dodderangler wrote: » Week later my lawnmower and majority of things in my shed was gone. Lock was snapped right through. Fishing rods and a lot of hunting equipment gone. coincidence??
dodderangler wrote: » Had three of them come to take away a load of garden waste ie shrubs trees old bicycles etc and paid them to remove it.
dodderangler wrote: » Free housing and then they park their caravans wherever they can and the government pays them to move somewhere else? And you want them to get more. They’ve enough money scamming the country and taking everything as it is. Had three of them come to take away a load of garden waste ie shrubs trees old bicycles etc and paid them to remove it. Week later my lawnmower and majority of things in my shed was gone. Lock was snapped right through. Fishing rods and a lot of hunting equipment gone. coincidence??
Thelonious Monk wrote: » I think the amount of money that would be required to have teams of social workers and special schools for them to finally break the cycle of leaving school and sharia law on women and having loads of kids and being involved in crime etc. etc., would be astronomical. At the same time it would probably serve the state better to do this. So yes, funding should be allocated if it's used to sort out their problems, for the good of travellers and the rest of us.
Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: » Halting sites need to be placed in richer areas, which will cost more.
suicide_circus wrote: » i think travellers need to be paid reparations for all the interminable pain and suffering inflicted on them by settled society.
Mad_maxx wrote: » Policies need to be put in place to encourage family planning on a par with regular families, cut child benefit after the eleventh child starting off, then reduce to three within five years, that way the media do gooders don't scream racial profiling etc
A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: » it's important to believe that there is a "lunatic left" devoid of all practical sensibility who wants the average punter to suffer.
Thelonious Monk wrote: » If you cut child benefit they're even more likely to resort to crime so I can't see how that would help.
Ted_YNWA wrote: » It is a chicken and egg scenario. There is not as many going because of lower support. No support because there is not many going. If there was funding to help those in the Travelling Community to better themselves, it would initiate a chain reaction for subsequent generations.
anewme wrote: » The reason I was asking if they get College Grant's related to an article in one of our local papers a couple of years back. It was about a traveller girl who had graduated college with top results. There was a bit of her back story about the challenges she faced, being a traveller and a woman traveller at that. A lot came from her own Community to be honest, felt she was too old for this nonsense and should be married off. She had a very supportive Mother and Father and ended up with a very good result in College. It wasnt a whingy story, more a positive one and I cant remember if it mentioned whether she got a grant or scholarship. Like most here, I dont have a very positive view of travellers from my own experiences, not all bad, but more bad than good but I think young travellers like this who want to go to college and have a career like the rest of us fully deserve support.
Thelonious Monk wrote: » Mad_maxx wrote: » Policies need to be put in place to encourage family planning on a par with regular families, cut child benefit after the eleventh child starting off, then reduce to three within five years, that way the media do gooders don't scream racial profiling etc If you cut child benefit they're even more likely to resort to crime so I can't see how that would help.
Coillte_Bhoy wrote: » Traveller couple who drink in my local, he's dead sound,id be wary of her but anyway i was told her daughter went to college and became a primary teacher and married a settled a lad so she disowned her. Thought it was so sad.
Cupp3r wrote: » 4 pages in and we are in full scale Traveller bashing. We are a lovely people so we are us irish.
14dMoney wrote: » Of course it would. The anti-social behaviour can be attributed to being disenfranchised for so long.
Strumms wrote: » For a large part.. they actively disenfranchise themselves. They want all the benefits and positives that being in ‘society’ can give to them but for many making direct and tangible contributions to the society which they aspire to be part of and included in is almost alien...
Danzy wrote: » What is the upside, from many travellers perspective of being fully integrated and enfranchised in society. Cost benefit analysis will say no.
Paddy Cow wrote: » And that's the biggest problem - travellers holding back other travellers. This young woman is fortunate enough to have supportive parents. Most don't. It's deeply ingrained to leave school and get married young. I have no problem with women who chose to be SAHMs. The problem with young traveller women is that's it's not their choice. Most don't finish the leaving so even if they want to work later in life, it's very hard for them to return to education and retrain.
Thelonious Monk wrote: » I wonder if we could start a gofundme to pay some travellers to set up camp in Foxrock or Killiney or some other well to do area just for the absolute hilarity of it all?
Leg End Reject wrote: » I think Pat Kenny would love it, he wouldn't have to worry about apartments then.
