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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: 1,469 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    RTE letting them all talk, joan, gavin, sean, watch him now...... dont like pikeys do you peter?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    Joan : irrelevant
    Liadh: thinks she's important but a joke
    Michael D: if he was a foot taller and 20 years younger he'd be getting slaughtered
    Gallagher: arrogant FFer, irrelevant but penny hasn't dropped yet
    Casey: doesn't give a bollox
    Duffy: a bollox

    That's all folks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,813 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    hawkwing wrote: »
    I'd say you would eat a traveller's sh1t:confused:

    This is the type of person Casey incited. ^
    I hope this post is left here as a testament to him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Gavin Duffy...weak.

    Michael D. didn’t show up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    I'm not saying that the traveller group in Tipperary got their way (time will tell), but the fact that they would request this is emboldened by their ethnic status.

    Being Doctor Who again. Their claim is they had a long-standing agreement with Tipp council for some sort of facilities for their horses. How's that anything to do with their being "emboldened" by much more recent recognition as an ethnic group?

    If anything, it sounds a lot more like TCC being "emboldened" by an appeal to nasty populist anti-Traveller outrage to renege on that agreement. (If what's reported as being agreed is accurate.)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    bubblypop wrote: »
    So, you are saying he is a liar?
    Do you have any proof of his lies? What has he lied about?

    How dare anyone suggest he's lying.

    Security issue
    Liaison with PSNI


    Called out very publicly on both these claims.....


    Tonight it turns out it was to save time.

    You know if he had of just said something along the lines of " my travel arrangements are taken care off by my security team, and I have little to no influence in that" there'd not have been a whisper since, right?


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


    This is the type of person Casey incited. ^
    I hope this post is left here as a testament to him.

    He was only playing you at your own game. And you know it


  • Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't believe that any other group could get away with refusing houses because they didn't have stables. I'm not saying that the traveller group in Tipperary got their way (time will tell), but the fact that they would request this is emboldened by their ethnic status. They will use their culture and status as a bargaining tool. We will see many more examples of this type of thing in time.

    You have made that connection that they are demanding this because of their ethnic minority status. Is there any proof that being an ethnic minority in Ireland makes you more equal than others.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    I think you’ll find I predicted it back around 1730.

    Regrettably seems I was correct.

    The predictable part here is Bren marking his own homework, as per.


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


    alaimacerc wrote: »
    Being Doctor Who again. Their claim is they had a long-standing agreement with Tipp council for some sort of facilities for their horses. How's that anything to do with their being "emboldened" by much more recent recognition as an ethnic group?

    If anything, it sounds a lot more like TCC being "emboldened" by an appeal to nasty populist anti-Traveller outrage to renege on that agreement. (If what's reported as being agreed is accurate.)

    I couldn't care less about what they claim. They refused free houses because they were not give stables. Gees. Can't see the wood for the trees!


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  • Posts: 19,178 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    How dare anyone suggest he's lying.

    Security issue
    Liaison with PSNI


    Called out very publicly on both these claims.....


    Tonight it turns out it was to save time.

    You know if he had of just said something along the lines of " my travel arrangements are taken care off by my security team, and I have little to no influence in that" there'd not have been a whisper since, right?

    True.
    That's probably what he should have said!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,813 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    He was only playing you at your own game. And you know it

    With respect, I have debated the issues here robustly, but with some decency I hope.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,165 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    How dare anyone suggest he's lying.

    Security issue
    Liaison with PSNI


    Called out very publicly on both these claims.....


    Tonight it turns out it was to save time.

    You know if he had of just said something along the lines of " my travel arrangements are taken care off by my security team, and I have little to no influence in that" there'd not have been a whisper since, right?

    Certain people are Michael D fans and they'll always defend him in my experience!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Lackey


    Just goes to show these people throw 'isms' around like confetti

    Casey: Travellers should be treated equally, the same as everyone else
    The Panel: Racist
    Casey: I will set up a panel of all young women and my wife to advise me in different areas e.g. disability
    Panel: Tumbleweed rolls by

    Bahaha Vote Casey No.1 !!


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


    Lackey wrote: »
    Just goes to show these people throw 'isms' around like confetti

    Casey: Travellers should be treated equally, the same as everyone else
    The Panel: Racist
    Casey: I will set up a panel of all young women and my wife to advise me in different areas e.g. disability
    Panel: Tumbleweed rolls by

    Bahaha Vote Casey No.1 !!

    The man's a clown, but i got 50c @ 500/1 so VOTE CASEY


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,294 ✭✭✭LiamoSail


    Joan Freeman just go home and stop wasting everybody's time.

    Taking a salary the guts of 100,000 from a charity.. such a vocation.

    I'm no Joan Freenman fan, I know nothing of her but I see no issue with the CEO (or equivalent role) of a charity earning €100k.

