Family of seven sleep in Garda station Mod note post one

Deleted User wrote: »

Its on “trial”. You bet it “wont work out”.

One eyed Jack wrote: »

I was reared by hard working parents too, although when I say reared by my parents I use the term loosely as I was more reared by my next door neighbour. While both my parents worked hard, they also took out their frustration and stress on their children whenever they were around. But of course none of the neighbors saw that side of them. Having been reared by a very kind neighbour still didn’t preclude me from finding myself homeless at 16 and there’s about a decade of my life is a bit sketchy due to alcoholism and drugs and what not. In all that time of course I too was judged as I would never make a good parent and all the rest of it and yada yada, pretty much the same stuff that’s been said about the woman in question here.

The thing is, the same people condemning this woman are the same people who will give it wellly about the terrible state of mental health services in this country and how people are suffering and nobody knows what it’s like and all the rest of it. While it’s true that nobody else could possibly know what their life is like or what’s going on in their heads, the very same standards apply to the woman in question in this particular case.


I don’t mind admitting that I absolutely did want to get this thread shut down, from the very opening post, because I think Boards generally holds itself to a higher standard than these kinds of mob witch hunts against people who aren’t as fortunate as they are. I think it’s fair to say that none of us here, for all the condemnation and giving out that’s been done about her, would want to be in her circumstances.

This particular case isn’t making a mockery of anyone, it’s people themselves who are choosing to make a mockery of the woman in question in this particular case, because her life doesn’t fit with their perception of people who ‘deserve’ help from the State. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that someone who finds themselves in those circumstances will never make for good PR as they too have a past, and they aren’t cookie cutter model citizens or they generally wouldn’t be homeless in the first place, let alone have a whole plethora of issues with their mental health.

As for what does or doesn’t make a decent person, given that we really know nothing of this woman, I also think it’s fair to say that I have no idea what she’s like as a person, I’ve no idea what people here are like, but given some of the comments in this thread from some posters who went way OTT IMO, ‘decent’ is not the first word that comes to mind tbh. I don’t agree with the woman in question in this particular case, but I also don’t agree with the way she has been torn apart and vilified on social media, and worst of all here, where I expected that people who go on so much about mental health and abuse and so on, wouldn’t be so quick to pass judgement on someone who is clearly experiencing difficulties in their life.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/disproportionate-number-of-travellers-in-prison-population-1.3263524%3fmode=amp

“Travellers make up 0.6 per cent of the population yet account for 10 per cent of the male prisoner population and 22 per cent of the female prison population.”