Anyone fancy a trip to Pontins ??

Pretty unbelievable stuff this from Pontins. They have a blacklist of Irish Surnames that they do not want as guests.

This is like a throwback to the days of no dogs no blacks no irish.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pontins-blacklist-ireland-boris-johnson-b1810387.html

Allinall

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Pretty unbelievable stuff this from Pontins. They have a blacklist of Irish Surnames that they do not want as guests.

This is like a throwback to the days of no dogs no blacks no irish.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pontins-blacklist-ireland-boris-johnson-b1810387.html

I have a week booked later this year.

Should be ok.

Rgds
Winnie Joyce.

colm_mcm

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Pretty unbelievable stuff this from Pontins. They have a blacklist of Irish Surnames that they do not want as guests.

This is like a throwback to the days of no dogs no blacks no irish.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pontins-blacklist-ireland-boris-johnson-b1810387.html

An Irish company would never try and keep travelers out.

[Deleted User]

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Pretty unbelievable stuff this from Pontins. They have a blacklist of Irish Surnames that they do not want as guests.

This is like a throwback to the days of no dogs no blacks no irish.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pontins-blacklist-ireland-boris-johnson-b1810387.html

Seems valid. I wouldn’t want travellers on my holiday either.

If your surname is in that list traveller or not you wouldn't be welcome.

Honestly thought they went bust.

Plumbthedepths

Delaney? John will be gutted.

timmyntc

Don't they realise you have to be more subtle than that!

Your Face

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Pretty unbelievable stuff this from Pontins. They have a blacklist of Irish Surnames that they do not want as guests.

This is like a throwback to the days of no dogs no blacks no irish.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pontins-blacklist-ireland-boris-johnson-b1810387.html

No way Id leave my dog at Pontins.

biko

"It's a private company. They can do what they like."

Ah ha ha.

They were so scared of being politically correct re targeting travellers they banned half of Ireland and/or people of Irish descent.

Murphy FFS.

Ah ha ha.

[Deleted User]

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Seems valid. I wouldn’t want travellers on my holiday either.

It’s anybody with those surnames. Most aren’t really traveller names anyway.

DublinWriter

My ex-wife was from the North East of England and Butlins/Pontins was a big thing, especially going off season. Try going to Skegness in November for chills and giggles (mainly chills).

When our son was born, we used to go to Butlins Prestatyn and Skegness (Skeggie) a lot.

Once again, that's my ex-wife.

I've experience of seeing some major sh1t going down during a visit to Butlins Prestatyn 2013 involving a certain group of a certain ethnicity on an extended family holiday.

Again, we live in an age of cancel culture and I need to be careful. In my early years in the motor trade, I worked with said people from a certain group of a certain ethnicity and found them all sound.

However, you really have to ask yourself was there anyone with any braincells working in Pontins HQ issuing a memo like that in 2018.

Trigger Happy

The spelling of those names is atrocious.
Walch. Sheriadan.
There must be some uneducated muckers working in head office.

sabat

Boylan, Boyle, Carney, Carr, Cash, Connors, Corcoran, Delaney, Doherty, Dorran, Gallagher, Horan, Keefe, Kell, Leahy, Lee, MacLaughlin, McAlwick, McCully, McDonagh, McGinley, McGinn, McGuiness, McHarg, McLaughan, McMahon, Millighan, Mongans, Murphy, Nolan, O’Brien, O’Connell, O’Donnell, O’Donoghue, O’Mahoney, O’Reilly, Sheriadan, Stokes, Walch, Ward.

timmyntc

sabat wrote: »

Boylan, Boyle, Carney, Carr, Cash, Connors, Corcoran, Delaney, Doherty, Dorran, Gallagher, Horan, Keefe, Kell, Leahy, Lee, MacLaughlin, McAlwick, McCully, McDonagh, McGinley, McGinn, McGuiness, McHarg, McLaughan, McMahon, Millighan, Mongans, Murphy, Nolan, O’Brien, O’Connell, O’Donnell, O’Donoghue, O’Mahoney, O’Reilly, Sheriadan, Stokes, Walch, Ward.

