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