Traveller street riot leaves locals terrified

Heinrich · 01-06-2006 07:22AM #1

Good to see law and order in our rural towns. Have we seen it all? Reminds me of the Great Chinese Take Away in Abbey Street so many years ago.

I just love the last paragraph!

A RIOT involving up to 40 Travellers in a small town has left the local community terrified and angry about the lack of gardai in the area.

Locals said it was impossible for the one garda stationed in Killenaule, Co Tipperary, to have coped with the situation which erupted at around 11.30pm on Tuesday and lasted for up to two hours.

The culprits fought with slash hooks and iron bars and were covered in blood after the incident in Pike Street.

The violence erupted after a large group of Travellers emerged from a local pub following what locals claimed were birthday party celebrations for a 10-year-old and 17-year-old in their community.

"They were swinging slashers and iron bars at each other and seven to eight of the men had no tops on. They were beating the heads off each other," said local butcher John O' Dwyer.

"The neighbours were absolutely terrorised. We had six to seven people living alone on the street. I saw one 50-year-old man who lives alone crying on the street.

"The toughened glass in the big window of my butcher's shop was shattered when an old iron hand cart was thrown at it during the riot."

Mr O' Dwyer, who lives in another area of the town, said he got out of bed after he was alerted about the incident.

"I wanted to go down the street to see my shop, but the neighbours wouldn't let me down. I think I'm lucky now that I didn't go down."

Locals said that up to six patrol cars from the neighbouring towns of Cashel, Clonmel and Thurles were on the scene about a half-hour after the riot started. One terrified woman who witnessed the riot from her bedroom window said there was little that gardai could do to quell the riot.

"The crowd was just totally and absolutely out of control. They had big hooked weapons fashioned out of timber and there was nothing the gardai could have done, because these people were capable of taking your head off," she said.

Eyewitnesses said that up to half the group were women and children. Some of the women had small babies.

Witnesses also said that one of the rioters was seriously injured. An ambulance was called to the scene, but the culprits had vanished in cars by the time it arrived.

Supt Tony Cogan of Thurles Garda Station said there were no serious injuries in the riot. He said one person was charged with a public order offence. "It is now up to eyewitnesses to make statements to the gardai," he said.

KdjaCL · 01-06-2006 07:25AM

heh Pikey Street.

kdjac

Plug · 01-06-2006 07:43AM

There was another riot in Kilkenny the other day. It was a funeral and they litreally battered the butter out of each other and someone pulled the body from the cofin on the ground:eek: Gardi were in riot gear and sorted it out but most of them had to go to hospital.

padi89 · 01-06-2006 07:48AM

I love a good ol traveller row,sher it wouldnt be Ireland without one,Slashooks,women and children the works! "One terrified woman who witnessed the riot from her bedroom" ,Id say she loved it.If she was so terrified why did she watch it?

OMcGovern · 01-06-2006 08:00AM

I've no problem with travellers attacking and killing each other, just as long as they don't bother decent folk. Give them a field, filled with weapons, and tell them that the last man standing gets a brand new hiace.

Femelade · 01-06-2006 08:02AM

Heinrich wrote:

I just love the last paragraph!

why?

Owen · 01-06-2006 08:06AM

Sure, they're all misunderstood. Right?

Heinrich · 01-06-2006 08:10AM

Femmy wrote:

why?

I suppose because there were 40 drunken maniacs with iron bars and slash hooks tearing into one another, blood all over the place and no serious injuries! And looking for eyewitnesses...

Would you believe the first part?
Would you go forward as a witness when there might be 40 maniacs interested in your welfare afterwards?
Do you think the Gardai only had reason to arrest one person in this melee?

Slunk · 01-06-2006 08:17AM

OMcGovern wrote:

I've no problem with travellers attacking and killing each other, just as long as they don't bother decent folk. Give them a field, filled with weapons, and tell them that the last man standing gets a brand new hiace.

Agreed. One man arrestred.

Although I wouldnt be rushing into the middle of that to arrest them.

Peace · 01-06-2006 08:17AM

Where are all the liberal Pikey lovers today?

Let me guess, they are not representative of the Pikey community as a whole?

um7y1h83ge06nx · 01-06-2006 08:20AM

OMcGovern wrote:

I've no problem with travellers attacking and killing each other, just as long as they don't bother decent folk. Give them a field, filled with weapons, and tell them that the last man standing gets a brand new hiace.

Seriously brillant idea!!

Hagar · 01-06-2006 08:24AM

Slunk wrote:

Although I wouldnt be rushing into the middle of that to arrest them.

It is a bit harder than giving out parking tickets I'll admit but isn't that what they're paid to do?
Keeping the peace, "An Garda Siochana", they definitely don't do what it says on the tin.

Heinrich · 01-06-2006 08:30AM

Hagar wrote:

It is a bit harder than giving out parking tickets I'll admit but isn't that what they're paid to do?
Keeping the peace, "An Garda Siochana", they definitely don't do what it says on the tin.

