Recently, I got a visit from a Garda who was following up on complaints from local businesses regarding anti social behaviour from local teenagers and some damage to property.
When I said I hadn't had any trouble and that I wondered whether the trouble was racially motivated (two of the businesses were run by indian / pakastani men, he replied with a rueful expression: Sure those lads don't give a ****e who they target, it could just as well be anyone.
This was a Garda in the course of his duty speaking as he would to his friend and rather than being offended, I found it rather charming in a weird way. He was lovely, professional (in all other ways) and was not being course or vulgar. It's just the way we tend to talk. - I do know others will disagree and consider it very inappropriate.
Then on the lunchtime segment on Newstalk, I heard Jonathan finish off an item (I think it was the Gerry Adams thing) with Shane Coleman by thanking him for bringing the listeners that update as he knew Shane was buzzing around "like the proverbial blue arsed fly" with all the political stuff on the boil that day.
Again, I thought if Mrs. Wyckham from Tunbridge Wells for example had heard that on the BBC she would have been scandalised and there would have been thousands of complaints but we Irish don't seem to get hot under the collar about this stuff.
What do you think?
When I said I hadn't had any trouble and that I wondered whether the trouble was racially motivated (two of the businesses were run by indian / pakastani men, he replied with a rueful expression: Sure those lads don't give a ****e who they target, it could just as well be anyone.
This was a Garda in the course of his duty speaking as he would to his friend and rather than being offended, I found it rather charming in a weird way. He was lovely, professional (in all other ways) and was not being course or vulgar. It's just the way we tend to talk. - I do know others will disagree and consider it very inappropriate.
Then on the lunchtime segment on Newstalk, I heard Jonathan finish off an item (I think it was the Gerry Adams thing) with Shane Coleman by thanking him for bringing the listeners that update as he knew Shane was buzzing around "like the proverbial blue arsed fly" with all the political stuff on the boil that day.
Again, I thought if Mrs. Wyckham from Tunbridge Wells for example had heard that on the BBC she would have been scandalised and there would have been thousands of complaints but we Irish don't seem to get hot under the collar about this stuff.
What do you think?