By that reasoning should be fairly cheap to go to Syria.Have you booked?

I’m boycotting due to lack of money and not able to go to Tropical Islands for holidays :(

This whole thing is getting ridiculous now tbh. People know the story.

If you don’t think it’s safe don’t go, but this all out boycott talk is way over the top and could potentially ruin alot of families lives over there if it spread beyond this country which I sincerely doubt it will but still.

Ever go tubing in Laos? Ever go to the full moon party in Thailand? Ever get forced into bribing cops in South America?

All those places are more dangerous and worth boycotting and care far less for you than Mauritius. A botched robbery attempt ends up being a high profile murder case, police are shown to be incompetent, and a rag tabloid behaves like a rag tabloid and now the whole country has become our mortal enemy. Ridiculous

A lot of tourists have been assaulted, raped, and murdered in Ireland over the years. Our own country has a dysfunctional and ineffective Justice & policing system so we should put our focus and energy into reforming that before we start boycotting country’s we know very little about. Remember the case of Swiss student Manuela Riedo in Galway the slime who raped and strangled her and who had a history of violent offences was caught and sentenced for his crimes but when he committed the crime he was out on bail for yet another serious crime!, had our justice system dealt with this sicko properly years before, Manuela may still be alive.

I support the idea of looking for the real killers but cant get away from thinking that some people are disappointed that ‘the defendants got off with it’. They were tried and found Not Guilty. You have to respect that. My own feeling is that there was a mad clamour to find people to pin this crime on, regardless of whether or not they were guilty. I support the idea of revisiting the case and trying to finds the people who carried out the murder. I do not support the people who seem to imply that the defendants got away with it and were guilty.

Best boycott holidays in Ireland. How many people have been murdered here? The poor Italian boy who was left in a wheelchair with brain damage did not get justice.

This has gone beyond the beyond now. I wonder how many of those calling for a boycott because ‘that backward country is clearly corrupt, etc’ have checked the Corruption Perceptions Index recently? For 2011, Mauritius is ranked joint 46th, which while far from perfect, doesn’t exactly put the place up there with the likes of Russia (143) , Kenya (154) and Venezuela (172) to name just a few.

The best way I can put it this. Imagine a young woman from England had been murdered in a foreign country and the trial had been a farce and, to add insult to injury, pictures of her dead body were splashed across a newspaper. There would be outrage and rightly so. However, supposing the Daily Mail or Daily Express decided to start one of their famous ‘campaigns’ to boycott the country. I’m sure many, many people in Ireland would be aghast at the idea, dismissing it as a classic ‘Little Englander’ mentality. Well that’s what we have here folks.

A lot of this is down to pople simply latching onto a cause, not because they’re emotionally involved in it, but because it’s seen as the ‘right’ thing to do. People can’t think for themselves anymore. Any amount of reasonable sense here would show that this is something that has gone terribly wrong for the McAreavy and Harte families but it’s far from the end of it for them. The course of justice has not run yet. People need to realise that before they start throwing around stupid, idiotic calls for boycotts.

Why should a whole nation suffer because of a few bad apples?

if we were in their situation they’d be out cry if another country tried to boycott us…I’m sure we’d also pull the racist card out when complaining also.

Imagine the indignation if the Swiss and French decided to boycott Ireland as a holiday destination as a result of their nationals being murdered here. What knee-jerk populist nonsense. The Journal would do better to stop always pandering to the lowest common denominator.

Always wanted to go to Mauritius as I went to college with a girl from there. Can’t afford to. It’s not like I live in the land of “Saints and Scholars”. My sympathy to the Harte/McAreavey family. I cannot even try to imagine what they are going through and the lack of justice.

Boycotting an entire country based on one admittedly disgraceful incident is a very immature over reaction. Far better to engage with the authorities over there and apply public & political pressure for a more professional investigation and resolution. Throwing our rattles out of the pram won’t achieve anything.

Lowest common denominator poll ever. Shame on journal.ie for jumping on the xenophobic “hysteria bandwagon” as Tony Stanley above put it. There are so many implicit judgements in the poll that are at least xenophobic, and at worst, racist – why on earth would a person even think of boycotting a whole country over the result of a jury trial in that country unless prejudice of some sort was involved?

