Traveller stand off causes chaos in Finglas

Little CuChulainn

http://www.thejournal.ie/cappagh-road-incident-1594021-Jul2014/

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0728/633670-road-closed-after-disturbance-in-finglas-in-dublin/

God help you if you need the Gardaí in West Dublin tonight because they all seem to be at this incident.

Fr_Dougal

Traveller, chaos and Finglas...the trifecta...

Tail Docker

"Gardaí are keeping a watching presence at the scene but there are no reports of injuries and no arrests have been made."

Good job. Probably no room after all them protesters got nicked. For "blocking the road"...ahem...

Hotfail.com

Yet again The Journal's comment section has made me hit my head off the wall.

cloud493

All the cool people live on the north side anyway :cool:

michael999999

Looks like a turf war has started now that callelly is out of the equasion!

Happyman42

They only realised yer man cancelled!

Frosty McSnowballs

Stand off?

Aw, I wish it was a dance off.

wazky

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Stand off?

Aw, I wish it was a dance off.

"And here's Miley Connors, Senior Leinster Traveller Breakdancing Champion"

Mickey H

Tail Docker wrote: »

"Gardaí are keeping a watching presence at the scene but there are no reports of injuries and no arrests have been made."

Good job. Probably no room after all them protesters got nicked. For "blocking the road"...ahem...

So basically they're standing there scratching their arses, watching burnt out shopping trollies getting their wheels nicked.

Still better than RTE1 on a Monday night.

Senor Fancy Pants

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Stand off?

Aw, I wish it was a dance off.

or a catwalk off, a la Zoolander

Tail Docker

Can they not try and keep it to Youtube vid-offs?

For Forks Sake

Tail Docker wrote: »

Can they not try and keep it to Youtube vid-offs?

Ah, go sh1te in a bucket will ya.

Tail Docker

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Ah, go sh1te in a bucket will ya.

You're the king of dis, you're the king of dat - You're the king of dog shyte!

Crann na Beatha

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Calibos

Reports coming in that the local hardware store has seen a large spike in slash-hook and hatchet sales...

fleet_admiral

cloud493 wrote: »

All the cool people live on the north side anyway :cool:

Take a trip to Nutgrove in Rathfarnham. The travellers have started burning their own houses now

For Forks Sake

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Take a trip to Nutgrove in Rathfarnham. The travellers have started burning their own houses now

That's nothing new. Most of those houses are on their third iteration at this stage.

Nib

Hotfail.com wrote: »

Yet again The Journal's comment section has made me hit my head off the wall.

Except for this gem.

Pavee point will probably blame the seagulls……

Hotfail.com

Nib wrote: »

Except for this gem.

Then there's this:

Waste of taxpayers money. Leave them at it.

it's not like this presents any risk to the public or anything.. :rolleyes:

Hotfail.com

"In fairness there are some great members of the travelling community out there who do great work."

Gets 200 downvotes and 39 upvotes....

Firewalkwithme

For Forks Sake wrote: »

That's nothing new. Most of those houses are on their third iteration at this stage.

Yep and until the council get serious about it they know that if they keep on burning their free houses down they will be rebuilt over and over at the taxpayers expense. I know the house / houses you are talking about. I'd like to know if an arson investigation is ongoing and if not, then why not? Also if they want to burn their council built houses down, let them continue and don't build any new ones for them unless they pay for the cost of the repair / rebuild. The housing lists are insanely long at this stage with families being accomodated in hotels etc. yet you can be sure that funds will be found as a priority for rebuilding those houses first.

Anyway, it's interesting that in the Journal the people involved in this are clearly named as travellers yet in the always P.C. RTE report no mention or hint is given about that fact. They are just refered to as two "groups". Always have to read between the lines with RTE.

dd972

Even the Travellers probably call Dunsink Lane ''North Glasnevin'' as they're embarrassed by Finglas.

Tail Docker

Cartoon_Head wrote: »

Anyway, it's interesting that in the Journal the people involved in this are clearly named as travellers yet in the always P.C. RTE report no mention or hint is given about that fact. They are just refered to as two "groups". Always have to read between the lines with RTE.

Watching RTE, I thought it had kicked off again between Aslan and U2.

donegal__road

all jokes aside, the Gardaí used to send in the nuns to sort out any feuds between travellers at the halting site between Darndale and Coolock. There was always instant respect for the nuns..

Firewalkwithme

donegal__road wrote: »

all jokes aside, the Gardaí used to send in the nuns to sort out any feuds between travellers at the halting site between Darndale and Coolock. There was always instant respect for the nuns..

Maybe they should send in some sort of modern day equivalent, like that Scoucer wedding dress maker one.

Feckin love her they do.

donegal__road

Cartoon_Head wrote: »

Maybe they should send in some sort of modern day equivalent, like that Scoucer wedding dress maker one.

Feckin love her they do.

Ever see the convoy of new Mercs, BMWs, Aston Martins, private jets, etc. up at Knock Co. Mayo?

Firewalkwithme

donegal__road wrote: »

Ever see the convoy of new Mercs, BMWs, Aston Martins, private jets, etc. up at Knock Co. Mayo?

LOL, I'm not the religious type

Macavity.

Hotfail.com wrote: »

"In fairness there are some great members of the travelling community out there who do great work."
....

