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Peter Casey's beliefs of Travellers' ethnicity Part II

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    DChancer wrote:
    No more ungrateful than Casey They are both immigrants that hold Irish Citizenship but at least she pays her taxes here unlike that scroungers Casey


    You need to educate yourself on the tax arrangements for free card holders and dual taxation treaties.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    *green card holder.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,002 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    lets be honest here
    the status quo is the traveler gangs can raid you 24/7
    if they are caught and free legal aid defends them they will get a suspended sentence from a traitor judge
    or you go full padraig nally
    there is no middle ground

    I would be of the opinion that most of them never come within a mile of court.

    We are talking of those who do. And judges really need to send out a message I agree. But seems to me they don't


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    See you are looking at this from a perspective of what would work on you. Criminal records don't bother travellers. And what happens when they are in prison? Kids go into care? Still won't go to school. I agree the cycle needs to be broken and education is key. I just don't think your stick approach is going to be effective on it's own.


    Well the carrot is an abysmal failure as figures from secondary and third level attendance can prove.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭DChancer


    Seriously though.

    I really hope those who have had to deal with degenerate Travellers preying on the vulnerable will be able to fight back with a voice who might speak for them.

    It may not be Casey, but someone else taking on the baton.

    Otherwise rural people will live in fear for ever more. That is awful.

    lets be honest here
    the status quo is the traveler gangs can raid you 24/7
    if they are caught and free legal aid defends them they will get a suspended sentence from a traitor judge
    or you go full padraig nally
    there is no middle ground
    Seldom if ever have I seen such utter bulls hit attempting to masquerade as fact.
    A little less hyperbolic crap and a few more facts might help make your point appear reasoned.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,002 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    DChancer wrote: »
    Seldom if ever have I seen such utter bulls hit attempting to masquerade as fact.
    A little less hyperbolic crap and a few more facts might help make your point appear reasoned.

    You referenced two posts there.

    Which poster are you having a problem with.

    I think you doth protest too much. :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,165 ✭✭✭Captain Obvious


    Well the carrot is an abysmal failure as figures from secondary and third level attendance can prove.


    Which carrot are you referring to?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    DChancer wrote:
    Seldom if ever have I seen such utter bulls hit attempting to masquerade as fact. A little less hyperbolic crap and a few more facts might help make your point appear reasoned.


    Hyperbolic? lol you described Casey as a megolomanic earlier.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Which carrot are you referring to?

    Social welfare. Rights also come with responsibility. As I said don't send your child to school no CB. Simple. There are numerous supports in schools for traveller children including home support.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,165 ✭✭✭Captain Obvious


    Social welfare. Rights also come with responsibility. As I said don't send your child to school no CB. Simple. There are numerous supports in schools for traveller children including home support.


    Social welfare isn't unique to travellers though. It doesn't address the issues I raised. There are some supports for traveller children but they aren't effective.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Social welfare isn't unique to travellers though. It doesn't address the issues I raised. There are some supports for traveller children but they aren't effective.


    Never said it was but linking it to school attendance should force some change. You'll forgive me but you seem to believe no actions should be tried or taken just write off generation after generation.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,165 ✭✭✭Captain Obvious


    Never said it was but linking it to school attendance should force some change. You'll forgive me but you seem to believe no actions should be tried or taken just write off generation after generation.


    That's the opposite of what I think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    That's the opposite of what I think.


    So what's your suggestion, you seem to have gone out of your way to dispute mine. Surely you have an alternative?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 163 ✭✭shady acres


    I would be of the opinion that most of them never come within a mile of court.

