Irish Traffic Controller Girls

jackbhoy

Fairly niche photo essay:

http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/opinion/society-and-culture/irish-traffic-controller-girls-20130118-2cxc5.html

hussey

Here is the article to go with it
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/lollipop-lasses-from-the-emerald-isle-stop-traffic-across-city-20130201-2dpxx.html

Feelgood

Based on these photos, statistically 20% of Irish chicks are hot.

mandrake04

Seems to be plenty doing the stop/slow I would pass at least a couple of crews every day and you can spot biddies a mile off.

rusheen

Real traffic stoppers alright

myflipflops

People from a country do a job.

Another win for Australian journalism.

AngryHippie

Drivers respond relatively well to them, he reckons. ''If I go out on the job blokes will go past and call me an old bastard but they wouldn't say that to a young lady.''

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/lollipop-lasses-from-the-emerald-isle-stop-traffic-across-city-20130201-2dpxx.html#ixzz2JzrVcBPp

Sure they do buddy, sure they do.

Quiet news day for the SMH

Xavi6

That's genuninely the post pointless thing I've read in a long time.

Jackbhoy, you owe me 30 seconds!

Mellor

Feelgood wrote: »

Based on these photos, statistically 20% of Irish chicks are hot.

So you're into 1 out of the 5 girls. I always thought you were female. Maybe you still are...

Hail 2 Da Thief

Must be a mind numbingly boring job!

Zambia

Xavi6 wrote: »

That's genuninely the post pointless thing I've read in a long time.

Jackbhoy, you owe me 30 seconds!

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Zambia

Ms Murphy, 28, came to Australia in 2009 after failing to find work at home in Cork. She works six days a week as a traffic controller, one of hundreds of Irish ''lollipop ladies'' on sites across Sydney. They are young, educated and a far cry from the local lads who used to stop and slow cars in the city

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/lollipop-lasses-from-the-emerald-isle-stop-traffic-across-city-20130201-2dpxx.html#ixzz2K0uAPXgO

DIAC does not like this post .... ;-)

Testament1

Hail 2 Da Thief wrote: »

Must be a mind numbingly boring job!

I did it for half an hour at home one time years ago so that the young lad who'd been doing it all day could get some lunch...i was never so happy to get back into my machine!!

From the article:

''But a lot of us girls were born and reared in the country so it doesn't bother us being out in the sun or the cold. I suppose we're not afraid of getting our hands dirty.''

Not gonna get your hands too dirty holding a stop sign all day!

jackbhoy

Xavi6 wrote: »

That's genuninely the post pointless thing I've read in a long time.

Jackbhoy, you owe me 30 seconds!

Sorry :P

I was just amazed that someone would pick such a random topic for a photo series; didn't even read the accompanying spiel!

Mellor

Zambia wrote: »

DIAC does not like this post .... ;-)

Why not?
I must be missing something.

Wompa1

I wonder if they'd do such a job back in Ireland for the equivalent pay

The Aussie

Wompa1 wrote: »

I wonder if they'd do such a job back in Ireland for the equivalent pay

Think of it like a one night stand.

Any Port in a Storm. :pac:

Mellor

Wompa1 wrote: »

I wonder if they'd do such a job back in Ireland for the equivalent pay

If it were somehow possible to get the "equivalent pay" in Ireland, I don't think anybody would turn it down. It would be a better paying job than most tbf.

ahnowbrowncow

Joanne does not look too enthused with her job