Mad_maxx wrote: » How the hell would the council be responsible?
ShaneC93 wrote: » Hardly on the bread-line when you can afford to pay €600 on a couple of communion outfits and sell them for a third of that 7 months later. For being on social welfare, the amount she spends on overpriced clothes, shoes, fake designer gear, ornaments etc. If she put that towards rent instead she'd surely have €1K-€1.5K a month for her budget, with that + HAP you could get a decent 4 bed in Tallaght with money to spare..
digzy wrote: » The state of yer wan in the brown dress...thinks she’s Beyoncé wither the pose but looks like mrs brown
BattleCorp wrote: » The NZ authorities aren't putting up with the carry-on of our nomadic friends.https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109940444/rude-travelling-family-cause-police-call-out-to-hamilton-burger-king
digzy wrote: » When Hansen-Ripia saw the mess the tourists left in Auckland "I thought to myself, your parents raised you to leave that? The next thought that went through my head was, How can somebody show that much disrespect?" She obviously is ignorant to their culture!!! Made me smile a little reading that bit
Dante7 wrote: » I haven't read the last few pages, so not sure if this has already been mentioned. But today, Dr. Sindy Joyce became the first Traveller to get a PhD. I think this is an amazing achievement and it should be recognised and celebrated and hopefully Dr. Joyce will be an inspiration to Traveller children.https://www.thejournal.ie/dr-sindy-joyce-traveller-phd-limerick-4441437-Jan2019/?amp=1
tuxy wrote: » Outstanding achievement. If her thesis highlights both outside discrimination and also the issues internally like removing children from school so young it's a sign of major progress being made. She's from very close to Rathkeale so if she could work and make a difference in that area it would be great.
tretorn wrote: » It does matter if her thesis is about discrimination against travellers and it doesn’t acknowledge why most people don’t want travellers near them. She wouldn’t have to look far to see why Irish people are negative and not racist, the New Zealander’s have deported their guests, are the Kiwis racist too. If her thesis is all about racism against travellers then it’s about as much use as Pavee Point, hope she doesn’t end up working there, that organisation should be closed down.
She said she looked at policing, and how young Travellers were treated by gardaí in Galway city. “I found high levels of racism and ethnic profiling. It’s very similar to how the black community in America are policed.” She also examined how gardaí “police or govern public areas”. The young Travellers interviewed claimed they were subjected to “continuous checking, stopping and searching without any particular reason for it.” She also found there is a “institutionalised stereotype” of Travellers embedded in the settled community, which is mostly negative-based.
At the core of anti-Traveller racism is the assumption that nomadism is not a valid way of life. The State response has been to outlaw it and measures taken have been to “assimilate/absorb” us to stop us from being who we are, the dominant powers viewed as ‘less than’ or ‘inferior’ than the majority population, they viewed us as people that were somehow ‘failed settled people’ or ‘broken’ in that we needed to be ‘fixed’ and ‘aided’ in becoming ‘settled’ which can easily be defined as cultural and ethnic genocide.
gctest50 wrote: » Do they come around and make chips now ? It's always someone else.
Goldengirl wrote: » Yeah , funny. Those children are dead, axxxxle . The chip pan started the fire but the fact that the caravans were squished into a small site with inadequate fire safeguards is against regulations. But they got away with that by saying it was an emergency site . The fire hose and hydrant didn't have any water pressure. It is wrong to house families with children on sites like that at all never mind excuse it once they've all been burnt to death. If you tried to build an attic conversion without attention to fire safety regulations in DLRCC I bet they would pull the plug pretty fast. But hey it's ok because they were only travellers?
freshpopcorn wrote: » Do you under the the concept of this thread or the forums in general? It's to allow people to discuss various topic and have there say in them.
Jasiah Hot Talker wrote: » That’s not fair. You cannot say that people don’t care about the deceased because they’re travellers. What happened was horrific, but there is no sense at all playing the blame game. It was a horrible accident, that could have happened in any one of our homes. Chip pans are unfortunately not safe to use. But hindsight is a wonderful thing.
deaddonkey15 wrote: » Well said. That poster only comes into this thread on a wind up mission, it's best to just ignore him.
Goldengirl wrote: » To be honest this thread is so disgusting and pointless ...
Jasiah Hot Talker wrote: » It is not anti traveller to have an issue with how they conduct themselves. Stop with that nonsense. Are they anti traveller in NZ? Their behaviour outside of this country is making world headlines. And that’s only for mild anti social behaviour compared to what they get up to over here.
Goldengirl wrote: » "How they " conduct themselves...?? If you said that about a person of race you would be called racist . Some travellers have issues but believe me so do settled ordinary Irish people. I would not want a lot to do with some of the people posting here , and for that reason I'm out !
