The Town that Travellers Took Over

Gotya

Tv3 21.00

Journalist Paul Connolly carries out a six-month investigation of Rathkeale, Co Limerick, a town that has become the unofficial capital of Ireland's traveller community, which now owns more than 80 per cent of its land and property.

juan.kerr

And probably has the lowest crime rates in the country.

Lapin

No.

Probably one of the lowest unreported crime rates in the country.

Technocentral

TV3 with theire endless, tabloid sensationalist, nonsense can go f*ck themselves. If The SUN was a tv station, it would be this muck raking joke of a station, I'd rather an alleged town full of Travellers than one full of f*ckwits like Connelly.

Atlantic Dawn

Piece in the Sunday World about it, said there was a house with a market value of €70k was bought by travellers for €280k in cash after they "persuaded" the owner to sell. They can persuade me anytime.

SCOOP 64

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Piece in the Sunday World about it, said there was a house with a market value of €70k was bought by travellers for €280k in cash after they "persuaded" the owner to sell. They can persuade me anytime.

Is that the other way round?
Lucky bloke!!!

username123

nig1 wrote: »

Is that the other way round?
Lucky bloke!!!

No, they interviewed Paul Connolly and a representative from Pavee Point on Ireland AM last week and they were talking about this. Apparently the idea behind it is that the travellers want the town to themselves and are willing to pay above market value to get rid of non travellers.

MadsL

username123 wrote: »

No, they interviewed Paul Connolly and a representative from Pavee Point on Ireland AM last week and they were talking about this. Apparently the idea behind it is that the travellers want the town to themselves and are willing to pay above market value to get rid of non travellers.

Cue complaints about "Travellers who don't travel"...

SCOOP 64

Would it be better for all of them living in the same place ,so we could avoid them?
then build a great big wall around it!

Lapin

Lucrative job prospects in Rathkeale.

Headstone salesmen - very good.
Lawnmower salesmen - nil.

goat2

i would not mind living there right now, and put my gaffe up on the market, id end up on the pigs back

I8A4RE

Lets all chip in and buy a house for 220k apprx and wait for the lads to turn up and offer us as much as they like. Easy money

Richard Dower

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Piece in the Sunday World about it, said there was a house with a market value of €70k was bought by travellers for €280k in cash after they "persuaded" the owner to sell. They can persuade me anytime.

Translation = barrel of shotgun placed to the knee

solerina

WOW...look at the cars !!!

charlemont

Its brilliant, They really don't give a shíte..:rolleyes:

Lapin

Paris - The town the travellers took over next !

charlemont

A gypsy site in France !!! WTF :eek:
They are something else.

Lapin

Limerick Travellers with fake French accents. Priceless.

Kerrydude1981

You were nearly full sure to meet a traveller at least once a week selling knock off power tools during the Celtic Tiger,one lad used call to my work place once a month,he used wear a cowboy hat,at least he was being some bit honest

Gotya

receipt... ha

Doom

Go into the Crescent Shopping centre at Christmas, the place will be full of them.....the clothes on the girls (or lack of) is priceless

clappyhappy

I8A4RE wrote: »

Lets all chip in and buy a house for 220k apprx and wait for the lads to turn up and offer us as much as they like. Easy money

You need to be sure where you buy the house though, they won't buy or build over the bridge, about 3/4 way down the main street. Some superstition about crossing the water!!!! Pity there isn't another bridge at the other side, lock the feckers in.

goat2

hopefully the tax man will catch up with these guys, as another poster said they were calling around to houses at least once a month, made a mint, selling tools,
i wonder where did they get the tools they sold.
often knocked on my door, but i would be afraid to buy power tools willy nilly, can be dangerous to operate if not got from right source

Lapin

St Patrick's Day in Rathkeale is brought to you by Honda the finest Japanese made generators. :pac:

Atlantic Dawn

Richard Dower wrote: »

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Piece in the Sunday World about it, said there was a house with a market value of €70k was bought by travellers for €280k in cash after they "persuaded" the owner to sell. They can persuade me anytime.

Translation = barrel of shotgun placed to the knee

But the €280k would buy a fancy wheelchair while the knees healed...

username123

Not a very good piece of investigative journalism tbh - a lot of silhouettes with actors voices making unsubstantiated claims.

Headshot

username123 wrote: »

Not a very good piece of investigative journalism tbh - a lot of silhouettes with actors voices making unsubstantiated claims.

What do you expect? They arent actually going to show their faces, are they?

Go Harvey Go

Headshot wrote: »

username123 wrote: »

Not a very good piece of investigative journalism tbh - a lot of silhouettes with actors voices making unsubstantiated claims.

What do you expect? They arent actually going to show their faces, are they?

Well, two things that you can certainly expect are that this will be repeated at some point in the near future, and that it'll be called Travellerville or Travellers' Capital City or something like that... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

gobnaitolunacy

Lapin wrote: »

Limerick Travellers with fake French accents. Priceless.

Thought I was watching 'Allo Allo' for a sec.

MadsL

DuckStab wrote: »

What on earth is TV3's boards.ie obsession with travellers anyway?

FYP

fryup

next week travellers in australia

how the fuk did they get into oz??

i mean australia has one of the strictest emigration rules in the world..do they go over on a holiday visa and over stay their welcome???

shawnee

username123 wrote: »

Not a very good piece of investigative journalism tbh - a lot of silhouettes with actors voices making unsubstantiated claims.