    We are talking of those who do. And judges really need to send out a message I agree. But seems to me they don't

    judges are the weak link
    god help the gardai who waste weeks and weeks for the perps to get a slap on the wrist from some filthy commie pedo judge


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 163 ✭✭shady acres


    and another thing
    ryan tubridy should be put into a catapult and shot into outerspace


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    A start would be applying the laws of the state equally. A traveller child should be required to have the same school attendance as a settled child and not drop out before the legal minutes age. No exception. Easy to enforce by only paying child allowance on production of proof of school attendance. My wife and I had to get our son's school each year to confirm he was attending school for the benefit to be paid. Small step but education is key to breaking a cycle.

    the laws of the state are applied equally. however as you may be aware, we currently have a severe shortage of police right now. a traveler child is required to have the same school attendance as a settled child. but again, we don't have enough manpower to get to every single child. only paying child allowance on production of proof of school attendance isn't a way to enforce anything because there are ways to mitagate against it and it doesn't work. you are correct in saying education is key to breaking a cycle but we do have to be realistic as to what we as a small country can do.
    So you're happy not to try and incentise a child's school attendance? Education has been shown the world over to break the cycle of proverty and have positive results in crime reduction too. I 'm surprised giving the profession ( unless i read your posts wrong) you are in you don't know this.

    the question was how removing child benefit incentivises sending children to education, and yet in answer to it you ask if someone is happy not to incentivise a child attending school in any way. something which was never stated. disagreeing with one method does not mean disagreement with the aim.
    So basically you want everyone to accept what you think they should accept as dictated by you. Still having no luck closing the thread huh?

    no, just except the basic facts as listed by dav3.
    I find the best way to encourage people to do what is right is through their pocket. I offered a suggestion what's yours or do you think just allow each generation repeat the bs of the pervious?

    you may find that the best way to encourage people to do what is right is through their pocket, but out on the ground, that doesn't seem to be working well. that doesn't mean i want to allow each generation to repeat the bs of the previous, but i want to try and prevent it via solutions that have a high likelyhood of working and that have few if any ways around them.

    Refusing to send your child to school can also involve a custodial sentence. The laws are there. They need to be enforced. The cycle needs to be broken.


    correct however the costs of imposing a custodial sentence in the form of not only the prison costs but temporarily caring for the child should the child need to be in state care i should think are quite high, hence i'd imagine such is only ever used as an ultra-last resort and should realistically be avoided if possible.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Oh it's a conspiracy alright. It stinks to high Heaven.
    I'm just hoping that it remains in people's minds until the next election.
    Then we'll see that 10 percent rise a fair bit.
    Again Francie, the message is more important than the messenger.

    how is it a conspiracy. casey was given a platform and had no solutions to the issues he brought up. that's not a conspiracy.
    Discodog wrote: »
    You missed the point. We never had a thread like this & most threads were closed

    from what i remember that only began happening in the last few years. before hand plenty of traveler threads ran until they died out.
    Cupatae wrote: »
    Why dont they cut the nonsense, and pandering and actually bring out the facts that they dont want to hear, alot of travellers got there reputations for good reasons, people didnt wake up one morning and randomly decided to dislike them the prejudice a lot of them are complaining about has been well earned by a large part of that community... and yet that is just brushed under the rug and ignored for the sake of political correctness and pandering for votes.

    The whole "theres good and bad in every community" doesnt fly with me but it seems to be taken at face value alot of the time and is a go too response, while that is a true statement one could argue there seems to be an epidemic of bad in this community compared to most other communities, these opinions dont just spring up from the ground without any truth at all there is a reason so many people hold the same opinion of the travelling community.

    The governments effort to help them should be mirrored by there own effort to help themselves.

    prejudice against a whole group of people is never earned. the only people responsible for the prejudice is those who engage in the prejudice. it's only an individual who earns prejudice via their actions. the whole "there is good and bad in every community" will have to fly as it's reality.

    I know it was inevitable with such an emotive topic but it seems that both sides of this debate are getting further and further apart.

    On one side of the spectrum there is the 'Travellers are all roving bands of thieves, who can't work because they are too busy defrauding the welfare, beating up their spouses, making very poor quality documentaries on their home made fight clubs and organising very flashy communions / weddings etc' people.

    On the other side are the 'Travellers never did me a days harm, are an ethnic minority, shouldn't be held to the same rules as the rest of us, marrying their cousins is what they do, no problem with them taking their kids out of education as early as possible, everyone is racist who doesn't agree with me' gang.

