Mauritius boycott by Irish likely after farcical murder trial

A twenty-year-old Meath woman is still recovering in hospital after she was attack in the Bronx area of New York on Saturday night (14.7.12). Alisha Jordan suffered horrific injuries when a man struck her with a piece of broken masonry. The man then ran off and New York police have launched a manhunt in a bid to catch him. The attack is similar to one suffered by another Irish visitor on the same street last Summer. He is still recovering from the injuries he sustained in that attack. ********************* Alisha, a member of the Meath ladies football team was in New York to play with a local league. Her mother is flying out to be with her on Friday. ********************* Lets Boycott New York as well............stupid Irish people

We probably would. It has all the elements of a popular story, including an inept police investigation and shaky trial. What astonishes me is the number of intelligent people, including the editorial writers of this site, who have jumped on the brainless vigilante bandwagon.

The questioin is, Would we even be discussing this if the victim (RIP) did not have a famous father. One who recently helped take the bad look off Mc Guinness in the Ronan Kerr saga.

Woodman - 70% of the Mauritian population are not African of Asian in origin. I'm surprised you didn't know that, or perhaps to you every non-European is simply "black".

I think we need to stress that Mauritius is a nice place except for a few brutal tourist murders, the perps of which are still free. Since if it wasn't these guys then someone else did it. These guys were simply robbing tourists in there hotels. Otherwise Mauritius is completely safe.

Haven't you seen the hollywood movies? The accused black defendants are always innocent. Boycotting a black country would be racism at it's worst and the story implies, since race is never mentioned, that blacks are violent. The defendants and most of the country is black. The alleged victim is white. Shame on Irish Central for its biased reporting.

This is lynch-mob rule at it's nastiest. Is it because Martin McGuinness, the well-known champion of judicial process, has publicly declared the acquitted men guilty? You rightly condemn gutter journalism in this article, yet go on to engage in exactly the same sort of thing. Dreadful.

To boycott an entire country because of a failure of its police to solve a case to the satisfaction of observers thousands of miles might seem like a ludicrous suggestion (Ireland would have no British, French, German or Spanish tourists for a start), but strikes me as not so much absurd as despicable. For a media outlet to be promoting the idea editorially is irresponsible and reprehensible.