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Traveller horse fair in Borris. WTF

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    #2
    Long Onion
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    Shock horror, travellers leave rubbish behind.


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    #3
    Hells Belle
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Hells Belle


    Ya big racist - don't you know they can do what ever the hell they like, like?


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    Turd Ferguson
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    That is stupid...whoever organised it should be charged


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    #5
    spank_inferno
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    As a distinct seperate race from the settled people of Ireland we have to respect their right to turn everywhere they go into a landfill.


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    ejmaztec
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    One of the perks of being a protected species.


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    #7
    walshb
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    Ah, there is law and there is traveller law. They saw no law breaking!


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    Biggins
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    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    That is stupid...whoever organised it should be charged

    They were - €20!


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    Fizman
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    Is there a similar type fair in Buttevant, Co Cork?

    I remember driving through it there a few months ago.......I've never seen a place so bad after a day or two. The entire main street was under about 2-3 feet of rubbish. It made the place look like an even bigger hole.


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    #10
    Jumpy
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    Borris forum tbh


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    Turd Ferguson
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    Out of interest, is it offensive to call them tinkers?


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    cathysworld
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    The real joke was the car parking charges this year of between 3 and 5 euro!! The Travellers get to park and dump for free :mad::mad: I live near Borris and its an absolute joke, had to take a 20 minute detour to get to and from work cos I wasnt allowed to drive up the street of Borris!


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    Jaysoose
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    careful now......Down with this sort of thing.

    Did they eat all the local swans aswell?


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    Biggins
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    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    Out of interest, is it offensive to call them tinkers?
    Don't know, do they think a lot? Some are quite brainy after all, to be fair to them!


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    Jumpy
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Don't know, do they think a lot? Some are quite brainy after all, to be fair to them!

    Dis tread is wort de tree pound.


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    Adamcp898
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Don't know, do they think a lot? Some are quite brainy after all, to be fair to them!

    Tinkers refers to people who are good with making stuff out of and repairing tin no?


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    ejmaztec
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Don't know, do they think a lot? Some are quite brainy after all, to be fair to them!

    Quit horsing around.:p


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    Euro_Kraut
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    This fair has been going on for 400 years. The coucil cleaned everything up. The Gardai reported no public order incidents. The stall holders had to pay some cost towards the clean up.

    Of all the elements of traveller culture I think a horse fair is probably the most harmless.


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    Jaysoose
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    cathysworld wrote: »
    The real joke was the car parking charges this year of between 3 and 5 euro!! The Travellers get to park and dump for free :mad::mad: I live near Borris and its an absolute joke, had to take a 20 minute detour to get to and from work cos I wasnt allowed to drive up the street of Borris!


    BUt its different for the tinkers.....nobody knows why but its just different ok. To not let them wreck every place they come across would be an infringement of their human rights and quite possibly some sort of discrimnation.

    Stop discrimnating them.


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    Biggins
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Quit horsing around.:p

    Nay! :D

    Eee-ahaw Eee-ahaw
    Eee-ahaw to go and clean up the streets!


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    cathysworld
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    Euro_Kraut wrote: »
    This fair has been going on for 400 years. The coucil cleaned everything up. The Gardai reported no public order incidents. The stall holders had to pay some cost towards the clean up.

    Of all the elements of traveller culture I think a horse fair is probably the most harmless.

    400 years! Maybe its time to call it quits then since its nothing but a nuisance to locals every time! Imagine how that 20k could be spent to improve the town and roads in Borris each year instead of cleaning up horse crap and scummy pis-stained clothes off the street! How much did the stall holders have to pay --€20 each! That wudnt even hire one skip!

    Rubbish_I_381743t.jpg


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    ejmaztec
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Nay! :D

    Eee-ahaw Eee-ahaw
    Eee-ahaw to go and clean up the streets!

    Those poor Borris folks get saddled with the cost of that.:(


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    Long Onion
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    less of the punny stuff, could be accused of whipping up hay-tred or trying to stirrup an argument.

