Tag Archives: The Irish Abroad

std(A cartoon in today’s edition of NZ’s ‘The  Press’)

 

Irish workers helping with the [post earthquake] rebuild are sharing the love but it seems they may also be helping to spread sexual diseases.

While there are no concrete figures to analyse who is giving chlamydia to whom, health data show the number of confirmed cases in the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) region has been increasing since 2011.

Board sexual health director Edward Coughlan said the clinic had started recording the number of Irish nationals making appointments, and there had “definitely been an increase” in the past two years.

Christchurch Hospital’s emergency department and the sexual health clinic had since started recording the nationalities of all people associated with the rebuild.

Figures for other international workers were not yet available.

…CDHB member Aaron Keown said New Zealand historically had high rates of STIs but guessed it would be local women passing infections on to rebuild workers and not the other way around.

“Statistically Kiwi women have been found to have a lot more sexual partners than other women [in other countries] and these Irish lads might not be used to living somewhere with such high STI rates.”

He said many women found the Irish accent alluring and “jovial and outgoing” rebuild workers were cashed up and going out regularly.

“If you take one plus one plus one, you get three and that would likely end up as chlamydia.”

 

Luck of the Irish has sex-disease downside (Georgina Stylianou, Stuff.co.nz), 

Irish people Living In New Zealand (Facebook)

Thanks Reppy

1013231_10200588737621128_437733587_nBeer-chugging ‘boffin Brendan Darby, an argon krypton laser and a bottle of New Zealand craft beer.

Eoin Darby writes:

I know you don’t normally do this kind of thing but This is my brother Brendan. He’s from Lusk, Co. Dublin and is doing a Phd in ultrafast laser spectroscopy in Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
The local brewing company Tuatara are offering $200 worth of beer for the best photo with their newest beer release – Tuatara Black.
Brendan and craft beer are perfectly matched – a quick “like” on the Facebook photo here will help to keep these two together.

northbondi

[New South Wales] Fair Trading has received a number of reports of an Irish male going by the name of John and using the unregistered company name Affordable Building Services touting for business throughout the inner Sydney area including North Bondi, Surry Hills and Marrickville.

“Itinerant conmen are ruthless and will often seek out the most vulnerable – the elderly, the infirm or those struggling financially – to siphon off thousands of dollars,” Mr Stowe said.

“They pose as affable tradies, promising home building and maintenance work at unbelievably cheap rates and then demanding scurrilously high deposits. They then either abscond with the deposit or carry out the work to such a poor level it invariably costs the home owner thousands of dollars more to have the work rectified.”

 

Public Warning: Irish travelling conman hits Sydney (FairTrading)

Thanks Mark Geary

 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLI7TswhTnI

…the wild geese fled?

YOU decide.

Andrew Dunne writes:

A couple of the lads from school ended up in Canada, obviously with competition for jobs so high they’ve had to branch out into other professions. Here we have [Jamie ‘Fearless’ Fearon] a professional stuntman in the making…