Sulky racer crashes into car in Limerick (video)

Foxhound38

The indo have the story and video.

How is this sort of craic allowed to go on? I hope that horse gets the vetinary care it needs. Would it be too much to hope that the two goons racing it get prosecuted?

WrenBoy

Poor Animals. How are they left keep them.

Stone Deaf 4evr

I'm amazed they had time to squeeze in a race before work.

Boggles

They should all be put down, and the horses sent to a sanctuary.

We have to respect the traditions of these poor , discriminated against , minorities .

( P.s Yes , I managed to keep a " straight face " while posting this ).

Harry Palmr

While this is going to be the usual traveller bash fest and as such I stay out of them I'll make an exception for this - in the end it's got fvck all to do with the cultural lifestyle of the pilot and everything to do with the fact of a hazard being created on the public highway.

As such anyone who behaves in a manner which puts lives at risk should be sanctioned under the laws and legislation of the state to the fullest extent.

The guards were there but will the DPP act?

Foxhound38

Harry Palmr wrote: »

While this is going to be the usual traveller bash fest and as such I stay out of them I'll make an exception for this - in the end it's got fvck all to do with the cultural lifestyle of the pilot and everything to do with the fact of a hazard being created on the public highway.

As such anyone who behaves in a manner which puts lives at risk should be sanctioned under the laws and legislation of the state to the fullest extent.

The guards were there but will the DPP act?

The culture thing largely comes into it because if it was literally anyone else from any other group obstructing a road in such a dangerous fashion the gardai would put a stop to it in short order. This isn't even an isolated occurance, I was almost forced off the road in Clonmel by two of them doing this at the start of the year.

That's not even to talk about the cruelty to the horse in these cases.

Atlantic Dawn

But their father and his father before them raced sulkys on main roads while chasing them in luxury SUV's.

dd973

What was wrong with the sulky racer?...

ChikiChiki

I wish the government would toughen up and tackle this plague of a grouping once and for all. The whole lot of them and stop the pandering to their victim complexes.

They may start by making them pay taxes and begin the process of turning them into net contributing members of society. CAB should go to town on the Rathkeale gangs. Crime should be heavily punished as a deterrent. All too many of them live a lifestyle of crime that pays.

Zero Tolerance.

Dufflecoat Fanny

Jesus, in the thick fog aswell

Former Former Former

Foxhound38 wrote: »

I hope that horse gets the vetinary care it needs.

Nothing that being dumped in someone else's field and left to die won't solve. Be grand.

Mongfinder General

Foxhound38 wrote: »

The indo have the story and video.

How is this sort of craic allowed to go on? I hope that horse gets the vetinary care it needs. Would it be too much to hope that the two goons racing it get prosecuted?

Who’s going to stop them? You’re not seriously implying that the police should examine video evidence and follow up with arrests and prosecutions? That would mean having to deal with some potentially unsavoury individuals. Sounds like too much hard work. Oh look, there’s somebody not wearing a mask...

Kermit.de.frog

Chronic lack of social distancing.

biko

They are a protected minority engaging in an expression of their culture.

Frankie Machine

Terrible instance of this in Kilkenny a few years ago, with a horse getting a death that should be reserved for... ah, well.

Wibbs

Mongfinder General wrote: »

Who’s going to stop them? You’re not seriously implying that the police should examine video evidence and follow up with arrests and prosecutions? That would mean having to deal with some potentially unsavoury individuals. Sounds like too much hard work. Oh look, there’s somebody not wearing a mask...

Some of it is that, but having known a few Guards down the years, many of whom got fed up and left, they are just as frustrated with criminality like this as the rest of us. More so because they deal with it all the time.

They well know that if they pull these individuals off the horses and make arrests, 1) they're risking aggression, 2) the bleeding hearts will cry "racism!!" and most of all 3) the Irish revolving door justice system will see these individuals back on the street the same day with at best a slap on their well calloused wrists laughing in the Guard's faces. How many times do we see a scumbag with many previous convictions walking free? Every week?

Look at a couple of weeks ago where a judge granted bail to a convicted on the run from the Romanian authorities most wanted human trafficker of women and kids, when the Guards in the court were telling the "judge" the guy was a clear and obvious flight risk? That guys criminal career was based on hopping borders without detection and the judge granted bail. You couldn't make this level of crazy up. So what chance does a Guard have of making a criminal charge stick on **** like these? Slim to bugger all. All they can really do is show up in the squad car and try and reduce the risk of other innocent motorists crashing into them.

