Dublin's "homeless" Roma

That’s why Sarkozy was a legend …

There is a large Roma family in a house in castleknock, no idea who’s paying for it but it ain’t cheap that’s for sure

Go away outta that with yer sense 😂 OP just wants someone to confirm that they are indeed all spongers who's lives are being subsidised by his hard earned tax money.

Out of curiosity I suppose, I have tried to engage some of them in conversation over the last 5 years and the main reaction I got was them waving me away speaking in a foreign language, walking away without delay.

and once or twice I got choice bad language via English, which I won’t repeat.

To boot, the only real bad encounter I had was with a Roma woman flogging the “big issue” near easons on o Connell st. She seemed mentally unstable and tried to hit me.

Tbh I figured the OP was genuinely curious about what their deal is, but having read their subsequent posts, it appears they started this thread only to have yet another pop at “d’immigrants” 🙄

There’s never enough threads for some of people, they want to be special and start their own thread rather than contribute to the many, many threads that make what turns out to be the same point as every other thread already.

Anyways, in this instance it’s a good thing the new site doesn’t auto-subscribe to threads, and chances are I’ll never see this thread again unless I specifically go looking for it 😂

Roma used to come to Ireland and claim asylum back in the day. When the EU expanded in the early 2000's, only Ireland (and maybe the UK) immediately opened up to unrestricted access.

A load of them arrived in and got a shock that, as they were now EU citizens, previously available benefits or routes to benefits were no longer available. (You cannot claim asylum within the EU if you are already an EU citizen). So they ended up on the M50 roundabout for a few weeks. I think they were given transport back home.

If my memory serves me correctly, around the late 2000's there was an epidemic of Roma children begging around Dublin city centre. There were some policies put in plate to try to control this. One, which was not 100% a response to this issue, but it did provide a strong impetus, was making certain benefits dependent on children being in school.

One of them was murdered after being picked up on the street by a well known Dublin psycho from a family of psychos. Many of them have a terrible life and they have little to no prospects. But there isn't really much you can do for them. There are gangs who fly them in, get them to do their dirty work until they are caught and then fly them back out.

And before anyone **** themselves, obviously not all 100% of every single Roma is doing X or Y or Z

You should have been keeping your eyes on the road instead of trying to check out her arse as you were passing. Then you wouldn't have crashed!

Are gypsies different to people?

I don't know any Roma personally so i can't really answer that, do you?

I spend a lot of time in Dublin city centre and there has certainly been an extraordinary jump in numbers.

The gathering in Moore St started during lockdown when there was very few places open and very few people about.