John Connors is a bit of a wanker

bit of?

lawsuit for Omackeral

True but who else will lead the coming battle against Skynet? Until then we'll just have to tolerate his nonsense.

jacksie66 wrote: »

But didn't he save us from Skynet?

Nah; that was his old ma, Sarah, when she stormed Miles Bennett Dyson's house.

blueser wrote: »

Nah; that was his old ma, Sarah, when she stormed Miles Bennett Dyson's house.

didnt he make hoovers vacuum cleaners???

He's a nobody that did astonishingly well - the stars aligned for him and I admire what he made with what he had to play with ... but there are no hidden depths to the man.

It would be like me playing the part of a guy doodling on the net when he should be revising for exams to huge accolades.

Omackeral wrote: »

He's an irresponsible fool. He said the only reason the Belfast rape trial went the way of the defendants was because they're rich and middle class. He has such a chip on his shoulder it's unreal. He can make willy-nilly generalisations about swathes of people, as stated above, but if you mention any bad behaviour by the Travelling community, you're a racist. Funny how every one of his major roles on tv and in film have been him portraying scumbags. Such range!

Plays the victim card all the time

Rjd2 wrote: »

Not bad whataboutery regarding the bankers and politicians.

Everyone uses the bankers but to be honest with the last crash we had them by the balls and what did our guberment do... Yes you guessed it gave them all the power back and even sold off nearly all the shares so they can't touch them.

What was stopping them keeping the power and running the banks to serve the Irish public.

We have gone from 1 working family to 2 in order to maybe some day been able to buy but rents are out of control so it's impossible to save.

Who better to teach us Travellers are not violent thugs than a traveller who is a violent thug?

Omackeral wrote: »

And then there's stuff like this, where he can't just answer a question without having a go at the settled community.

Do you mind not using the term 'settled' people?

Op had his lawnmower nicked from his shed last night?

Used to like him now all he seems to do is crave attention, have his say as if its his duty to and bring the settled vs traveller aspect into it. He should stay quite or think before he speaks.

Disappointed, but not surprised, to see the usual reactionary attitudes towards travellers on display here.

Connors has managed to carve out an acting career for himself against the odds. More power to him. He has landed an agent now and I'll be interested to see what he does next.

He also speaks the truth about our political class:

JohnFalstaff wrote: »

Disappointed, but not surprised, to see the usual reactionary attitudes towards travellers on display here.

It’s not surprising because the comments are substantiated.

The majority of travellers contribute nothing to Irish society. They fought to be seen as a minority yet argue that they’re not treated as equals. The ratio of criminals to law-abiding citizens in the travelling community is exponentially larger than in the settled community. Criminality is largely condoned in their community, they believe they are above the law. Travellers make up something like 11% of the Irish prison population, yet make up less than 1% of the actual population. I’ve never spoken to a person about travellers in which they have not had mainly negative experiences of them. True there are some good travellers, but it’s hard not to tarnish them all with the same brush when so many of them are not good.