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 ==This is being ruined!== 

 I'm going to get rid of some of the crap that has appeared here. Recent changes lack proper thought. This article is neither factual nor neutral, but it should, nonetheless, avoid crassly posing as such... example: 

 ""Although some would like to be called working class, they are in fact underclass. They are eligible for a maintenance grant in college (much to the envy of the middle classes) but either don't meet the entry requirements for University or choose not to go to University. This is in stark contrast to immigrant families who come to Ireland(who are in the same financial situation). These families start working immediately and within a few years their children are in college and are moving up the economic ladder. Skangers on the other hand will not take the initiative to get themselves out of the economic hole they are in and instead complain about the state not doing everything to change their lives for them. 

 History 

 The vast majority of the Irish catholic population were peasants at the start of the century. When the Irish free state was created and the population of the protestant ascendancy class dwindled from 10% to 3% (most moving to Northern Ireland or back to Britain), a power vacuum was created. Economic advancement of the fittest occurred. Over the next 80 years from the foundation of the Free State the most intelligent and ambitious of Ireland's peasant class moved their way up o the upper or middle classes. Sadly and inevitably the lazy scumbags with no initiative stayed at the bottom of the social/economic ladder. Most are not even working class. Usually they have never worked in their entire lives and neither have their parents. Many skangers would surely starve or become big time criminals only for they have the social welfare state to leech off."" 

 This is just stupid and serves only to destroy what this article. Its either a worryingly ignorant claim, or a pathetic attempt at wit. 'Skanger' is a stereotype. Don't treat it as anything more than that. This shouldn't rule out a humorous approach, but the above it not funny."