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Does anyone know what the ethnic Traveller Status statement actually means?

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    #752
    Klim
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭Klim


    Haven't we all spread 400k over a bed at one point or another, lads?
    https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=7mGcQYPJUp4


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    #753
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Klim wrote: »
    Haven't we all spread 400k over a bed at one point or another, lads?
    https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=7mGcQYPJUp4
    He could have spent one of them on a better hotel room and a shirt.


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    #754
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,443 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Klim wrote: »
    Haven't we all spread 400k over a bed at one point or another, lads?
    https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=7mGcQYPJUp4

    Must be very profitable selling copper pipes.


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    #755
    Permabear
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    #756
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    So travller culture may not be happy with the settle community's standards regarding education and rule of law but are happy with the settled community's standard of social welfare benefits. Hmmmm


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    #757
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    While not unique to the travelling community, sulky racing on busy main roads should be banned. "A law onto themselves" as they say in LImk.


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    #758
    Means Of Escape
    Registered Users Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Means Of Escape


    Graces7 wrote: »
    All the anti-posts focus on how YOU want to live. Clearly the travellers' chosen lifestyle is very different.

    You would hate living as they would hate living as you do .

    That leads to discrimination.

    Should not. It is choice. Freedom of choice.

    When I was a teacher, one of my class of 4th years wanted to leave school at the minimum age. The head asked me to have a chat with her to ask why and try to get her to stay on. Take her "O" levels ( UK)

    She explained very clearly that she had no interest in any more education as she did not need it. That she was working with horses and had been promised a job.

    It was right for her.

    One of my lls has four grown sons all over-educated for their life, all unemployed. He could not even get one to help him on the farm.

    Fairy story from beginning to end .


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    #759
    Means Of Escape
    Registered Users Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Means Of Escape


    Graces7 wrote: »
    All the anti-posts focus on how YOU want to live. Clearly the travellers' chosen lifestyle is very different.

    You would hate living as they would hate living as you do .

    That leads to discrimination.

    Should not. It is choice. Freedom of choice.

    When I was a teacher, one of my class of 4th years wanted to leave school at the minimum age. The head asked me to have a chat with her to ask why and try to get her to stay on. Take her "O" levels ( UK)

    She explained very clearly that she had no interest in any more education as she did not need it. That she was working with horses and had been promised a job.

    It was right for her.

    One of my lls has four grown sons all over-educated for their life, all unemployed. He could not even get one to help him on the farm.

    Fairy story from beginning to end .


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    #760
    elefant
    Registered Users Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭elefant


    Graces7 wrote: »
    All the anti-posts focus on how YOU want to live. Clearly the travellers' chosen lifestyle is very different.

    You would hate living as they would hate living as you do .

    That leads to discrimination.

    Should not. It is choice. Freedom of choice.

    When I was a teacher, one of my class of 4th years wanted to leave school at the minimum age. The head asked me to have a chat with her to ask why and try to get her to stay on. Take her "O" levels ( UK)

    She explained very clearly that she had no interest in any more education as she did not need it. That she was working with horses and had been promised a job.

    It was right for her.

    One of my lls has four grown sons all over-educated for their life, all unemployed. He could not even get one to help him on the farm.

    Nobody has a problem with anyone else making choices in their lives. Most people have a problem with laws being broken. Many people have a problem with their money being used to fund other people's freely made choices.

    The anecdote about the girl working with horses 50 years ago is completely irrelevant.


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    #761
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 29,031 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Means Of Escape wrote: »
    Fairy story from beginning to end .

    if so, then you will be able to provide proof that it is . looking forward to seeing it.

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #762
    huddledDuke12
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭huddledDuke12


    I was reading the article at the address below:

    http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/traveller-ethnicity-we-always-knew-we-were-people-in-our-own-right-3433619-Jun2017/

    It appears as though one of the aims is the "repealing the Criminal Trespass legislation". This is absolutely absurd if the definition of the word "repeal" is anything to go by.

    Will we be faced with the possibility that members of the Traveling Community will now make themselves at home in other peoples private residences?


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