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Peter Casey believes Travellers should not be recognised as an ethnic minority

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Clearly it is possible to keep sites clean.

    Send the Gardai and LA officials to learn from the LA's that run those sites.

    I would imagine it is a mixture of enforcement, education on what is expected and enabling them to look after the sites. Gardai need training in dealing with what is a community suspicious of them and they themselves admit that is a huge problem.

    What would you do by the way?

    I would firstly establish very firmly that the Rule of Law exists throughout the State.
    I would clearly advise the deviant site occupiers of a time limit after which,their place would be put right,with anything left over being incinerated,at the owners expense.

    The Gardai do indeed require new training regimes,not for a group which has very decidedly set themselves apart from general society,but instead for the entireity of Irelands population.

    However,as the Ethnicity issue has shown,loudly proclaiming one's difference from mainstream society,and advancing,at every opportunity a succession of excuses for non conformism should not be pandered to...which brings us neatly back to Casey's original anti-racist point.

    There are more than enough "Special One's" knocking around to last us a lifetime,without manufacturing more of the class ?


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Are you getting mixed up with Bertie Ahern's deceased mate - Jim Mansfield?!

    All rotten to the core tbh.

    If we even knew the smallest details between Jim Mansfield, FF and Haughey, it woukd rock the state to the core.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭goat2


    ShaneC93 wrote: »
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    A debate between Margaret and Peter Casey? Now that's something I'd like to see.

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    It is not P Caseys fault that people are doing this to her, it is just ignorance on their side.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    naughtb4 wrote: »
    So they are living on someone else's land without paying rent ??

    ;)

    They keep it so tidy, maybe the council should be paying them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Danzy wrote: »
    If we even knew the smallest details between Jim Mansfield, FF and Haughey, it woukd rock the state to the core.

    An unattended airfield with no customs or any Garda attention

    Tons of cocaine

    That kind of thing


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,672 ✭✭✭ThebitterLemon


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    I would firstly establish very firmly that the Rule of Law exists throughout the State.
    I would clearly advise the deviant site occupiers of a time limit after which,their place would be put right,with anything left over being incinerated,at the owners expense.

    The Gardai do indeed require new training regimes,not for a group which has very decidedly set themselves apart from general society,but instead for the entireity of Irelands population.

    However,as the Ethnicity issue has shown,loudly proclaiming one's difference from mainstream society,and advancing,at every opportunity a succession of excuses for non conformism should not be pandered to...which brings us neatly back to Casey's original anti-racist point.

    There are more than enough "Special One's" knocking around to last us a lifetime,without manufacturing more of the class ?


    I’m sure if I pile waste and rubbish around my property that the guards will take the time to educate me about litter :)

    There again I’m not special so I’ll probably just end up in court...

    TbL


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,841 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    I would firstly establish very firmly that the Rule of Law exists throughout the State.
    I would clearly advise the deviant site occupiers of a time limit after which,their place would be put right,with anything left over being incinerated,at the owners expense.

    The Gardai do indeed require new training regimes,not for a group which has very decidedly set themselves apart from general society,but instead for the entireity of Irelands population.

    However,as the Ethnicity issue has shown,loudly proclaiming one's difference from mainstream society,and advancing,at every opportunity a succession of excuses for non conformism should not be pandered to...which brings us neatly back to Casey's original anti-racist point.

    There are more than enough "Special One's" knocking around to last us a lifetime,without manufacturing more of the class ?

    SEMS is all about inclusiveness and parity of esteem. It is not a mechanism to separate them further.
    Those inter-acting with a community that is distrustful and suspicious and regardless of all the preaching, very embittered and ghettoised need training in dealing with them in a productive way, that gets the best results for all of us.

    Sending in the bulldozers, (to synopsise your solution) will only make things worse even if you get pleasure from it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Conservative


    Casey needs to absolutely nail him tomorrow night on his expenses and his son living in a house that was upgraded at the taxpayers expense.

    Laying into the scroungers on the dole was just the icing on the cake!

    I think it's going to be close. Hope people get out and support him on Friday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,148 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I'm all for open debate - but he went too far on that Ryanair Flight .

    A bit too subtle there, but hits the spot. Hilarious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Macdarack


    I do believe Peter Casey has some very good points when it comes to traveller culture. They do illegally camp (trespass) and the vast majority of them do not contribute to the taxman's purse. The situation in Tipperary is an unmitigated disgrace to all the genuine people waiting to be housed all over the country.
    Let's be brutally honest here, not one of these candidates would buy a house anywhere near a halting site and anyone who's ever lived in close proximity to one could tell you why. It does no one any good, including the travellers themselves, to bury their heads in the sand and pretend there aren't major issues within the travelling community.


    I won't be giving Casey my No.1 simply because of his views on abortion, however I do think some of his points have merit and I reckon his showing in the election may surprise some come Friday. He won't win, but it may prompt a frank and honest debate on traveller culture within the media....or maybe not. It does seem to be a particularly untouchable subject amongst the political class. It would be nice if it became less so.

    And hopefully a talk about our many welfare reward schemes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,148 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Casey needs to absolutely nail him tomorrow night on his expenses and his son living in a house that was upgraded at the taxpayers expense.

    Laying into the scroungers on the dole was just the icing on the cake!

    I think it's going to be close. Hope people get out and support him on Friday.

    I doubt it will be close at all really. MDH will win handsomely but questions will be asked during his second tenure, you know... the one that he said he would never want.

    Let MDH win and ask the questions then. Be like the Thundering Disgrace episode. I hope it keeps MDH on his little toes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    Im just finishing my poem, any ideas?
    Speak out and branded a racist 'Oh Crikey!'
    Ok so, you go live next door to a.........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,228 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    A bit too subtle there, but hits the spot. Hilarious.

