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TWO MEN HAVE been charged over a violent attack on a 27-year-old Irishman in Perth in Australia.
The victim sustained serious facial injuries in the unprovoked attack in the early hours of Sunday.
The man had been smoking a cigarette outside the front of a friend’s house on Palmerston Street in Perth between 3am and 4am on Sunday morning when two men approached him and asked for a cigarette.
One of the men punched the victim in the face without warning, causing the 27-year-old to fall to the ground. The two men then began to systematically punch and kick the victim before stealing an undisclosed sum of money and a cigarette lighter.
Police in Perth have charged a 37-year-old man with aggravated stealing with violence and he will appear in court today, the Herald Sun reports. A 24-year-old man already appeared in court yesterday charged with the same offence.
The victim, who has asked to be identified only as Michael, is a welder from Cork who has been in Australia for the past 18 months.
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Attacks on innocent Irish seem to happen a lot these days in Australia.
Considering there are so many Irish over there I’d say it’s just average. Just we don’t hear about assaults on other nations in other country’s, only the ones on the Irish.
Yes, they must have known he was Irish from the way he was standing quietly by himself smoking a cigarette… Just an unfortunate bloke in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Certainly an unfortunate bloke and I hope he gets well soon, but I hate this wrong-place-wrong-time explaination. He was in place he was perfectly entitled to be, and at a time he was perfectly entitled to be there.
I’m disgusted about what I’ve heard about the racist attitude of Australians lately..have friends over there and those ‘No Irish need apply’ signs have started cropping up in more and more places there – Let them be reminded that quite a few Australians are probably descendent from the Irish, given the British liked to ship poor Irish prisoners off to the place once upon a time!
Apart from nice beaches and some really hot chicks, Australia is well over rated.
Poor chap, random mindless violence is disgusting. Hope the chap is ok.
best beaches in the world in Co.Kerry. As for hot chicks, they do a great bird in tescos for a few euro. Cooked too.
How long have you been in oz mark
Was there for just under two years about 8 ago at this stage.
I live in Perth and in terms of violence it is no different than Dublin Cork or Galway. The Irish are not always innocent. Although in this case he seems to be.
Smoking kills…….and apparently gets u a hidin
What a crap joke
Increasing anti- Irish sentiment in Australia, it would seem.
I’ve been in Perth for 7 months, I haven’t experienced any racism since I’ve been here. In fact it’s been quite the opposite, a similar thing can happen in any major city in the world. This guy wasn’t attacked because he was Irish, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hope he recovers.
Not true niamh
They stole his lighter?? The monsters.
Yet another Irish person viciously assualted in Australia. Whilst we have enough crime like this in Ireland it is disturbing that some of these crimes may be related to Xenophobia.
I agree with Darren I’ve been in Sydney 4 and a half yrs and have never received any anti Irish comments . The only negativity is from residents near pubs late at night and you wouldn’t blame them , and there were travellers and I don’t mean backpackers up to their usual tricks over here giving us a bad name . As for signs saying no Irish need apply that’s absolute bollox . It’s a great country and if you have a qualification you can make a good life for yourself here with hard work .
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