Traveller horse fair in Borris. WTF

DonJose

Why is this allowed to continue year after year, I really pity the honest working people of Borris who have to put up this crap every year. :mad::mad::mad:

TRADERS left a picturesque village strewn with rubbish after an annual fair as a local authority faced a €20,000 bill to clean up the mess.

Travellers from all over Ireland arrived in Borris for the 400-year-old street fair on Friday...

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/horse-fair-leaves-village-with-836420000-street-cleanup-bill-1861739.html

Long Onion

Shock horror, travellers leave rubbish behind.

Hells Belle

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

Turd Ferguson

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

spank_inferno

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.

ejmaztec

One of the perks of being a protected species.

walshb

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

Biggins

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

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

They were - €20!

Fizman

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.

Jumpy

Borris forum tbh

Turd Ferguson

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

cathysworld

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!

Jaysoose

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

Did they eat all the local swans aswell?

Biggins

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!

Jumpy

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.

Adamcp898

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?

ejmaztec

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

Euro_Kraut

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.

Jaysoose

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.

Biggins

ejmaztec wrote: »

Quit horsing around.:p

Nay!

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

cathysworld

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!

ejmaztec

Biggins wrote: »

Nay!

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

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

Long Onion

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.

netwhizkid

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

SEPT 23 1989

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

Delta Kilo

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.

Gary ITR

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

cathysworld

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!!

ejmaztec

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.

Long Onion

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

stovelid

DonJose wrote: »

Borris

DonJose wrote: »

picturesque village

Computer says no.

Wazdakka

Onkle wrote: »

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

Well I got the contract for 20 grand..


So Deal.


Let me know when you're done..

cherryghost

ah jaysus!!

that explains why longford was quiet!

Euro_Kraut

The Irish Times sent a reporter to fair. Read his account here: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0817/1224252667132.html

cathysworld

I doubt its as easy as giving them a call and telling them you dont want the fair going ahead next year without a 20,000e deposit!

Also Borris is a hell of a lot more picturesque before the 15th August every year than it is after! Its only a small town but its coming on in leaps and bounds

cathysworld

Euro_Kraut wrote: »

The Irish Times sent a reporter to fair. Read his account here: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0817/1224252667132.html

This guy has a very romantic view of theh whole thing, he must have been off his t1ts on drugs..

Electric Picnic for the Traveller community???
Carlow’s Dylan, folk singer Richie Kavanagh--is this a comparison to Bob Dylan?! Holy fcuk! :eek:

Long Onion

cathysworld wrote: »

I doubt its as easy as giving them a call and telling them you dont want the fair going ahead next year without a 20,000e deposit!

Why?

cathysworld

Long Onion wrote: »

Why?

Because they are not going to pay it!!

mehfesto2

cathysworld wrote: »

This guy has a very romantic view of theh whole thing, he must have been off his t1ts on drugs..

Electric Picnic for the Traveller community???
Carlow’s Dylan, folk singer Richie Kavanagh--is this a comparison to Bob Dylan?! Holy fcuk! :eek:

I think it's a bit tongue in cheek, like...

javaboy

Pun quota exceeded.

Super-Rush

The picture in the link only shows a fraction of the mess. They fcuking wreck the place. Borris is the original one horse town and that horse was probably sold yesterday.

super_furry

Borris who?

Long Onion

cathysworld wrote: »

Because they are not going to pay it!!

Then put up the bollards

Quint

They're been wrecking the place for 400 years, it's their right.
And how do you know it was them? It was settled people dumping their rubbish there.

aDeener

Fizman wrote: »

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.

dont get me started or il just get banned!

AckwelFoley

DonJose wrote: »

Travellers from all over Ireland arrived in Borris for the 400-year-old street fair on Friday...

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/horse-fair-leaves-village-with-836420000-street-cleanup-bill-1861739.html

We in Athlone are very greatful to the people of borris.

Gives us a break for the weekend

_blank_

What kind of a name is Borris?

stovelid

Des wrote: »

What kind of a name is Borris?

I assume that it's here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borris-in-Ossory

You pass though it when taking the N7, mutter a silent prayer for the teenagers stuck there and gun the accelerator that little bit more.

Long Onion

stovelid wrote: »

I assume that it's here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borris-in-Ossory

You pass though it when taking the N7, mutter a silent prayer for the teenagers stuck there and gun the accelerator that little bit more.

No Stovelid, Borris-in-Ossory is in Laois, Borris-in-Misery is in Carlow that's where the fair is

dr.bollocko

I once knew a girl called Ossory. Never knew she was in porno tho.

stovelid

Long Onion wrote: »

No Stovelid, Borris-in-Ossory is in Laois, Borris-in-Misery is in Carlow that's where the fair is

Oops.