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Longford travellers in major row on towns main Street.

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    #212
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    they respect nothing but force , if you act polite , they view that as weakness , primitive cultures believe in squashing what they see as weak

    Supposedly this is how the Gaelic chieftains used to behave Back in the day, when one came into power he’d kick the sh1t out of some rival as a way of showing dominance.


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    #213
    Mrcaramelchoc
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    Another day another traveller thread.


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    #214
    Kivaro
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    Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »
    Another day another traveller thread.
    Do you think if they behaved in a civilised manner then there would be no need for threads on them?
    Anybody mention the amount of sulky races going on at the moment by Travelers on various roads around the country during a pandemic lock-down?
    They do this because as an distinct ethnic minority, they believe that normal rules, laws, and lock-downs do not apply to them.


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    #215
    pgj2015
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    I was just thinking, was it a huge mistake to allow the Travellers to behave the way they have in the last couple of months at funerals. some of them already believe they are different/special and can do what they like. But we are in extraordinary times, a pandemic that is effecting the whole world and with the lives of our elderly and sick on the line. They must be thinking they are invincible at this stage. If anyone was in any doubt about the contempt they have for our Country, just look at the way they behaved during this time.


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    #216
    LuasSimon
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    More travellers in the midlands, shows how big and organised travellers are becoming all over ireland hiring Brazilian gunmen to settle drug deaths . One time towns like Clara were known for great footballers , now they’ll be known as bases for travellers drugs empires

    https://www.thejournal.ie/arrests-clara-offaly-murder-5109411-May2020/


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    #217
    Mad_maxx
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    just read an RTE report from paul reynolds in relation to the hiring of the brazilian hit squad

    he managed to completely avoid highlighting that this forms part of a broader ongoing traveller feud

    glad i no longer pay the licence fee , il do half a day in mountjoy if need be


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    #218
    whisky_galore
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    https://www.herald.ie/news/five-arrests-after-mass-brawl-sparked-by-100-drugs-debt-39236922.html

    "A mass brawl involving youths and women in north Co Dublin which led to five arrests started because of a row over an alleged €100 drugs debt."

    I had to do a double take. €100.
    Not €10,000, not €1,000.

    You could nearly find that in a piggy bank FFS.


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    #219
    Rasputin11
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    Bishop of hope wrote: »
    Rival traveller families were involved in a very viilent row on the main street of Longford Town this morning, brandishing hand held weapons and throwing bricks and bottles as ordinary men women and children had to flee or dodge for their own safety.
    Something has to be done before someone gets killed.
    https://www.longfordleader.ie/news/home/502167/update-two-men-held-over-violent-longford-street-row.html

    There's a video of 2 of them fighting on the street in Longford last week. A Nevin and a McDonagh, surprisingly enough.


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    #220
    [Deleted User]
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    LuasSimon wrote: »
    More travellers in the midlands, shows how big and organised travellers are becoming all over ireland hiring Brazilian gunmen to settle drug deaths . One time towns like Clara were known for great footballers , now they’ll be known as bases for travellers drugs empires

    https://www.thejournal.ie/arrests-clara-offaly-murder-5109411-May2020/

    That's exactly what we need in Ireland, imported prisoners when we haven't even enough prison space to deal with our regulars.


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    #221
    old_aussie
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    ELM327 wrote: »
    Can't we just rehouse them on an island somewhere

    The EU did just that,

    They sent them to Ireland.


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    #222
    LuasSimon
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    Good to see CAB calling to some of the Traveller burglary and Drug gangs in Longford today seizing many vehicles and finding a lot of cash.


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    #223
    lalababa
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    https://www.herald.ie/news/five-arrests-after-mass-brawl-sparked-by-100-drugs-debt-39236922.html

    "A mass brawl involving youths and women in north Co Dublin which led to five arrests started because of a row over an alleged €100 drugs debt."

    I had to do a double take. €100.
    Not €10,000, not €1,000.

    You could nearly find that in a piggy bank FFS.

