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Rathkeale to become "100% traveller" community worker warns

Kermit.de.frog

First 100% traveller town in Ireland?

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/rathkeale-will-become-100-traveller-forum-told-1.2177272

The town of Rathkeale in Co Limerick is “dying” and will be populated 100 per cent by Travellers within 10 years because nobody else wants to live or do business there, a local community worker has said.

When even socially just community workers are saying it's a disaster then the conclusion is obvious. Finally the enlightenment of rampant political correctness? The ultimate outcome of what they preach(ed)?

Or maybe it will be a very nice bustling town? Who knows?

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jimgoose

Time to rename the main drag in Rathkeale the Sham's-Élysées??

token101

humanji wrote: »

I think it's google ads, so Boards don't actually have any say on what's shown. It just sees what's on the page and tries to put forward ads that relate to the topic.

There are absolutely ways you can exclude certain sites/categories from advertising on your site.

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3306596?hl=en-GB

kstand

Maguined wrote: »

It reminds me of the Dale Farm evictions in the UK. Travellers were ordered to be evicted from the area as they had illegally built upon the land without planning permission. Protestors came down to fortify the area to prevent evictions and were extreme left defending the poor minority from the oppressive laws of the land. After a couple of days of camping many of the protestors left after realising the poor minority they were protecting were destroying the enviroment with tire fires, abused their animals, opposed their children being educated and were horrible to the women in their society.

Everything the extreme left protestors reviled was the actual culture of those they were defending from the law.

I recall that very well - very typical of a lot of left reactionaries. Their absolute hatred of the status quo in many cases gets in the way of them doing proper research on those who's cause they are seeking to champion. A lot of them are middle class idiots with guilt complexes but they cant quite work out what they are guilty about and in many cases are nothing short of clueless anarchists just getting in the way.

[Deleted User]

BlatentCheek wrote: »

Well if an anonymous internet man says it that's good enough for me.

Don't put your own points down in such a manner, anonymous internet man.

You are as entitled to your points as the guy who claims to live there.

Zamboni

True story.
My ould lad was very generous to a really old traveler lady when she would go around the houses begging every week or so.
He'd bring her in for soup, give her bread, sugar, milk, tinned food and general groceries to take away.
Then one day we didn't have anything to give - tough 80's and all - so we didn't answer the door.
So she hunkered down and pissed in our porch.

Suffice to say she didn't get anything after that.

fleet_admiral

When it reaches the '100%' I bet there wont be one burglary in the town. Im sure they wouldnt steal from themselves

crockholm

I lived in neighbouring Newcastlewest for years and got to know many of the Asylum seekers/refugees from Rathkeale who had moved to the Town.One time I visited the Town with one of my refugee friends-It really is an Amazing spot, we drove through an estate (fairhill?) which had about 80% of the houses boarded up,down the main street,past the chinaman who was looking abit worse for wear and out to the graveyard which might actually have more Carrera marble than Carrera itself.

He showed me the grave of a scottish man who had married into one of the families,in later Life he had developed a drinking problem and was disowned by his whole family and lived the pauper Life-picking up ciggie butts and taking the remaining baccy to roll again,yet once he died,the family had no qualms about putting about 30,000 euro of marble over him.

The hinterland is an absolute must for history buffs,there is a higher concentration of "big houses" than anywhere else in the country,the owners of said houses being brought over to Ireland from the German Pfalz reigon to settle the land (best dairy land in the country-golden vale) in the early 1700s.Members of the nearby Embury-Heck Methodist Chapel were instrumental in establishing the methodist faith in the USA,and each year many come back to visit it.Castle Matrix apparently has a trove of information about the Williamite wars and the subsequent "Flight of the wild geese" Sarsfield et al.

So,next time you're driving from dublin to kerry,take a wee detour.You could be pleasantly surprised,either way-you will see something unique.

ScumLord

If the town is dying let it die, let the countryside swallow it up. Too many small towns in this country, it wouldn't hurt to lose a couple a dozen of them.

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crockholm wrote: »

So,next time you're driving from dublin to kerry,take a wee detour.You could be pleasantly surprised,either way-you will see something unique.

Rathkeale House Hotel itself also rates pretty high on Tripadvisor.

I would like to stay there. My wife has other tastes and would rather Adare. I think it's because she couldn't tell her friends we stayed in Rathkeale.

conorhal

ScumLord wrote: »

If the town is dying let it die, let the countryside swallow it up. Too many small towns in this country, it would hurt to lose a couple a dozen of them.

