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14/03/2012
"No Irish" Bricklayer Ad Causes Controversy
An ad on Gumtree in Australia looking for a bricklayer has come under fire for stating, “No Irish”
In what sounds like the start of a joke the ad was posted by an Englishman and an Irishman.
The Irish Times rang the telephone number on the now deleted ad and spoke to a man with Northern irish accent who wouldn’t give his name but admitted to placing the ad.
“They were just not turning [up]. It’s a lot different over here, so it is,” he told the Irish Times. “Coming in hungover on a Monday morning is no good . . . I’m trying to run a business here. I know it sounds bad, but I haven’t meant anything bad by it.”
A few minutes after the phone conversation ended the newspaper received a call from the same mobile number, this time from an Englishman who claimed responsibility for the ad, “I don’t have any problem with [the] Irish whatsoever.”
He went on: “I think this has been blown completely out of proportion, because I just don’t have the time to train an Irish person up at the moment. I think it’s just all gone a bit sideways and people have looked at it the wrong way.”
Australia’s race discrimination commissioner Helen Szoke has said the advert amounted to discrimination. “It is unlawful to advertise in this way and . . . there are grounds for people to bring a complaint of discrimination to the Australian Human Rights Commission,” Dr Szoke told an Australian website.
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In what sounds like the start of a joke the ad was posted by an Englishman and an Irishman.
The Irish Times rang the telephone number on the now deleted ad and spoke to a man with Northern irish accent who wouldn’t give his name but admitted to placing the ad.
“They were just not turning [up]. It’s a lot different over here, so it is,” he told the Irish Times. “Coming in hungover on a Monday morning is no good . . . I’m trying to run a business here. I know it sounds bad, but I haven’t meant anything bad by it.”
A few minutes after the phone conversation ended the newspaper received a call from the same mobile number, this time from an Englishman who claimed responsibility for the ad, “I don’t have any problem with [the] Irish whatsoever.”
He went on: “I think this has been blown completely out of proportion, because I just don’t have the time to train an Irish person up at the moment. I think it’s just all gone a bit sideways and people have looked at it the wrong way.”
Australia’s race discrimination commissioner Helen Szoke has said the advert amounted to discrimination. “It is unlawful to advertise in this way and . . . there are grounds for people to bring a complaint of discrimination to the Australian Human Rights Commission,” Dr Szoke told an Australian website.
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