It's not a hugely relevant comment though. I seriously dislike the journal and would often be banging my head off the wall reading the comment section. Not this time though, tbh.

Firewalkwithme

Macavity. wrote: »

It's not a hugely relevant comment though. I seriously dislike the journal and would often be banging my head off the wall reading the comment section. Not this time though, tbh.

Yeah it's a bit like trying to defend North Korea by saying they do a great job on the Arirang Mass Games.

No, no - don't look at the massive steaming pile of crap, look at that one tiny little flower that has grown from it...

bigroad

This what happens when the government cut the carers allowance.
If they make any more cuts to the social walfare their will be total war.

spitfireIRL

Phoenix wrote: »

Speaking of those youtube videos when is game of mobile homes back?

They said they had received some "interesting messages".

Go and get - a couple o women into your house to clean it up cos there's a smell of sh!t out of it!

B.A._Baracus

Oh a traveller thread on boards?
Got to be careful what we say now. Mods will be micro-scanning every post :pac:

Actually on the subject of boards.ie and the removal of certain posts. I just don't get it. Like boards.ie is here to make money. It's owned by Distilled Media. It's a business. Thats cool But how does some jackass like myself reflect the owners?

Muahahaha

donegal__road wrote: »

all jokes aside, the Gardaí used to send in the nuns to sort out any feuds between travellers at the halting site between Darndale and Coolock. There was always instant respect for the nuns..

I'm not sure if nuns could sort this feud out. If it's the halting site I'm thinking of pretty near Cappagh Hospital then there's a grotto with the Holy Mary standing in it right inside the entrance. If Mary herself can't keep these lads from fightin' then the nuns would have little hope.

porsche959

Hmmm wonder if it's just coincidence we are almost at the 10 year anniversary of the Dunsink Lane stand-off.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/agreement-reached-on-dunsink-lane-standoff-170633.html

ThisRegard

Had it been you or I we would have been hauled off long ago, but yet there has not been one arrest over this.

bboybaboy19

ThisRegard wrote: »

Had it been you or I we would have been hauled off long ago, but yet there has not been one arrest over this.

Jaysus you can't be arresting travellers over disturbing the peace and in general causing trouble. That'd be racist. It's part of their culture you see.

oldyouth

I'm not reading the links, or any of the posts here. The thread title is sufficient to give me my opinion on the situation

Rant, rant, rabble, rabble.........tradition my hole

Tail Docker

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Oh a traveller thread on boards?
Got to be careful what we say now. Mods will be micro-scanning every post :pac:

Actually on the subject of boards.ie and the removal of certain posts. I just don't get it. Like boards.ie is here to make money. It's owned by Distilled Media. It's a business. Thats cool But how does some jackass like myself reflect the owners?

If you were holding up a big mirror, walking past the shelbourne and one of them happened to catch a glimpse of themselves??

Are they still standing off, or did the novelty wear off? Someone ought to throw a few shovels, some gloves and a load of bags into the street, cos usually, at the first sign of a bit of work...that'd be like garlic to a vampire.

twinytwo

bboybaboy19 wrote: »

Jaysus you can't be arresting travellers over disturbing the peace and in general causing trouble. That'd be racist. It's part of their culture you see.

If this was any other country( bar England ). Most of the travellers would have been battered back to the stone age a long time ago. But of coarse in little old Ireland we have to put up with this nonsense.

Hootanany

Just there road still closed off loads of Cops loads of cars full off likly lads, some one Gard with a 3ft iron bar in his hand traffic chaos. Loads of sirens i think its kicking off again.

Berserker

twinytwo wrote: »

If this was any other country( bar England ). Most of the travellers would have been battered back to the stone age a long time ago. But of coarse in little old Ireland we have to put up with this nonsense.

And 'little old' England. We are not good at dealing with protesters in this country or in the UK. We are far too nicey-nincey with them, wasting money and resources playing with them.

RoboRat

You're NOOOOO Good...

Dyr

I worked on the cappagh site when it was being built, they had a few clan wars even back then. Fun times for sure

obezyana

Most of those folk are pure scum. Where I'm living has a halting site to the back of us and their lovely little off spring get up on the wall and fire marbles from slingshots towards the cars and houses they damaged a few windscreens 2 days ago they really are little dirtbags that can do as they please.

ShagNastii

Am I the only one that think it’s ludicrous that the road is closed and countless Guards are stationed at the incident. I’d imagine it is as soul destroying for them as it is for us.

I can think as a million things I’d prefer to see them doing than refereeing a pack of buffoons playing Braveheart up on some halting site.

6781

Either the Gardai should go in hard and make an example of them and show that society won't accept this kind of behaviour or let them go at each other which will probably work out better for society if they wipe each other out. But the Gardai just watching them is a waste of time

Omackeral

10 o clock news said there was an air support unit and armed Gardai on the scene. What an utter load of stupid carry on.

jimgoose

Could you imagine this sort of bloody nonsense in Texas, for example?? :pac::pac::pac:

Shanotheslayer

Bambi wrote: »

I worked on the cappagh site when it was being built, they had a few clan wars even back then. Fun times for sure

Battlefield or COD ? :pac:

Little CuChulainn

Still ongoing it seems. That's a lot of Garda manpower and traffic disruption for a few dozen people.