    Casey on way back to Dublin to fight on for fans.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    the biggest travesty yet if he doesnt get it, we cant decide on Taoiseach, we can decide on one figure head! Casey will keep the spotlight on all the farces we face here if he gets in for years! What will MDH do for us, give some idiots a cute warm fuzzy feeling, as he's some leprechaun / hobbit cross?

    That snake varadkar the worlds largest populist, might change track, when he sees the kite changing direction!

    They take us for fools here and we are, they do as they will, against the will of a people, the silent majority and we sit back and take it, while those traitors, self serving parasites, line their pockets and laugh at us!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    Idbatterim wrote: »

    They take us for fools here and we are, they do as they will, against the will of a people, the silent majority and we sit back and take it, while those traitors, self serving parasites, line their pockets and laugh at us!

    Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H. L. Mencken


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭goat2


    Casey on way back to Dublin to fight on for fans.


    That man is disgusting, racist, and ignorant,
    She is a beautiful looking lady.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    wexie wrote: »
    Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H. L. Mencken

    I dont think any of us here, want the rats we have, with not ONE moderate voice in politics other than Casey! Tax payers seen as something that should be bled dry and not heard!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,841 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    Casey will keep the spotlight on all the farces we face here if he gets in for years! What will MDH do for us, give some idiots a cute warm fuzzy feeling, as he's some leprechaun / hobbit cross?

    So he is lying again then? Because he said he will observe the rules and restrictions of the presidency. Which is basically to say what the government want him to say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 485 ✭✭jace_da_face


    Opinions and debate get shut down so quickly these days under the guise of political correctness. Terms like ant-Semite, racist, misogynist, homophobe are bandied about all too easily. Free speech is under attack.

    Interesting piece in the examiner below. Refreshing to see a journalist willing to discuss and admit the part her profession is playing in all of this. Ironically it is in relation to the Blasphemy Referendum.

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/blasphemy-referendum-beware-of-unwelcome-consequences-877225.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    So he is lying again then? Because he said he will observe the rules and restrictions of the presidency. Which is basically to say what the government want him to say.

    cant see that happening!


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  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    They keep it so tidy, maybe the council should be paying them.

    I wouldn't pay them but I'd probably nominate them for an award and maybe give them medals that say ''Congratulations for not wrecking the land you decided to occupy''


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,228 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    goat2 wrote: »
    That man is disgusting, racist, and ignorant,
    She is a beautiful looking lady.

    I'd say he is just mentally ill to be honest
    or an ethnic minority


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    eeepaulo wrote: »
    Im just finishing my poem, any ideas?

    Speak out and branded a racist 'Oh Crikey!'
    Ok so, you go live next door to a
    Presidential Leprechaun named Mikey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,228 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Was listening to Casey today

    He is a bit batty to be honest and early signs of cognitive issues.

    Absolutely shocked how successful he has been - and has to be part luck.

    He looked like a total clown going down there with his wife and BMW.

    If it wasn't for traveler issue he would be still at 1 or 2 % , he has nothing to offer and all the dragons are complete useless delusional idiots to be honest.

    It is unfortunate Michael D is too old. Darkness into Light one had merit , but for one putting forward a mental health face - she was way too cranky at times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I wouldn't pay them but I'd probably nominate them for an award and maybe give them medals that say ''Congratulations for not wrecking the land you decided to occupy''

    Whatever you do, don't acknowledge the fact that not all Travellers are bad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    Was listening to Casey today

    He is a bit batty to be honest and early signs of cognitive issues.

    Absolutely shocked how successful he has been - and has to be part luck.

    He looked like a total clown going down there with his wife and BMW.

    If it wasn't for traveler issue he would be still at 1 or 2 % , he has nothing to offer and all the dragons are complete useless delusional idiots to be honest.

    It is unfortunate Michael D is too old. Darkness into Light one had merit , but for one putting forward a mental health face - she was way to cranky at times.

    So now he's a clown because he has a BMW (and wife?)? Bit of a generalisation no? Or is that just jealousy? Any little credibility your other posts had has just evaporated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭goat2


    Was listening to Casey today

    He is a bit batty to be honest and early signs of cognitive issues.

    Absolutely shocked how successful he has been - and has to be part luck.

    He looked like a total clown going down there with his wife and BMW.

    If it wasn't for traveler issue he would be still at 1 or 2 % , he has nothing to offer and all the dragons are complete useless delusional idiots to be honest.

    It is unfortunate Michael D is too old. Darkness into Light one had merit , but for one putting forward a mental health face - she was way too cranky at times.
    I beg to disagree, he has many more interesting views, to do with our overseas brothers and sisters, would like to see their offspring come back and see what Ireland is about


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    Was listening to Casey today

    He is a bit batty to be honest and early signs of cognitive issues.

    Absolutely shocked how successful he has been - and has to be part luck.

    He looked like a total clown going down there with his wife and BMW.

    If it wasn't for traveler issue he would be still at 1 or 2 % , he has nothing to offer and all the dragons are complete useless delusional idiots to be honest.

    It is unfortunate Michael D is too old. Darkness into Light one had merit , but for one putting forward a mental health face - she was way too cranky at times.

    whats wrong with the bmw?!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Conservative


    Casey needs to absolutely nail him tomorrow night on his expenses and his son living in a house that was upgraded at the taxpayers expense.

    Laying into the scroungers on the dole was just the icing on the cake!

    I think it's going to be close. Hope people get out and support him on Friday.

    I doubt it will be close at all really. MDH will win handsomely ..

    I'm prepared to eat humble pie on Saturday.

    I think a strong performance on tomorrow's debate can swing it in Casey's favour.


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