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Herbies to send Aussie work to Belfast review centre

I'm actually Irish and I don't find these comments insulting at all, it's obviously just a stupid reference to language barriers which was not clearly thought out, if anything it could be insulting to Australians, if you think about it, so just don't worry about! And just an extra comment from today's brilliant LND which said: "It could just be one big trick though. The Australian state of Victoria has a coastal town called Port Fairy with roughly 2,500 residents, not far from Melbourne by Australian standards. Sydney solicitor James Atkinson, who was from Northern Ireland, bought 5,120 acres of land in the town in 1843 and renamed it after his hometown - Belfast. It was a name that lasted until 1887, when the town reverted to its old name following an act of parliament." In my view Port Fairy sounds strangely similar to the name of Portaferry, a town in Northern Ireland. In any case, I think if this move by Herbies means that more work will be coming into the Belfast office and therefore potentially more locals will get work there, then that's surely a good thing.

19-Nov-2012

1:48 pm