Traveller Wedding - Breaking Tenancy & Covid Rules

Best of luck finding an independent contractor to take that down.

The Israeli army wouldn’t even take on that contract.

From the rte reporting. This quote from the organising traveller says everything that is wrong in one succinct sentence.

"My son’s wedding is going ahead and I accept the consequences of not taking it down"

You see, the problem here is, he knows the consequences are absolutely minimal and almost laughable. He says consequences, but he knows there are none bar the inconvenience of having to go to court and say sorry. That's the height of it.
We have a serious problem here.
This is one isolated incidence where the person is in a situation where they literally can be heard saying it
But it's implied across the whole country. There is f*CK all consequences.

irishproduce wrote: »

From the rte reporting. This quote from the organising traveller says everything that is wrong in one succinct sentence.

"My son’s wedding is going ahead and I accept the consequences of not taking it down"

You see, the problem here is, he knows the consequences are absolutely minimal and almost laughable. He says consequences, but he knows there are none bar the inconvenience of having to go to court and say sorry. That's the height of it.
We have a serious problem here.
This is one isolated incidence where the person is in a situation where they literally can be heard saying it
But it's implied across the whole country. There is f*CK all consequences.

Maybe the consequences should be a full revenue audit of where the funds for the wedding have come from and any other assets they may own. That might make the next one think twice.

Bass Reeves wrote: »

Previous marquee provider was not fined. He claimed he know nothing about the court order. It was the food provider that was fined

Apologies, I understood they were not fines as such but that 3 people made contributions totalling 12k, The Organiser, Take Away and Marquee contractor???

EDIT, Just checked, groom, father and caterers, not Marquee provider

Again, the people in this case being travelers doesn't matter.

What matters is that we have people once again blatantly violating covid restrictions and the government needs to clamp down on this hard. We are near the end of this, ****ing things up near the end, by letting people violate restrictions openly like this, is the height of idiocy.

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

There is no mechanism to fine people for breach of tenancy.

They can be fixed for breech of Covid-19 restrictions, but some people aren't going to be fussed about that.

The ethnicity of the people concerned is irrelevant in this case, exactly the same sequence of events would happen for some buffers.

Which is not to say there are no measures that can be taken if you are. If I'm in breach of my tenancy and lease I get evicted. Perhaps that should also be the case here, if you are gifted a property and can't abide by the rules of your tenancy, out you go to find your own place to live.

Looking at the photos on rte seems like there is a large garda presence there. Unbelievable that there will be little to no consequences to this family

It's like something out of Father Fooking Ted the way it's being handled, just send in the army and level the tent.

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Let the wedding go ahead but send CAB,Revenue,customs and the ERU to the reception

The tent is certainly big enough to accommodate them all

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

It's like something out Father Fooking Ted the way it's being handled, just send in the army and level the tent.

Why "send them in"? They'll have something that could hit it from 2 miles away.:pac:

Pinch Flat wrote: »

People are always surprised by this behaviour for some reason.

I don't think anyone is surprised tbh.

Surprised that steps are being taken to do something about it, perhaps.

Sleeper12 wrote: »

You do know that last summer there were 100s of weddings like this & even bigger involving settled Irish people?

Go on then give us a list of all the large settled Irish People weddings last Summer

Bicyclette wrote: »

I think the thing to point out here is, that any anger is directed at the behaviour not the background of the people involved.

If this was done by Dublin Dentists, Donegal Doctors, Tullamore Teachers or Roscommon Rugby Players, many people, myself included, would still be aghast at the behaviour and attitude.

Why should the rest of us put up with this sh y te? It does appear as if they think they are superior to the rest of us. That they can do what they like.

It has always been thus, the meek and generally law abiding get punished for stepping out of line while the brazen and aggressive get treated with kid gloves. And this happens at all levels - the student find for not having a tram ticket while teenage scrotes freely cause havoc on public transport. To the ordinary Joe soap getting prison for failure to pay the TV license contrasted to small fines if any action at all for wilful court order breaches for travellers.

It's not travellers that are actually the issue here, it's the uneven application of the law. Easy targets get the full weight, while the more brazen and ignorant you are the more likely you will not have any consequences.

Ah here, the newly weds must be back from Armagh by now. Anyone nearby the marquee place have any info?

I see the Gardai are parked up in force around the entrance to the halting site. Should be interesting to see what happens.

afro man wrote:

Go on then give us a list of all the large settled Irish People weddings last Summer

Maybe you don't read the news but these were reported right throughout the summer and autumn of last year.