Irish immigrants are sick (yet again) of racial stereotype in New Zealand

seanomelb: -shag-off, pommy beachbum.

esatdigiwank in what village are you the idiot.Your name says it all-keep your hands of it fool it'll make you blind.

No-one stereotypes us Irish better than....ourselves! Well, we'll just have to cut back on the elbow-bending (binge-drinking to you, Statesiders), singing while our national teams are l-o-s-i-n-g, wearing of tacky O'Carroll's Gift Store Paddy-whack clobber - dressing like gene-deficient leprechauns..

And IC do their best to keep the stereotypes going.Same old crap all the time..

TayandCake: Paddies?! What do call black people? Or Hispanics?

Ihave met my share of New Zealenders. Most of them are of English or Scottish stock and they are bigoted towards Irish people. That's the way these sheep shaggers are. Did you hear about the two New Zealander friends who shared everything including their sheep. They are as different from Aussies as the Irish are from the English. They can't help it.

I am of Irish descent and I do not drink alcohol, smoke, or use filthy language!! As a follower of Jesus, one must be the example. I am human, so I am NOT PERFECT. I know the damage of alcohol in a family as my mother was an alcoholic, her twin brother, her other brother, and her father.

The taunts below, some just pure hatred for the irish are worse than what is going on in NZ. Will you lot just leave us alone and go wipe your nose.

Irish immigrants in N.Z. and other parts of the world could avoid bringing ridicule on themselves by never being drunk in public, always speaking proper English and displaying good manners. By the way, if these immigrants wish to hold conversations that the natives can't mock, they should simply speak Irish - as I did with many of my friends when I was a "greenhorn" in N.Y,.C., many of whom were teetolalers and always in full control of their faculties.

Come on. If the shoe fits, and the Aussie police will confirm it fits like a tailored glove, then wear it. 38 Irish members of a specific "cultural community" either deported or on the run from Austrailia for defrauding the eldery with bogus home improvement schemes and inferior tar-macaddam driveway repairs only add to the testimonial that the incoming Irish wave contains more than a few rotten apples.

Do I detect IrishCentral grinding the fairground organ of racial discrimination to provoke a whinge-athon of irate Irish posters to boost its marketing caché? C'mon guys, pay the monkey and have done with it. Some of us gave up a very long time ago on our Catholic inspired tendency towards martyredom. Poop or get off the pot!

Merefalow. My point exactly. Tea or coffee? Milk? sugar? For f**K sake! These drunkards in Australia and New Zeland are nothing but punks.Good for AUS AND NZ, TO THROW THEM TO HELL OUT.

TaylandCake You don't know what you are talking about. Not a clue!

why do the paddies run around the world building others peoples countries while their own is in serious need of help, and whats more they do it and get abused for it. Sod these new zelanders

I think these twenty year old Irish eegits ought to wise up and act like men. I was an eighteen year old "Greenhorn" in Fort Jackson South Carolina in 1960. Yes, they toyed with me, the Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Red necks, Chicagians and so forth. But when the stuff hit the fan, we were all buddies. Grow up for Christ sake, you little babies.