Not sure if I’d say I’m boycotting it, but I wouldn’t feel safe bringing my family anywhere with the police and judicial system Mauritius seems to have.

Ditto for Portugal after the McCann case.

I appreciate one bad story is not sufficient evidence to distrust an entire country, but I’m going on holidays to relax, not to prove a point. Easier to just avoid the place.

What if the same thing happened in the UK or the United States? Would there still be an outcry to boycott those countries? Ridiculous stuff…….Typical Ireland.

Two wrongs don’t make a right. Irish police messed up the Sophie Tuscan du Plantier case the french didn’t boycott us. The British judicial system messed up on the Birmingham 6, Guilford 4 etc.The Mauritian authorities have questions to answer but no reason to punish a group of island people dependent on tourist money. Reaction is understandable but nevertheless not justified.

What’s the issue regarding acquittal? The men were proven innocent, the murderer is still at large and the Mauritian police are still searching. Do people want innocent men jailed?

I agree, boycotting an entire nation is pointless, this is a tragedy and a nightmare that the families of Michaela are still living. A little perspective is needed, yes the authorities made a mess of the investigation, I am encouraged by reports that the Irish government might assist with an investigation. Get some perspective peeps, a woman was murdered and the people responsible deserve to be punished, not the entire nation.

You can’t Boycott countries you can Boycott people as we proved in Ireland. Here’s a question for this Publication. Will you run a Poll on Boycotting Germany if two people from Berlin Killed her?

Mauritius is a beautiful country and the people are honest and hospitable. One of the best holidays I was ever on. I would never boycott this country and would return again and again finance permitting. The irish people wanting a boycott are a bunch of mob rule sheeple with limited IQ!

If all those people are serious and honest about their intention to boycott Mauritius over the McAreavey courtcase I presume they’ll all be encouraging the French to boycott Ireland over Sophie Toscon du Plantier. Or would it be unjust to boycott a country over the actions of a tiny few?

Come on people stop this nonsense, what Mauritius boycott you speak, this is not a local grocery boycott, that could be reasonably done, how many people can afford / wanted to go there anyways? 1% or 2% of the nation? Would that be more than 500 people from while country? I doubt it.

eh has anyone even begun to think about South East Asia??? Thailand?? Cambodia??

Are we alll still sure we don’t believe in travelling to countries with dodgy police force and judicial systems???

Boycotting Mauritius is a ridiculous idea. It makes no sense to paint a nation with the same brush of a select few of their nationals! As someone who has been to the island, it is an amazing tourism destination and every national that I encountered were lovely and very welcoming.
Let’s not forget that other countries have had individuals murdered in our country, we wouldnt want them to boycott Ireland so that our tourism industry would suffer more than it is already

It’s an unbelievably stupid call to make. It just goes, once again, to expose how small minded and parochial Irish politicians are that they would make such a silly call on the back of a tragic death to gain some public favour.

The incident was tragic and the Dept of Foreign Affairs should continue to engage with the Mauritian authorities to see that justice is served, but the idea of a boycott of the country or of sending over members of our own police force, when they are so badly needed here, is ridiculous.

No, definitely not for this reason. There are other reasons to not to holiday in Mauritius. Other reasons include that that local workers are paid a pittance for working in the tourism industry. It’s no wonder that they are tempted by Westerners leaving the iPhones and wallets stuffed with cash thrown around rooms. Doesn’t not justify theft but it’s unsurprising.

The other reason not to go to Mauritius is the fishing industry based there that it is plundering the Indian ocean. Their Government have allowed European boats in to over-fish and impoverish local fishermen.

A lot of tourists have been assaulted, raped, and murdered in Ireland over the years. Our own country has a dysfunctional and ineffective Justice & policing system so we should put our focus and energy into reforming that before we start boycotting country’s we know very little about. Remember the case of Swiss student Manuela Riedo in Galway the slime who raped and strangled her and who had a history of violent offences was caught and sentenced for his crimes but when he committed the crime he was out on bail for yet another serious crime!, had our justice system dealt with this sicko properly years before, Manuela may still be alive.