ElJeffe

2 facts.

This is absolutely sickening

Nothing will ever be done about it

Id like to express how I actually feel about traveller's but I'm sure I'd be banned if I did.

RandRuns

Harry Palmr wrote: »

While this is going to be the usual traveller bash fest and as such I stay out of them I'll make an exception for this - in the end it's got fvck all to do with the cultural lifestyle of the pilot and everything to do with the fact of a hazard being created on the public highway.

As such anyone who behaves in a manner which puts lives at risk should be sanctioned under the laws and legislation of the state to the fullest extent.

The guards were there but will the DPP act?

You couldn't be more wrong.
The only reason this goes on (and on, and on) is because the people doing it are allowed to do it. And they are allowed to do it because a blind eye is turned to so much of the criminal activity of travellers. If I took over a section of public roadway for sulky racing, road bowling, bare-knuckle boxing etc. I wouldn't be there 5 minutes when I, and anyone else involved, would be arrested. I would then be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This simply doesn't happen with travellers. There are large groups of travellers blocking roads near me several times a week road bowling and sulky racing. Despite constant calls to the Gardaí by literally dozens of locals, nothing is done.
Travellers are largely immune to the law, and are only prosecuted if they engage in actual violence, and then only if the victim kicks up enough of a stink. When their case comes to court, they frequently get light or suspended sentences.

El Gato De Negocios

I hope the fcuker that crashed it is badly hurt and has a miserable few months recovery ahead of him.

easygoing39

Scum,but at least the car it hit appeared to be a pikey's car involved in this cultural event and not a member of the public's.

BorneTobyWilde

Hit their own car, karma's a bitch.

garrettod

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

But their father and his father before them raced sulkys on main roads while chasing them in luxury SUV's.

Yup,

Just the same as if we all go back enough generations, we clubbed each other over the heads to kill each other without a second thought, or dragged women into caves to mate with them, at will....

I'm sick to the teeth of the tree huggin, bleedin hearts, liberal left nonsense, that goes on in this county - everyone should have to obey and respect the same laws, end of story.

Be right back

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

I'm amazed they had time to squeeze in a race before work.

Probably on their way to work.

RandRuns

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Hit their own car, karma's a bitch.

Doesn't matter, you and I paid for it, and we'll pay for the replacement.

endacl

easygoing39 wrote: »

Scum,but at least the car it hit appeared to be a pikey's car involved in this cultural event and not a member of the public's.

Wonder how they'll figure out who's claiming from who? Unfortunately the thick fog obscured the 47 people in the car who undoubtedly suffered 5-figure life-changing neck injuries....

biko

Wibbs wrote: »

2) the bleeding hearts will cry "racism!!" and most of all 3) the Irish revolving door justice system will see these individuals back on the street the same day with at best a slap on their well calloused wrists laughing in the Guard's faces.

Unfortunately the privileged bleeding hearts rarely see the effects of their actions.
They should be made go out to halting sites every week and convince travellers to stop hurting their animals.
Let's call it a "defund the Garda" initiative, it'll get them onboard

Effects

dd973 wrote: »

What was wrong with the sulky racer?...

Not very good at sulky racing it looked like.

RandRuns

RandRuns wrote: »

If I took over a section of public roadway for sulky racing, road bowling, bare-knuckle boxing etc. I wouldn't be there 5 minutes when I, and anyone else involved, would be arrested. I would then be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Well, you might be arrested, I wouldn't know, but by fukc the most amount of time you'd probably spend in Portlaoise would be barely long enough to shake hands with your cousins. You'd be in and out with a bollocking session off the desk sergeant and back home for tea and biscuits with your ma in time for the Angelus.

namloc1980

Ain't culture beautiful.

Bicyclette

£$%^&* Bustards.

I don't care if they are the landed gentry or an ethnic minority or aliens from Mars. This sort of behaviour is wrong. Totally wrong.

Wanderer78

few penalty points at the minimum, hopefully off the road for a while!

J Madone

Who Won?

boombang

J Madone wrote: »

Who Won?

Crime and social retardation.

biko

J Madone wrote: »

Who Won?

We're all losers in this mess.

von Smallhausen

When you see instances like that and then you have an article like this....

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-travellers-discrimination-report-5291030-Dec2020/

Makes you wonder why....

IAMAMORON

Them fellas shudna been racing in da fog so they shuddin. They'll geet a baten for dat. Come here any one got the price of new pony going? I pay ya back.

E mac

Isn't it part of their culture that ordinary working law abiding everyday Irish people treat them like scum ? It is right...

