Talk:Irish Ferries

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Wondering whether this page should be moved to "Irish Ferries" - the name by which the vast majority of people know this company???
 * I Don't know about moving it but I just added a redirect page from "Irish Ferries", that should suffice.

This hardly seems to be written with a neutral POV. Why the need for the bold capitals, and opinion?


 * Removed the bold capitals. - Kjet 11:33, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

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Filipino
Despite the trend to allow the dictates of Tagalog to influence English when speaking/writing about citizens of the Philippines, English does not differentiate gender by altering word stems. Thus, contrary to the tide of popularity, “Filipina” technically doesn’t exist in English. She is a “Filipino” or a “Filipino woman.” We don’t differentiate between genders when referring to other nationalities – so why this tendency to do so with Filipinos? I suggest that we stick to English (inclusive of English rules and grammar).

The writer who created, “a Filipina woman,” has muddied the waters even more. Is this to differentiate from a Filipina man?

Flag
I've just returned from a trip on M/S Normandy, and it was flying the Bahamian flag. Millbanks 22:39, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Ship prefix consistancy
Some kind of a common decision should probably be made on which version of the interchangable ship prefixes (MS/MV/MF) should be used on the article (if any). I have personally used M/S because it is the commonly used variant where I come from, but I realise this is not the commonly used variant everywhere. At the moment it can be very confusing when some parts of the article use MV and other M/S. We should choose a single one and stick to it, for the sake of clarity and consistancy. -- Kjet 14:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Cypriot company?
Why doesn't this article lead with "Irish Ferries is a Cypriot company" considering the result of the infamous Irish Ferries dispute in 2005? (Sources: "The company also made clear that it wished to ditch the Irish flag under which it operates and work under the flag of Cyprus" (Steven Morris, All at Sea (The Guardian, 1 December 2005); "The pride of the Irish merchant marine now flies the Cypriot flag." (Ulysses, Irish Ferries website); "During the January 2006 refits, the Ulysses Jonathan Swift, and Isle of Innismore were re-registered in Lisammol, Cyprus" (Irish Ferries enthusiasts). 188.141.10.11 (talk) 18:55, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

2005 Dispute
I just noticed that, extraordinarily, this article has not a single mention of the internationally infamous Irish Ferries dispute between September 2005 and December 2005, which brought up to 100,000 people onto Irish streets in protest at Irish Ferries decision to sack all 543 Irish employees and hire much cheaper eastern European workers. This (1 December 2005) and this on the resolution (20 December 2005) provide good summaries of this dispute. And here's a New York Times article on it ('Ferry Dispute Tests Ireland's Tolerance for Globalization', 27 December 2005). 188.141.10.11 (talk) 19:05, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

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