Clonmel Thread

It's on the Clonmel Community page on FB that it has and also its restaurant in Carlow. The Kilkenny one closed around Christmas or thereabouts apparently.

Clonmel . Usual suspects

The Old Bridge area seems to have a constant stream of young kids driving sulkies cutting across traffic at random. I'm amazed this isn't a daily occurrence.

Jesus. It's actually heartbreaking what they get away with. You'd nearly be grateful that the poor animal died, at least it's suffering is over. I'm assuming that the rotten bastards were nowhere to be seen after it happened.

Christ almighty. Apologies for the language, but this just f**ks me up every time. Pity the do gooders camped outside the modular homes protesting wouldn't have turned their attention to the neighbours up there. That would have been a worthy cause.

Although it's pointless with our "indigenous friends". They are so devoid of even a shred of empathy towards the care of animals, none of this ever bothers them. They're a lost cause and have been for years. I despise them on masse. And for that, I make no apologies.

I wonder will the driver of the sulky try to make a claim from the driver of the car? Nothing would surprise me.

I'm sure there will be talk and more enforcement for a few days and then the animals will be forgotten about again until the next time

The owners less than 500 metres from the accident have denied its there sulky and horse and that the woman will have to claim off her own insurance to fix her car. The guards are useless, there has to be CCTV - they shoulld put up a pole outside every halting site in the country and they have to bring this scourge to heel. They pay for nothing and destroy everything and everyone they come into contact with.

Greatest of respect to Cllr. Brennan, But he's talking about the most lawless group of people in this country. Does he, or anyone for that matter, actually believe that they are going to abide by any law that prohibits them from doing anything?

They have proven time and time again that they respect nothing and no-one. In order to obey a law, one would need a sense of moral obligation. They have none. They have no fear of punishment. Why would they? They have no conscience, no desire to be part of decent society.

The whole lot of them are a blight on every part of this country. I would dearly like to say what I really wish could be done with them, but I'm sure there's a rule somewhere on Boards that prevents that degree of free speech.

Clonmel was like this well before there was ever a significant Traveller population there. Although I'll admit our nomadic folk have made it worse but I can remember when the town had very few Travellers and despite most of them being generally decent they were still looked down upon and treated badly by settled people in the town. The scumbags from the settled community in the town are every bit as numerous and every bit as bad as the scumbags from the Traveller community.

clonmel was a fine town before it was surrounded by them and the only drug dealing was small time stuff.

What’s happened to Ireland In The last 25 years is their numbers have grown, they are now in every town and village and they are out of control.
We used to export them to the UK and Europe and it was a good policy.
but we fucked up by giving them special status.

I'd have to disagree. With the exception of a few notables, by and large Clonmel wasn't an unpleasant place to be before the influx of travellers. If they had any interest in being treated well by settled people, they should have started by addressing the obvious animal cruelty issues and the drug dealing at source. They all profit from the gains of these activities, so they are all more than happy to turn a blind eye.

I'm not excusing the behaviour of settled scumbags either. Drugs are a scourge, no matter the source.

Clonmel was always throughout the 80's 90's an extremely violent place for it's size. And Travellers by & large were not involved in most of it.

There's been heaps of murders there & I can't think of any that involved Travellers with the exception of the murder of Paddy Lyons in Lismore by a Clonmelman, Ross Outram who I believe is a Traveller. but an English Romani one. I remember when a young woman was murdered in 1988 and the whole town said Travellers at Ticincor done it but was in fact a settled thug from Carrick.

I remember constant random assaults on the streets after teenage discos & niteclubs. People bumming for odds for a bottle (2 litre) around the town and intimidation people into giving them money. General vandalism and burglaries.

You only have to go to the newspaper archives and see the court reports from local media to expose the lie that Clonmel was a fine town before the Traveller population exploded there or even before drugs became popular.

just support the march !!!

That poster gives the route as Emmet Street - Davis Road - The Plaza????

Should that not be Emmet Street - Parnell Street - The Plaza

I know 'Chicken' Brennan is from Killenaule or somewhere and Liam Browne is from Cashel. Could they not have had a look at Google Maps before publishing?

Interesting that not one of the Clonmel Borough District Councillor's names is on this poster.

Passed Cibo Fresco the new takeaway looks fairly lively by the looks of it in narrow street