Family of seven sleep in Garda station Mod note post one

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Ah hang on. I was correct about her. She had not engaged with the housing authority in the previous days & notified a charity late in the evening. They still managed to secure emergency accommodation and transportation for her in meath. She chose to turn this down in favour of the photo shoot in the Garda station. As I said from the very start of the thread she staged it all in the hope of cheating others out of their place on the homeless list.

She said that there was only 5 beds but she forgets to say that the hotel were putting in a cot & a camp bed. Besides what is wrong with two children sleeping top to tail in the same bed for just one night. I did it many a time as a kid myself. This is emergency accommodation. There aren't many hotels that have rooms big enough for seven beds.

Everything I said was true. I dealt only with the night in question. I have tried to quash made up stories about her past. I never criticised her daughters communion dress and its unfair for anyone to do so. Many people with or without homes go into debt for a communion. Money lenders make a killing on them.

Well sorry but I disagree about the Communion dress.

The daughter was dressed up to the nines.

The mother was dressed up to the nines.


if you are homeless , this is not your priority.

Buying crates of Coors and bottles of Vodka last week is a cheek too.

This scammer CLEARS nearly 50k a year, double what Many families I know earn. She expects to spend that 50k on herself and for the rest of us to pay for her.

Not sure where you got moneylenders from?

She says she Saved for the Communion.

Most working families have no savings but yet homeless people can Save and then spend extravagantly. There is something seriously wrong here.

So she's looking for a 7 seater for 10k but she's homeless, this just gets better.

Omackeral wrote: »

Yep. Sleepers12, end of the road and your good self.

Easy enough to spot alright.

Ignore button is your friend though. Means those with brains and the capability to put points across can just get on with it

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Ah hang on. I was correct about her.

I’ll hang on so while you explain why you were telling everyone else her story was bad enough without making up stuff about her, yet that’s exactly what you did yourself claiming she’d likely be hiding her Facebook in the future so we wouldn’t see the photos of the trip to Disneyland??

As I said from the very start of the thread she staged it all in the hope of cheating others out of their place on the homeless list.

And as was explained to you at the time - that’s just not how the housing list operates. It simply isn’t possible for her to cheat anyone out of a place on the housing list. You can read more about it here -

Applying for local authority/social housing

She said that there was only 5 beds but she forgets to say that the hotel were putting in a cot & a camp bed. Besides what is wrong with two children sleeping top to tail in the same bed for just one night. I did it many a time as a kid myself. This is emergency accommodation. There aren't many hotels that have rooms big enough for seven beds.

Nothing wrong with it at all, but it misses the point she was making. It’s simply inadequate and inappropriate that she was on the housing list in the first place for the length of time she was on it, and then to be put up in a hotel room having her children sleep head to toe. It’s simply not good enough in this day and age, and I say that as one of these “hard working taxpayers” that everyone cribbing about this case keeps referring to. There’s 10,000 more cases like it. This woman isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. It’s 2018, not 1818 ffs.

Everything I said was true. I dealt only with the night in question. I have tried to quash made up stories about her past. I never criticised her daughters communion dress and its unfair for anyone to do so. Many people with or without homes go into debt for a communion. Money lenders make a killing on them.

No, everything you said wasn’t true, and you didn’t only deal with the night in question. You speculated about her future and all the rest of it, you weren’t even aware of her circumstances, but that didn’t stop you. To be fair to you, you didn’t come out with some of the more ridiculous stuff I’ve read in this thread (like the ever increasing amount she’s “getting into her hand from the State”, where are we now, €87k? Be up to €100k by the morning :pac:). All that’s happened is now the story’s gone beyond your control and people are pointing to the fact that she’s a traveller, building their own narratives around that aspect of her life, no different to the way you did when you started the thread. I can understand why that doesn’t suit your narrative, but that’s what happens when things go beyond your control, as they did with the woman in this case. Rather than trying to play down the fact that she’s a traveller because it isn’t good “PR” for this “homeless cause” you mentioned, you’re better off acknowledging that she represents every single one of the 10,000 people on the homeless list who will have pasts of their own that’ll be dug up if they were ever to go public with their stories.


(Apologies for the dodgy edit, still getting used to this new iPhone, first world problems :pac:)