On July 19th 2023 late at night in Dublin city centre in Ireland an innocent 57-year-old American tourist was set upon by a gang of feral youths and ended up critically ill in hospital fighting for his life having been kicked a number of times in the head.The incident happened in a tourist area of the Irish capital that is plagued with drug-related street crime.The story dominated the news in Ireland with warnings to tourists not to stray into dangerous areas at night.The following day a post appeared in the Ireland forum of Tripadvisor advising tourists of the dangers.It was immediately removed by Tripadvisor.Three more attempts to highlight the story in the Ireland forum also failed with all traces of the incident being removed by Tripadvisor.Of course Tripadvisor's main job in Ireland is to make money selling hotel rooms and holiday rentals to visiting tourists.It is therefore logical to assume that this negative story about a potentially fatal attack on a tourist in Dublin was being buried by Tripadvisor in order not to endanger its commercial enterprise of flogging stuff to tourists.This is contemptible corporate behaviour.They should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
