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

listermint · 30-10-2018 11:52PM

Aye there is no travellers in Dublin.

It's void of travellers except all the traveller halting sites that are in Dublin.

I'm starting to think that alot of people don't have a ****ing clue about Dublin.

And are creating a them and us decide between rural and Dublin which helps substantiate a them and us decide for travellers.

Rural people being surpressed by a lefty Dublin majority.

It's in your heads. Your conjuring up suppression that doesn't exist. Everyone is fully aware of rural crime. Everyone is aware travellers play a part in it. But the absolute gawl of people in here saying that 99 per cent is travellers then you clearly don't have a breeze about your local town or village every one of them have the local prick in it that does the robbing or a few local pricks.

If you want law and order then you better be prepared to petition your TDs for new prisons. And not handing out votes to millionaire US businessmen to fix all your ills.

A bit of facts for your narratives wouldn't go a miss

Ursus Horribilis · 30-10-2018 11:56PM

Except TDs and the law are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. They're all in thrall to these scobies and they're getting away with it. We had trouble with them around where I live and the authorities were less than useless.

Vizzy · 30-10-2018 11:56PM

FrancieBrady wrote: »

With respect, my 'party' - the overwhelming majority of people who voted - won the election. Just thought I would point that out.

With respect, the "party" that you have espousing the view of, backed the wrong horse here, with respect.
I note that even Mary "Gerry Adams" Lou McDonald hasn't even made the claim that your party did well.

FrancieBrady · 30-10-2018 11:57PM

Vizzy wrote: »

With respect, the "party" that you have espousing the view of, backed the wrong horse here, with respect.
I note that even Mary "Gerry Adams" Lou McDonald hasn't even made the claim that your party did well.

I voted and supported MDH since the start of the thread. I won. This democrat is happy with the result.

bobwilliams · 30-10-2018 11:59PM

AlphabetCards wrote:

You can bet on it. Straight from the Bannon playbook. Ireland has a void in the hierarchy for people expressing these sentiments, I'm gonna say he will get 20% in the polls if he carries on like this.

Well played sir...you were on the money

ongarboy · 31-10-2018 12:08AM

Bob Harris wrote: »

Never heard of Peter Casey. In a week or two I never will again.

As they say, a week is long time in politics!!

listermint · 31-10-2018 12:47AM

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

Except TDs and the law are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. They're all in thrall to these scobies and they're getting away with it. We had trouble with them around where I live and the authorities were less than useless.

A grand let's get in those millionaire businesses men. They can tell us all about how the media is out to get them.

And everything is fake news.

Oh and they know what real people are like.

Wooot.woot

Austria! · 31-10-2018 12:49AM

irishproduce wrote: »

Those people who emailed Peter to not drop out/ lend your support should now email him again offering to continue that support if he leads a party.

Very different being president and a TD, not to mind a party leader. Casey attracted single issue voters on travellers and welfare despite of his shortcomings as a candidate, he was on 2% before that for a reason.

He's had his moment, people got to send a message, and now he's done I hope. I voted PC for "hey government deal with this issue" and not "please let this guy become a political fixture, he seems great"

SafeSurfer · 31-10-2018 02:43AM

FrancieBrady wrote: »

I voted and supported MDH since the start of the thread. I won. This democrat is happy with the result.

Yes Francie. You won. Congratulations. Just like everyone who voted to get rid of blasphemy feels like a winner today. A personal victory for you and a vindication of 500 posts and the hours spent in support of your hero Michael D Higgins, because without you, it wouldn’t have made any difference. You go girl.

SafeSurfer · 31-10-2018 02:47AM

Let’s face it people. Peter Casey was a useful idiot who articulated views long suppressed. Enabling these views to be brought to public attention. He is not the messiah, he is politically clueless and from recent utterances, more than a little thick.

And this is from a Casey voter.

Brendan Bendar · 31-10-2018 06:40AM

Kennedy Embarrassed Gentlewoman wrote: »

Never heard of it either. Sounds like something Sarah Palin would say.

You need to get out more, maybe.

nice_guy80 · 31-10-2018 09:14AM

From talking to people i know who voted for Casey, the housing issue in Tipp seems to have struck a chord with a lot of people

6 lovely houses sitting empty because their intended occupants want grazing space for their horses.