    The truth lies somewhere in the middle.
    There is a large number of them (a majority? I don't know) who are severely disadvantaged. Poor access to education, lack of basic sanitation, malnourishment, high suicide rate, large numbers in prison...all classic signs of being educationally disadvantaged. The only way these are going to become valuable members and contributors is by helping them get that education. I can't believe anyone would question or indeed begrudge them that help.
    Then there is the section that carry out severe anti-social behaviour. Drug pushing, extortion, theft, social welfare fraud, intimidation. Again I'm sure that nobody would condone any of that behaviour.

    The difficulty is that the anti-social section of this community are much more visible than the other section.

    I grew up in a part of Dublin which has a high concentration of travellers and have never had anything but bad experiences with them. But I don't assume that they are all the same. I've grown up a bit maybe. I still wouldn't want any living next door to me, their values are different from mine and we wouldn't be able to get along. That's the truth.

    What's needed and what Casey has put on the national agenda, is a frank and open discussion between both communities on how to develop and grow those travellers who want to become members of this society we all like in in Ireland, and how to deal with the criminal element in that community.

    If Casey has done anything, he has brought that discussion out into the open, because when thoughts and feelings are hidden away, they fester, become bad, and ripe for exploitation.

    So for those who think Casey is the Anti-Christ, and those who think he is the second coming of the Messiah. He's neither, and both.


    nobody has ever said that travelers shouldn't be held to the same rules as the rest of us, that marrying their cousins is what they do and is okay, that we have no problem with them taking their kids out of education as early as possible. the truth is very much in the middle i agree, and it's me and other posters who are stating it. i have to disagree that casey has put anything more on the table then what is already being, and what has always been discussed, very openly since discussions on travelers began.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,854 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    At least Casey is speaking the truth. I can vaguely recall a time when varadkar used to do that..

    I would love to know what percentage of the vote renua would go to with him in the party ...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    the laws of the state are applied equally. however as you may be aware, we currently have a severe shortage of police right now. a traveler child is required to have the same school attendance as a settled child. but again, we don't have enough manpower to get to every single child. only paying child allowance on production of proof of school attendance isn't a way to enforce anything because there are ways to mitagate against it and it doesn't work. you are correct in saying education is key to breaking a cycle but we do have to be realistic as to what we as a small country can do.
    There're not applied equally.
    the question was how removing child benefit incentivises sending children to education, and yet in answer to it you ask if someone is happy not to incentivise a child attending school in any way. something which was never stated. disagreeing with one method does not mean disagreement with the aim.
    You seem to have twisted yourself in some knots here.
    no, just except the basic facts as listed by dav3.

    dav3 posts nonsense not facts, so safe to ignore what he says.
    you may find that the best way to encourage people to do what is right is through their pocket, but out on the ground, that doesn't seem to be working well. that doesn't mean i want to allow each generation to repeat the bs of the previous, but i want to try and prevent it via solutions that have a high likelyhood of working and that have few if any ways around them.
    What are your solutions so?
    correct however the costs of imposing a custodial sentence in the form of not only the prison costs but temporarily caring for the child should the child need to be in state care i should think are quite high, hence i'd imagine such is only ever used as an ultra-last resort and should realistically be avoided if possible.
    So do nothing so. Why didn't you say that at the start save you breaking commmets into so many component parts. Bye the way are you on the evening shift? The other lad gone home?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    At least Casey is speaking the truth.

    you mean telling you what you want to hear? that's not "speaking the truth"
    Idbatterim wrote: »
    I can vaguely recall a time when varadkar used to do that..

    I would love to know what percentage of the vote renua would go to with him in the party ...

    probably a couple more % then originally voted for them last time. what would be the incentive for large scale votes to transfer to them with casey in the party, especially given they got hardly any vote last time dispite having policies that should on the face of it, appeal to quite a lot of casey's support base?