Typical tv 3 rubbish , when part 3 starts they re show what they have already shown in part 2..... hello , trying to make the program last an hour. Why did he not take the bloody generator back if it was worthless ? Lots of sensationalism and made up stories. A lot of these guys actually hire out the cars to come home for Christmas

danbrosnan

shawnee wrote: »

Typical tv 3 rubbish , when part 3 starts they re show what they have already shown in part 2..... hello , trying to make the program last an hour. Why did he not take the bloody generator back if it was worthless ? Lots of sensationalism and made up stories. A lot of these guys actually hire out the cars to come home for Christmas

Absolute rubbish... this is all true and the reality is these people making a mockery out of us the citizens of this state... I can understand that people dont like tv3 or the sunday world but the reality is a lot of what they report on is true...

lynski

just watching it now, he is a ****e presenter - crowds gathered - there was 6 or 7 people, thoud=sands come for christmas - it is about 2000, he is a sensationalist.
that pavee point guy has no idea what he is talking about.
was that the 2011 parade they used?

Lapin

lynski wrote: »

just watching it now, he is a ****e presenter - crowds gathered - there was 6 or 7 people, thoud=sands come for christmas - it is about 2000, he is a sensationalist.
that pavee point guy has no idea what he is talking about.
was that the 2011 parade they used?

He has a tendancy to ham it up all right.

From last night - "Thousands of miles away from Rathkeale - in France".

Perhaps geography wasn't his favourite subject.

clappyhappy

lynski wrote: »

just watching it now, he is a ****e presenter - crowds gathered - there was 6 or 7 people, thoud=sands come for christmas - it is about 2000, he is a sensationalist.
that pavee point guy has no idea what he is talking about.
was that the 2011 parade they used?

No,it was definitely 2012 parade.

danbrosnan

So do ye all think whats going on in rathkeale is right?

Duck Soup

The full show is now up on TV3's Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/TVThreeIreland/posts/290100337765859

charlemont

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Well, two things that you can certainly expect are that this will be repeated at some point in the near future, and that it'll be called Travellerville or Travellers' Capital City or something like that... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

They should do it, 80% would be enough of the population to dominate the local politics, They could pass their own by-laws legalising all the fun stuff like prostitution, 24 hour pubs, Weed, gambling etc and it could be a nationwide base for buying knocked off and counterfeit goods.

With 80% of the population involved there wouldn't be much the guards could do...

Come on now Rathkeale your greatest days are ahead of you..

Go on yup outta dat...

KerranJast

charlemont wrote: »

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Well, two things that you can certainly expect are that this will be repeated at some point in the near future, and that it'll be called Travellerville or Travellers' Capital City or something like that... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

They should do it, 80% would be enough of the population to dominate the local politics, They could pass their own by-laws legalising all the fun stuff like prostitution, 24 hour pubs, Weed, gambling etc and it could be a nationwide base for buying knocked off and counterfeit goods.

With 80% of the population involved there wouldn't be much the guards could do...

Come on now Rathkeale your greatest days are ahead of you..

Go on yup outta dat...

Haha bye laws. The only laws that matter are decided by a few Govt ministers. Local politicians have zero power.

charlemont

KerranJast wrote: »

Haha bye laws. The only laws that matter are decided by a few Govt ministers. Local politicians have zero power.

Ha They could declare independence and have a federation with Tuam.

ArtSmart

AND THEY JUST AS I WAS ABOUT TO GIVE UP I THOUGHT 'WAIT A MINUTE, i'LL ASK THE COPS'

THE IRISH TRAVELLERS? YES, OF COURSE, THEY ARE DOWN ZE ROAD.

AND THEN I FOLLOWED A VAN

AND THEN I BOUGHT ONE OF THEIR GENERATORS.


PLEASE GIVE ME A PULITZER. PLEASE.

clappyhappy

Seemingly the documentary hasn't gone down too well in Rathkeale!!!! The "majority" are fuming as they believe they have been protrayed incorrectly, as for the minority they are just pissed off with how the tv show has shown one side to the town. All the positive aspects haven't been shown and its made out to be overrun by the travellers. So all in all no one in the town is happy about it!

kneemos

How could the van driver not notice the same car follow him from the campsite two days in a row and then he buys a generator and the traveller helps carry it back to the car,first question I'd ask is why are you following me.Definitely something fishy about it.

12gauge dave

Travellers buying houses with cash makes me completely and utterly sick

ArtSmart

12gauge dave wrote: »

Travellers buying houses with cash makes me completely and utterly sick

em, with jealousy?

12gauge dave

Or the fact that i work over 50 hours a week have never stole a thing in my life and pay those travellers social welfare with my honest hard working!
surely you can even see the injustice?:)

danbrosnan

12gauge dave wrote: »

Or the fact that i work over 50 hours a week have never stole a thing in my life and pay those travellers social welfare with my honest hard working!
surely you can even see the injustice?:)

i taught i was the only one who was thinking along these lines...

12gauge dave

danbrosnan wrote: »

12gauge dave wrote: »

Or the fact that i work over 50 hours a week have never stole a thing in my life and pay those travellers social welfare with my honest hard working!
surely you can even see the injustice?:)

i taught i was the only one who was thinking along these lines...

You would think that with the recent attention from the media on traveller lifestyles that CAB would of taken an interest in the unaccounted for money and assets that these people have?

Drug dealers cant scratch theyre hole yet these people can just do what they want?

JonathanAnon

username123 wrote: »

Apparently the idea behind it is that the travellers want the town to themselves and are willing to pay above market value to get rid of non travellers.

Sounds fine... And just to help them fully achieve their independence, let them pay their own social welfare, public services, rubbish collection etc etc ..... seeing as how they normally want everybody else to pick up the tab..

Dr Turk Turkelton

Best thing to do with this kip of a town is build a 20 foot wall around it and put 10% of the Gardai patrolling it.

Result >80 of crime eradicated and we can cut the Gardai by a good 50% and have less crime in the rest of the country and as a bonus save a fortune on court and prison fees.