That and Leo interfering

suicide_circus · 31-10-2018 09:30AM

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Let’s face it people. Peter Casey was a useful idiot who articulated views long suppressed. Enabling these views to be brought to public attention. He is not the messiah, he is politically clueless and from recent utterances, more than a little thick.

And this is from a Casey voter.

yep, I said it before the election: he won't win, he is just a means to an end.

pjohnson · 31-10-2018 09:32AM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

The question should be "Is a vote for Casey a vote for those working and contributing together with a vote for equality and law and order"

Fat chance.

Lol he was nobody until his traveller comments.

tretorn · 31-10-2018 09:52AM

Casey gave isollated elderly people a chance to see how many other peole are living in fear like they are, if he did nothing else he gave hope to these people that something would be done about traveller criminality. Its a false hope.

The media are determined that the vote will be prenented as if uneducated rednecks came out of their shacks in the mountains, there will be no discussion of the issues allowed, no real analysing of the Court reports which are full of traveller crime and its the journalists who are covering these court cases. The reports about using the lurchers are leaving out the most pertinent facts, these are travellers so why not just say this, its helping no one but the travellers to be so coy with the truth. Where are the comments from the Gardai in relation to this matter, where is the committment from the new Garda Commissioner to reassure three hundred thousand people have he has taken their vote on board. Not one single thing has been said by official Ireland, its a disgrace that Leo Vradkar has not apologised for dictating to people how they should vote, everyone of those three hundred people who voted for Casey should email Vradkar now, if he sees his inbox full it might make him think.

Another article in the Irish Times today from Katherine Sheridan, Peter Casey is a halloween bogie man who should terrify us all, he should have knocked on the caravans doors and asked the travellers to behave themselves. Wait until her door is kicked in by four or five men and her children are put in fear of their lives, bet she wont be heading down to the local halting site. There wasnt one word in her article about traveller criminality, it was all about "settled folk" turning down houses so why should travellers be critiscised for doing so. You will probably find settled folk turn down most houses because they are in horrible areas, doubt if many "settled people" would turn down brand new group housing across the road where they are camped, these houses have been provided for an extended family group to live together and they will have been built to the higest specification, what other homeless family has been given this treatment.

I am going to cancel my subscription to the Irish Times, I have had enough of Fintan O Toole, Una Mullally and Katherine Sheridan, enough of their wittering prose penned in the Irish Times office or in their homes which may as well be on a different planet to where the problems with travellers are.

FrancieBrady · 31-10-2018 10:00AM

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Let’s face it people. Peter Casey was a useful idiot who articulated views long suppressed. Enabling these views to be brought to public attention. He is not the messiah, he is politically clueless and from recent utterances, more than a little thick.

And this is from a Casey voter.

Casey: easily engaged with those easily ennraged. Two or three week wonder and the pack will move on to the next thing

listermint · 31-10-2018 10:01AM

I know this is a lie because no one has a subscription to the irish times

:P

PlaneSpeeking · 31-10-2018 10:24AM

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Not the point. Please stop the mythmaking around the subject? Might bring a bit more credibility/

It's very much the point actually!!!!!

Jackman25 · 31-10-2018 10:30AM

FrancieBrady wrote: »

I voted and supported MDH since the start of the thread. I won. This democrat is happy with the result.

If Caseys result meant nothing, then why are you still here arguing?
I think you are not as happy as you are pretending to be.

PlaneSpeeking · 31-10-2018 10:37AM

listermint wrote: »

I know this is a lie because no one has a subscription to the irish times

:P

Either you're lying or you work in the Subs department and have just breached GDPR and should be fired.

blinding · 31-10-2018 10:39AM

Jackman25 wrote: »

If Caseys result meant nothing, then why are you still here arguing?
I think you are not as happy as you are pretending to be.

He Doth Protest Too Much !;)

CrankyHaus · 31-10-2018 10:41AM

tretorn wrote: »

I am going to cancel my subscription to the Irish Times, I have had enough of Fintan O Toole, Una Mullally and Katherine Sheridan, enough of their wittering prose penned in the Irish Times office or in their homes which may as well be on a different planet to where the problems with travellers are.

I'm surprised it took you so long. It's been a comic for years. Arguably since Conor Brady stepped down as editor. The high quality journalism in it has been gradually pushed further and further to the fringes as shilling columnists with overt connections to different factions of the Irish establishment have taken centre stage.

Don't even get me started on how the Property Supplement tail wags the editorial policy dog.