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    you mean telling you what you want to hear? that's not "speaking the truth"

    Casey said everyone should be treated equally can't see why some would have an issue with that tbh. It's the direct opposite of racism.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,328 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    who are they under orders from? matt cooper works for a private radio station.

    Didn't Varadker try to influence the Casey vote public ally?
    A nod and wink to an old pal privately gets a lot done too. Favours and all that jazz imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    There're not applied equally.

    how aren't they?
    You seem to have twisted yourself in some knots here.

    how so?
    dav3 posts nonsense not facts, so safe to ignore what he says.

    his post in this thread is a very fair post.
    What are your solutions so?


    So do nothing so. Why didn't you say that at the start save you breaking commmets into so many component parts. Bye the way are you on the evening shift? The other lad gone home?

    i'm not saying do nothing, i'm saying the solutions we need to apply must work in terms of achieving the aim, but not negatively effect anyone.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    how aren't they?

    Self evident
    how so?

    Try and decide what you said I can't
    his post in this thread is a very fair post.

    It's not, it's dictatorial bs.
    i'm not saying do nothing, i'm saying the solutions we need to apply must work in terms of achieving the aim, but not negatively effect anyone.
    So what are those solutions, I offered some. You haven't, when you're ready.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Casey said everyone should be treated equally can't see why some would have an issue with that tbh. It's the direct opposite of racism.

    i don't think i said peter casey was racist? i don't believe he is . ill informed, sure.
    people are treated equally in ireland. recognising the ethnic status of a minority group doesn't go against that.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,165 ✭✭✭Captain Obvious


    So what's your suggestion, you seem to have gone out of your way to dispute mine. Surely you have an alternative?


    Not specifically. I think you'd probably need people with a deeper understanding of child psychology and traveller culture to come up with a complete plan. I do think after schools programs are key though. Not only for retention of the days education but to socialise with non traveller children.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭sabat


    Just walked past the Teachers Club on Parnell Square, two squad cars, a van, and 6 gardai (that I could see) at the scene of some traveller function - it's 9pm on a Monday.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Not specifically. I think you'd probably need people with a deeper understanding of child psychology and traveller culture to come up with a complete plan. I do think after schools programs are key though. Not only for retention of the days education but to socialise with non traveller children.


    I live in a rural location, with a halting site within two miles of my home. The local school is also 2 miles to the halting site. There is a bus service each day bringing the children that 2 miles too school despite the parents having cars. There is also an after-school service. The services are provided it's the attendance that is the issue. The children when in school are reasonably ok with other children but more accute behaviourial issues. The school has a few SNA's to work with these kids but again it still comes down to attendence and the parents realising the importance of an education


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    i don't think i said peter casey was racist? i don't believe he is . ill informed, sure. people are treated equally in ireland. recognising the ethnic status of a minority group doesn't go against that.


    Nice to see someone that disagrees with him admit he is not racist. Refreshing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    sabat wrote: »
    Just walked past the Teachers Club on Parnell Square, two squad cars, a van, and 6 gardai (that I could see) at the scene of some traveller function - it's 9pm on a Monday.

    Are you saying they are short numbers? :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    sabat wrote:
    Just walked past the Teachers Club on Parnell Square, two squad cars, a van, and 6 gardai (that I could see) at the scene of some traveller function - it's 9pm on a Monday.


    Nice to see them invite the guards to a gathering.


  • Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭TallyRand


    i don't think i said peter casey was racist? i don't believe he is . ill informed, sure.
    people are treated equally in ireland. recognising the ethnic status of a minority group doesn't go against that.

    Casey certainly not the slickest operator out there however judging by your posts it seems you’re the ill-informed one out of the two.

    I’d be quite sure I’ve crossed paths with more travellers than you and I must be awfully unlucky to have met every bad one, all the lovely ones must go a different place.

    Through retail businesses, area I live and a wide network of people with a brain that I encounter it’s a constant bad story when it comes down to the “un-settled” stories that would turn your stomach, getting 5yo’s to rob, animal fighting, bareknuckle fighting.

