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Irish house prices increased 13% in twelve months, the fastest rate in Europe

Dublin residential property prices have increased 90% from their February 2012 low.

IRISH HOUSE PRICES have increased by 13% in the twelve months to April, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

That’s the fastest pace since May 2015 and means Irish house prices are still growing at the fastest rate in Europe, which stood at 4.5% in late 2017.

The latest figures from the CSO show that the highest house price growth was in the Mid-West with house prices increasing by 18.7%, while the lowest growth was in the border region, with house prices rising 9.3%.

In Dublin, the city centre had the highest growth at 14.9%, while south Dublin was the lowest at 6.9%.

On average, house prices outside of Dublin rose by 12.9% and overall, prices for residential properties were 13.6% higher in the year to April.

However, the CSO said the national index is 21.1% lower than its highest level in 2007.

Dublin prices are 23.3% lower than their February 2007 peak, while prices in the rest of the country are 26.1% lower than their peak in May 2007.

Compared to early 2013, prices nationally have increased by 76% while Dublin residential property prices have increased 90% from their February 2012 low.

Meanwhile, UK figures released today show that the increase in British house prices slowed to 3.9% year-on-year in April, the slowest pace in 13 months.

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    Mute Karl Kenny
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:04 AM

    Whats next? Ban leprechan costumes too?

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    Mute Tom Collins
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:24 AM

    It is a very serious world we live in

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    Mute Seán Smith
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:36 AM

    No. They’re white so they’re not “offensive”. The only time offence is taken matters to the P.C Brigade is when it’s referring to a skin colour other than white. You can mock any nationally and stereotype, as long as they’re white.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:44 AM

    It’s so ridiculous. If they didn’t make the costumes, it would be seen as racist too

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:45 AM

    leprechauns are not white, they’re ginger, a completely different races with their own culture and beliefs that need, no – demand, to be respected!

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    Mute Deborah Behan
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:57 AM

    Imagine if they had put a white child in the costume! Damned if you do damned if you don’t.

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    Mute Max Power
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:00 AM

    What a joke. If it was a white girl it would have been racist too

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:02 AM

    This is crazy. Kids want to dress up as someone from another culture and it’s considered racist?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:18 AM

    Leprechauns are an endangered and persecuted ethnic minority

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:47 AM

    @Karl Kenny: Lets start a riot

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    Mute Amy Smith
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:30 PM

    @Alien8: Redheads are obviously not a race. They are part of the white race. It’s just a hair colour. I know you’re just trying to be funny but you’re being very offensive. Please refrain from the term “gingers”. After all if you think they’re a race then it’s just as bad as saying the n word.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:42 PM

    That’s ok then, bunch of white people say black people shouldn’t be offended by something that doesn’t offend said white people

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:56 PM

    In this instance I think it’s just crazy. Ther could be no more clear embracing of a foreign culture than this and it gets criticised because years ago other people did a different thing with different meaning. Next Hulk costumes will be banned because you know, it’s a very serious illness and playing dress up undermines that

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:03 PM

    To say that you have NFI of what blackface is or means

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:08 PM

    So you’re saying the children that would wear these costumes have the same intentions as the old black face performers? Get real. Kids see a character they like and want to be like.

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    Mute Danny Rafferty
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:10 PM

    Factually incorrect.

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    Mute Danny Rafferty
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:11 PM

    You’ve no proof of that.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:45 PM

    No Dave children are always innocent. It’s their ignorant, despite 12 years of schooling, parents that must carry the responsibility. Just as ignorance of the law no defense neither is ignorance of racism, whether it was intended or not.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:52 PM

    I’m really not sure if you are a genius at sarcasm or not, @amy, but being offended by “the G-word” is up there on another level. PS: there are no “races” in real evolutionary biology, only one human one.

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    Mute Dave O Keeffe
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:53 PM

    So you’re saying the children are not aware yet but they are racist?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 2:01 PM

    Boganity, this is for you, racism ˈreɪsɪz(ə)m/ noun the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. “theories of racism” prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. “a programme to combat racism”

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 2:04 PM

    Now what part of that is it that these children would be embracing by liking and wanting to emulate someone of a different race? The thing that really gets me is your claim that racism does not need to have intent. Racism has to be deliberate otherwise it’s not targeting.