    It's either a cover for alot more money.....Gaurd asks what was fight about..answer...he owes me 100 euro...oh right
    OR....he owes me 10,000....oh yeah what for?...er ah...selling drugs.
    OR the reputation needed for not being crossed... If he did that to him over 100 euro I'm sure as hell not going to cross him. Like the Triad gangs used to kill people in public like an execution, to instill fear.
    OR a bit of both.
    OR it's exactly as it says on the tin..with one thing leading to another.
    Look up stick fighting in Irish clans in the 19th century..where there were mass brawls and many deaths over who won at marbles🀔.


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    #224
    Bishop of hope
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    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Good to see CAB calling to some of the Traveller burglary and Drug gangs in Longford today seizing many vehicles and finding a lot of cash.

    Yes a significant haul of goodies, hopefully they put a, few, lads behind bars too, though no arrests were made today.
    https://www.longfordleader.ie/news/home/556075/longford-crime-gang-dealt-significant-blow-by-cab-raids-say-garda-chiefs.html


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    #225
    Eggs For Dinner
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    Ah, more of the tiny minority who give the rest a bad name.


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    #226
    pgj2015
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    CAB are giving them a right hard time the last while, its great to see, you would love to see their faces as the raids are going on. CAB was a great invention.


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    #227
    Odelay
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    Don’t you worry lads. These guys will get suspended sentences that will have their heads spinning and strike the fear of God into anyone else contemplating a life of crime.


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    #228
    whisky_galore
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    lalababa wrote: »
    Look up stick fighting in Irish clans in the 19th century..where there were mass brawls and many deaths over who won at marbles🀔.

    I'm aware of those. Thankfully the rest of us have moved on and don't think cracking open someone's skull is a way of settling differences in the 21st century.


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    #229
    Edgware
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    Eggs For Dinner wrote: »
    Ah, more of the tiny minority who give the rest a bad name.
    Those damm bad apples again


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    #230
    DellyBelly
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    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/luxury-cars-and-cash-seized-from-gang-building-up-an-empire-of-property-in-county-39346287.html

    500,000 upgrade on the inside of one of the houses...we tax payers are suckers...


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    #231
    topper75
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    pgj2015 wrote: »
    CAB are giving them a right hard time the last while, its great to see, you would love to see their faces as the raids are going on. CAB was a great invention.

    So maybe we live in a functioning state after all.


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    #232
    punisher5112
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    These raids should be daily.....

    No way should these scum bags be getting away with this.


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    #233
    JohnnyFlash
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    topper75 wrote: »
    So maybe we live in a functioning state after all.

    Why, were you having doubts?


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    #234
    Rodney Bathgate
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    DellyBelly wrote: »
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/luxury-cars-and-cash-seized-from-gang-building-up-an-empire-of-property-in-county-39346287.html

    500,000 upgrade on the inside of one of the houses...we tax payers are suckers...

    Sounds very tasteful:

    including "marble on every internal surface and pure granite pillars and fittings".

    The occupant should consider a career in interior design.


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    #235
    whisky_galore
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    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Sounds very tasteful:

    including "marble on every internal surface and pure granite pillars and fittings".

    The occupant should consider a career in interior design.

    Sounds more like the inside of a church than a house.


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    #236
    Lillyfae
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    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

    including "marble on every internal surface and pure granite pillars and fittings".

    Must have cost a fortune to heat the place :pac::pac::pac:


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    #237
    Hoboo
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    Lillyfae wrote: »
    Must have cost a fortune to heat the place :pac::pac::pac:

    Campfire in every room


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    #238
    pgj2015
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    what I could never figure out is why do they hate each other so much? all travellers not just the longford ones. you would think they would get on if anything, seeing as no one else likes them.


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    #239
    Rodney Bathgate
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    Feuding is part of their culture.


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    #240
    whisky_galore
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    pgj2015 wrote: »
    what I could never figure out is why do they hate each other so much? all travellers not just the longford ones. you would think they would get on if anything, seeing as no one else likes them.

    Overwhelming sense of pride and this "honour" culture.


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    #241
    pgj2015
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    if they had any brain they would just ignore each other and get on with their lives. the lack of work has to be a huge factor in the feuding, too much time on their hands.


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