Idiotic to boycott a country because of an incident like this, as horrific as it is

Perfect comment to make about Syria, you see pictures of adults and children blown to pieces in there newspapers everyday but you dont see anyone crying about that! Typical Irish attitude, if it happens to any other nation nobody cares as soon as its an Irish person theres uproar and its a disgrace, bunch of bleeding hypocrites in this country!

Its not exactly like Mauritius is a vital trading partner with Ireland, Its not like calling a boycott with the UK or France or Germany. To be honest before this tragedy I had only heard of Mauritius because the Dodo went extinct there

Of course not! Why should we punish the people because of the incompetence of their police and media? To vote yes to this poll question is to betray an authoritarian mindset not dissimilar to the mindset of the North Korean regime where the extended family up to 3 generations can be detained in detention camps indefinitely (sometimes for life) because of the misconduct of one member of the family.

nice to see that the journalists of this site are as bad as the other media in this country and flogging the life out of this tragedy because it is cheap to do and needs little research or expense and they do not have the imagination or skills to find originalnews stories.
quiet obvious nobody gives a damm about the families involved in the actual tragedy how might like a rest from all this circus

I don’t buy for an instant the contention that this kind of poll question ought to be asked because this is currently a topic in the ‘national conversation’ and any such question is therefore justified. Such a contention ignores the capacity of media institutions -such as the Journal- to determine and influence what constitutes the ‘national conversation’. This is achieved not least through polls that suggest that a) this is indeed what people are talking about, and b) this is the way they ought to talk about it, with a simple yes-or-no question as the proper starting point.

The effect of these polls is to reinforce the idea that what they address are matters of true public importance, by contrast with other matters, and this is the way you should talk about it. An example of such other matters, habitually excluded from polls such as these, would be the real and severe deficiencies in the Irish State’s capacity to secure a just existence for those who depend on its protection, and what people ought to do about it. But such matters require a level of public engagement and deliberation that polls such as these simply militate against.

Blame a whole country for the failings of a few people. If that was the case i reckon the only place u could go on holiday would be the north and south pole. Stupid poll and typical that it eminatted out of a stupid fine gaeler in the first place.

If we boycotted every country where their was an injustice in the legal system then we’d only be able to go to the moon. We act like murders rapes and robberies of non nationals doesn’t happen in Ireland. Terrible what happened but less of the self righteous bullshite please

Following any incident of this nature the local authorities, aware of the risk to tourism, will up security. So safety concerns shouldn’t be such a factor.

Following the trial, if the two accused had been found guilty after the shambolic and badly presented prosecution case then we would have some concerns over the quality of justice there.

Following the disintegration of the police case and the evidence of torture being used the government, being aware of the fall out from European governments which may threaten the aid they get from the EU, will be keeping a tight leash on them lest they cause more bad publicity.

Some people will vote with their feet and keep clear, this will keep prices down as people compete for tourist revenue.

So it’s safer, it’s under more scrutiny and it’s cheaper. Ideal time to go.

Put it like this, I’m not boycotting it specifically, but I’ve ruled it out as a holiday / honeymoon destination.

Hugh, ridiculous pole! You admit you only did it cos people are “talking about it”! So you’re just jumping on the hysteria bandwagon for the sake of it!

Most tropical holiday hot spots ate as corrupt and dangerous as Mauritius, it Ireland for that matter! What happened there could happen in any popular holiday hotspot!

Stop adding to the hysteria for the sake of a few pointless articles playing on people’s fear, that’s what church is for!

no

Let boycott travelling to the moon ! Oh wait I can’t afford to go there either

What exactly would a boycott mean? Are there a lot of goods that are made in Mauritius sold in Ireland? So we boycott those imports. How many Irish people actually go on holiday or are planning on a holiday to Mauritius?

Boycott Mauritius? Don’t be so bloody ridiculous!

And are you some sort of crusader? let me guess you watched the kony video and now your an activist?All countries care more for there own, why don’t you talk to many Irish people in red cross serving in war torn countries and call them a hypocrite, or give out to the Irish government for being one of the only countries on course to commit .7% in aid to countries in need.
You are one of the worst types of hypocrites, giving out about the people of Ireland who do nothing to help people in need while you sit at a desk doing nothing to help people in need.
ya thick.

