Family of seven sleep in Garda station Mod note post one

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

A mate put it more succinctly than I could:

"Travellers are discriminated against in the same way pit bulls are.

Yeah some might seem to be okay but generally the mistrust is deserved by reputation and you wouldn't trust one ever."

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

Heads up boys and girls, the pox Connors on the LLS tonight talking social housing.

I'm sure Tubs will give him a rough go over the glorifying theft and vandalism at Lidl this year.

I also believe in fairies.

Loves_lorries wrote: »

Travellers face discrimination in the same way a kinehan member would if they lived in an area, the discrimination follows the bad behaviour.

Judson Calm Remote wrote: »

Over the past 25 years, Ireland has become one of the most multicultural countries in Europe, welcoming immigrants from all over the world. In an EU-wide poll in 2007, 84 percent of Irish said that having contact with different cultures enriched their lives, the highest figure of all 27 countries polled. Ireland has notably avoided the kinds of anti-immigration, nationalist sentiment seen in other countries ranging from Austria to Sweden to the UK.

Ireland in recent years has also embraced its homosexual population, becoming the first country in the world to approve same-sex marriage by popular referendum. We are one of the few countries in the world to have an openly gay head of government, who enjoys an approval rating that is by far the highest among party leaders.

But mysteriously, in a country otherwise willing to embrace people of every ethnicity, religion, or sexuality, there exists this rampant discrimination against travellers.

Why do you think this is?

Again, I'd come back to travellers' abysmal track record in Irish society. They make up just 0.6 percent of the Irish population, but account for 10 percent of male prisoners in the country and an astonishing 22 percent of female prisoners. In Castlerea Prison, more than 50 percent of the inmates are travellers.

Travellers are constantly in the courts and in the news for feuding, property damage, animal cruelty, tax evasion, and petty criminality of all sorts. Last year, four travellers were up in court accused of gunning down their uncle in front of his wife and grandchildren as they attended a family wedding. They have an extremely poor reputation as a consequence of their antics, and people are justifiably suspicious and hostile when they see them coming. Yet, they seem to make no effort to change. Even today, just 8 percent of traveller children sit the Leaving Cert. Fewer than 1 percent of travellers have third-level qualifications, and many young travellers are married off to first or second cousins while still in their teens -- so no surprise that many of them wind up as unemployable welfare dependents such as Margaret Cash.

Crying discrimination, as academics and traveller advocacy groups have done for decades, is only part of the picture. When travellers start to obey the law, educate their children to upper secondary and third level, get jobs, pay taxes, and stop seeing settled people as a resource to be exploited for their own ends, I'm quite sure the "discrimination" will cease. Until then, people have legitimate reasons to be suspicious and hostile.

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Just remember Sinn Fein can’t get enough of me cash.

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

I'd still consider myself to lean left on most issues but this isn't an issue of left or right, its about cop on and personal responsibility. The government shouldn't have to deal with this nonsense (our original topic I mean) in an ideal world.

Housing is another thing altogether, we can't keep up with an ever increasing population so of course prices are going to rise whether its the rental market or the sales market. There are housing problems all over the world because of over population but no politician wants to touch that issue. They might as well paint a swastika on their forehead if they did.