Not all Irish people are drunken idiots. I am so sorry you had such horrendous experience with some Irishmen. I can tell you we are not all like that and we were horrified by this mans actions but PLEASE PLEASE don't tar us all with theashamed brush

best archaeology on the planet, imo.

I'm sure your country is lovely and I won't judge it by the assholes that make the news, but I could never visit, looks waaaay too coldd! I'll do some arm chair visiting instead!

If it makes you feel any better, I visited Ireland last year and it was the most spectacularly beautiful place I have ever been and everyone I conversed with was incredibly nice. There are undeniably bad apples everywhere, I'm not judging all of your gorgeous nation because of some recent shitshows :))

Being someone from Oklahoma, I (and other midwesterners) understand you're feels. We are deemed a "flyover" state by the coasts and if anyone mentions oklahoma, their first thoughts are "plains+indians+nothing to do (boring)+racists and hillbillys" and then whatever forced them to think about oklahoma. I had a pure…

The only time I've done any traveling alone outside of the U.S. was in Ireland, and everyone I met up with was helpful, welcoming, and super warm. This was back before cell phones and all the other techy stuff that makes travel easier today, and I was young and nervous, but I made it all the way from Shannon to Port…

Youre gonna assume the Irish are insane because of a couple of drunk irish assholes? I wonder what I could assume about Germans based on a few German assholes.

If everyone who replies to you is telling you that you're wrong and generalizing is a bad thing to do, the correct response is not to argue that they're "taking it wrong". The correct response is to acknowledge that you made an unfair generalization and apologize. It was a bad "joke".

It doesn't matter if they're discriminated against because this isn't about being offensive. It's about being stupid. If you have an encounter with a few guys and attribute everything they did and said to their nationality instead of, you know, their personalities, you're stupid.

A typical internet fantasist, name the Minister if it really happened. What reason would you have to spare him embarrassment?

Fair enough and those guys were dicks to you, made worse by the fact one of them was a person in a position of power who should have known better. But your comment came off as quite aggressive and I did take offence to the generalisation. There are the best of people and the worst of people from every where in this…

Name and shame him, otherwise you're just another randomer making anonymous claims on the internet. You sure come off as a complete douchebag making generalisations. Did you make sure to put your towel on the sun chair before you helped some people onto trains?

Existing in a space where women are without assuming it's okay to treat them like property.

This may in fact be a "politicians everywhere" problem rather than just an Irish problem. (See: Berlusconi, Sarkozy, Weiner, etc etc ad infinitum.)

Woah. I was going to respond with a diplomatically put "please don't generalise" but thanks to your parting few lines I won't afford you that.

Isn't it a bit rich for a German to generalise about a whole nation based on the behaviour of a few assholes?

He reports that his wife took a dim view of the incident. And in other unnecessarily obvious statements... he's a dick.

Why does anyone ever think that "I didn't mean to offend anyone" is ever a good excuse? Or relevant in any way?

"This would strike me as a good idea regardless of how much I'd had to drink" is not a great excuse.

Uh, that's not just "disrespectful." That's a blatant and disgusting bodily violation.