Riots in Mullingar
Posted on | July 29, 2008 | 99 Comments
Two hundred people rioting, petrol bombs, arrests, injuries, hospitalisations. What could possbily have sparked it?
My guess is they all just realised they were living in Mullingar. I’d riot too.
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July 29th, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
I love it! 200 people riot and only one arrest!
‘It was him Guard, he started it!’
‘Right son, you’re nicked!’
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
A riot on a Tuesday afternoon, what on earth started that?
My guess is that there was two 13th birthdays going on and only one white stretch limo available to bring them to the local McDonald drive-in. Then the parents started scrapping over it and then the kids from the two families, that’d make about 200 in all.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:13 pm
Sounds like an outbreak of negative equity.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
they ran out of booze. Reality kicked in.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
It’s the culture.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
Did someone allege that Joe Dolan was gay?
They take the masculinity of their most sacred of macho showband stars very seriously down Mullingar way.
Either that, or it was a tinker fight, again.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
There’s a very well known hotel in Mullingar that smells of piss when you walk in the door, it must be the horses they keep in the lobby.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
If you want to riot, why tear up your own housing estate? It’s like pissing on your own floor.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
I’lld like to hear Pavee Point put a positive spin on this,
you cant get away from the fact that its a load of knackers fighting making it hell for everybody else.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
The best we can hope for it that someone filmed it and it ends up on YouTube.
KNACKER FIIIIIIIGHTS!
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
If you want to riot, why tear up your own housing estate? It’s like pissing on your own floor.
Because they’re not house-trained I would expect.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
from rte.ie
The dispute began at around 12pm and gardaí said it may have been triggered by what they described as a ‘king of the tinkers-style’ fist fight.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
Ah, so it was an ethnically differentiated cultural gathering…
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
The Galway races are on so it can’t be the knackers. Probably yardies on their holidays I’d say.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
They were fighting to get out before the Gardai walled the whole estate in, just like “Escape from New York”
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
What the fuck is a king of the tinkers style fist fight? I thought slash hooks were mandatory, certainly given the last knacker wedding down my way descended into a machete and slash hook fest.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
No self respecting yardie would be seen dead in Mullingar
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
“Probably yardies on their holidays I’d say.”
PP, What’s a Yardie?
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
Jamaican gangsta…
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
I love it! 200 people riot and only one arrest!
‘It was him Guard, he started it!’
‘Right son, you’re nicked!’
Yeah, how the fuck could there be only one arrest? Pavee point or whatever the fuck they’re called are dead right, knackers are definitely discrimnated against. They can’t even get into cell.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
Did they form the caravans into a circle when the Guards turned up? It must have been like one of those shite black and white cowboy films RTE used to show on Sunday afternoons as punishment for not going to mass when Dev was alive. And there was no money left to buy shite Romanian cartoons ‘cos they’d spent all the money buying Gay Byrne another poxy porridge coloured couch for guests on The Late Late Show.
It wasn’t just money that made him threaten to emigrate to America you know.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
I blame Twenty’s blog – Mullingar has a famine memorial fountain and I’ll bet they were discussing the views ut forward here.
Mind you, must be great being in the helicopter – the Gardai Flying squad.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
it all started with a ‘daddy or chips’ internal debate and spiralled out of control
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
“Probably yardies on their holidays I’d say.”
PP, What’s a Yardie?
Someone obviously hasn’t been playing enough GTA.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:21 pm
They’re scrapping up at the hospital too, four arrests. Mullingar will be hot tonight!
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
I bet they were hurling expletives too! Fuckers.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
Holemaster says:
They’re scrapping up at the hospital too, four arrests. Mullingar will be hot tonight!
No, that was the nurses trying to get the helicopter pilots phone number. If they are the same at home as they are here, I mean. The last one I slept with had a bloody great crucifix stuck to the wall over the bed. And I get airsick standing up, never mind in a helicopter.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
about time some doctors were arrested, the golf playing overpaid look down their nose at you bastards
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
Is it true Mary Harney did a Lady Godiva, killing the knacker horse ?
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
4 arrests? still a long way to go for equal rights, but its a start. Lock all the cunts up
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
Sorry to go on but I’m a bit worried about the helicopter. I hope they didn’t land anywhere near the estate- or the chopper will turn up at a fair in Waterford painted black with a nice white star on its nose.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
I’m sort of strangely proud of our knackers. They’re some craic.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
“They’re scrapping up at the hospital too, four arrests. Mullingar will be hot tonight”
Best place for a scrap HM, a quick stitch and painkiller and your back in the fray. Gawan ye good ting!