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    Mute Amy Smith
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 2:05 PM

    @Alien8: You said “ginger” people aren’t part of the white race, they’re a different race altogether which is offensive.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 3:48 PM

    @Niall O Neill: so are the Irish

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 3:48 PM

    Will someone please stop the fookin planet, it’s time to get off.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 5:41 PM

    if you did not know …. green is the new black

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:06 AM

    “Cultural appropriation” what a crock! The whole world engages in “cultural appropriation” on March 17th but you don’t see us complaining.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:20 AM

    @Alan Tright: We aren’t allowed to complain because we are white. Our history of being oppressed is meaningless, all people care about is what you look like. The Japanese may be one of the wealthiest and priviliged nations on earth with a history of a brutal colonial empire that ravaged the Far East and The Pacific but be damned if you appropriate their culture

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:11 PM

    @Alan Tright: Is it cultural appropriation when a black man wears a three piece suit?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:13 PM

    I think your brain I in your name

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 2:02 PM

    Boganity, that is what is known as an ad hominem. I think you’re aware of the meaning, because you criticise techno further down this page for engaging in ad hominem.
    In case you were wondering, the correct spelling is “hypocrite.” Used in a sentence would appear as “Boganity is a hypocrite.”

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:18 AM

    Unless you’re Irish… stop dressing up and celebrating Halloween. It’s cultural appropriation.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:52 PM

    Well said beachmaster

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:57 PM

    Except there have been similar feasts around the world for centuries around that date

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 2:06 PM

    Dia de los muertos is around 3,000 years old.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 4:23 PM

    @Dave O Keeffe: He didn’t say Dia Le Dos Muertos did he?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 5:08 PM

    People dressing up as the dead on October 31st and November 1st hmmmm. Surely just a coincidence

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 5:34 PM

    “Prior to the Spanish colonization of Mexico in the 16th century, the celebration took place at the beginning of summer. Gradually it was associated with October 31, November 1 and November 2 to coincide with the Western Christian triduum of Allhallowtide: All Saints’ Eve, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day.”

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 6:50 PM

    And Ireland invented Halloween how?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 6:52 PM

    Also you’ve just said that the dressing up part came from dia de los muertos as What you’ve named are Catholic service days that were previously not a fancy dress affair. Catholicism appropriated it from elsewhere

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 8:54 PM
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:08 AM

    Absolutely so ridiculous. Don’t like it don’t buy it.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:53 AM

    Couldn’t have put it better myself David.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:34 AM

    Right on david

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:42 AM

    I think he wants to ask her out but he’s too shy.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:05 AM

    Can I still be a wizard or it that too offensive and socially inappropriate?

    I honestly can’t tell anyway.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:46 PM

    Hmmm I see the issue took a couple of layers of skin of the top of your skull as it….

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:50 PM

    Don’t worry Boganity. You can always be a fat ugly f*ck.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:12 PM

    Love it how the proponent of an argument devoid of facts resorts to personal abuse when called out. It’s because they have nothing left to offer the debate.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:35 PM

    Case in point.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:47 PM

    It takes lot to admit you were wrong you deserve full credit for that

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:08 AM

    Is there such thing as white face?..we have black face, brown face, yellow face. I feel left out.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:11 AM

    Ok whatever about the costume fair enough but crying because a character is fat in a country where everyone is fat?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:47 AM

    There’s a genuine evolutionary reason why most polynesians tend to be ‘large’ – when the islands were first settled it took an extremely long and arduous ocean crossing to get there, and most ‘thinner’ people were ill equipped to survive such a voyage. Those carrying the ‘fat gene’ on the other hand, were far more likely to survive and subsequently reproduce.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:28 PM

    Not sure why the red thumbs – it’s not a theory I just made up:
    http://www.wsamoa.ws/index.php?m=83&s=&i=3860

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:06 AM

    The world has gone to P. C

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:48 PM

    Ah well you would see it that way when you live in a monocultural society

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:28 PM

    Care to explain how a society can become multicultural if you ban the adoption of cultural expression by people not originally of that culture?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:54 PM

    I’m not sure what “cultural expression” means but Multiculturalism comes from a society comprised of people from different cultures that leads to an eclectic mix of expression an ides

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:54 PM

    *of ideas

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 2:06 PM

    How can you become multicultural without cultural appropriation?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:11 AM

    I’m a hipster and am highly offended at the exploitation of tattooed people by Disney, fake beards should be banned also…

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:10 AM

    I’m so offended I think I need to go home from work and lie down.

    I’ll probably sue if my employer doesn’t value my emotional well being enough to find this acceptable.