Jackman25 · 31-10-2018 10:45AM

blinding wrote: »

He Doth Protest Too Much !;)

Next thing we will be hearing that the Irish Times is delighted with the result. They are in overdrive at the moment churning out anti-Casey articles.
****.

KrustyUCC · 31-10-2018 11:07AM

nice_guy80 wrote: »

From talking to people i know who voted for Casey, the housing issue in Tipp seems to have struck a chord with a lot of people

6 lovely houses sitting empty because their intended occupants want grazing space for their horses.

That and Leo interfering

Half an acre each and stables demanded in the middle of a housing crisis

According to a man on the council when the agreement was made, the agreement was that the houses would be built and then the bridge would be cleared.

What should have happened is that they went to the bottom of the queue, the houses were given to other people on the list and that they were cleared from their unauthorised site anyway

Of course some would complain for poor treatment but they would have made their choice but not taking up very good quality housing as their culture is more important than housing

omega man · 31-10-2018 11:12AM

Whilst I completely agree that the vote for Casey was a means to an end I think it’s a little insulting calling him an idiot or thick.

He’s obviously a successful business man and was smart enough to run with the traveller / social welfare issues when he saw the public reaction.

I’ve said it before though he’s certainly not TD or party leader material (although the intellectual abilities of many current TDs is questionable).

Tipperary animal lover · 31-10-2018 11:14AM

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Casey: easily engaged with those easily ennraged. Two or three week wonder and the pack will move on to the next thing

Easily enraged is it francie!!! I've enjoyed your comments on here and your well able to stand up for yourself Fairplay, but this has it a cord with me, I deal with people in my area who have been terrorized in their homes over the years by the ethnic community, one old lady was robbed(thank God she was out) but the stress of it all she had a stroke and died a few weeks after the burglary, many a horse has died in the last year from been driven into the ground because it's Their culture..... so ya this pack here in Tipperary won't be moving onto the next thing Francie we have to deal with these problems daily, but sure us country peolpe are a means to and end for our over lords in posh south dublin. I think I'm entitled to be a bit enraged Francie

tretorn · 31-10-2018 12:10PM

The Irish Times has gone to the dogs, even in the quality of the proof reading of the third year type sociology articles, the grammar and spelling mistakes are so bad now and even up to three years sgo this wouldnt have been the case.
The subscription is sixteen euros a month so not a lot but I have had enough of it now, bye bye.

blanch152 · 31-10-2018 12:12PM

FrancieBrady wrote: »

I voted and supported MDH since the start of the thread. I won. This democrat is happy with the result.

I am delighted to hear that you are happy with the result. The demise of the Sinn Fein candidate and the high level of support for Peter Casey were the two biggest stories of the result, and I would agree with you that I am happy with the result.

FrancieBrady · 31-10-2018 12:16PM

Tipperary animal lover wrote: »

Easily enraged is it francie!!! I've enjoyed your comments on here and your well able to stand up for yourself Fairplay, but this has it a cord with me, I deal with people in my area who have been terrorized in their homes over the years by the ethnic community, one old lady was robbed(thank God she was out) but the stress of it all she had a stroke and died a few weeks after the burglary, many a horse has died in the last year from been driven into the ground because it's Their culture..... so ya this pack here in Tipperary won't be moving onto the next thing Francie we have to deal with these problems daily, but sure us country peolpe are a means to and end for our over lords in posh south dublin. I think I'm entitled to be a bit enraged Francie

My point has always been that the 'rage' is being cheaply exploited by Casey.

The real rage should be directed at those who are creating the perfect storm.
Those who advocate that rural life is unsustainable and who support the stripping of services are where the anger should be directed.

I simply don't believe travellers are inherently more disposed to violence as others...seems to me thst if you strip rural Ireland of it's security infrastructure while at the same time creating a have and have not economy, that there will be those who take advantage from across the whole of society.

Leo and the 'establishment' are probably just as delighted with the Hang Em High Casey sideshow.

FrancieBrady · 31-10-2018 12:20PM

blanch152 wrote: »

I am delighted to hear that you are happy with the result. The demise of the Sinn Fein candidate and the high level of support for Peter Casey were the two biggest stories of the result, and I would agree with you that I am happy with the result.

You that said 'Higgins had done great damage to the human race' is happy that he has another 7 years to do his evil???

Have you no morals Blanch, no morals at all????

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

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