Comedian Joanne McNally tweetz:
“Reading an article in The Guardian about tourism in Essex. Not sure why the journo assumes the Irish tourists have never been out of Ireland before. We’re no longer reliant on an annual coffin ship to the Americas to get out and about.”
FIGHT!
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I’d probably be more outraged if I knew who any of the protagonists (or complainant) were.
The journalist is quoting a former cabbie turned film-maker. Mr Fleming describes himself on Linkedin thus:
“I’m bone-idle, argumentative, annoying, puerile and likely to do the barest minimum work to not get fired. I’ll turn up late, take massively long lunch breaks and go home early. And you can forget about working weekends- I’ll be in the pub.”
…and he adapted that from the Mission Statement (!) of the Irish Taxi Federation.
Do the Guardian not know Ford’s brought Paddys over in their 0000s to get the Dagenham works on line
Majority from their original Cork plant
And they became known as the ‘Dagenham Yanks’
Here’s an interesting article on the Ford works soccer team, the original Tractor Boys.
https://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/the-original-tractor-boys-when-a-factory-team-dominated-irish-soccer/
if they ended up in brentwood it probably was their first time ot of ireland