    That's what a decent CEO will cost. Granted you could get the role filled for €30k/yr, or on a voluntary basis, but you won't attract the the calibre of candidate with the education, experience and expertise necessary to manage and direct a large organisation to its potential.

    According to wiki, Freeman has a masters in psychology, founded and grew Pieta House and presumably has considerable experience. €100k seems a fair salary for that calibre of qualification and experience


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    Benzino wrote: »
    While I agree somewhat with his comments regarding the traveller community, I find his video regarding MDH dogs to be extremely embarrassing, can't take him seriously after seeing that. Honestly who came up with that, green lit it, produced it and then said yeah, that's good!

    Traditionally, people who "agree somewhat" with comments disparaging Travellers elect some local councillor or TD that has the small bit of brains needed to parlay them into some sort of semi-deniable "not in my back yard" protestations about them.

    To vote for someone spouting crass vacuities on topic, running for a position not able to do anything about it, would be illogical even on its own nasty little terms. Which could almost be subtitle for this thread...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    I couldn't care less about what they claim. They refused free houses because they were not give stables. Gees. Can't see the wood for the trees!

    All the negative comments started pilling on because of the entitlement over the site in Tipp not before. If you think about it up until the referendum on the 8th there was a very pro Traveller push in the media ect.

    Folk are now changing the narrative because it suits them, as it makes it easier to paint those they disagree with in a negative light .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,017 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    LiamoSail wrote: »
    I'm no Joan Freenman fan, I know nothing of her but I see no issue with the CEO (or equivalent role) of a charity earning €100k.

    That's what a decent CEO will cost. Granted you could get the role filled for €30k/yr, or on a voluntary basis, but you won't attract the the calibre of candidate with the education, experience and expertise necessary to manage and direct a large organisation to its potential.

    According to wiki, Freeman has a masters in psychology, founded and grew Pieta House and presumably has considerable experience. €100k seems a fair salary for that calibre of qualification and experience

    The HSE is full of wastes of space on 100k who should be doing a lot of the work left to charities to do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,813 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Calhoun wrote: »
    All the negative comments started pilling on because of the entitlement over the site in Tipp not before. If you think about it up until the referendum on the 8th there was a very pro Traveller push in the media ect.

    Folk are now changing the narrative because it suits them, as it makes it easier to paint those they disagree with in a negative light .

    Lads, the issue is dead. Peter got found out, When challenged, as predicted, he couldn't defend his position. When he started blabbering about 'benefits' he got rightly ridiculed for talking ****e.


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


    You have made that connection that they are demanding this because of their ethnic minority status. Is there any proof that being an ethnic minority in Ireland makes you more equal than others.

    Proof? Let's not deal in such absolutes here. Terms like ethnic minority are all about semantics. And that means subtle power. I heard Martin Collins of Pavee Point refer to Casey as a racist the other night on the news. Not prejudiced or intolerant, but racist. I think any Nigerians watching this must have had a good laugh at some Irish white man say that another Irish white man was racist toward his group. That's the kind of claim you can make with ethnic minority status I would say.

    So if councils refuse the wishes of travellers and fear being branded a racist as a result, for example, then their minority status is very relevant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,660 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    alaimacerc wrote: »
    The predictable part here is Bren marking his own homework, as per.

    Attack the post, not the poster.

    Where did I see that written down, I wonder……………



    (Was I wrong,but :D)


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


    Lads, the issue is dead. Peter got found out, When challenged, as predicted, he couldn't defend his position. When he started blabbering about 'benefits' he got rightly ridiculed for talking ****e.

    You still dont get it, he isnt a great orator like tony blair, he isnt an opportunist like donald trump, he is a bumbling fool who simply said what every normal person thinks, then he got dragged across the coals by the media and politicians


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,813 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    eeepaulo wrote: »
    You still dont get it, he isnt a great orator like tony blair, he isnt an opportunist like donald trump, he is a bumbling fool who simply said what every normal person thinks, then he got dragged across the coals by the media and politicians

    Because he was wrong. Full stop. And normal people are smart enough to see that.


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


    I think this miscalculation here is that these "Dragon's" are wealthy. Casey is relatively wealthy, the other two are not and not sure they ever have been.

    Open to correction.


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


    Because he was wrong. Full stop. And normal people are smart enough to see that.

    Marvelous, debate over, francie has said wrong. Full stop. Sounds like the media.


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


    LNR saying 47k net is the average industrial wage haha my God how out of touch is she


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭riemann


    Casey was far to nervous and bottled it.

    He needed to go all in.

    Sad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,229 ✭✭✭omega man


    LNR saying 47k net is the average industrial wage haha my God how out of touch is she

    But there’s different tiers!! I turned off with embarrassment for her....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    Gallagher: "... people say to me..."

    Would ya **** off, nobody says nothing to you, you slap-head ****. Get off the stage, ****in nobody.


    I'm running in 2025.


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