Irish students involved in arrests, date rapes, drunkenness in Chicago

Australia, Canada, and Switz are now taking definitive steps of deporting drunken Irish. As an Irishman our culture has always been a booze-fuelled brawl accepted and condoned by its religion (get drunk and your forgiven) and questionable GAA sporting heritage (get really drunk and you're a hero?). In essence it is the combo of religion, GAA, gombeen politico's that condone the drunken shenanigans we Irish love to pretend has a cause. Deport all and drunken sundry and let GAA sort them out!

About the news story.. There are bad apples and morons in all nationalities. Speaking as an American I'm positive that are enough of my fellow Americans who have shown their posteriors in other countries. We even have no problems doing it at home.

What is with the language discussion? It is a stupid issue to be annoyed about. It is one thing to speak another language for someone who needs a translator and another to be mad because the person who you think should know a language from their country doesn't. Most countries are enough of a melting pot for anyone to learn all the languages need to speak with all nationalities. English is a common language for most countries. If a different language is needed to communicate I'll get a translator or learn the language. Most times knowing a second language becomes at most a neat oddity if there is another(language)that is common with all parties-English.

You are definitly one sick eejit Woundedknee, getting up your nose are we. Must be eating away at you that you are not Irish or native American, mongral is the word.

woundedknee........i have no beef with ciaradexy......but you do.....which makes me think your even worse than i thought......come on you sad old muppet give us a phrase in native american

Michaelcollins: " that comment made to ciaradexy is not me its obviously some sad dope". Some sad dope? That PROVES it was you, you illiterate fool.

oh and by the way that comment made to ciaradexy is not me its obviously some sad dope

woundedknee you retard........were you born here?......did you grow up here?.....NO.......i was born and grew up here and don't remember adopting the english language i just noticed everyone EVERYONE spoke english.....what language do you speak EVERYDAY its english right........you can speak irish well wooopdey dooo.......keep it to yourself cause no cares you retard......again i ask you why dont you speak native american language?????......exactly because unless you have interest in it or it has a purpose its no use to you

Ciaradexy:must have had her dole money reinstated she is back on line whinging about Americans,bet she will be out trying to get a bit of American culture into her this weekend

ciaradexy you seem to be oblivious to the fact that mass consumerist/media degeneracy is firmly ingrained in Irish society to nearly the same extent as it is in the US. There are very few remaining characteristics which distinguish Ireland from the anglo-sphere due to the materialist degeneracy of the Dublin establishment/mass media.

half the posts on this article are rubbish and have nothing to do with the article - stick to the topic or is that too hard for some of ye to grasp!!!

George, Irish is a minority language here. All Irish people speak English. Are you upset no one wants to speak to you in English here let alone irish? I heard an American try to speak Irish in a cafe on Aran Mor a few weeks ago and the waitress told him that she only speaks Irish to Irish people. Sums it up really.

You could replace 'Irish' with 'american' and 'Chicago' with 'Dublin' or 'Japan'. Lads, dont minded woundedknee who also posts under the name George Dillon on also posts on the right wing news paper the irish Independent as kev408. Hes an angry American who hates us Irish because he calls himself irish yet no one else on the planet considers him so. he is to be pitied.

I was in a cab going to the airport in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. The cab driver was raving about the young Irish kids that come over for the summer. She said they are very polite. Now I read this. There are always rotten apples that give a bad rep to others. Can I ask how this story became a battle over the Irish language?

Momma Ginty, every post you write is nonsense. You say I try to "catch" the Irish who can't speak a word of their ancient language, a language which they have supposedly "studied" for a dozen years or more. No, you idiot, I try to communicate with them in Irish, because they're Irish. And they can't. Just like your children can't--don't bother lying to us, I know the reality. As for poster MichaelCollins, he is good evidence that the Irish who have adopted English certainly have not mastered the language. The fool is full of vulgar verbiage--he can't express a sentence without flatulence or obscenity. He sounds like someone the linguists occasionally write about--a person who is proficient in no language.