Early start to Christmas festivities in Rathkeale (THREADBANS IN OP)

A on a lighter note :

St. Peter was stood by the Pearly Gates when he looked up & saw a group of about fifteen Traveller's coming towards them. "What are we going to do " an Angel next to him gasped, " I'll have to go & ask Jesus " St. Peter replied.

He found Jesus & told him what was happening & what did he want him to do. Jesus thought for a moment & replied " Our religion teaches forgiveness & love your fellow man, so we had better let them in "

" Alright, on your head be it " St. Peter said & off he went. He was back in a few minutes, " They're gone " he said, "What, the Travellers ?" said Jesus, " No" replied St. Peter, " The Gates !!"

Happy Christmas gents.

And God forbid you leave a packet of chewing gum in the bottom of your trolley that you forgot to pay for.

People dont need to be told how to feel about travellers by some do gooders who think they are above others or somehow morally superior because they are either too thick to realise travellers dont give 2 fcks about them or lucky enough to never have encountered many.

People despise travellers for all the reasons already stated in this thread , theft, animal cruelty, child neglect, grabbing(basically acceptable sexual assault), total disregard for the law or being part of society. Probably worst of all is the gangs of them that prey on elderly people in isolated rural areas. All these things are facts and anyone that denies them is delusional or living up their own hole in some affluent part of the country where the issues that blight many communities arent prevelant.

People dont like travellers because of their experiences with them , no other reason

Do we know who was responsible for the trouble in Rathkeale? Would it be known as a rough spot?

A reminder that it's not a great idea to tar the entirety of any group with the one brush. That's coming from a person who has only ever had 1 positive experience with travellers. The rest, horribly bad, it's still not all of them though.

why would i?

That hasn't helped them or us from what I've seen. They get treated with kid gloves, we have to put up with it. They have always lived semi-outside the law though. Plenty of settled folks the same of course, some of the biggest scumbags I've seen are teens or early 20's who are not travellers. It seems parenting has taken a nosedive no matter what community you're from. Settled folks perhaps an over-reliance on the school raising their kids, no idea what happened to travellers.

Good man Gregor, the lazy conspiracy theory followed up with added semantics.

I'll just leave this here for ya - CT me hole.

Here's what the 'Far Right' (according to eotr) Casey said - Copied from wiki not sure if links work

On 17 October, Casey attracted a mixture of criticism and praise when he made comments on the Irish Independent's Floating Voter podcast regarding social housing that was offered to, and refused by, Irish Travellers in Thurles, County Tipperary. Casey described Irish Travellers as "basically people camping in someone else's land" who are "not paying their fair share of taxes in society". There were calls for Casey to withdraw from the race, including from Traveller activist group Pavee Point. Other candidates condemned Casey's comments.[16][17] In the Dáil, Tánaiste Simon Coveney referred to Casey's comments as the "lowest common denominator politics" and defended the Government's decision to recognise Irish Travellers as an ethnic minority in 2017, in contrast to Casey's belief that Irish Travellers share their ethnicity with the general Irish population.[18] 

What a Nazi eh 😃

Hi and welcome to Ireland as it's fairly obvious it's your first day here.

By tomorrow you will have figured out the answer your question.

Enjoy your stay.

There's my Pal. Enjoying the indian summer?

I worked in a solicitor practice before who had a well known supermarket as a client. The amount of "discrimination" cases taken by the travellers after security guards asked to see the contents of their bags/pockets was ridiculous. And worse was that the supermarket would often settle the case just to get rid of it.

Security guards are probably told to ignore the ethnic minority now.

In 2011 86 travellers completed 3rd level education, in 2016 the figure was about 160, still a tiny percentage, that in itself suggests more and travellers are completing 2nd and 3rd level education.In the space of 5 years it almost doubled.

I'd imagine that if a parent completes their own education, the value of it will filter down to their children.