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Feb 8, 09, 14:35 #1

There has been a story going around in the Irish media, that signs are appearing on Polish building sites ''Irish not welcome'' - or words to that effect.

Can anyone tell me if this is true ? Has anyone seen them ? Have any of the media covered this ?

Just curious, I don't work in construction and am not intent on moving to Poland at all. Wife doesn't want to anyway, though she is Polish herself.

Grzegorz_Threads: 81 Posts: 6,213 Joined: Nov 16, 06 ♂	Feb 8, 09, 14:48 #2
uncle betty: Can anyone tell me if this is true ? That's crap. One Polish owned construction company in the Northern Ireland did that... In Poland there's obviously no Irish workers looking for jobs, so even If there were such sentiments (but there doesn't seem to be) these signs would make as much sense as "Eskimos not welcomed".

Wroclaw Boy	Feb 8, 09, 14:48 #3
uncle betty: ''Irish not welcome'' - or words to that effect. I find that highly unlikely, i have heard some rumours however I think the Poles have other nationalities to worry about more than the Irish.

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Feb 8, 09, 15:06 #4

Grzegorz_:

uncle betty:
Can anyone tell me if this is true ?

That's crap. One Polish owned construction company in the Northern Ireland did that... In Poland there's obviously no Irish workers looking for jobs, so even If there were such sentiments (but there doesn't seem to be) these signs would make as much sense as "Eskimos not welcomed".

That's interesting. I didn't hear about that.

I was a bit peed off when that story came out here, it didn't ring true, even wages-wise.

Anyway, the story was carried in two national newspapers, and a Belfast one. All more or less identical to each other - some journalism huh ?

The guy who was quoted heavily, is a senior trade union leader. In reality, he has no evidence for those stories whatsoever. And what he claims to have said (I e-mailed him a few times) is very different to what was reported.

Of course the so-called journalist at the Irish Times didn't reply at all.

Anti-immigrant feeling is rising here now, and anything that fuels that carelessly should be challenged. In my opinion.

MatyjaszThreads: 2 Posts: 1,786 Joined: Jul 20, 06 ♂	Feb 8, 09, 19:40 #5
uncle betty: There has been a story going around in the Irish media, that signs are appearing on Polish building sites ''Irish not welcome'' - or words to that effect. Yep, next to "Rothschilds, don't even bother!" ;)

RICHIE747Threads: - Posts: 1 Joined: Feb 19, 09 ♂	Feb 22, 09, 01:44 #6
HI PEOPLE.......I'M IRISH...VERY FRIENDLY/HONEST/HARD-WORKING. HAVE BEAUTIFUL POLISH GIRLFRIEND WORKING & LIVING IN SZCZECIN. BEING THERE A FEW TIMES, BEAUTIFUL CITY VERY GREEN. ANY CHANCE OF A JOB IN CONSTRUCTION/MUSIC BAND..PLAY FOLK/TRAD/ RICHIE747

stormhorseThreads: 1 Posts: 21 Joined: Dec 12, 07 ♂	Feb 28, 09, 17:22 #7
I am Irish and am looking for work in Wroclaw, no luck yet! so anyway, why do you think it would be 'strange' for this to happen? meaning Irish people looking for work in Poland?????

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Feb 28, 09, 17:41 #8

stormhorse:

no luck yet!

Did the Irish develpoer pull out?.

stormhorse:

why do you think it would be 'strange' for this to happen?

Irish people have not come to Poland to work labouring.
I have yet to hear of an electrician or plumber living off their trade here.
The 'strange' part is that hundreds of thousands of poles went to Ireland looking for work on site.
If things would have been different this would not of happened.

stormhorse:

meaning Irish people looking for work in Poland?????

I have met a few Irish living here, English teachers for the most part a few publicans and property developers.

I have met some Irish architects considering working here.

hellfireThreads: - Posts: 4 Joined: Feb 28, 09 ♂	Feb 28, 09, 23:50 #9
HI EVERY ONE HEARD THIS STORY IN DUBLIN ! GOES LIKE THIS. YOUNG IRISH GUY GOES TO POLAND TO START NEW JOB IN ONE OFF YOUR NEW FOOTBALL GROUNDS WENT HE WALKED ON TO THE SITE THE POLISH WORKER WALKED OFF SAYING IF THE IRISH GUY WORKED ON THIS SITE THEY WOULD NOT (400 MEN WALKED OFF). CAN ANY ONE THROW SOME LIGHT ON THIS? REGARDS HELLFIRE

niejestemcapitaThreads: 3 Posts: 666 Joined: Jan 3, 09 ♀	Feb 28, 09, 23:52 #10
hellfire: HEARD THIS STORY IN DUBLIN ! GOES LIKE THIS. YOUNG IRISH GUY GOES TO POLAND TO START NEW JOB IN ONE OFF YOUR NEW FOOTBALL GROUNDS WENT HE WALKED ON TO THE SITE THE POLISH WORKER WALKED OFF SAYING IF THE IRISH GUY WORKED ON THIS SITE THEY WOULD NOT (400 MEN WALKED OFF). CAN ANY ONE THROW SOME LIGHT ON THIS? sounds like a pub myth

hellfireThreads: - Posts: 4 Joined: Feb 28, 09 ♂	Mar 1, 09, 00:06 #11
Don't know about that. heard it also from a bank man in dublin also!

niejestemcapitaThreads: 3 Posts: 666 Joined: Jan 3, 09 ♀	Mar 1, 09, 00:08 #12
hellfire: heard it also from a bank man in dublin also! ooooh a BANKER!! ok....