    No offense intended.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:15 AM

    How dare you, yes,I’m offended by your comment and I’m going on Twitter right now to vent my fury. Hopefully the Journal will spot my tweet and write an article tomorrow based solely on that tweet

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:20 AM

    Triggered!!

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:48 AM

    Can we discuss a far more pressing issue…The crippling pathological need of generation Y to validate their existence and prop up their self worth by feigning outrage and drawing attention the themselves on twitter and FB.

    Sometimes I look at them and they have this look on their face when they haven’t found something to be outraged or claim to be the moral superior and ‘enlightened’ about in a while. The world and all it’s people are just carrying on around them without their input or impediment. You can see the anxiety building, heart rate quickening, looking at their sweaty palms to make sure they’re not physically fading away from the lack of retweets and thumbs up…

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:11 AM

    They say that Conservatism is going to be the new “Counter Revolution”. It’s starting to happen with kids where they’re getting less and less interested in the mainstream Liberal media and becoming more Conservative and Libertarian and very Pro-Capitalism.

    In twenty years, you could have rebellious teen kids against their SJW parents, saying “Screw you Mom & Dad. I’m going to go got and get a job and start a business and try to make a name for myself”.

    Let’s hope it happens.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:39 AM

    techno that always happens. The kids of the hungry 30s became the money grabbing capitalists of the 50s. Their children bece hippies. Their children became wall street traders. what next?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:01 PM

    @Patrick Gough: Hmmmm, I guess that can quite optimistic and concerning at the same time.

    Optimistic in the sense that the next generation could be very Capitalist and follow the philosophy of “working to get what you want in life and take responsibility for your own actions”.

    However also concerning in the sense that the generation that comes after them will be even more spoilt and self-entitled than the current SJWs.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:04 PM

    @Patrick Gough: Actually you might not have to wait to wait 20 years… I read an article in the telegraph last week saying the current crop of 13-14 year olds that are to emerge as whatever comes after Generation Y are unexpectedly starting to show signs of being more conservative than their parents.

    Media will always reinvent itself to appeal to specific demographics… In 20 years I think we will have moved beyond a bipolar concept of liberal and conservative.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:06 PM

    Drew, all the signs are that ideological entrenchment is on the increase. The middle is a very lonely place for anyone at the moment. Far less populated than 20 years ago. Bipartisanship is dying. People are no longer willing to see the common threads but focus intensely on the differences

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:31 AM

    So….does this mean dark make up, tans, sun beds and umpa loompa bottletan are forms of ‘cultural appropriation’?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:23 AM

    Any girl who wears fake tan is racist, which would mean most girls on a night out in Cork City.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 5:43 PM

    haha

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:18 AM

    I hate the time we live in.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:58 AM

    @John Absolutly agree.Sums it all up nicely.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:39 AM

    Bring back the Gollywogs on the marmalade jars… The Lyons tea minstrals The Kia Ora adds… This world is just gone pc stupid. There are Blacks , Whites , Browns etc. So bloody what , that’s the way we are. Live with it.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:08 AM

    “cultural appropriation” – is that the new thing is it?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:28 AM

    You’re looking at the product of Intersectional Feminism. Yes that is actually a thing.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:57 PM

    The boomers are are back in town…

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 8:23 PM

    Yeah, it’s this weird phenomenon where white people wearing dreadlocks are guilty of racism but black girls straightening their hair are victims of racism. Go figure.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:50 AM

    Others branded the costume “creepy” That’s handy seeing that it’s supposed to be a Halloween costume.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:59 AM

    Ban the scream masks too. I feel they imply that me a white man as being some kind of psycho murder….

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:33 AM

    Its a cartoon about a pacific god of course the costume is going to reflect that.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:46 AM

    Oh dear (groan)! Time to flood the earth again.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:37 AM

    I blame liberals.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:32 AM

    @Sam Palmer: I blame your mom.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:37 AM

    What next, ridiculous

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:06 AM

    Pacific god ..Brown skin and tatoos?….NO WAAAY! !!

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:47 AM

    Did I….miss something here? I’m still trying to figure out the ‘offensive’ part of this. All I can see is people who love to be offended because it makes them feel special. Doing something in tribute to a culture is seen as offensive by people who are part of that culture but if you don’t recognise their culture in some way then said people will be up in arms about their culture being ignored. So what I’ve garnered is 1. you can’t win and 2. all white people are racist until they ‘prove’ otherwise. What a sad crock the world has become. Take me back to the 90′s please.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:23 AM

    “We sincerely apologise and are pulling the costume from our website and stores.”

