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Margaret Cash steals €300 worth of clothes from Penneys and aftermath/etc!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    tretorn wrote: »
    She has the children with her all the time while working people have their child stuck in creches for maybe ten hours a day.

    it would make your blood boil.

    In fairness, i wouldnt wish that on anyone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭skylight1987


    who is this person and why is there a whole thread devoted to her ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭van_beano


    Is winter here yet? Apparently it was a-comin' fast :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,356 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    who is this person and why is there a whole thread devoted to her ?

    This is her second thread. She has being in the news in the past few months and draws attention to herself because of her rants and social media us. She's also very topical because of homelessness crisis. Things in the media tends to get discussed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭tretorn


    In fairness, i wouldnt wish that on anyone

    Theres lots of parents though who have only a couple of hours to spend with their children for five days a week. Not everyone would want to be with their children all the time but lots would like shorter working hours and its not possible because of poor enough wages and high creche costs. This also puts people off having another child and MC will probably have three more children by the time she is thirty.

    Sometimes I think she has more sense than most people.


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,559 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    tretorn wrote: »
    An SNA who works in West Dublin said the vast majority of people who get one on one SNAs are non national. The non national children are autistic and wont get services in Poland or Lothuania or Estonia for example. The parents hear through the grapevine that the Irish are a soft touch if you need one on one for a child with a disability. We cant keep going with this and we should be concentrating resources on Irish children.
    Its not right that people are bringing autistic children here for one reason only and thats to get extra resources free of charge. I wont get much if I go to Poland so what's in it for me to have so many Poles here, we need to make things less attractive.
    How much is child benefit in Poland and can you spend your life on welfare there.
    Your SNA friend doesn't know their ass from their elbow. No "one to one SNAs exist any more and aren't no child is automatically given resource hours any more either, no matter what their diagnosis. Any how can someone be a "non national?" They are, according to you Polish nationals.


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


    103 previous convictions...
    103

    Tell me again about this marginalised, deprived, discriminated against ethnic minority.

    .....What are we supposed to do with people like that? As a country and society like.

    I've made a good few posts arguing we should have better rehabilitation etc etc. in our prisons and I genuinely believe that it would be useful in many cases.

    But someone like that....who has so little human decency left in him, what are we supposed to do with people like that? Can't kill him (cause it'd be illegal), can't give him a life sentence for stealing 700 euro (aside from the fact life means what? 7 years? 12 years?)....what do we do?

    And, importantly, what do we do with a culture where this is considered acceptable? Where people like these aren't shunned but just accepted.

    109 convictions.....

    I'm sure there's people out there going : ah but he's a good father, he loves his childers yada yada yada....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭skylight1987


    This is her second thread. She has being in the news in the past few months and draws attention to herself because of her rants and social media us. She's also very topical because of homelessness crisis. Things in the media tends to get discussed.

    I must have skipped all media news on her . anyway was just curious


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


    tretorn wrote: »
    Theres lots of parents though who have only a couple of hours to spend with their children for five days a week. Not everyone would want to be with their children all the time but lots would like shorter working hours and its not possible because of poor enough wages and high creche costs.

    Or long commutes to and from Dublin because they can't afford to live near their work. And why can't they afford to live near their work? Cause of scum like MC who are taking up houses for no other reason than 'yeah but I want to live here'

    **** off to ballybackarseofnowhere with ya Margaret


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Wheeliebin30


    Vote Casey no 1.


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,559 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Be careful what you wish for , Wexie, she has spent some time in Wexford- but not done time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭tretorn


    There is nothing we can do about him but we can stop Child Benefit at two children and we can dock this scrotes welfare payments, that would be better than putting him in prison. He got nine months and he has over a hundred previous convictions, would he have spent any time in prison up to this.

    He probably spent the whole day sidling up to the really elderly and pulling that scam. He could have pulled in thousands in cash, he got over seven hundred off the man in supervalu but he may have been the only one to report him.

    I think the registered numbers of all the travellers cars should shared around each of the Garda districts and the movements monitored. this means of course that the Gardai will be tied up a great deal of time but Gardai presence might be a deterrent. We could have Gardai regularly sitting outside halting sites ready to follow someone like this cretin, the Gardai knew full well who had done this to the old man, how could they not when he had so many convictions.

    The only one to say it as it is is Peter Casey and we owe it to him to give him a vote.


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


    Be careful what you wish for , Wexie, she has spent some time in Wexford- but not done time.

    meh, we have some of em come round every so often.

    Turns out they don't like dags nearly as much as they think they do.

    Especially not large growling and barking ones.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭Graniteville


    Ireland should look at how benefit cap works in the UK.

    If the delightful Mrs Cash lived in the UK, she'd get max 384stg a week including housing benefits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    If the delightful Mrs Cash lived in the UK, she'd get max 384stg a week excluding housing benefits.

