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

Redneck Culchie wrote: »

Anyone catch Tubridy try to threaten and intimidate Casey??

"if I lose control, you'll know about it."

What a statement from TV host to his guest. Twitter caught wind of it anyway, Tubridy making a fool of himself again acting the hardman.

It was a fair question from PC because the host had lost, or was losing control of proceedings.

His comeback line left a lot to be desired.

Under the predominantly one sided situation, I thought PC handled it well overall.

Redneck Culchie wrote: »

Lets not forget John Connors was given free reign by Tubridy to call Gardai scum on national TV.

That did happen & Tubbs called him out on it.

As I said before, nobody won tonight.

I voted for Casey, but I wouldn't let him run the country.

He highlighted issues that are important to 'the people who get up in the morning' but came across as clueless as to what to do about it.

Having said that he came across better than the 'educated' Pavees in the audience.

mattser wrote: »

It was a fair question from PC because the host had lost, or was losing control of proceedings.

His comeback line left a lot to be desired.

Under the predominantly one sided situation, I thought PC handled it well overall.

He was allowing the audience member to finish her point. Jesus, the conspiracy myths already. :D

I watched the late late interview and was half expecting to see a

a breath of fresh air compared to the pc crowd,

"a man of principle who tells it like it is"

"has the balls to say what everyone is thinking"

If you believed any of this kinda shoite you must be feeling like a complete gullible fool when you watched him squirm when asked about SW cuts, and in the worst way - all he could do was smile as if to say, yeah I'm just a complete numbty

I voted for Casey, not because I thought he would be a great president, tbh I knew he wouldn't win, but because he raised topics that need to be raised IE: our welfare state that we hard pressed taxpayers fund but get very little benefit from.

I and those that voted for Casey gave our vote as a message to all the political parties that we are sick of the status quo, sick of our taxes going on sub standard healthcare and work shy spongers.

The interview tonight was a sham, Casey is no politician and that RTE leech is just a publicity whore rolling out the token travellers to show us all how wrong we are in our stereotypes.

Ask the traveller gangs around the world how they identify themselves when they scam people with dodgy work, do they call themselves travellers or Irish? We all know the answer, they trade on the trust and goodwill that we as a people receive when we travel abroad and they abuse it and destroy the reputation of us all, then come home and play the minority card.

Casey is no saint and will never lead the country but if he succeeds in bringing these issues out into the light of day for debate and resolution then he deserves a tip of the cap for his effort.

Nah. I voted Casey No 1.

He highlighted issues that needed to be addressed & fair play to him for that.

I hope the debate continues on this.

However, he seems so out of touch on a lot of levels. Wanting to be in FF for fooks sake!

FF is a toxic brand here now buddy.

Hitch your wagon to a different breed of horse Peter.

Admldj wrote: »

I voted for Casey, not because I thought he would be a great president, tbh I knew he wouldn't win, but because he raised topics that need to be raised IE: our welfare state that we hard pressed taxpayers fund but get very little benefit from.

I and those that voted for Casey gave our vote as a message to all the political parties that we are sick of the status quo, sick of our taxes going on sub standard healthcare and work shy spongers.

The interview tonight was a sham, Casey is no politician and that RTE leech is just a publicity whore rolling out the token travellers to show us all how wrong we are in our stereotypes.

Ask the traveller gangs around the world how they identify themselves when they scam people with dodgy work, do they call themselves travellers or Irish? We all know the answer, they trade on the trust and goodwill that we as a people receive when we travel abroad and they abuse it and destroy the reputation of us all, then come home and play the minority card.

Casey is no saint and will never lead the country but if he succeeds in bringing these issues out into the light of day for debate and resolution then he deserves a tip of the cap for his effort.

Exactly my sentiments, I voted for Casey as well, living as I do not far from a traveller stronghold here in Co Limerick

Isn't it bizarre that RTE didn't put in to the audience, real travellers, the ones that most people are familiar with? You know, the vast vast majority of travellers.
Instead they found two who have college places. I cannot swallow that they were being impartial there.