Cork City - anti social behaviour etc... what's being done?

Those travellers. Oh those travellers. They're good friends of mine, friends of mine. ❤️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6i1txD9fd8

Those nutjobs behind the library protests are it again. They were abusing the staff in Waterstones book shop this time. The guards refuse to do anything about them.

Do you think this is enlightening information that no one else knows??

But on the other hand there is a common trope that travellers are above the law and the Gardaí are powerless to do anything about their criminality. Bla bla bla.

These things can't both be true.

The fact you posted is hardly surprising. Discriminated and disenfranchised communities, the world over, have higher than average crime rates, along with lower life expectancy and high suicide rates. These are not surprising occurrences. Similarly, black people in the US have higher incarceration rates than the general population but racists will use this fact to justify discrimination. It's an endless cycle, unfortunately, it seems.

As long as the general population discriminate so blatently against travellers(as evidenced by many, otherwise decent people here), blaming all travellers for the actions of some, we will not see an end to these problems. Perhaps that what the general population wants because I don't see a will amongst regular people to do anything to help, other than gleefully punch down, crack jokes and descriminate!

Think about it, if you were born a traveller and faced a lifetime of being descriminated against, followed around shops, refused service and called names, would you have an iota of respect for society at large? I certainly wouldn't.

We as a society have allowed the problems to fester and it takes society to fix these problems. Telling it like it is, being a realist, just stating facts and continuing to discriminate isn't going to help in any way at all.

Merely stating facts, hu?

One person's rant is another person's reasoned argument.

Dont wade into this argument and not expect some pushback, petal.

Perhaps you might like to go through my "rant" and refute it in a reasoned and logical way if you disagree with points I've made?

What disparaging name calling?

I dealt with your post in my "rant".

I couldn't agree more regarding reasonable/objective discussion.

Gosh, you are, ironically sensitive about being called, petal. 😅

Marginalisation and discrimination by the general population indeed. I wonder why? Maybe AGS might investigate?

You can if you want. I wouldn't!

Social welfare payment day perhaps.

Lousy geography..

I'd send in the army, cut all their social welfare, fine, fine, fine if not paid off to prison then

I spend my time between Dublin and Cork, so know both cities very well. Different problems and scale in either city. Traveler feuding in Cork, feral youth gangs organised by social media in Dublin.

Both have serious drug problems though on differing scales. But because of its bigger size such problems are easier to avoid in Dublin than in Cork. Cork on the other hand, because of its smaller scale these problems are more in your face, you're more likely to encounter them and therefore it is inclined to be more intimidating than Dublin. IMHO.

That's true enough sadly. There is parts of Dublin that are alright. The drugs problem in Cork really has gotten out of control at this stage. Pana, Oliver Plunkett Street, Grand Parade, South Mall etc, the junkies are all over the place! The authorities don't seem to care about it either. Cork really was a nice city before the heroin took a hold on things.

Documentary about the suicide of a young Traveller boy who was bullied airs tonight https://jrnl.ie/6233538

This

Could make for interesting, if uncomfortable viewing. Or perhaps light entertainment to some here.