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Subject Topic: Nasty attack on couple in motorhome
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18/6/2007 at 10:59pm
 Location: Notts Lincs border
 Outfit: Burstner A538
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We went to Ireland three years ago. Never again. The most unfriendly place for motorhomes we have ever been. Lovely country but campsites,stopovers very unwelcoming. Height barriers on all parking places, impossible to asrk in towns and villages anfd certainly no wild camping, not that we would have done with the attitude of the people. they have a thing about travellers and tar us with the same brush. We stopped outside a catholic church one sunday and the congregation came out to hurl abuse at us. The roads are also appalling. 


19/6/2007 at 8:11pm
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rogerangie

You are right not coming over leave it for your fellow countrymen and women to enjoy look at any forum and see the good reports that are posted about their holidays in Ireland. We can do without your kind.

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19/6/2007 at 9:53pm
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Update we have heard from a family member today and the couple are feeling much better, hopefully they will be able to head home in the next week or so............I am so glad that they are on the mend.

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20/6/2007 at 8:18am
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That's really good news.  What an awful ordeal for them, I hope the perpetrators of this sick crime get sent down for a very very long time.

Ali



20/6/2007 at 1:21pm
 Location: Notts Lincs border
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AIDO. I had to check your spelling!

We speak as we find. I hear what you are saying but you are a native so perhaps you were involved with the abuse outside the church on a Sunday morning when all we wanted to do was stop for lunch and help boost your BOOMING EU economy.

 



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21/6/2007 at 8:36pm
 Location: N.Ireland
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Quote: Originally posted by Briarose on 19/6/2007
Update we have heard from a family member today and the couple are feeling much better, hopefully they will be able to head home in the next week or so............I am so glad that they are on the mend.

Thats great to hear. I hope they can put the whole ordeal behind them and get on with enjoying their lives.

 

All the best

Paul



21/6/2007 at 10:32pm
 Location: eastyorkshire
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hi i have never posted here before but had to just to say we went to ireland 2 years ago for a month and it was fantastic and the people we came across was lovely and so is the country we went from dublin and followed the coast all the way round to limerick with no problems with wild camping only one night each week on camp sites i have still got a lovely reminder of that memorable trip for i saw for the first time a pug [dog] and found a breeder in ireland and brought my murphy home now i have nine pugs  needless to say i am smitten and i will be takeing murphy back to ireland this year to his roots to see his mum and dad ,        i am very pleased to here this poor couple is on the mend and best whishes to them   jean

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22/6/2007 at 12:13am
 Location: Yorkshire
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Quote: Originally posted by aido on 19/6/2007

rogerangie

You are right not coming over leave it for your fellow countrymen and women to enjoy look at any forum and see the good reports that are posted about their holidays in Ireland. We can do without your kind.

aido


Aido ....we came to stay in Co. Wicklow a couple of years ago now...and i must say....we fell in love with the place ...and the people were so nice and friendly to us....we are planning to visit this 'Special' place again soon.... and we are so glad to hear that the couple are making a good recovery...and HOPEFULLY will get back to Motorhoming.....maybe no more 'Wild' camping if you don't know the place too well !!!

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Lord Scratcher and Lady Jayne

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You tried your best
and failed MISERABLY.
The lesson is : NEVER TRY .


22/6/2007 at 8:32pm
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Hi just to let you all know that the couple have now been able to return home, although they are still having bad days at least they are back near to their families.

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22/6/2007 at 8:45pm
 Location: Essex
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Thats just great news.I wish them all the best and hope they can put this terrible experience to the back of their minds.

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22/6/2007 at 8:57pm
 Location: Foothills of Lincolnshire Mountains
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Friends of mine go to Ireland every year in their UK registered cars ands absolutely love the place.  One friend of mine went there once and had every panel of his car gouged, and English B***** scribed on it.  He will never go back.  I lived in Newcastle for 17 years and love the place – I went back once and my car had £1000 of knife damage to the paintwork.  I still go back several times a year.  People are people the world over.  Most people are kind and helpful, some are preoccupied, but a very few are nasty and vindictive.  The lunatics who attacked this couple are so rare that we could live a hundred lifetimes and never encounter  their like.   It is great to know that the couple are recovering.  Lets not base any of our perspectives on such rare incident by an insane duo who have dropped a few links in the DNA chain.  They crop up everywhere, but as rare as lightening strikes. 



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