    She probably does


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,105 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    yes I have, I have chronic back pain that affects me sporadically, as well as occasional migraines. I deal with them accordingly, as it affects me, rather that writing myself off waiting for it to happen.

    Again, yes. I commuted 2 hours in the am and 2 hours in the pm, and worked 4 9 hr days and 1 6 hour day, for years. In the absolute height of my initial condition, in the weeks before my diagnosis, I dragged myself from my bed, fatigued and unwell and with no idea what was wrong with me. Smells made me sick, food made me sick. It was so horrible that on one occasion I had to ask a family member to meet me at the train to ensure I got off because I felt so unwell I genuinely didn’t think I would make it home. I was subsequently hospitalized days later and my gp later told me I could have lapsed into a coma, the condition was so severe and untreated.

    Occasional migraines and sporadic back pain, well that's nice for you but some of us get them more than occasionally. Some of us get them frequently even a few times a week and it's not just pain confined to back it's can be all over. Having that level of pain and illness takes its toll in other ways as well. I know it's hard to grasp the concept but people can be sicker than you.

    Whoopy f*ching doo you commuted 4 hours a day, many people commute more than that daily and plenty of people worked over 9 hours a day as well when ill. I also see you own your own business so that's how you can work around your illness.
    Most of us can't start up our own businesses, we don't have that type of money, the energy, the health, the skill set to do that. Also businesses are not going to take someone on who is too unreliable due to illness. Would you employ someone who could call in any day and say they can't come in because they have a cluster migraine or their pain is so bad they are on meds that give so much brain fog they cannot function. Would you take on someone who has severe brain fog every day where they forget stuff etc?
    I know all about invisible illness, thanks very much. I’m currently taking a low dose of chemo to try and control my own invisible illness. But I choose to live the life I have to the best of my ability, working for as long as I possibly can, providing and building a future for myself that I can look after myself down the line. I am not a victim to any of my auto immune diseases. I am strong and independent and enjoy what I do, and paying my own way in life. I am lucky that every day I can get out of bed, and go about a relatively normal day to day life, may need a little bit of an adaptation here and there. But for the most part I do ok. I enjoy working and I hope to work for a long time yet. It’s just very frustrating to see my tax going towards people who are totally workshy.

    I get that people with illnesses or conditions are more limited in what they can do. But it’s very rare that someone with a standard condition is totally unsuitable for all work.

    And the rest of us haven't worked, paid our taxes for years etc, we don't take strong medication either...... yep.... :rolleyes:
    Welcome to our world we find it very frustrating dealing with people like you. Many of us with invisible illnesses deal with ignorance like yours every day but thankfully when being assessed by Medical Professionals they don't measure us against the Jasiah Hot Talker scale of "well if she can work everyone else can" measurement.

    But in the end you still don't seem to get it, "as it affects ME" seem to be the only thing that you understand, Me as in Jasiah Hot Talker. How do you know what it's like for these people, are you a medical professional, do you have access to their medical records, private life, their bodies etc to know what they can and cannot do. And again you are measuring a persons illness etc against your own, just because you have your own business that allows you to work around you illness does not mean everyone else has that type of access to work and to even think that is incredibly ignorant and selfish.
    You’re absolutely disgusting to say that. If you must know, I buried both parents by the age of 25, and my dads nurses often told me I did a fantastic job taking care of him. But I’d be good like that, I’m not workshy.

    So someone said you did a great job, I still stand by my previous statement that I pity any family member that may need you help or sympathy, in fact I pity anyone who would work for you if they got sick. Reading you on here I'm thinking god help them, I can already hear you go on about how bad your hands are and how you can work blah blah blah, guilt tripping them into not going home early or calling in sick.

    You seem to believe anyone with a debilitating illness is workshy without even knowing their history, you also seem to think that a lot of us on disability have a great life. We don't, we deal the the daily pain, the brain fog the other side effects, the isolation and many suffer with depression. We count pennies, most of the time go without because we have bills to pay.
    I'm leaving it at that but if you every stop working for yourself think about applying for a government job you'd fit in great with your attitude.


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The apologists would piss you off as much as the parasites tbh. Someone quoted some tramp had 103 convictions including the one against a 97year old. I'd be inclined to call that person worthless vermin and yet you'd still have some right-on kunt tell me I shouldn't say that. I've reached the end of the road with these do gooders, I really have. Time to start telling it how it is. No more biting the tongue for fear of offending someone.


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jesus Christ that essay of a post above is a disgrace. Absolutely shocking. Should be ashamed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭irishproduce


    Vote Peter Casey no 1 tomorrow!


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Vote Peter Casey no 1 tomorrow!

    Technically today but ok I will. Just because of this post.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    spookwoman wrote: »
    Occasional migraines and sporadic back pain, well that's nice for you but some of us get them more than occasionally. Some of us get them frequently even a few times a week and it's not just pain confined to back it's can be all over. Having that level of pain and illness takes its toll in other ways as well. I know it's hard to grasp the concept but people can be sicker than you.