    Should have a gallop pole to find out about peoples true feelings towards travellers, the new generation isn't at all like the old crop hoof been known to be much more polite.


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    netwhizkid
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    Had a similar event in Kenmare on the 15th (saturday) and it really drew the dregs of the Munster Genepool down there. I really do think that Kerry is now starting to get it bad also in terms of "knackerism". It is one solace I take living here that we are miles away from everything bad as I'm sure your average Mayo man thought until this week too.

    Travellers are a scourge on Irish society and we need to control them, laws need to be changed and being PC is what is getting us into these hellholes of situations. Winston Churchill once said "When fascism rears its ugly head again it will be in the guise of anti fascism"

    I am in favour of large remote prison camps and mandatory sterilisation as a way of dealing with Ireland's travellers and I make no apoligies for holding this view.

    What is happening in Tralee as an example is nothing short of a siege on the normal non-traveller population.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/home-of-the-rose-is-now-plagued-with-thorns-1861401.html

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0801/1224251832261.html


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    #25
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Sure dont that group of people pay enough VAT ,income tax,stamp duty inheritance tax,council rates etc to easily cover a clean up at one of those events


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    Delta Kilo
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    I remember this last year and it turned out that many of the locals were also contributing to the rubbish! They saw it as a chance to clear out the attic. "Arra sure what harm would a few extra black bags do". Let them suffer with it.


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    Gary ITR
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    20grand though? I'd clean it up for 10grand


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    cathysworld
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    Delta Kilo wrote: »
    I remember this last year and it turned out that many of the locals were also contributing to the rubbish! They saw it as a chance to clear out the attic. "Arra sure what harm would a few extra black bags do". Let them suffer with it.

    Of course theres ars.eholes in every town but thats not the point, the locals do not cause the mess, its the dirty fcukin free loading bast.ards that can litter, park, trade, keep horses and take a sh1t on the street at their own free will and the Guards will even block off the town for them for a few days so they can dump in peace!!


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    ejmaztec
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    Long Onion wrote: »
    less of the punny stuff, could be accused of whipping up hay-tred or trying to stirrup an argument.

    Should have a gallop pole to find out about peoples true feelings towards travellers, the new generation isn't at all like the old crop hoof been known to be much more polite.

    This is the last straw.
    netwhizkid wrote: »
    Had a similar event in Kenmare on the 15th (saturday) and it really drew the dregs of the Munster Genepool down there. I really do think that Kerry is now starting to get it bad also in terms of "knackerism". It is one solace I take living here that we are miles away from everything bad as I'm sure your average Mayo man thought until this week too.

    Travellers are a scourge on Irish society and we need to control them, laws need to be changed and being PC is what is getting us into these hellholes of situations. Winston Churchill once said "When fascism rears its ugly head again it will be in the guise of anti fascism"

    I am in favour of large remote prison camps and mandatory sterilisation as a way of dealing with Ireland's travellers and I make no apoligies for holding this view.

    What is happening in Tralee as an example is nothing short of a siege on the normal non-traveller population.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/home-of-the-rose-is-now-plagued-with-thorns-1861401.html

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0801/1224251832261.html

    It seems to me that they're just left to their own devices and ignored by "law-enforcement", until trouble spills onto the streets. Anybody involved in that kind of violence should be locked up and the key thrown away.

    I'm assuming that a large part of the Limerick problem is to do with the same "Ignore 'em" attitude and now it's gone way out of control.


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    #30
    Long Onion
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    In fairness, when the posts start on about mass genocide and people sh1tting on the street, it all begins to get a bit too "weekly sport" for my liking.

    Conact pavee point, tell them that a surety of €20,000 will need to be lodged to cover damage/rubbish for next years fair. If it's lodged - no bothers.

    If not, have the local authority erect bollards to stop stalls from being erected.

    Stop the crap about shooting everyone, it belies your intelligence


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    stovelid
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    DonJose wrote: »
    Borris
    DonJose wrote: »
    picturesque village

    Computer says no.


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