Family of seven sleep in Garda station Mod note post one

Jedidiah Lazy Moped wrote: »

How appalling of that person to throw the atrocity of the Magdalene laundries and other mistreatment of unmarried mothers at this woman's critics. And what's this "despite us all congratulating ourselves for being champions of feminism" thing about? Such terrible writing.

This isn't a situation where a woman has a child (or more than one child) whose father isn't around and is trying her best - wants to work/upskill but needs help getting on her feet. It isn't a situation where a woman was married or in a relationship, had children and their dad died or was abusive and she had to leave him. But the pretence is that it is comparable. It is however a case of someone being really irresponsible and demanding that resources be provided entirely by others. It is not difficult to see the difference.

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It's not difficult to see the difference apart from if you are in the media

Entirely valid criticisms of Margaret Cash and her husband have been swept away as trolling or support for Magdalene laundries

You can't expect the media to actually want to get at the true story like

Easier to blame the government, society, so called racism against travellers, landlords, the housing crisis etc than actually see this story for the stunt it was

Sad thing is that it's worked to a degree

Prisoner 6753 wrote: »

Imagine the outrage if this were China with the one child policy.

Do people this this article is right in limiting the number of children to 2 now?


https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2018/0828/987993-china-family-planning/

Encourage middle and upper class to have more children
Discourage others.

We need a new generation of tax payers badly, we don't need a new generation of wasters.

Someone posted in the last while about a cohort of tax payers who have effectively just given up, I'd probably put myself in that bracket.

Look at Michael McGrath yesterday.... Shouldn't be an election until after the budget. There's 800 million as a starting point to spend in the budget... There will be increases in social welfare.

It's makes me mad on two fronts. One, yet again, as last year, Social welfare increases across the board. This will likely be the head line payments, dole, pension etc. Its a joke, here's extra money, because. I could more readily live with it if they came back and said after examination we feel there's a real problem in this area, area "x" and people need support here, so we've decided to increase support in area "x" by €y. Nope it's heeeey, here's a fiver a week for all you people waheeeey.

Two: it pisses me off that a spokesperson for an opposition party and come out and effectively say this is what's going to be in the budget and we think there's more than 800million to spend. Who's in government? It's a shambles. If FG and Leo weren't so power hungry the plug would be pulled.

But the issue, as the other poster said, is what then? An election with, at this stage almost certainly little chance of a coalition government (which are a joke anyway), but at least somewhat workable, and most likely it's FG or FF trying to scrape a few percentage points more than the other so they can call themselves "the leading party" or "the governing party" while the other supports them in a minority agreement.

As such I can see why people feel it is a hopeless situation, especially when you throw in the media bull****.

Although, my biggest fear, is that we stop voting in elections and somehow sinn fein slither into power.

Eoghan Murphy and Miriam still praising the woman on Radion 1. It will never end with the media only willing to look at one side of the situation.

Re: homelessness in general, lord can Eoghan Murphy do some spin

Have any of the Traveller organisations made any comment on her?

Maybe ....

Just another example of politicians and the media having a set agenda and being too PC to reflect the real public mood

Couldn't be seen to be anything but supportive of a Single Homeless settled traveller mother of 7 who was 'forced' to sleep in Garda station with 6 kids

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

First couple up when we do our version of Mr & Mrs on the new Virgin Media channel.

Marty Morrissey takes over from Phillip Schofield on the UK version...

"Who's better at running away from Gardai ?"
"Who usually fills in the benefit claim forms ?"
"Who has more criminal convictions ?"

Ah you've won this lovely carriage clock. Er, it was here a minute ago ?

LOL

Done

Sardine wrote: »

It's looking for an address if you try and report her though. She's homeless! What address did you put in?

Tallaght Garda Station, Dublin 24

sightband wrote: »

I recall our present Taoiseach promoting citizens to report welfare fraud. I’ve just reported her...I’d encourage everyone on this thread to do the same...civic duty after all.

https://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Report-Suspected-Social-Welfare-Fraud-contact.aspx

Done as well, surprisingly easy (and somewhat satisfying) to do so. If everyone on here can report this (takes 2mins), you never know what might happen, she might actually get investigated and, heaven forbid, justice might be done! Although she is the poster-girl of homelessness now (which is an issue I might add, I just hate seeing her abuse this issue), so is probably above the law