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

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.

Where is all the money coming from Travellers have to buy Flash Cars , Gold Plated Coffins, Commuion Super Partys etc etc??

Its not from working anyways!!

Where we live they control the Drug trade and outside of Dublin they are the biggest players in the 26 Counties.

The latest in Rathkeale is one crowd last night Burnt the graces/flowers Graves & headstones of the other crowds graves .....no end to their Culture

I just witnessed the mother and father of all bar brawls. Gardai have now parked two SUVs on the street.

More cars rammed, machetes, batons.

Reporting live from a pub in a village close to Rathkeale.

It's only a Wednesday.

Culture etc.

Village is completely locked down.

There's a LOT of gards here now. A lot.

Culture at its finest, no doubt.

I accept my upcoming threadban. <Mod Snip>

Mod - Banned from AH

We are nowhere near one of the lowest. We have more police than England, USA, Australia, Norway, Canada and dozens of other countries per 100,000.

If I could thank you more than once, I would.

Any comments from John Connors at all? He's usually quick off the mark when travellers are being discriminated against. All quiet when they are acting like scum.