[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Absolutely. It's embarrassing really. Not a good day to be Irish. Thankfully, I think from what I'm hearing this morning the vast majority of people condemn this behaviour and see it for what it was, a group of opportunistic thugs, using a tragedy for their own gains

Imo every one's behaviour should always be judged individually, I'll always stand by that.

Just because a bunch of thugs in Ireland behave horribly, shouldn't be a condemnation of you Niamh or other innocent Irish people.

And thankfully I believe that most Irish people have conducted themselves with dignity anyway, but either way it doesn't change the fact that you're a good person.

And to the other side of this debate who hate immigrants, it's likely that the attacker was a foreigner, but one of the people trying to stop him was from Brazil, which the last time I checked was not in Ireland, so one foreigner did bad whilst the other did good.

I know that my view is very old school by today's standards where people are judged by their demographic, but for me the individual should be always be more important when judging someone.