    With a liberal, anti- Casey, pro-traveller media (undeniable) where are the easy to come by “heartwarming” do gooder, positive spin articles and pieces on them? Funny that in the height of hysteria the media darlings don’t even have loads of low hanging fodder!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,328 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    how is it a conspiracy. casey was given a platform and had no solutions to the issues he brought up. that's not a conspiracy.
    n.

    Casey wasn't even allowed to answer a question on the LLS ( now I have no faith that he could either but that's beside the point. I don't rate him.)
    However if you examine the guest list and the planted audience and the fact that Tubridy fired 5 different questions at him in 10 seconds it is clear, to me anyway, that the whole thing was a conspiracy to down Casey.
    Even the dipsy one (can't think of her name) tried to down him and has been found out for lying in false tweets since.
    It was even worse than what Miriam O' Callaghan tried to do to Martin Mc Guinness in the Presidential debate in 2011.
    RTE working on behalf of their political masters once again imo.


  • Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭TallyRand


    i don't think i said peter casey was racist? i don't believe he is . ill informed, sure.
    people are treated equally in ireland. recognising the ethnic status of a minority group doesn't go against that.

    Casey certainly not the slickest operator out there however judging by your posts it seems you’re the ill-informed one out of the two.

    I’d be quite sure I’ve crossed paths with more travellers than you and I must be awfully unlucky to have met every bad one, all the lovely ones must go a different place.

    Through retail businesses, area I live and a wide network of people with a brain that I encounter it’s a constant bad story when it comes down to the “un-settled” stories that would turn your stomach, getting 5yo’s to rob, animal fighting, bareknuckle fighting.

    With a liberal, anti- Casey, pro-traveller media (undeniable) where are the easy to come by “heartwarming” do gooder, positive spin articles and pieces on them? Funny that in the height of hysteria the media darlings don’t even have loads of low hanging fodder!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Casey wasn't even allowed to answer a question on the LLS ( now I have no faith that he could either but that's beside the point. I don't rate him.)
    However if you examine the guest list and the planted audience and the fact that Tubridy fired 5 different questions at him in 10 seconds it is clear, to me anyway, that the whole thing was a conspiracy to down Casey.
    Even the dipsy one (can't think of her name) tried to down him and has been found out for lying in false tweets since.
    It was even worse than what Miriam O' Callaghan tried to do to Martin Mc Guinness in the Presidential debate in 2011.
    RTE working on behalf of their political masters once again imo.


    if a chat show is going to interview someone, then depending on the subject they will have someone of the opposite opinion in the audience or as a guest. that's the nature of the game. that's what happened on the lls. in fact they are likely obligated to do it as part of impartiality rules and expectations. i see no conspiracy here.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    if a chat show is going to interview someone, then depending on the subject they will have someone of the opposite opinion in the audience or as a guest. that's the nature of the game. that's what happened on the lls. in fact they are likely obligated to do it as part of impartiality rules and expectations. i see no conspiracy here.


    You were definitely watching a different LLS show if you feel the interview and traveller contribution were done in a fair and balanced manner allowing for questions asked to be answered.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Sycamore Tree


    if a chat show is going to interview someone, then depending on the subject they will have someone of the opposite opinion in the audience or as a guest. that's the nature of the game. that's what happened on the lls. in fact they are likely obligated to do it as part of impartiality rules and expectations. i see no conspiracy here.

    Seriously how did you convince your brain that you believed this post as you wrote it?
    If you cannot see that Tubs interview for the biased setup it was then you are either blind or completely blinkered.

    And what other chat shows plant 'someone of the opposite opinion in the audience'? It's not the 'nature of the game'. The point of a chat show is to find out more and more about the interviewee by asking probing questions and letting the person actually answer those questions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,007 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Seriously how did you convince your brain that you believed this post as you wrote it?
    If you cannot see that Tubs interview for the biased setup it was then you are either blind or completely blinkered.

    And what other chat shows plant 'someone of the opposite opinion in the audience'? It's not the 'nature of the game'. The point of a chat show is to find out more and more about the interviewee by asking probing questions and letting the person actually answer those questions.

