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Longford travellers in major row on towns main Street.

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Wonder why they were at the Post Office.... would love to know how many of these arent on Disability Allowance as well... I'd hazard slim to none.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭the dark phantom


    The Gardaí shouldn't be allowed to disrupt an ethnic traditional melee, Ethnic traditions must be respected. You have to hand it to Travellers, they don't give a ****.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Wonder why they were at the Post Office.... would love to know how many of these arent on Disability Allowance as well... I'd hazard slim to none.

    Disability Allowance is paid on Wednesday I believe. Jobseekers Allowance most likely if it was a Monday.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    Tumbleweed ordered , delivery address:
    Mr Martin Collins,
    Paveen pointless office
    Nuttin to see ave,
    Someone else's land


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,092 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Just noticed this thread, but even more so I noticed there is something seriously wrong around here.

    There hasn't been one of the usual suspects on this thread lambasting anyone for daring to discuss this issue since it concerns one of their sacred cows.

    Or should that be sacred horses in this case?

    Very disconcerting not to be lectured about how racist we all are or even how we dump our rubbish on the poor travellers. ;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    jmayo wrote: »
    Just noticed this thread, but even more so I noticed there is something seriously wrong around here.

    There hasn't been one of the usual suspects on this thread lambasting anyone for daring to discuss this issue since it concerns one of their sacred cows.

    Or should that be sacred horses in this case?

    Very disconcerting not to be lectured about how racist we all are or even how we dump our rubbish on the poor travellers. ;)

    Yeah I tend to expect a dogooder or 3 to attend and spout absolute rubbish such as settled folk are the ones fly tipping on the halting sites and surrounding roads, fields, reserves and so on...

    Always wondered how one that doesn't work can get commercial insurance, tax and drive around in vans, pick ups etc and never questioned....


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,208 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    jmayo wrote: »
    Just noticed this thread, but even more so I noticed there is something seriously wrong around here.

    There hasn't been one of the usual suspects on this thread lambasting anyone for daring to discuss this issue since it concerns one of their sacred cows.

    Or should that be sacred horses in this case?

    Very disconcerting not to be lectured about how racist we all are or even how we dump our rubbish on the poor travellers. ;)

    Ah Joey, lol!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,365 ✭✭✭Alrigghtythen


    Ah sure look, they might have had the axes for cutting down the christmas tree and a halarious string of misunderstandings and mishaps happened before they ended up in main street.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    Travellers are outbreeding the tax payers hand over fist , They must make up a very high percentage of the welfare numbers .

    The census figures for travellers are wildly inaccurate seeing as it’s been admitted as few as a third of travellers filled up most recent census forms . 100,000 would be a far more accurate figure of travellers .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Jurgen The German


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    Not sure about Drogheda but Longford Town is and always was a total kip, mostly because of the people who live there.

    Nonsense. I'm from there originally. In the mid to late 90s and up to the mid 00s it was thriving. It never really benefited from the boom other than a shyt load of houses were built but when the recession hit it was decimated. Scores of businesses closed, massive job losses and resultant emigration means there is very little industry. Abbots have a huge plant there and the head office of the prison services is also there but most seem to commute to it. As a result of better road infrastructure you can be in sligo in an hour or Dublin in little over an hour. Its essentially been bypassed. Personally I'd never move back there but most folk there are decent and just go on about their business, its these scum that have infested it that are the problem. They roam the streets during the day eye balling anyone that crosses their line of vision, completely oblivious to and above the law.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Travellers are outbreeding the tax payers hand over fist , They must make up a very high percentage of the welfare numbers .

    The census figures for travellers are wildly inaccurate seeing as it’s been admitted as few as a third of travellers filled up most recent census forms . 100,000 would be a far more accurate figure of travellers .

    1 in 3 end up in the prison system at some point in their lives

    1 in 3

    Think about that for a minute

    But I as a member of the civilised community sorry settled community

    Mr Collins

    take full responsibility for that statistic


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    1 in 3 end up in the prison system at some point in their lives

    1 in 3

    Think about that for a minute

    But I as a member of the civilised community sorry settled community

    Mr Collins

    take full responsibility for that statistic

    1 in 3 .... and then consider many have multiple convictions before they end up inside ... and then how many crimes can you commit before your caught especially in rural Ireland with no guards ... the mind boggles how much crime travellers are involved in but Fine Gael want us to stay quite about it !!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    https://www.echolive.ie/nationalnews/Waterford-shooting-may-be-escalation-of-a-feud-cde3b2d4-9733-42ec-ac67-629fb6379b28-ds

    Longford isn’t the only traveller feud getting serious this Christmas , Waterford city traveller feud kicking off big time yesterday . Shot first then hit by a car , you’d hardly see it in the toughest part of London . Baghdad maybe ...
    Not that RTÉ or the government care


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭randd1


    Tumbleweed ordered , delivery address:
    Mr Martin Collins,
    Paveen pointless office
    Nuttin to see ave,
    Someone else's land

    Jaysus, even their business address requires trespassing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭Eggs For Dinner


    Wonder why they were at the Post Office.... would love to know how many of these arent on Disability Allowance as well... I'd hazard slim to none.

    Perhaps they've heard of the difficulties RTE are in and were buying a TV Licence.

    People are jumping to conclusions


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Pavee Point will come out and say that violence against travellers is on the increase. Of course they won’t say that it’s all traveller-on-traveller violence, that wouldn’t suit their agenda.


  • Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭celticWario


    The truth is that traveller "society" is a failure, not because of settled people, racism etc.
    The fundamental problem is that traveller culture has devolved into an unfixable crimeridden mess.
    They do not want to change their culture, and expect others to tolerate and accommodate their anti-social and criminal behaviour. They have become socially incompatable by their own design, not because of racism from the settled community, but by their own disdain and hostility towards us.
    They believe settled people are out to "get" them, when in fact we are simply exhausted by them, exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence and criminality, the endless complaints, the blind tribal solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity to authority, while demanding the same authorities fund their existence and provide free services and welfare from cradle to grave.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,927 ✭✭✭dodzy


    Vile scum. Heard a line many years ago.... "there's no such thing as a good k......" .

    So true.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    We must protect our indigenous culture at all costs. Especially that of the taxpayer.
    This drives me mad. People have been settled in Ireland for over 7,000 years. We are the indigenous culture and travellers are foreign invaders from the North.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    Welfare from cradle to grave ....what percentage do they make up of the welfare bill ??
    Their numbers are outpacing the working population year in year out due to most people working unable to afford to have anymore than 1 or 2 children unlike travellers who have up to ten children paid for by the taxpayers . In many towns and villages it’s gone beyond recall , Law abiding people have no quality of life due to traveller crime and intimidation and Fine Gael and RTÉ ignore it .


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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Welfare from cradle to grave ....what percentage do they make up of the welfare bill ??
    Their numbers are outpacing the working population year in year out due to most people working unable to afford to have anymore than 1 or 2 children unlike travellers who have up to ten children paid for by the taxpayers . In many towns and villages it’s gone beyond recall , Law abiding people have no quality of life due to traveller crime and intimidation and Fine Gael and RTÉ ignore it .

    Stop paying the TV licence, they can't jail us all


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    This drives me mad. People have been settled in Ireland for over 7,000 years. We are the indigenous culture and travellers are foreign invaders from the North.

    That escalated quickly


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,348 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Town full of NI and UK reg cars since last Friday

    Invasion for the xmas season in full swing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Does anyone know if Rathkeele is full of armed Gardaí again this year?
    Maybe they will deploy a few to places like Longford.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    The rathkeale crowd to be fair are genuine travellers who travel to the UK or Europe for most of the year doing whatever they do . They would be a lot more civilised than the layabouts in so many other towns and villages across this country masquerading as travellers . Rathkeale travellers aren’t into kicking the crap out of elderly people living on their own in the middle of the night or going round in tracksuits acting like complete scumm.

    It’s the ones in the housing estates and halting sites all over towns in Ireland like Longford , mullingar , Ennis , bunclody , Tralee , abbeyfeale etc that are destroying this country , travel nowhere.only for crime or handouts . Contribute nothing only crime and fear but want everything .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    The rathkeale crowd to be fair are genuine travellers who travel to the UK or Europe for most of the year doing whatever they do . They would be a lot more civilised than the layabouts in so many other towns and villages across this country masquerading as travellers . Rathkeale travellers aren’t into kicking the crap out of elderly people living on their own in the middle of the night or going round in tracksuits acting like complete scumm.

    It’s the ones in the housing estates and halting sites all over towns in Ireland like Longford , mullingar , Ennis , bunclody , Tralee , abbeyfeale etc that are destroying this country , travel nowhere.only for crime or handouts . Contribute nothing only crime and fear but want everything .

    A quick Google of "Rathkeale feud" suggests they are anything but decent


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,017 ✭✭✭tastyt


    A quick Google of "Rathkeale feud" suggests they are anything but decent

    They are decent apparently because they leave rathkeale for most of the year and go around robbing old people in Europe. Thats grand so, lovely guys


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    The truth is that traveller "society" is a failure, not because of settled people, racism etc.
    The fundamental problem is that traveller culture has devolved into an unfixable crimeridden mess.
    They do not want to change their culture, and expect others to tolerate and accommodate their anti-social and criminal behaviour. They have become socially incompatable by their own design, not because of racism from the settled community, but by their own disdain and hostility towards us.
    They believe settled people are out to "get" them, when in fact we are simply exhausted by them, exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence and criminality, the endless complaints, the blind tribal solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity to authority, while demanding the same authorities fund their existence and provide free services and welfare from cradle to grave.

    A definate and definative way of describing the way the situation stands right now with these sorts.

    They create mayhem & we pay for it.

    Enough is enough & enough people in this country now truly hate them that the political will should be there now to stop them in their tracks.

    Anybody who defends them at this stage deserves to be shot with a ball of their own ****e.


  • Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    There's some seriously s**t places on the western fringes of London near the M25 and Heathrow, West Drayton, Hayes, Hounslow etc that hold some weird sort of magnetic pull for our mobile brethren, Luton is another dump they think is great.

    Fact of the matter is that every poster here, myself included would be doing what they do if they were born into that community, so aside from forced adoption there's no solution really.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,208 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    dd973 wrote: »
    There's some seriously s**t places on the western fringes of London near the M25 and Heathrow, West Drayton, Hayes, Hounslow etc that hold some weird sort of magnetic pull for our mobile brethren, Luton is another dump they think is great.

    Fact of the matter is that every poster here, myself included would be doing what they do if they were born into that community, so aside from forced adoption there's no solution really.

    What? There's lots the state can do. It can start by imposing serious penalties for truancy for a start.

    Education really is the only long term solution to the anti social behavior in the travelling community.


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