Get real folks , its a rich mans paradise and i’m sure they will not be cancelling their holidays. Like it or not they were found not guilty and in a way having a defense Lawyer say he loved the Irish did not help the case. The local papers should not have published pictures of the remains,very insensitive of the families feelings and very unprofessional.

I love my country but I hate this small-mindedness! How many tourists have been murdered here???? And how many countries have called for a boycott on our tourism? This is Holy Catholic Ireland. Well congratulations tourist operator in Donegal, on managing to undo our image worldwide!

It’s the silly season!! Even tho our country tetters on the brink of economic and social ruin ( the increasing gap bet the rich and poor spells disaster), the media (and the government in their tails, believing there are votes in it) are obsessing.
A newly wed bride is murdered on her honeymoon and the media circus loses the run of itself and publishes prurient pictures. A tragedy that this ridiculous boycott call only heightens.
Is all the attention focused on this matter a support to the bereft? Will a boycott help the bereaved or is it a publicity stunt?
If the answer is yes , then we should boycott all countries where Irish citizens have been killed and as per other comments, other nations will need to boycott us.
Sadly murder is a human act from which no land is immune and the search for justice is a hit and miss and medias everywhere have one goal- selling copy.
As a nation we have experienced in our recent history the ruinous consequences of being tarnished/ blamed and even punished collectively because of the actions of a few. Can we not apply the lessons of our history to this case?

Silly survey!
This country hardly did a good job investigating the murder of the French lady in Cork or even many of the murders of our own citizens/nationals murdered by so called (self-styled) Republicans/Nationalists.

For the boycott afficionados, I would propose to boycott RTE, Tommy Gorman, various red tops and various broad sheet newspapers. I’d argue that their inexplicable blanket coverage of this trial has hugely contributed to the circus that was this very trial. Culminating in ‘those’ pictures. Don’t get me wrong, of course it is very sad for those directly involved, but to have each and every detail published and analysed to death. No restraint nor respect for a grieving family.

- A panel of 9 juries have found both accused NOT GUILTY in the ratio of 9-0. Wud it be fair to blame the juries who decided as such depending on the evidence produced before them by the counsels from both side. There are many factors involved before the stage is reached for the juries to decide.

- Full credits must be given here to the Defence counsels who defended both their clients to their best interests. They did a brilliant job indeed! The counsels from representing the Director of Public Presecutor (DPP) have failed to satisfy the juries “beyond reasonable doubt” that these two accused were the murderers.

- True it is that there have been a lot of discrepancies in the way the investigations have been carried out, resulting in the ambiguity in the evidence produced in Court. But the question that surfaces is WHY there have been such loopholes?? The speculations can be so varied and can be viewed subjectively as well as objectively.

- BUT the Government is taking actions and not sitting idle – further investigations will be done and by a new crew of officers. After the meeting with the ambassador of Ireland with the Prime Minister of Mauritius, the Ambassador was rather pleased and the “Scotland Yard” will be called to be continue the investigations anew.

- The actions and concerned being taken by the Government of Mauritius cannot be ignored completely and a whole country be blamed for the wrong doings of a certain “BAD PERSON”. This concept of Boycott Mauritius is not reasonable

- The culprit will soon be caught!

Think about the family hotels trying to make an honest living.

Personally I don’t think either of the two-accused men killed Michaela McAreavey. It would be WRONG to boycott Maritious. I’d be interested to hear, what people on this forum think about, who killed Michaela?

Well this guy is from donegal and about as ignorant as you can get. He probably doesn’t sell any holidays anyway to there and is just looking for attention . Talk about branding a woke destination for something 2 guys were aquiited of because there was no evidence

Some of you are taking this far too personal. The Irish “Justice” system is far from perfect, just ask the DuPlantier Family, I don’t hear an knee jerk outcry from potential French tourists to boycott this “Saintly Isle”.

We also know too well that a certain element within the Gardai do not think twice before beating you over the head for peacefully demonstrating, because they can.

I would remind you also of Abbeylara and there are plenty more where they came from.

We didn’t hear of any government ministers “Heartbreak” for those.

So get down from this bandwagon and back to reality.

Respect to that jury as they were not going to let rage influence their verdict.