Big Joe Joyce still welcome

[Deleted User]

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It’s anybody with those surnames. Most aren’t really traveller names anyway.

Seems fair though. You’re banning more than you want, but you’re banning everyone you want to ban. Some extra people are just caught up in the flack.

sabat

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Seems fair though. You’re banning more than you want, but you’re banning everyone you want to ban. Some extra people are just caught up in the flack.

Between Murphy, O’Brien, O'Reilly and Walsh alone you're talking about hundreds of thousands of people.

Purple Mountain

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Ah ha ha.

They were so scared of being politically correct re targeting travellers they banned half of Ireland and/or people of Irish descent.

Murphy FFS.

Ah ha ha.

Maybe they just don't want Cork people.

Masala

sabat wrote: »

Boylan, Boyle, Carney, Carr, Cash, Connors, Corcoran, Delaney, Doherty, Dorran, Gallagher, Horan, Keefe, Kell, Leahy, Lee, MacLaughlin, McAlwick, McCully, McDonagh, McGinley, McGinn, McGuiness, McHarg, McLaughan, McMahon, Millighan, Mongans, Murphy, Nolan, O’Brien, O’Connell, O’Donnell, O’Donoghue, O’Mahoney, O’Reilly, Sheriadan, Stokes, Walch, Ward.

Well ... thats half of Kerry barred (o'Donoghue) and probably most of Cavan (O'Reilly)

Hey.

Only Irish people are allowed treat Travellers like this.

[Deleted User]

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Seems fair though. You’re banning more than you want, but you’re banning everyone you want to ban. Some extra people are just caught up in the flack.

That said I wouldn’t do it with traditionally black or Jewish surnames. Were I them.

Fake Scores

Joyce, the quintessential traveller name -even with it - this is also
a name in some of the most well-heeled familys in south Dublin. And
widely represented in the legal, medical professions etc.

ecoli3136

ecoli3136 wrote: »

Hey.

Only Irish people are allowed treat Travellers like this.

They aren’t discriminating against travellers though. That would be a simpler operation.

Masala

Masala wrote: »

Well ... thats half of Kerry barred (o'Donoghue) and probably most of Cavan (O'Reilly)

Murphy is a big one. It’s rugby star Peter O’Mahoney I feel sorry for.

Plumbthedepths

sabat wrote: »

Boylan, Boyle, Carney, Carr, Cash, Connors, Corcoran, Delaney, Doherty, Dorran, Gallagher, Horan, Keefe, Kell, Leahy, Lee, MacLaughlin, McAlwick, McCully, McDonagh, McGinley, McGinn, McGuiness, McHarg, McLaughan, McMahon, Millighan, Mongans, Murphy, Nolan, O’Brien, O’Connell, O’Donnell, O’Donoghue, O’Mahoney, O’Reilly, Sheriadan, Stokes, Walch, Ward.

My name is not on the list but happy to bar myself. Those places look absolutely grim and miserable.

Deleted User

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Murphy is a big one. It’s rugby star Peter O’Mahoney I feel sorry for.

He's allowed to go, that's not his surname.

Feisar

Would they not send round a list of youtube vids and say, "anyone sounds like that it's a no no."

SEPT 23 1989

Of course there will be outward rage over this but an honest media would ask why a company would want to turn away customers

What has happened in these camps previously for Poitins to have come up with this

Not a few isolated incidents I would imagine

happyoutscan

Only 9 names on that list I'd associate with travelers. Boss.

Snickers Man

timmyntc wrote: »

Big Joe Joyce still welcome

There's some fairly prominent, and very British, people whose names are on that list.