Frankie Machine

endacl wrote: »

Wonder how they'll figure out who's claiming from who?

There are highly experienced consultants coming down from Longford to advise.

osarusan

What I said last time this came up:

A law allowing for the immediate confiscation and destruction of both the horses and racing apparatus would be good.

JJayoo

I haven't read any post but ye are all racists and I'm better than all off ye because I'm not racist like ye.

Amn't I great

IAMAMORON

JJayoo wrote: »

I haven't read any post but ye are all racists and I'm better than all off ye because I'm not racist like ye.

Amn't I great

Have the price of a pony have ye?

Atlantic Dawn

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

But their father and his father before them raced sulkys on main roads while chasing them in luxury SUV's.

Sure the same way some were appropriating those Rhino Horns as they used hunt rhinos with a slash-hook on the savannahs of Rathkeale

Mongfinder General

Mongfinder General wrote: »

Who’s going to stop them? You’re not seriously implying that the police should examine video evidence and follow up with arrests and prosecutions? That would mean having to deal with some potentially unsavoury individuals. Sounds like too much hard work. Oh look, there’s somebody not wearing a mask...

sure why would you bother when you can go after the real criminals - the teenagers sending instagram messages to Ian Wright -

lovely handy case like

no bother

print out from instagram and the court case is a cinch

I'm not going out to any halting site!

This is what happens when we don't provide facilties for lads to safely race sulkies and follow behind with Pajeros.
94.2% of travellers have been discriminated against, by not having public provided race tracks, to practise their cultural activities

Wibbs

von Smallhausen wrote: »

When you see instances like that and then you have an article like this....

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-travellers-discrimination-report-5291030-Dec2020/

Makes you wonder why....

Indeed.

The research also found that 46% of people said they would feel “uncomfortable with Roma and Travellers as neighbours”.

The survey of Rights and Living Conditions of Travellers in Ireland found that Travellers in Ireland reported having the lowest rates of employment across Europe, at just 15%.

It also found that one in ten Travellers, including children, report “going to bed hungry” at least once in the last month, rising to a fifth in some countries surveyed.

More than 90% said there is “insufficient and inadequate” accommodation available, including halting sites.

Ireland has the second highest rate of Traveller children participating in early childhood education, at 75%, however, it continues to lag behind that of the general population.

There is a 70% rate of early school leaving among Irish Travellers, compared with 5% for the general population.

Loads of stats there. Funny how they completely ignore the equally skewed stats for Traveller and Roma criminality and antisocial behaviour. As usual it's always somebody else's fault and they're always agentless victims. And who is pulling the kids out of the schools? The teachers? No, the parents. Education is quite simply not seen as a priority within the culture. If it were those stats wouldn't be the way they are. And then there is confusion why the unemployment figures are so high?

whippet

Wibbs wrote: »

. And then there is confusion why the unemployment figures are so high?

employment entails bank accounts, PAYE, PRSI etc .... that isn't inline with the culture either.

If officially 85% are unemployed - i'd be fairly sure there is more than 15% of the adults in the community getting up in the morning to 'go to work' - what ever that entails

Blondini

They must have a right fcuckin laugh at us fools going to work, paying taxes, paying road tax, paying insurance, paying for accommodation, paying for schoolbooks, paying for their culture. Makes me want to vomit. Junkies bastardds.

SEPT 23 1989

von Smallhausen wrote: »

When you see instances like that and then you have an article like this....

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-travellers-discrimination-report-5291030-Dec2020/

Makes you wonder why....

thanks for that

I needed a good laugh today

Thelonious Monk

E mac wrote: »

Isn't it part of their culture that ordinary working law abiding everyday Irish people treat them like scum ? It is right...

None of us treat them like anything. They do whatever they want wherever they want. Who in their right mind would say anything offensive to a traveller?

WrenBoy

Wibbs wrote: »

Indeed.

The research also found that 46% of people said they would feel “uncomfortable with Roma and Travellers as neighbours”.

The survey of Rights and Living Conditions of Travellers in Ireland found that Travellers in Ireland reported having the lowest rates of employment across Europe, at just 15%.

It also found that one in ten Travellers, including children, report “going to bed hungry” at least once in the last month, rising to a fifth in some countries surveyed.....

Im speaking from my own experience and not saying the report is bogus but I legitimately cant think of one time I saw a traveller that didn't look "well fed" to say the least. You can talk about them having bad nutrition alright but Ive never seen one that looked in need of a meal.