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Omackeral wrote: »

They don't seem all that overly enthused with homosexuals, people of different races (ironically, I guess) and those with disabilities either.

Genuine question, is the hatred of people with disabilities born from some sort of religious thing a la Glenn Hoddle or is it that the father is seen as less of a man if he has a child with a disability?

Omackeral wrote: »

They don't seem all that overly enthused with homosexuals, people of different races (ironically, I guess) and those with disabilities either.

Yes, thats what gets me.
They are most racist and discriminatory element of irish society, yet when people criticise their culture then they are the racist ones. Go figure.

Omackeral wrote: »

They don't seem all that overly enthused with homosexuals, people of different races (ironically, I guess) and those with disabilities either.

They aren't overly enthused with us settled people either seeing as a common insult is for one traveller to call another traveller a "country man" or "country boy". Their word for us is "country people"

Apparently being likened to a settled person is an awful slur on a traveller.

I had thought this TraVision thing was an actual TV channel or show but no.. it's a YouTube channel with some of the worst production I've seen in a while - 90s / Windows movie-maker default graphics & transitions!

https://www.facebook.com/100007227857780/videos/2227940954123478/ (You can watch without a FB account)

On an actual TV channel they might have a hope of getting some non-traveller people to watch it but the only folks that are going to sit through that on YouTube will be the travellers who sit on Facebook all-day everyday with nothing better to do.

BattleCorp wrote: »

I deal with personal injury claims for a good percentage of my working week and I can assure you that only a small percentage of these spurious claims are 'thrown out of court'.

All that happens when they get caught out for exaggerating their injuries is that they get up and walk away - scott free.

And even if costs were awarded against them, they wouldn't pay.

Unless there is an unbelievable overhaul of the system, there won't be a significant change in this behaviour.

Does a spurious claim affect their insurance renewal costs?

holliehobbie wrote: »

I didn't think they paid insurance or tax?

They'll get it when they need it, for staged crashes - thus why it is so difficult to insure cars over 10 years old - travellers taking out insurance for crashes.

And when it's a txi, they don't need to even do that.

KrustyUCC wrote: »

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Guests on new Traveller-led channel to include Peter Casey

Presidential candidate saw popularity rise after controversial remarks about Traveller culture

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/guests-on-new-traveller-led-channel-to-include-peter-casey-1.3778097

Of course the article is written by Kitty Holland one of the guests on the show

Vincent Browne's quotes are interesting

Danged racist society

Browne said racism against Travellers was “almost part of the DNA of the settled community”

Aha

Nothing to do with traveller behaviour

I think that article makes some good points especially regarding the four young men who died in a crash in Donegal. Is anyone saying "ah sure it's all their own fault for speeding/drink driving/driving a banger?

Nope, I haven't heard one person say that even though it may be true.

Wow, didn't realise that moutpiece Brown was so pro-Travellers, going by his comments that it's ingrained into our DNA. It's not Vincent, their actions change the way we think. Prior to becoming a Garda around 2006, I didn't really have an opinion of them. Never had any real encounters with them aside from 1 time around 2006 just before becoming a Garda, driving through Limerick up Thomas St. A red hi-ace pulled out right in front of me, nearly hit me, I had to brake hard and steer left to avoid hitting him. He was coming out of a car park. I stood on the horn, and this big thick fat Traveller got out, pulled a wheel brace out of the drivers side pocket and started coming towards me. Needless to say I ****ing took off. Could have hit him, no idea if I did. Suppose that was me being racist, now that I think back....

But, that was 1 occurrence which didn't paint a picture for me. Then I became a Garda, and you might argue that I only saw the negative side of them. I'll argue, 13 years on, that there is no positive side, but I'm jumping ahead. My first encounter happened to be due to a fued, 2 families living in separate halting sites on the outskirts of the city decided they didn't like each other very much and started hacking at each other with slash hooks, baseball bats, hurleys, sickles, the usual stuff you'd just have lying around. A few of them nearly died, one lost most fingers on one hand, another has a beautiful battle scar running from just over his right eye back over the hear to the centre of his neck. Lucky it was a sickle, if it was a straight blade it would have gone through his skull. So we spent the following 4 months manning permanent checkpoints at the entrance to the 2 halting sites. 4 Gardaí for 16 hours a day, and 2 for 8 hours at night. Include the Gardaí required to cover breaks, and you get an idea of how many it took to ensure these 'people' didn't murder each other.

After that, we had the usual run ins, begging for money (begging = threatening old people), pulling their caravans and cars up on whatever bit of land they can find, robbing Pennys blind, the younger members of the community hung out around the pubs at closing and literally started hitting random people as they walked by. One laid a young fella out right in front of me, looked at me, started laughing and ran. I laughed as I knew who he was and arrested him about 10 minutes after he went to sleep at his house. Then I had the 'head' of the main crime family in the traveller community literally tell me that they do all this because they don't get pulled for it, the courts leave them off. He laughed at us every time we had to speak to him.

Oh, and the 'tradition' of calling everyone after their father, so they're all John, and it's a game of Where's Johnny when trying to find the John that's involved - 'Oh that must be me cousin Johnny, he left a few months back, don't know where he went'.

So experience of nothing but criminality has skewed my view. I quit the Gardaí after nearly 10 years (couldn't recommend to stay away from a job more than this one), and I can hand on heart say that Travellers have painted themselves in a negative light for me. Any prejudice or 'racism' ( :rolleyes: ) is well warranted due to my interactions with this minority.

Actually, I have red hair and blue eyes, the rarest combination on earth. Pretty sure I'm a smaller minority than travellers. So you can't say anything negative about me, or it's racism.

Deleted User wrote: »

Just seen her latest post on Facebook. Mother of sweet divine Christ.

God help us with the posing

oh jesus!!! i just vommed in my mouth a bit!!!