Mark Carney, Governor of Bank of England;
Bill Cash, doyen of the Brexit movement;
Lord McGuinness, Unionist peer and politician;
Ben Stokes, vice captain of English cricket team;

to name just a few. None of whom would be welcome at Pontins.

I bet they'll be gutted!!
:D:D

riffmongous

There was a bit more to it than just the list, Irish accent and English phone number was the big sign where you had to call over a supervisor

Del2005

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Seems valid. I wouldn’t want travellers on my holiday either.

Isn't everyone on holiday a traveller? Especially since they have left their country.

dxhound2005

Fake Scores wrote: »

Joyce, the quintessential traveller name -even with it - this is also
a name in some of the most well-heeled familys in south Dublin. And
widely represented in the legal, medical professions etc.

And people can call themselves Seoige, or some variation of that.

Fann Linn

If they matched the Pontins list with Garda Pulse it's probably not too far off to be fair though.

Bobblehats

My names there, but with. Mc prefix which I’ve never seen.

Does that put me out of the crocodile club?

[Deleted User]

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He's allowed to go, that's not his surname.

Yeh but O’Mahoney is on the list. Keep up Jeremy.

Fann Linn

Fann Linn wrote: »

If they matched the Pontins list with Garda Pulse it's probably not too far off to be fair though.

Yeh but that’s because they included everybody. All of the Irish names.

Fann Linn

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Yeh but that’s because they included everybody. All of the Irish names.

Thankfully I can go, however I'm gonna go home now and tell the wife and her gang they're not.

BorneTobyWilde

It's hard to name and shame people when those people have no shame.

.anon.

FFS, absolutely disgusting, like something from the 1950s.

At least it was the last time I was in Prestatyn anyway.

Fake Scores

Del2005 wrote: »

Isn't everyone on holiday a traveller? Especially since they have left their country.

I am a traveller.
You are a tourist.
He is a backpacker.

I Am The Law

Fake Scores wrote: »

I am a traveller.
You are a tourist.
He is a backpacker.

I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler, I'm a long way from home......

bullpost

Fake Scores wrote: »

Joyce, the quintessential traveller name -even with it - this is also
a name in some of the most well-heeled familys in south Dublin. And
widely represented in the legal, medical professions etc.

The most famous of them all , James, was well travelled.

Buddy Bubs

I, for one, am outraged! Not really though. I lived in England for a year and got the anti irish stuff a good bit and didn't care one bit.

Who cares? A load of people that weren't going to Pontins anyway.

Bobblehats

Buddy Bubs wrote: »

I, for one, am outraged! Not really though. I lived in England for a year and got the anti irish stuff a good bit and didn't care one bit.

Who cares? A load of people that weren't going to Pontins anyway.

Never had it myself. Back in the swingin nineties

Was planning my vacation this is a big deal....

Fake Scores

A grim specter - the traditional English stay-at-home holiday. Fortune tellers, donkey rides, fish and chips, the promenade,

pgj2015

They probably had loads of claims made from travellers, stupid to print out such a list though. if it was refusing them just because they are Irish it would be a disgrace but I don't blame them to be honest. sure every pub closes in Ireland when there is a traveller funeral on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1soT59JcTY

uptherebels

biko wrote: »

"It's a private company. They can do what they like."

Would you like some mayo for that chip

FileNotFound

pgj2015 wrote: »

They probably had loads of claims made from travellers, stupid to print out such a list though. if it was refusing them just because they are Irish it would be a disgrace but I don't blame them to be honest. sure every pub closes in Ireland when there is a traveller funeral on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1soT59JcTY

Just a bit simple minded in the way they went about it to be fair...

What a bunch of muppets haha.

thelad95

Drawing up the list like that was stupid but being pragmatic, I'm sure they've had previous encounters with such "I'll pay cash boss" guests for them to need to try and pin such an exclusion.

It obviously got out of hand though and the beautiful irony of all this is that most of the surnames are spelled not just incorrectly but in a way that makes no grammatical sense whatsoever.