John Connors: The Travellers

laugh · 28-09-2016 10:21PM #1

Anybody watching this?

Doesn't seem to be much balance in this analysis of the travelling community.

tomwaterford · 28-09-2016 10:23PM

I'm. Watching it......kinda of really hard to follow....seems to be running from one point to another

Guess it's all from a travellers viewpoint

Hope there's more craic in next episode....depressing AF

Duff · 28-09-2016 10:24PM

Come with me if you want to live.

gifted · 28-09-2016 10:25PM

John connors???...is he the chap from the Terminator with your man arnold

tomwaterford · 28-09-2016 10:26PM

gifted wrote: »

John connors???...is he the chap from the Terminator with your man arnold

No....he shot king nidge

gifted · 28-09-2016 10:27PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

No....he shot king nidge

Arnold from the terminator shot king nudge?

mucksavage1985 · 28-09-2016 10:31PM

Notice the way young male travellers are no where to be seen in any footage! They don't want to be seen just in case someone recognises them!

Guy:Incognito · 28-09-2016 10:41PM

laugh wrote: »

Anybody watching this?

Doesn't seem to be much balance in this analysis of the travelling community.

Have they got to th epart where they show their p60's , bank accounts, proof of income sources yet?

Have they explained how the site has numerous very fresh registered cars and vans all owned by people with no official income?

I always find it interesting Pavee point never come out and debunk the negative thinking within the rest of society with proof. It's almost like they never address it at all.......

Willfarman · 28-09-2016 11:09PM

My parents and grandparents often talked athome here of the travellers years ago here in north Wexford. I suppose from the early part of the century to the 70's.. There were also tramps aplenty roaming north Wexford those days doing casual labour anywhere they could get it. They were hard times for a lot of people. One such story my dad tells is of being a small boy and hearing a setting hen kicking up s racket in the hen house. He looked in to see a much older tinker child stealing the eggs from under the said hen. He went to report to my grandmother who was giving milk and bread to a tinker woman at the door. Who then chastised the child but had obviously sent her to do it. "the devil is in that child mam"

Kermit.de.frog · 28-09-2016 11:20PM

IN.BEFORE.DE.LOCK

Mongfinder General · 28-09-2016 11:27PM

Travelers are probably the least travelled part of the population today when you consider that most of the population has been to far flung places like Australia, the U.S, Asia etc

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 28-09-2016 11:28PM

John Connors: Time Traveller

bajer101 · 28-09-2016 11:30PM

Watching this on RTE+1 now. Interesting section on traveller children being taken by the state and put in industrial schools.

foggy_lad · 28-09-2016 11:31PM

Mongfinder General wrote: »

Travelers are probably the least travelled part of the population today when you consider that most of the population has been to far flung places like Australia, the U.S, Asia etc

So have many of the travellers.

MonkieSocks · 28-09-2016 11:35PM

gifted wrote: »

Arnold from the terminator shot king nudge?

NO......he shot Skelator

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 28-09-2016 11:37PM

Who is your daddy and what does he do.

andekwarhola · 28-09-2016 11:44PM

Passionate advocate that fights valiant if somewhat deluded battle to deny that traveller community has entrenched issues with criminality and antisocial culture.

Best known for giving guilty middle-class liberals the horn with dramatic portrayal of pipe bomb-making traveller engaged in violent feud with Dublin criminals.

toptom · 28-09-2016 11:51PM

Disgrace tv license spent on this propaganda

dd972 · 28-09-2016 11:52PM

Were there any LGBT Travellers in it?, then another thread can be saved...:pac:

Arsemageddon · 29-09-2016 12:10AM

toptom wrote: »

Disgrace tv license spent on this propaganda

RTE making a programme about Irish people!?

You're right Tom - it is indeed a disgrace.

toptom · 29-09-2016 12:24AM

Arsemageddon wrote: »

RTE making a programme about Irish people!?

You're right Tom - it is indeed a disgrace.

But it is. its glorifying them. We all had it hard in the past, Why single out them to try bring pity on

suicide_circus · 29-09-2016 12:49AM

#settledprivilage

Arsemageddon · 29-09-2016 12:49AM

toptom wrote: »

But it is. its glorifying them. We all had it hard in the past, Why single out them to try bring pity on

Yes indeed Tom, how dare any one ever mention that it was state policy to forcibly remove traveller children frm their families and put them in reformatories and industrial schools for no good reason.

What RTE need to do is make more nice programmes about nice people doing nice things - but only after getting your approval first.

darkpagandeath · 29-09-2016 12:50AM

Did it explain why 90 odd percent are on SW ? And yet still have them cars ?

Arsemageddon · 29-09-2016 12:53AM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Did it explain why 90 odd percent are on SW ? And yet still have them cars ?

No one on the scratch is allowed have a car now?!

Jaysus lads, ye're all in great form tonight - I'll leave ye to it

darkpagandeath · 29-09-2016 12:56AM

Arsemageddon wrote: »

No one on the scratch is allowed have a car now?!

Jaysus lads, ye're all in great form tonight - I'll leave ye to it

Where did I say that ?

toptom · 29-09-2016 01:00AM

Arsemageddon wrote: »

Yes indeed Tom, how dare any one ever mention that it was state policy to forcibly remove traveller children frm their families and put them in reformatories and industrial schools for no good reason.

What RTE need to do is make more nice programmes about nice people doing nice things - but only after getting your approval first.

Plenty of settled people ended up in the homes too

foggy_lad · 29-09-2016 01:00AM

Arsemageddon wrote: »

No one on the scratch is allowed have a car now?!

Jaysus lads, ye're all in great form tonight - I'll leave ye to it

+1

Considering they rarely drink and most don't smoke and their lifestyle would work out cheaper than many settled families they could well afford to save up for a car and insurance etc while on the dole or working wherever they can get some work.

darkpagandeath · 29-09-2016 01:04AM

foggy_lad wrote: »

+1

Considering they rarely drink and most don't smoke and their lifestyle would work out cheaper than many settled families they could well afford to save up for a car and insurance etc while on the dole or working wherever they can get some work.

You have seen the weddings yes ? lol insurance, and working while on JSA cuts the amount and not really worth the hassle. No Problem with someone that lost there job having a car. Find it very strange you can afford buy one on €188 pw. Are the insurance companies not gouging everyone ?

Arsemageddon · 29-09-2016 01:08AM

toptom wrote: »

Plenty of settled people ended up in the homes too

Yes, but they weren't sent to homes solely because they were settled people, nor were they sent there in anything like the numbers that travellers were.

One point made in the programme was that many travellers sent to state run homes were never properly recorded so they were not allowed get compensation from the state redress scheme for being sexually abused - but sure, isn't that just more auld propaganda Tom?

toptom · 29-09-2016 01:11AM

Arsemageddon wrote: »

Yes, but they weren't sent to homes solely because they were settled people, nor were they sent there in anything like the numbers that travellers were.

One point made in the programme was that many travellers sent to state run homes were never properly recorded so they were not allowed get compensation from the state redress scheme for being sexually abused - but sure, isn't that just more auld propaganda Tom?

I didn't get any compensation when the chainsaw, lawnmower, saws and tools vanished from the shed.

John Connors: The Travellers

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