Recently launched Red Dead Redemption has reportedly got the Irish media up in arms because of the an Irish character is the town drunk who is inebriated and abusive all the time.
The headline in the Evening Herald reads [Irish ‘drunk’ sours launch of hit game.]” Then a commentator, David Hogan added that “It is an outrageous slur, especially as we know schoolchildren will be playing this and they will be seeing a stereotype of the drunken Irish? This game is a disgrace. Would they have black characters selling watermelon or Jewish characters lending money, of course not. But it seems-okay to slur the Irish.”