    Gay Byrne did it all the time. Oldest chat show thing in the book. Ratings my dear boy...ratings.
    Not the first time a controversial guest got mauled on a chat show and not the last either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Gay Byrne did it all the time. Oldest chat show thing in the book. Ratings my dear boy...ratings. Not the first time a controversial guest got mauled on a chat show and not the last either.


    He wasn't mauled, but you can keep telling yourself that if you wish. The Travellers came across really poorly, Tubs made a show of himself threatening his guest. "You'll know if I lose control". Maybe you and EOTR were watching a different programme.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,007 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    He wasn't mauled, but you can keep telling yourself that if you wish. The Travellers came across really poorly, Tubs made a show of himself threatening his guest. "You'll know if I lose control". Maybe you and EOTR were watching a different programme.

    Oh wow, somebody who has been posting anti traveller sentiments for pages and pages thinks the travellers came across really poorly.

    I'm shocked! :rolleyes:

    It was a curates egg of an interview. Casey was his usual bungling incoherent self, Ryan was a bit rude, and the travellers made some good points and sounded a bit ranty at times.

    In terms of coming across as a coherent politician, Casey mauled himself largely, the Phoenix Park stuff is still a bizarre interlude 3 days later.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Oh wow, somebody who has been posting anti traveller sentiments for pages and pages thinks the travellers came across really poorly.


    Anti traveller sentiments? Care to back it up? I made my thoughts on education known to another poster. Hardly anti traveller. I see though you like to engage in misrepresentation.Again yes they came across very badly. The traveller who attends or attended UL had to be corrected when he stated Casey had an altercation with the traveller family, Caseymentioned during his younger days . You clearly heard only what you wanted to hear.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    In terms of coming across as a coherent politician, Casey mauled himself largely, the Phoenix Park stuff is still a bizarre interlude 3 days later.


    But he's not a politician as has been pointed out to you several times by numerous posters so why keep saying he is? Strange.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭oceanman


    Omackeral wrote: »
    What makes someone ethnically a Traveller, as opposed to just Irish?
    the government..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,328 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    if a chat show is going to interview someone, then depending on the subject they will have someone of the opposite opinion in the audience or as a guest. that's the nature of the game. that's what happened on the lls. in fact they are likely obligated to do it as part of impartiality rules and expectations. i see no conspiracy here.

    So what about the rest of the post. You only addressed a small part of it and I bet if you were in any way honest with yourself, never mind us, you would admit that Casey was set up. It was so obvious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,007 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Anti traveller sentiments? Care to back it up? I made my thoughts on education known to another poster. Hardly anti traveller. I see though you like to engage in misrepresentation.Again yes they came across very badly. The traveller who attends or attended UL had to be corrected when he stated Casey had an altercation with the traveller family, Caseymentioned during his younger days . You clearly heard only what you wanted to hear.

    Defending somebody who made anti traveller remarks is to be anti traveller yourself imo.

    No idea what the UL thing is about.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,007 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    But he's not a politician as has been pointed out to you several times by numerous posters so why keep saying he is? Strange.

    Somebody who wants to stand for FF in Donegal and to become Taoiseach isn't a politician?
    I think that is as confused as Casey's politics. :confused::confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,007 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    So what about the rest of the post. You only addressed a small part of it and I bet if you were in any way honest with yourself, never mind us, you would admit that Casey was set up. It was so obvious.

    Of course he was 'set up'.

    Most of you guys knew what was going to happen beforehand, what's all the faux surprise about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭oceanman


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    Can't believe this thread actually made it to 10,000 posts

    :)

    Seems there's a lot more interest in Peter Casey views than some will admit
    he will definitely be in with a good shout for the next presidential election!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Still being discussed on social and MSM almost 3 weeks later.
    Casey has struck a chord.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,007 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    oceanman wrote: »
    he will definitely be in with a good shout for the next presidential election!:D

    Similar if not more intense discussion of Sean Gallagher last time and look how it worked out for him.


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