Protest in Ballina to prevent traveller family moving in

The Council have tried to move this family for years but the family were adamant that they were not moving; they were offered houses and plots all over the vicinity. You see their settlement was in a nice area near the Marina and local hotel / swimming pool.

But the Council recently approved a multi-million development on the Marina and I would second guess that neither the Council nor the developers would like have seven traveler caravans right at the entrance to this Marina. The locals believe that the Council were paid off by the Marina developers to move the travelers so in effect are facilitating discrimination themselves.

The neighbors only found out last week that the house was bought by the Council and that travelers were moving in, and that the house cost €500k. The same Council have no money to fix the chronic water issues in Ballina nor the sunken paths and mighty potholes.

This traveler family have integrated with the locals and I believe that there has never been an issue but it is really the Council who are the problem.

In addition the family who sold the house are not being hassled by locals.

And for those of you concerned about the waste of tax payers money rumour has it that for years the Council have been paying hundreds each week to the local laundrette and shop to help out this family.

I think the solution here is, the government buys 465,000€ worth of condoms and gives them to the traveller community. Then if one of them has a kid, its like China - They pay for it. :pac:

Being completly honest, why the hell should everyone else have to work for a living, when people who're too stupid to use family planning, or they have to fill the nice big free vehicles they get, and think that a vagina is a clowncar that lets them fill it. Good to see the tax payers money is going to good use as always.

Why should people who contribut nothing and demonstrate no social responsibility be rewarded with a luxury home? Besides which, with a over-sized family of travellers as a neighbour who would really take the chance of purchasing an adjacent property for nearly half a million? Take a look at some of the settled traveller estates. Case and point, the estate off the Kylemore road. It looks like a riot has taken place there! As part of their tax-free earning ability, they clear peoples gardens for a fee, dump the old fridges etc in their estate and the council picks it up free of charge. Nice.

Here's a thought, a group of us squat up in Ballsbridge for a time and we'll get a nice place in the locality. It works both ways I presume.

It's a bit sickening when you hear about such hand outs... People work their whole life and at the end almost have a house similar to what these people have got.

Do they have to pay anything towards it? If not why don't they?

The government should let them work on civic projects, perhaps cleaning up the run down areas. Perhaps rebuilding the destroyed neighbourhoods and facilities built for such ones...

25-35 years is the average mortgage term?? Get them out there working 9-5 peeling gum from the streets if needs be. People would be a lot less critical if they were giving something back to society rather than depending on hand out.

Dragan wrote: »

Because the simple fact of it is that the travelling community has a far higher percentage of anti social behaviour than any other section of our society.

And despite that, the travelling community refuse to acknowledge this and believe that it is up to the rest of society to become more tolerant, instead of being the travelling community's responsibility to clean up their image.

This has been going on for years. Since the travelling community changed from being travelling tradesmen (tinkers, knackers and so forth), to just being nomads, they have been consistently going down in the estimation of the rest of society. This hasn't been society's fault. It's the fault of the anti-social element within the travelling community.
It's the exact same as the less desirable areas in Dublin and Limerick and other places around the country. An element of those communities has tarnished it as a place that is dangerous to go and where you're likely to get robbed. We know that not all (in fact a small minority) are the "rogue element", but that doesn't change the fact that they're statistically more dangerous/less civil places.

If you say that you wouldn't like to live in these places or that you'd be afraid to go into them, nobody would tut. In fact, they'd generally agree with you. So why the tutting and screaming when people say that they don't want travellers living beside them? Statistically, travellers are more likely to cause trouble. Simple as.

However, unlike run-down areas, you can't "fix" the travelling community's image by moving out the scumbags and giving it a lick of paint. Only the travelling community can out and exile their rogue element and begin to repair the relationship with the rest of society which the travellers have ****ed up. It's not society's fault that it doesn't have a good relationship with travellers. It's the travellers' own fault, and it's their responsibility to begin fixing that relationship.

Screaming racism and demanding handouts will not do any good for the relationship.

mumhaabu wrote: »

People have the right to choose who they want to live in their community and it is only right we choose not to mix with whoever we see fit.

*Awaits the liberal barrage from the idiototic left.

No they don't.

You cannot refuse to let a person entry into your community purely because the residents have an idea of what they would deem acceptable. If myself and the neighbours decide we don't want gingers, gays or Frenchmen on the estate, would that be ok to you?


But hey, what do I know, I'm just writing on behalf of the idiotic left.