Are the poulets any better? You are just jealous of our men in blue. Did you get one parking ticket too many ?

EWheelChair · 01-06-2006 08:48AM

Why are you ALWAYS blaming the traveling community, these guys are just people who through time and tradition choose not to settle but instead entertain us with street violence and bad accents.

Where are all the pro-pikeys now?

Hagar · 01-06-2006 08:51AM

Heinrich wrote:

Are the poulets any better? You are just jealous of our men in blue. Did you get one parking ticket too many ?

I can honestly say I never got a parking ticket from a Garda. I did get one down here though.

Peace · 01-06-2006 09:09AM

OMcGovern wrote:

I've no problem with travellers attacking and killing each other, just as long as they don't bother decent folk. Give them a field, filled with weapons, and tell them that the last man standing gets a brand new hiace.

Just giving natural evolution a nudge to hurry up eh?

Does anyone have a field.... and a hiace you could loan to us boardsters for a day?

Heinrich · 01-06-2006 09:13AM

Hagar wrote:

I can honestly say I never got a parking ticket from a Garda. I did get one down here though.

Maybe the Gardai are too busy dealing with travelling rioters.

Serves you right for illegally parking. Cluttering up the streets...

a part de ca, la vie est belle la bas?

padi89 · 01-06-2006 09:17AM

Peace wrote:

Where are all the liberal Pikey lovers today?

Let me guess, they are not representative of the Pikey community as a whole?

Of course they are its their tradtition to beat eight shades of ****e outta one another to settle a dispute,at least the feckers handle their disputes face to face weapons and all,instead of debateing anonymously behind a computer screen!:D Ya have to admire it....hehehe

Heinrich · 01-06-2006 09:20AM

padi89 wrote:

Of course they are its their tradtition to beat eight shades of ****e outta one another,at least the feckers handle their disputes face to face weapons and all,instead of debateing anonymous behind a computer screen!:D

You don't get broadband in a caravan!

I don't know how you operate but I'm working in FRONT of my screen.

padi89 · 01-06-2006 09:23AM

Heinrich wrote:

I don't know how you operate but I'm working in FRONT of my screen.

Thats gone over my head?

padi89 · 01-06-2006 09:25AM

Heinrich wrote:

You don't get broadband in a caravan!

Sher what would ya need broadband for when you drive around in a 06 Landcruiser!

padi89 · 01-06-2006 09:30AM

padi89 wrote:

Thats gone over my head?

Got ya,sorry bit slow this morning:rolleyes:

daveg · 01-06-2006 09:40AM

I posted a few months back about one of these "disagreements" some travellers had on the Tuam road in Galway. Was like something out of Medieval times. 4 travellers with shirts off using weapons against each other (hammers/wooden weapons/hatchets/cars etc).

I read there was a follow-up where one of them ran onto a football match with a mask on wielding a fúcking hatchet.

Personally I've no problem with them killing each other. Inevitably innocent people get injured or their property which is not on.

I like the field full of travellers/weapons idea..

padi89 · 01-06-2006 09:46AM

What usually happens then is they all end up back at casualty togeather.......ding ding ding Round 2!!!!!

Peace · 01-06-2006 10:01AM

padi89 wrote:

What usually happens then is they all end up back at casualty togeather.......ding ding ding Round 2!!!!!

Look, the field will operate somthing similar to Thunderdome (the one in Mad Max, not the boards one) - many pikeys enter, one pikey leave.

One pikey turning up in A&E should be managable.

The_B_Man · 01-06-2006 10:16AM

what if this filed is filled with mines? would be that be ok? or just less entertaining?

thebaz · 01-06-2006 10:27AM

There was a ruck in a chuch at a childrens communion down in Waterford a couple of weeks ago, involving travellers -- apparently it was chaotic -- childrens communion in a church .

Angels · 01-06-2006 10:29AM

They should surround the field with barb wire so the rest of us can watch the mad fcukers kill each other!

I might sound synical here but do they all have a screw loose in them?? or is it just certain members of the travelling community (I know some settled travellers to see & they are quite nice people)

Nightwish · 01-06-2006 10:36AM

when I was coming home from work on Sunday, there was a Paddywagon-load of cops outside St Patricks church in Kilkenny as a coffin was being brought in. They were keeping two feuding factions apart...well its been widely reported what happened afterwards. The coffin was knocked over in the resulting melee in the church.

Giblet · 01-06-2006 10:36AM

Things that shouldn't be happening in this thread:

(A) LET'S CULL THE KNACKERS!
(B) I SEE THE LOONY LOOPY LEFT LIBERAL LOUT LOVING LADS ARE LOST, WHERE ARTH THOU! HAHA THIS PROVES ALL MY OPINIONS! MAN THEY'RE IDIOTS

Leinster · 01-06-2006 10:41AM

Fight ya for a fiver - no shirt, no shoes!

Traveller street riot leaves locals terrified

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