    Whoopy f*ching doo you commuted 4 hours a day, many people commute more than that daily and plenty of people worked over 9 hours a day as well when ill. I also see you own your own business so that's how you can work around your illness.
    Most of us can't start up our own businesses, we don't have that type of money, the energy, the health, the skill set to do that. Also businesses are not going to take someone on who is too unreliable due to illness. Would you employ someone who could call in any day and say they can't come in because they have a cluster migraine or their pain is so bad they are on meds that give so much brain fog they cannot function. Would you take on someone who has severe brain fog every day where they forget stuff etc?



    And the rest of us haven't worked, paid our taxes for years etc, we don't take strong medication either...... yep.... :rolleyes:
    Welcome to our world we find it very frustrating dealing with people like you. Many of us with invisible illnesses deal with ignorance like yours every day but thankfully when being assessed by Medical Professionals they don't measure us against the Shoesdayschild scale of "well if she can work everyone else can" measurement.

    But in the end you still don't seem to get it, "as it affects ME" seem to be the only thing that you understand, Me as in Shoesdayschild. How do you know what it's like for these people, are you a medical professional, do you have access to their medical records, private life, their bodies etc to know what they can and cannot do. And again you are measuring a persons illness etc against your own, just because you have your own business that allows you to work around you illness does not mean everyone else has that type of access to work and to even think that is incredibly ignorant and selfish.



    So someone said you did a great job, I still stand by my previous statement that I pity any family member that may need you help or sympathy, in fact I pity anyone who would work for you if they got sick. Reading you on here I'm thinking god help them, I can already hear you go on about how bad your hands are and how you can work blah blah blah, guilt tripping them into not going home early or calling in sick.

    You seem to believe anyone with a debilitating illness is workshy without even knowing their history, you also seem to think that a lot of us on disability have a great life. We don't, we deal the the daily pain, the brain fog the other side effects, the isolation and many suffer with depression. We count pennies, most of the time go without because we have bills to pay.
    I'm leaving it at that but if you every stop working for yourself think about applying for a government job you'd fit in great with your attitude.
    I didn’t bother reading all of this because I found it aggressive and confrontational, but you do you boo. But for someone prone to cluster migraines you sure can sit in front of a screen writing essays of replies for a long time. Might want to watch that, could trigger you.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    I didn’t bother reading all of this because I found it aggressive and confrontational, but you do you boo. But for someone prone to cluster migraines you sure can sit in front of a screen writing essays of replies for a long time. Might want to watch that, could trigger you.

    I've reported that because I think it is incredibly uncivil to posters who do not deserve it.

    I will agree with you about migraines. I haven't had one for a few years thank God but when I was prone, sunlight could kick an attack off - a PC screen writing the Iliad would have killed me.

    I also do 4 hours commute per day but I never realised it was nothing. Who knew ?!! :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I've reported that because I think it is incredibly uncivil to posters who do not deserve it.

    I will agree with you about migraines. I haven't had one for a few years thank God but when I was prone, sunlight could kick an attack off - a PC screen writing the Iliad would have killed me.

    I also do 4 hours commute per day but I never realised it was nothing. Who knew ?!! :rolleyes:
    4 hours is nothing to those who put no value on their own time. Don’t take it personally x


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    4 hours is nothing to those who put no value on their own time. Don’t take it personally x

    Cheers Shoes!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    What has anything all yee are bickering over to with a woman that's never commuted or worked and never will??????????????????????


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    What has anything all yee are bickering over to with a woman that's never commuted or worked and never will??????????????????????


    She only commutes to protests where she can shout and rant and shout and rant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    She only commutes to protests where she can shout and rant and shout and rant.

    Funny that she had to dump her kids in a Garda station because she couldn't get to the emergency accomodation provided to her, yet she seems to be able to swan around to protests like a female Michael D Higgins.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Gravelly wrote: »
    Funny that she had to dump her kids in a Garda station because she couldn't get to the emergency accomodation provided to her, yet she seems to be able to swan around to protests like a female Michael D Higgins.
    She also complains that when she drops her kids to school she has to hang around Tallaght until she can pick up the kids and take them home.


    She obviously has lied about this as she pops into town for protests and maybe even the odd trip to Penneys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    Gravelly wrote: »
    Funny that she had to dump her kids in a Garda station because she couldn't get to the emergency accomodation provided to her, yet she seems to be able to swan around to protests like a female Michael D Higgins.

    I just had a horrible image of her getting off the lear jet, then i thought course that wont work, no room for the horses


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    eeepaulo wrote: »
    I just had a horrible image of her getting off the lear jet, then i thought course that wont work, no room for the horses

    :D:D:D


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