The defendants were cleared because the Mauritian Jury found it more likely than not that the suspect was tortured into making his confession.
That speaks volumes about the Mauritian people’s view of their own Police Force. For that reason I would not even consider going on holiday to the place, or any other country that tortures prisoners.

That’s a fine Catholic, Christian comment!

cheap publicly stunt by travel company if you ask me up blaming the whole island.the know well the media will pick up on the story.why don’t we leave the diplomats do there job now there getting paid enough to do it

I would never consider it as a viable holiday destination after what’s happened. I don’t know of that’s considered boycotting….

Well thats obvious ya thick! Im talking about other countries that don’t give a damn like ours

Yes will never go there now…! I couldn’t stomach the place.

Just go to Thailand same price flights

While I don’t support a boycott, its a question of feeling safe. Would you feel safe in a country where we know there is a culture of petty crime, the police are a shambles, the justice system is a pantomime and at least some of the media’s morals is questionable? I wouldn’t feel safe there so I wont be going.

would love to be in a position to boycott, guess we Will have to do with a yet weekend in bettystown

Mauritius has so much to offer, come and experience unparalleled holidays over there :)

@ Aaron I bet the woman and children are crying…..Sorry I’ll see myself out.

I personally wouldn’t go there not that I could afford it. Who in their right mind would book into legends now?

The reason I agree to the boycott is not because of the acquittal, moreso because of the reasons for it. The cops did a sham job. They didn’t fingerprint the purse/wallet, they just went, grabbed and apparently totured. While this men and I do feel that they killed that innocent women, without just cause of evidence, the men walked. They walked because the police were corrupt in there procedures. Because of this, guilty men walked free.

That is why I call to boycott. If you cannot trust those who are supposed to protect the innocent, they why would you offer it as a ‘holiday’ destination. It’s not a safe place to the tourist. In Ireland, with the Cork killing, at least the Gardai did their job to a high standard and the same could not be said here.

Been to mauritius years ago, and said I’d never go back. So, it’s not a specific boycott for this.

Very good point Damian!! But i would like to teach the newspapers or whoever gave them the photo’s a lesson.

Whatever about a boycott I think it’s true that Mauritius got a lot of very bad publicity from this case and the following investigation etc. Mauritius is a beautiful tropical island and I think for the next few years at least if an Irish person is looking to go to some beautiful tropical place, all other things being equal, they’ll go somewhere other than Mauritius because of the latent negative image they’ll have. There are plenty of places in the world where you can go that looks like a windows desktop background that you haven’t heard such tragic tales about (although that doesn’t mean there aren’t any).

Also, I think the results of the poll were interesting, as I was expecting an overreaction and about 90% of people voting yes (sorry for misjudging you Journal readers).

Anyone who supports this should be sent to Mauritius on a one way flight….f*cking tabloid brained idiots

Why not conduct a poll on why almost all the comments on this issue are from males. Could it be to do with seeking revenge.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/422236451160971/

Okay guys, now alot of people have been murdered in Ireland, alot of innocent women have gone missing, but there only difference between here and mauritius, is that they published photos of the dead Michaela, and not a single newspaper in Ireland published a photo of the dead Sophie Toscan de Plantier, when she was lying on the ground, and I think that there is an outrcy, because the papers in mauritius published photos of the murdered Michaela dead. I know that the french could have boycotted Ireland, knowing that one of their own was murdered, but did any of us see anyone in Ireland, celebrating Manuela’s death, no we were giving our condolences to the parents of Manuel Riedo, and to the family of Sophie Toscan de Plantier, but the people in the court in mauritius, did not say their condolences to the family of Michaela McAreavey. I wouldn’t go to mauritius, even someone payed me, and couldn’t afford to anyway, as I would say it it very expensive to stay there.

another link on facebook like the last one
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Protect the honeymooners

https://www.facebook.com/justiceformichaela

HORRENDOUS CRIME IN ITSEL BY MAURITIOUS COURT AND PRESS. HOW MUCH POWER DO IRISH HAVE TO GET OTHER NATIONS TO JOIN IN BOYCOTT.? HOW MANY IRISH VISIT THERE YEARLY. KENNETH TIERNEY.

I think the shift to the ‘boycott’ scenario is a good indication of the lack of real ideas available to tackle this situation and its problems.