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,727 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Mar 1, 09, 00:10 #13
hellfire: WALKED OFF SAYING IF THE IRISH GUY WORKED ON THIS SITE THEY WOULD NOT (400 MEN WALKED OFF). Where did you hear that? Someone's been tellin porky pies.

hellfireThreads: - Posts: 4 Joined: Feb 28, 09 ♂	Mar 1, 09, 00:27 #14
IN DUBLIN ALSO HEARD THE NAME OF THE PLACE BUT FORGET IT NOW. BUT IS LIKE EVERY THING YOU'LL HERE EVERY STORY BUT THE RIGHT ONE?

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,727 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Mar 1, 09, 00:39 #15
I'm from Dublin and i live in Poland. There is NO WAY 400 MEN WALKED OFF site, not 1, that is just crap. Most Polish people I have met like Ireland and Irish people. How are the protests going in Dublin's fair?.

irishdeanoThreads: 11 Posts: 492 Joined: Oct 23, 07 ♂	Jul 13, 09, 23:00 #16
I have heard from a few people now, Who's friends went to poland to find work and they were told irish were not wanted. So i dont know. I havent seen anything in the Media and my Girlfriend also hasnt seen any of it anyway im moving there in september

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Jul 19, 09, 01:00 #17

irishdeano:

I have heard from a few people now, Who's friends went to poland to find work and they were told irish were not wanted. So i dont know. I havent seen anything in the Media and my Girlfriend also hasnt seen any of it

anyway im moving there in september

Its all over the media. We should pay them back in kind!

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/no-irish-need-apply--polish-bu ilders-get-their-own-back-1589265.html

Grzegorz_Threads: 81 Posts: 6,213 Joined: Nov 16, 06 ♂	Jul 19, 09, 01:57 #18
RevokeNice: Its all over the media. It is months old article. Why the hell are you so pathetic ? God, were you drunk making this idiot ??

RevokeNiceThreads: 21 Posts: 2,766 Joined: Jun 20, 09 ♂	Jul 19, 09, 02:05 #19
Grzegorz_: It is months old article. Why the hell are you so pathetic ? God, were you drunk making this idiot ?? There are more recent articles from last month. But, go ahead attack me, ignore the blatant hypocrisy and discrimination against the Irish in Poland. If the same thing happened in Ireland you would be b*tching about it.

polishmeknobThreads: 12 Posts: 162 Joined: Feb 9, 09 ♂	Jul 19, 09, 20:20 #20
I thought Poles were flooding into Ireland, not the other way around…

RevokeNiceThreads: 21 Posts: 2,766 Joined: Jun 20, 09 ♂	Edited by: RevokeNice Jul 19, 09, 21:26 #21
polishmeknob They are my friend, they are anti Irish in parts of Poland. I believe there is 1,000 Irish in Poland. Maximum.

Grzegorz_Threads: 81 Posts: 6,213 Joined: Nov 16, 06 ♂	Jul 19, 09, 23:58 #22
RevokeNice: they are anti Irish in parts of Poland. What... ?

RevokeNiceThreads: 21 Posts: 2,766 Joined: Jun 20, 09 ♂	Jul 20, 09, 00:09 #23
Grzegorz_: What... ? The signs are anti Irish and dicriminatory. Those who put them up are anti Irish.

trevorisimoThreads: 2 Posts: 30 Joined: Jul 20, 08 ♂	Aug 12, 09, 16:56 #24
I heard this story from my mam a while ago, and everyone was so angry to hear this story being that all the polish over here in Ireland working, all I heard was stories, dont remember anything being on the news about it, as if it were factual you can bet it would be, it could have been something made up by irish people to stir hatred against some polish people, who knows.

RevokeNiceThreads: 21 Posts: 2,766 Joined: Jun 20, 09 ♂	Edited by: Moderator Aug 12, 09, 16:58 #25
trevorisimo It was reported by the Irish press. See here, http://www.independent.ie/national-news/no-irish-need-apply--polish-bu ilders-get-their-own-back-1589265.html [i]'NO Irish need apply' - the signs are already going up on building sites abroad in a throwback to the grim days of the the last century.

Grzegorz_Threads: 81 Posts: 6,213 Joined: Nov 16, 06 ♂	Aug 12, 09, 19:55 #26
Nonsense. Why do you people make up these bul*shits ?

RevokeNiceThreads: 21 Posts: 2,766 Joined: Jun 20, 09 ♂	Edited by: RevokeNice Aug 12, 09, 19:59 #27
Grzegorz_ So the Irish press, who by and large have been foaming at the mouth about how great the Poles are, made up this story?

Grzegorz_Threads: 81 Posts: 6,213 Joined: Nov 16, 06 ♂	Aug 12, 09, 20:05 #28
RevokeNice: made up this story? Or just repeat after somebody who made It up.

RevokeNiceThreads: 21 Posts: 2,766 Joined: Jun 20, 09 ♂	Aug 12, 09, 20:16 #29
Grzegorz_ So the Irish media made it up? Any proof of these allegations?

Grzegorz_Threads: 81 Posts: 6,213 Joined: Nov 16, 06 ♂	Aug 12, 09, 20:18 #30
Huh ? How one can prove that somthing doesn't exist ? If you believe in that sick stuff then why don't you show us any picture of these "signs" ?

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