Belfast Parents Drive Kids To Binge Drinking Parties
Concerned that negative national stereotypes were not being reinforced, some parents in Ireland have been ferrying their kids - along with cases of Guiness and Jameson’s - to drinking parties in the Belfast woods.
Local cabs also got in on the act, acting as delivery vehicles and ferrying booze to the partygoers.
Concerned citizens in the area banded together to put a stop to this in response to reports of violence and sexual assaults at the parties. Included in the coalition were members of the clergy, representatives from local community and women’s centers, and Social Services counselors. The effort to put a halt to these parties is being headed up by Michael Ferguson, a member of Sinn Fein - yes, THAT Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A. Which makes me think that if the I.R.A. says that something is out of control…wow. Must be a hell of a shindig.
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Dutch
Sep 27, 2005 at 10:43 am
Jason- very funny.
we lived over there for awhile, and the IRA actually gets very involved in community service. while we were living there, they were big on shooting out the kneecaps of drug dealers, whom they called “pushers” and they marched through the streets shouting “pushers out! pushers out!”
it was pretty fucking awesome.