Oh and about that Irish thing I’m half Irish and English how come the English guy is always the baddy, the opinion on the Irish way of life is rubbish and why is there no other a European heroes or characters?

I am emailing from Ireland and have recently started watching Heroes on my nephews box set.
I thought it was great and the second series just started here last week. To my horror, I saw that poor old Peter Petrelli ended up in Ireland captured by a band of gypsies in some bar that looks more akin to belonging in the 18th century. Why, oh why, does American television insist of portraying Ireland as a backward, alcohol ridden, third world country when in fact, we now have one of the most successful economies on the planet.
I had expected more from Heroes and am bitterly disappointed that they used this outdated cliché which is what it is – a cliché. It would be like the BBC creating a televesion series where any American in it is hugely fat and incredibly uneducated – not very nice is it?
One last thing – our accents are bad enough without somebody doing a really, really bad, bad impersonation.