda - bringing the safe and peace for that poor part of Limerick with the biggest unemployment rate in the Republic (according to the Irish Independent) - can be done by a few poor, grey habit monks well experienced in working in the poor and full of crime areas. At least they are trying. The Franciscan Friars of Renewal were set tup in 1987 in New York and they are offshoot of the original Franciscan order. According to Irish Independent the new Moyross friary lacks comfort. Monks sleep on the floor, there is no carpets, no TV, radio etc. The seems to be like the medieval Irish monks. We will see if they bring peace and faith to the society where the new Irish goods (drugs and guns) rule. Though I am an agnostic (born as a catholic, but left the church after first communion) I wish them good luck.
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According to Irish Independent and Polish leading internet portal Onet.eu Irish nationals in large numbers are emigrating to Australia to escape from brutal reality of life in a modern society. Majority of the recent Irish emigrants are the high qualified specialists, like builders and constructors, chefs, barbers, doctors and accountants. Australia is currently economically booming, and with its much lower costs of living and lower prices it is much more attractive to many Irish, than the ir homeland. According to the official data of Australian embassy, every month about 700 of Irish is applying for Australian visa.
Meanwhile citizens of new countries of European Union are still coming to Ireland for work, and according to Onet.eu and BDS agency the unofficial number of Lithuanian emigrants reached 120 thousands.
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Today’s Irish Independent on page 9 devotes its attention to the issue of Irish prisoners being jailed abroad. It is quite interesting to find out that in so remote countries Irish people see the world through the bars. In the article there was no any information about the causes of imprisonment, only the numbers were shown. According to the Department of Foreign affairs there are 708 Irish prisoners in UK, 28 in USA, 14 in Spain, 8 in Germany, 6 in France, 5 in Portugal, 3 in Australia, 2 in Panama, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil, and 1 each in Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Canada, Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Morocco, Thailand, Japan, Belgium, Denmark and Latvia.
I wonder how many of my Polish compatriots is being jailed in Ireland, or all over the world.
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For more than 1 year I have been blogging on Ireland, Irish culture, history, people, and of course on Polish emigration in Ireland. My opinions on many aspects of living in Ireland were appreciated by many Irish people, including journalists of Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Times, The Times, and many Irish radio stations (including “Last Word” on Today FM).
In my opinion the idea of conducting the blog on social political and cultural matters is to describe and express my own impressions, and of course my own opinions based both on experience and knowledge. I have never avoided any hot or touchy topic, including both good and bad things of Polish and Irish community, i.e. aggressive Polish trouble makers, crime in Ireland, or Irish history and archaeology. Also I have been trying to introduce Poland, and our current issues to the Irish society. Everything under 1 primary rule - NO TABOO.
Was I wrong or was I right. I think I was right, and I have proved that. My blog was nominated to the Irish blog awards in two categories, I have had lot of good feedback from many Irish people, and from Irish media.
Anyway.. like in every nation, there is a few Irishmen (or at least one - all the IP’s are from Limerick), who can’t stand any criticism about Ireland, especially from the foreign emigrant as I am. For them I am a public enemy no. 1 and they are trying to prevent me from expressing my opinions (doesn’t matter that at least 80% of them are good) about Ireland.
Here is the latets example, comment sent to many of my blog entries:
| Irish people should disregard the following webpages ?ÄúCarlow.Pl?ÄÌ, ?ÄúIreland from a Polish Perspective?ÄÌ and anything in general submitted by ?ÄúMacKozer?ÄÌ a.k.a Krystian, a Polish archaeologist working in the Carlow area. Krystian is responsible for orchestrating at least one attack on an Irish person in Carlow town, and for spreading racist anti Irish propaganda. He is responsible for segregating Pubs in Carlow town i.e ?ÄúNancy Whiskeys?ÄÌ in to a ?Äúno go area?ÄÌ if you are Irish. (please boycott this bar). I would be more than happy to answer any questions from the Carlow people about my comments and welcome hearing your storys concerning violence, intimidation, ignorance or racism at the hands of the right wing Polish community.beirishbuyirish@hotmail.com(Apologies for not signing off in my own name, but have already had violent threats from the Polish community) |
I don’t know about any attack on any Irish man orchestrated by myself, in fact I don’t know many Irish in Carlow. But if Mr beirishbuyirish claim that, there is no problem to report that to the nearest Garda station (Athy Road, Carlow).
Anti Irish propaganda? Read entire blog carefully and then decide. I am afraid there is more anti Polish (at least Polish state) propaganda.
Segregating pubs? LOL 
I am not the owner of Nancy Whiskeys - there are Polish Nights on every Tuesday and I am not in charge of that. I only put advertising banner or Carlow.pl 
And what is the most funny I am far away of being right wing
Do the nick names of the authors of such comments seems not similar? Let’s see: Be Irish Buy Irish (the latest one), Irish and Proud of It, The Irish Man. All those similar identities are from Limerick.
Good craic, isn’t it?
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