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
“Is it true Mary Harney did a Lady Godiva, killing the knacker horse ?”
Did the horse keel over when she climbed aboard or when it caught sight of her? Oh shite, there I go again!
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
Hooronahonda says:
“Is it true Mary Harney did a Lady Godiva, killing the knacker horse ?”
“Did the horse keel over when she climbed aboard or when it caught sight of her? Oh shite, there I go again!”
Ah don’t be too hard on yourself. If we didn’t take the piss out of fat women they’d get very little attention.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
There’s something about Mary.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
Poor oul Munchies Harney. They won’t let her visit the north in case the country tips over and we all end up in the sea.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
I did have a ‘saddlebag’ joke held in reserve but its just not right!
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
Hooronahonda says:
“I did have a ’saddlebag’ joke held in reserve but its just not right!”
Nice link back to the knackers, though.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
I still would, though.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
“What could possbily have sparked it?”
How come nobody has berated Twenty for possbily ?
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
Thanks Batty, I aim to please. So, what about those Knackers eh? They’re an absolute shower!
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
“I’m sort of strangely proud of our knackers. They’re some craic.”
They are entertaining alright. Did you see the Naked Camera with the knackers in Tralee? They were totally ok with yer man in cuffs and trying to help him, brilliant. Wild pattern jumper wearing freckle hoarders.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
Hooronahonda says:
“Thanks Batty, I aim to please. So, what about those Knackers eh? They’re an absolute shower!”
Jesus now I’m really impressed. You managed to get the words ‘knacker’ and ‘shower’ in the same sentence.
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
Perhaps nobody is quite so pedantic, mgagot
July 29th, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
I still would, though.
That’s even sicker than the maggot deviancy I linked in the last thread.
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=knackers+fighting&search_type=&aq=0&oq=knackers
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
I’m sort of strangely proud of our knackers. They’re some craic.
Some craic me whole! They’re a crowd of smelly, dirty, pub wrecking, bastards who think its there right to travel around the country leaving shit, piss, rubish and mayhem behind them.
It’s in there nature to travel, they say. Well why don’t they travel to the far side of the world and never come back.
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
They should only arrest knackers when there is a cell full to the top of water with a bit of radox in it available.
At least Irish society would at last start benefitting from arresting the fuckers.
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:06 pm
Is it to mark the start of the recession?
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
Recession? What?
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:15 pm
“Sir, the knackers are revolting”
“Yes, but are they fighting?”
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
They must be either drunk,rich or damn fools to be throwing expensive petrol around.
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
Or maybe they’re French Muslim youths spending their vacations in Ireland.
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
you don’t think they actually bought the petrol, do you?
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
Unsettled Travellers… they struggle hardest with their identity…
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
would ye have a sup a petrol for the pajero boss?
dya want te buy a brohken winda?
July 29th, 2008 @ 5:51 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travellers
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:01 pm
6 arrests now! My god there were hurleys and a table leg involved, are they sure it wasn’t Macra na ferma?
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:02 pm
I met some really nice, polite tinkers a couple weeks ago. Their child was far better behaved than my own.
I’d say it’s shit being from one of the good tinker families and having to deal with the bad press generated by the others.
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:02 pm
From tomorrow night off license closing time is changing till 10 o’ clock. Don’t get caught out – stock up
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
So Holemaster, are you joining us for a pint on Thursday?
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
Are you trying to fix me up again Jo?
I warned you all about vapourising before.
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
Meh. Scaredy cat.
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
I’m not trying to fix you up, I’m trying to assertain that you’re not a looney first.
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Oh I could have real fun with that, hee hee
I might be around though on Thursday, were you going this time?
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Jesus, I just thought of something, Fatcocksacker. He’ll turn up with a machete.
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
Erk, too weird.
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
I put it to you from the last couple of comments that HM and FCS are the same Jackel and Hyde person …
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
Jesus, thats a low shot
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:36 pm
I understand you may find it tough to swallow, that one of you own has been fooling you for quite some time but it is very clear to me from reading this and previous TM blogs .. Go on HM, deny it !!
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:45 pm
If Holemaster is fcs then my world is turned upsidedown.
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:52 pm
Well at least it kept their minds off incest…..
For a couple of hours anyway…
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
sorry,late commenting because the IT nazi’s in work have blocked all non essential websites…
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
There is no way that prick is Holemaster.
You mean this is a non essential website?