    So a company that was founded by a prominent Anti-Semite who vocally supported Adolf Hitler is pulling a brown outfit that offended some entitled idiots on Twitter. Oh how times have changed.

    It’s about time companies grew a backbone and realised that the general population isn’t going to refuse to buy something because an entitled millennial decided to take offense to something on behalf of someone else.

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    Mute David Doyle
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:45 AM

    Your damned if you do your damned if you don’t

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:48 AM

    Oh FFS!

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    Mute TellingItAsItIs
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:57 AM

    It’s a crazy PC world we live in. Chill the f(uk down and just be respectful. That’s all it takes.

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    Mute Proudly Italian
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:30 AM

    The “politically correctness” will kill us all….

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    Mute Mary Dunphy
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:27 AM

    What next. Ban on make up and tans?

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    Mute Patrick Gough
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:33 AM

    Pacific people are brown. are people saying that brown people are offensive?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:39 AM

    @Patrick Gough: It appears that is what they are implying

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:01 PM

    @Patrick Gough: It’s more that people who aren’t brown pretending to be brown are offensive.

    Bottled tans and tanning salons will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.

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    Mute Jack Bowden
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:57 AM

    I don’t think this would have sold well at all. Is it a costume for boys or girls? Boys usually don’t like wearing skirts and girls usually don’t want to look like they have a body of a fat tattooed bloke.

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    Mute Drew TheChinaman :)
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:37 PM

    Careful… Boys don’t like to wear skirts, who’d want to look fat.

    That’s the kind of straight forward logic often described as gender conformity and fat shaming that causes your typical social justice warrior to lower their ironic glasses, unhinge their jaw and protract their Twitter claws.

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    Mute Dave O Keeffe
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:59 PM

    I’ll prove you wrong with one word…..kilt

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    Mute niall
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:41 AM

    FFS. P. C. gone mental yet again.

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    Mute Colin Lawton
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:23 PM

    “Photograph of a computer screen”… or ‘Screenshot’ as the kids call it.

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    Mute Dave O Keeffe
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:57 PM

    Actually that’s not what a screenshot it. A screenshot is one taken by the device itself

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    Mute @mdmak33
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:00 PM

    Ffs

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    Mute Amy Smith
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:01 PM

    It’s really sad that something as innocent as a child’s costume can spark such unnecessary offense.

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    Mute Francis Glynn
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 2:05 PM

    And yet more political correctness!!!!

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 4:12 PM

    Disney is worse to give in to such accusations!

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 2:30 PM

    So I assume I can’t colour myself in and go as Mr. T then?

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    Mute Paula Doran
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:45 PM

    I would have no objections to someone dressing up as a white freckle face Irish person! It’s fancy dress for God’s sake!

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    Mute Sean Lyne
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    Sep 22nd 2016, 11:18 AM

    The child would have an increased change of being shot by police.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:34 PM

    Well I’m offended anyway….

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 7:03 PM

    I don’t get this? You could He-Man muscle suits for kids years ago, and they didn’t cause any controversy. They weren’t banned out of fear of seeing a black kid in the white-skinned costume. As other commentors have said, no one cares if a black person, an Asian person or any other non-Irish descended person wears a leprechaun hat.

    As for the grass skirt argument, that’s the costume of the character in the film. Kristoff in the Frozen film wears a little soft pointed hat that is traditionally worn by Sami people. It was included with costumes.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 12:00 PM

    The major difference between this and the leprechauns is that the leprechauns are mythological and Polynesians aren’t.

    I’m sure that if the leprechauns complain about leprechaun outfits then thousands of no-hopers with far too much time on their hands will create a multitude of support groups to arrange a a suitable protest. In the meantime …

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 1:05 PM

    “The major difference between this and the leprechauns is that the leprechauns are mythological and Polynesians aren’t”

    What part of ‘demi-god’ did you miss?

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 7:05 PM

    @Damocles: People abroad wearing leprechaun hats aren’t dressing up as leprechauns. They’re dressing up as Irish stereotypes. It doesn’t bother me personally, but it’s the truth.

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    Sep 22nd 2016, 10:53 PM

    What about playing Cowboys and Indians??? Cowboys ok, but Indians racist or whatever???

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    Oct 3rd 2016, 11:33 AM

    I do not know what other think but I do not like it.

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    Oct 3rd 2016, 11:32 AM

    I do not know what other thinks. But I do not like it.

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