Uk-registered vehicles, ho hum. Guess some English tourists over-did the celebrations.
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More than 90% of the population haven't studied statistics beyond basic second level mathematics.
Yep, despite the virtue signalling and hand wringing of politicians who dance about the subject, Casey gave an opinion that many citizens up and down the country would agree with in the privacy of their own homes and friends.
Well, they do like to travel.
60% of everyone knows this.
UK registered cars, but not necessarily English or British - more like visiting 'home' and relatives for for a bit of Xmas 'shopping' and Xmas 'bash'.
I still reckon it's the Palatines.
https://www.irishpalatines.org/about/history.html
Casey got 13,000 votes in Donegal in the 2018 presidential election.
He got less than 10% of that and finished 11th out of 13 in the 2020 general.
It was a protest vote.
Reality is if you or me were swanning around in cars on ÚK plates without legitimate reason (holiday etc) we'd be in trouble with the Customs even if we were not causing havoc on the streets.
I know for a fact an acquaintance had a car impounded due to not paying VRT, admittedly he was taking the piss as he was driving a Maserati on UK plates around Cork, but still.
True but it's foolish for the political establishment to ignore protest votes and hope that they go away.
Your figures prove that the Irish electorate is quite clever and nuanced. They want something done about unaddressed crime and people getting off scot-free due to being members of a certain 'ethnic minority', but they don't want an opportunist doing it.
i'd bet me gaff that behind every single one of those 150 charges there was a free legal aid solicitor courtesy of the tax payer.
A fair amount of those votes, I would guess, are down to the public seeing a politician speaking plainly and truthfully. I'm no Casey fanboy but when you then see, as mentioned above, the rest of them come out and blatantly lie to the people. That would have swung a lot of folks who don't have anything much against travellers.
My own town is wrecked from them. They use fear and intimidation to do whatever they want, whenever they want. If that doesn't work they'll claim discrimination.
Im minutes from Rathkeale. Can't even leave the dog out for a piss at the moment. They're an absolute sh1t stain on society, and yes I mean that.
Wasn’t it last Christmas, or maybe the Christmas before that the HSE felt it prudent to set up a temporary field hospital in Rathkeale in anticipation of the local Christmas festivities?
The only shocking thing about the recent events in Rathkeale are that (some) people are shocked by it!
I agree with this 103%
It's beginning to look a lot like the christmas, ARU everywhere
Pat Joe’s Skinny Johnny or Skinny Johnny Mickey?
depends who's asking boss
Collins on RTE Radio One making excuses now
they are not actually members of the travelling community according to him
Martin Collins has just said more or less this!
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So a general protest against lying politicians, not against travellers.
Martin Collins on bleating about travellers and how hard they have it he is on every now and then making excuses for their behaviour.
Casey would have ended up way higher than 23% if the Govt hadn't conveniently forgotten to have polls in the 2 weeks leading up to election day
But he felt it was still worthy of him going on the radio to state this fact…..
That man has done more damage to the community he represents than anyone in Rathkeale for Xmas.
That would be my guess. Not 100% of it of course, that would be a bit simplistic, but I could imagine a few votes going his way when everyone else was apparently happy to have a halting site next door. People aren't that stupid.
You must have very low opinions of the Irish electorate. Do people vote for a candidate purely because they are doing well in the polls? I could be wrong but I hope that the average voter has a bit more cop-on than that.
What channel was the pavee point chief on ?
doesnt matter as they all give him softball interviews
What did you have to say about the settled lad who smashed up a load of cars and jeeps on Patrick's Hill, Audley Place Cork about twenty years ago ? Travellers do something, its the whole community when settled people do the same its ah ah tv licenses ah murderers only do a few years, 'teh dhrugs' blah blah !!
This fine upstanding gentleman from the settled community murdered another young innocent man from the settled community, oh wait both also happen to be gay, it must be the fault of the gay community so !!
Note: I've never said the Traveller community don't have criminals. Indeed they do but the reaction from most of ye is very different when a crime is committed by a Traveller or migrant than when its from a settled person. Its the hypocrisy I dislike, we have had a spate of murders and murder trials in the last 4 weeks here and hardly a murmur from ye about them but once Travellers do something most of ye lose the plot altogether.
It's not what I think of the electorate that matters - It's what the Govt feared would happen if they had run more polls showing a steady increase in support for Casey, that's why the polls stopped right after Casey said the truth
The government doesn’t run the published opinion polls on elections in Ireland. If any of the media organisations had wanted to run one, there was nothing stopping them, other than observing the 2pm before polling day moratorium.
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