"""Some male skangers can also be referred to by a modified version of their surname, ie; Byrne becomes ""Byrner"" & Flynn becomes ""Flynner""."" - This is an English public school affectation.  Ironically, it is also true of the ""Rugger""/Yachting set in Dublin. 

 ""Scangers tend to be rebellious in nature, often becoming involved in anti-social behaviour—drinking, smoking, and taking recreational drugs and such.""  Drinking, smoking, taking drugs - I'd be surprised if such everyday activities were unique to skangers ... 

 ""Scangers are very often anti-British, and graffiti by scangers very often concerns the IRA.""  This is a reflection of the writer's middle class political prejudices.  Skanger graffiti is mostly a lot of illegible rubbish that references nothing but their own ghettos/latest musical tastes.  Usually, it's endless, showy renditions of some Alpha skanger's nickname.  Skangers are apolitical.  In practice, their culture is sub-culture British.  None of them have ever been to the North of Ireland; though, as noted, they travel frequently to the UK to mingle with their peers on budget flights to the soccer terraces. 

 ""Some scangers have notoriously little respect for the environment, and this contributes hugely to litter problems in the Dublin area.""  I agree they're prone to littering; but it's inaccurate to say that this ""contributes hugely"".  The Irish government has one of the worst environmental records in the EU; so it's easy to see where the skangers take their cues from. 

 ""its common to see ""FTP"" (F**k the provies (provisional IRA) on walls where hoods gather.""          
 ""FTP"" = ""Fuck The Pope"".  When Loyalist youths want to vent their racism, as opposed to their sectarianism, their preferred acronym is ""KAT""; for ""Kill all Taigs"" (""Taigs"", as you know, being a mildly-offensive term for Northern Irish Nationalists.) 

 Overall, a fun article; but it primarily is a personal polemic; and is too subjective, too patronising, too ill-informed, too sloppily written and too narrow to qualify as a definitive account of this social grouping. 

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