July 29th, 2008 @ 7:27 pm
I know, Peadar. I suspect it’s all part of a nefarious plan to breed suspicion and turn us against one another, sister against brother (maggots beware), brewing dissent and rancour in Twentyland.
Oh, wait… they seem to have succeeded before they started.
July 29th, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
That’s cruel, Fill3er, cruel. What can their motivation be?
Holemaster, The Porterhouse, Parliament St, 8.30. Bring a small dog in a Tartan coat and we’ll know who you are.
July 29th, 2008 @ 7:43 pm
“There is no way that prick is Holemaster.”
I take it back, that FCS chap is indeed a wanker. Forgive me Holemaster, I’ll never doubt you again.
As you were …
July 29th, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhqlkfgbqlgb/
“Three men and an elderly woman were arrested in relation to the violence.”
Tinkers are brilliant. Even their pensioners get in on the action. I’d reckon she threw the petrol-bombs.
July 29th, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
Jesus, you log off and go for a pint for a couple of hours and all hell breaks loose. I can absolutely assure you all FCS and I are not one and the same. That was just too strange, he must have some kind of alert set up for when his name is mentioned.
Porterhouse 8.30, dog in tartan coat heh. I just might make that, that’d be a first. But really, how would you all know each other. There’s no way I’m going up to someone and saying you must be Monday Balls. And you sure won’t be asking people if they are Holemaster.
July 29th, 2008 @ 9:23 pm
Monday Balls? How the fuck did I do that?
July 29th, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
Stupid fatcocksacker cunt.
All that trouble all the way from Greece.
July 29th, 2008 @ 9:35 pm
FCS is in Greece? or you’re on holiday there? And if you are Twenty you’re a bollox. I want to be there.
July 29th, 2008 @ 9:38 pm
He’s in Greece, the halfwit cunt
July 29th, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
If you mail me, Holemaster, I can send you my number. infantasiablogatgmail.com
heh, Monday Balls. I like the idea of days of the week balls.
‘I can’t wear those, woman, they’re my friday night balls, and it’s only wednesday!’
July 29th, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
We hope he’s in Greece…
July 29th, 2008 @ 10:01 pm
Probably in Mykonos!
July 29th, 2008 @ 10:04 pm
I’ll drop you a mail Jo.
If I turn up on Thursday I’ll probably make a total arse of myself.
July 29th, 2008 @ 10:06 pm
Then we’ll call you Arsemaster from then on.
July 29th, 2008 @ 10:12 pm
Doesn’t quite have the same, er… ring to it.
July 29th, 2008 @ 11:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pBtfAQHr0g
July 30th, 2008 @ 2:04 am
Twenty you do realise that there are programmes available that allow you to change your ip address…
Dont ask me how I know this…. I’ll just say
“I wasnt always a cop”..
July 30th, 2008 @ 2:07 am
There is also may I add, a serious lack of liberals on this Website. Is nobody standing up for de travlers? (sic)
I hate the cunts, but there has to be balance!
July 30th, 2008 @ 2:26 am
There is also may I add, a serious lack of liberals on this Website.
Balance indeed SAm – maybe Twenty could find a Friends of The Earth Ban The Bomb Save The Whales black handicapped lesbian traveller to be a guest blogger ?
July 30th, 2008 @ 2:38 am
Medbh says:
If you want to riot, why tear up your own housing estate? It’s like pissing on your own floor.
Medbh.. At the end of the day, they don’t own those houses. The council/Corporation does. Guess who ends up with the repair bill. Joe fucking Soap, taxpayer. Again.
July 30th, 2008 @ 8:52 am
I’m the liberal, and I already did stand up for travellers. But I agree there’s no value to calling violence or alcoholism or domestic abuse ‘culture’.
I’m not goingto say rioting and housing estate dextruction is admirable, but I still find the attitudes of hatred towards the travellers as a group is really disgusting. Sure, condemn their behaviour, but they’re still people.
http://infantasia.blogspot.com/2008/06/travellers.html
July 30th, 2008 @ 11:18 am
Sure, condemn their behaviour, but they’re still people.
They’re people? Sure they are, but thats not much of a defense. Did you see the pictures in the papers? They’re people who behave like animals. Sure not all travellers are like this, but a large proportion are
July 30th, 2008 @ 2:29 pm
Fact: The Male Gypsy Moth can smell the female Gypsy Moth for over 2 miles away..
And if you take the word Moth out of the previous statement,its still true..
July 31st, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
I thought they were rioting because they heard news of the planned Second Lisbon referendum vote in October.