The point is that the town isn't dying, it's being killed by an invasive species.

twin_beacon

RedemptionZ wrote: »

See the ironic thing is that because of the 'culture' travellers practice, their town will be much worse off for the travellers themselves once it's 100% traveller. It's not a situation where it'll be like 'ok we're all mates and the country people are gone so let's have a party', it's just gonna be huge unemployment rates, with nobody wanting to work in any of the nearby facilities and the pubs full of scraps with the local families. Too much pussyfooting with traveller families.

Pubs? what pubs? Do you think a traveller would be willing to work?

token101

Boards inappropriate advertising part deux:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=95109333&posted=1#post95109333

ScumLord

conorhal wrote: »

The point is that the town isn't dying, it's being killed by an invasive species.

That means it's weak, let nature take it's course.

kneemos

token101 wrote: »

Boards inappropriate advertising part deux:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=95109333&posted=1#post95109333

Can't help but wonder what sort of guys these are.

token101

kneemos wrote: »

Can't help but wonder what sort of guys these are.

I've just had a third one now offering more evictions!

It's clearly adware/spyware but in my very limited knowledge of online advertising I'm fairly sure there are ways & means that Boards could control this better. It looks awful!

conorhal

ScumLord wrote: »

That means it's weak, let nature take it's course.

If nature wasn't hamstrung by some tutting left wing enviornmentalist who thinks this needs to be protected, funded and indulged, nature would.

To Elland Back

token101 wrote: »

I would say quite. It's quite awkward. Some serious questions need to be asked of your advertising providers!

Yes, such as 'Would you do an AMA?'

mikom

"You join us here live on RTE for the swearing-in ceremony of Norah Casey as the mayor of Rathkeale"

whisky_galore

ScumLord wrote: »

If the town is dying let it die, let the countryside swallow it up. Too many small towns in this country, it wouldn't hurt to lose a couple a dozen of them.

What a strange attitude.

ScumLord

whisky_galore wrote: »

What a strange attitude.

There are too many small towns scattered around this country. There are very few wild areas in Ireland, our countryside consists of lots of private land. Our infrastructure is never going to keep up with demand from small towns and one off housing scattered all over the place.

The town is dying because there's little reason for it to be there other than people already live there. It is redundant. Resources would be better spent if people lived in larger towns and I say that being a person that hates large towns and cities.

conorhal

whisky_galore wrote: »

What a strange attitude.

Not really, the 'let them eat cake' classes are in for a shock come the next election though. Off with their heads!

whisky_galore

ScumLord wrote: »

There are too many small towns scattered around this country. There are very few wild areas in Ireland, our countryside consists of lots of private land. Our infrastructure is never going to keep up with demand from small towns and one off housing scattered all over the place.

The town is dying because there's little reason for it to be there other than people already live there. It is redundant. Resources would be better spent if people lived in larger towns and I say that being a person that hates large towns and cities.

Lol.:pac:
Seriously? Travellers to establish a woodland paradise for squirrels n sh*t?!

kneemos

ScumLord wrote: »

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The town is dying because there's little reason for it to be there other than people already live there.

I comply with your logic.

Kermit.de.frog

If they are buying up everything where is the money coming from? I assume they don't pay tax. The last time I asked was the traveller "girl" who was answering questions on Boards. She said she did not know where the income came from.

El_Duderino 09

conorhal wrote: »

If nature wasn't hamstrung by some tutting left wing enviornmentalist who thinks this needs to be protected, funded and indulged, nature would.

If the left wing are such a big problem, then where are they now? I don't see anyone here defending travellers.

El_Duderino 09

ScumLord wrote: »

There are too many small towns scattered around this country. There are very few wild areas in Ireland, our countryside consists of lots of private land. Our infrastructure is never going to keep up with demand from small towns and one off housing scattered all over the place.

The town is dying because there's little reason for it to be there other than people already live there. It is redundant. Resources would be better spent if people lived in larger towns and I say that being a person that hates large towns and cities.

'I don't like where things are going and I think we should go there faster'. Genuinely hy-larious

twilight_singer

whisky_galore wrote: »

Lol.:pac:
Seriously? Travellers to establish a tarmac paradise for squirrels n sh*t?!

More likely

sabat

The real reason for the town's decline, just like many others on the old Dublin-Limerick-Kerry road, is the construction of the bypass several years ago. This had the dual effect of both removing almost all passing trade and making it easier for locals to get into Limerick's suburbs or centre for shopping.

ScumLord

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

'I don't like where things are going and I think we should go there faster'. Genuinely hy-larious

I don't even know what you're trying to say here. I'm saying the town is dying because theres no reason for it to be there. I don't see the town dying as a bad thing. Why should we pump money into a place where people don't want to live and that has nothing to support the people that might want to live there.

Abandon the town, let nature reclaim it. Much better use of the land.

JustTheOne

I blame enda.