1-2-3-4-5, Gardai working overtime

Posted on | September 24, 2008 | 76 Comments

So Gardai in Waterford have spent over €400,000 on overtime because of a feud between some traveller families.

That’s a lot of money. Apparently they’re having to patrol the streets ‘day and night’ because of some row over a bare-knuckle boxing fight.

Now, imagine it was a group of Poles fighting against a group of Lithuanians. Imagine 16 year old girls were being shot, imagine that there had been more than ’100 recorded incidents including public order offences, assaults, arson attacks and gun attacks since the feud erupted on July 12th’.

Now imagine the outrage, imagine the local politicians saying something must be done about these foreigners and their complete and utter disregard for the law. There’d be calls for deportation, stricter immigration procedures and for the police to crack down hard on something which wasn’t just impacting on those Poles and Lithuanians but everyone else as the violence spills onto the streets. No doubt there’ll be all kinds of bleating about ‘racism’ from the cretinous cunts who think travellers are a race but would we put up with this kind of shit from any other group?

Should we put up with this kind of behaviour from anyone? Irish, Polish, traveller, space alien? No. Yet the travellers want to be treated differently, with deference, with respect. We build them houses, they trash them and we have to pay for their upkeep and repairs. They commit crimes and when anyone dares to criticise them for it we get some spokesperson telling us not to tar them all with the same brush. They squat on public land and county councils have to pay millions to get rid of them.

I’m sure there are decent travelling folk but there are a lot of scummy knackers who don’t deserve any kind of respect from society. Feuding over a bare knuckle boxing fight, for fuck’s sake. This is 2008 yet they’re shooting each other because somebody dared to interrupt their passage to an act of pure savagery.

That anybody should hold the local community to ransom like these people have is a disgrace. That Garda resources should be taken up because one bunch of cunts can’t stand some other bunch of cunts is wrong. If they must fight, and it seems they must, let them have at it but in a football stadium somewhere. Last family standing can call themselves the winner and then fuck off somewhere else.

Preferably to a college in Finland.

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76 Responses to “1-2-3-4-5, Gardai working overtime”

  1. Batty O'Sullivan
    September 24th, 2008 @ 8:49 am

    Heh. Finland. You are right in your outrage, though. When I was in school the local county council spent a million on a halting site with every amenity you can imagine. This was when a million was very hard to come by for any local authority.

    It was wrecked with weeks. I’ve hated them ever since. The Revenue Commissioners should chip every one of them and tax them out of existence. Or to Finland.

  2. Rob
    September 24th, 2008 @ 8:51 am

    Well that’s blown your chance for Pavee Point to endorse your book.

    I agree with you in general here. Where there are rights from society, there is a responsibility to society.

    Certain groups only want the first half of this equation

  3. Jo
    September 24th, 2008 @ 8:58 am

    That really seems to be the missing equation generally, that rights = responsibility. It’s exactly the same with the skangers, I think. If you want to stay in your council house etc. then you don’t terrorise the neighbours.

    Time for sanctions, maybe?

    Colleges in Finland aside, what’s to do though?

  4. Matt Vinyl
    September 24th, 2008 @ 9:12 am

    “Well that’s blown your chance for Pavee Point to endorse your book.”

    But has increased your chances of getting on the Fine Gael ticket at the next election.

  5. porridge
    September 24th, 2008 @ 9:15 am

    camps with the words “social welfare will make you free” over the gate

  6. RedLeeroy
    September 24th, 2008 @ 9:17 am

    Of course – football stadiums. But making sure it is in a Pinochet style one.

  7. Lou Plic
    September 24th, 2008 @ 9:31 am

    Wait until we get more of these guys in Ireland and I’m sure Ross Kemp will do post street war analysis between the native travellers & the blow ins!!!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7618399.stm

  8. neil c
    September 24th, 2008 @ 9:38 am

    i can see the script now…

    GAA offical phones Gardai:
    “match on sunday. how many Garda do we need on duty.”

    Garda cups hand over phone:
    “who wants over time on sunday to see the match ?”

    100 hands go up.

    “you’ll need 100″

  9. Anto
    September 24th, 2008 @ 9:39 am

    Referring back to Monday’s thread a van passed me on the way into work this morning with an inscription on the side…”The Bonny Tiler”. Gave me a laugh…

  10. Rob
    September 24th, 2008 @ 9:56 am

    Anto I am sure you’ve heard of Finglas’ own “Lino Ritchie”

  11. baldrick
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:01 am

    If you can excuse the shite movie, I’ve often thought that Stephen King was on the right lines with his “Running Man” game show idea for serial wasters of any and all race/ethnic background.

    Their incentive is a wad of cash for every day they can survive while we get entertained by watching on TV as a team of professional assassins (good career move here for Lucky?) track them down and dispatch them in as interesting and inventive a way as possible.

    It would need to be a standard court sentencing tariff of course. But I like to think of it as a useful and value for money alternative to community service and probation.

    Hell, you could could even go for a host of spin off programmes. What about “Justice – It’s payback time!” Where victims get to help hunt down the b*stards that did it before beating them to a bloody pulp. “I’m a Celebrity -what the F*ck are you doing with that chainsaw” (self explanatory) or for the God slot on Sunday evening “Paedophile Priests – An hour of Gregorian Chants and Gregorian Torture”.

    Maybe I should set up my own TV company – the ideas are flowing freely today!

  12. Matt Vinyl
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:08 am

    “Anto I am sure you’ve heard of Finglas’ own “Lino Ritchie”

    There was a Lino Richie in Clondalkin, just down the road from a shop called The Village People.

  13. beady
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:15 am

    Re “Bonny Tiler” & “Lino Richie” – I once saw a van in London belonging to an Asian plumbing business with the slogan…

    “You’ve tried all the Cowboys – now call the Indians”

  14. Johnny5
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:23 am

    Check your mail you shitehawk

  15. Conan Drumm
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:25 am

    Send them the bill, take em to court if they don’t pay, add on the court costs and give them 14 days to pay up, put them in the slammer if they don’t pay up… (and if they’re then nowhere to be found then that would be a result too)

  16. Walter Ego
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:28 am

    Try Angela’s Rashers a Full Irish breakfast in Ballyfermot.

    Those working class folks sure do have a wicked sense of humour from time to time.

    Good day.

  17. maggot
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:37 am

    Travellers don’t worry me as much as stamp collectors.

    I shouldn’t have eaten all those kitkats last night – I feel a bit sick which is a shame as the latest Damart catalogue arrived this morning.

  18. Batty O'Sullivan
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:45 am

    Uninhabited island. ‘To hell or to the island’ is the only way.

    Lets face it- they are the group least likely to worry about inbreeding.

  19. Conan Drumm
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:45 am

    6-7-8-9-10, now they’re doing it for Shell…

  20. Jo
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:46 am

    I just got a text from Holemaster saying

    ‘I’m so tempted to dress up as the grim reaper and walk the corridors at 3am pointing at the annoying ones’.

    Nice to see him back to form :)

  21. maggot
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:47 am

    Heh – he’s a card that HM :)

  22. Hooronahonda
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:50 am

    …or the Russian landscaping service, Ivan Hoes.

  23. Sister maggot
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:53 am

    If councils ‘give’sites to travellers then the users don’t have any sense of responsibility for decent upkeep. It’s called the Premack principle in psychology-get some of the behaviour you want before giving out the ‘rewards’ & make the rest dependant on further good behaviour. You wouldn’t just hand everything they wanted to your kids without conditions, & expect to watch it trashed ,or in any balanced adult relationship or workplace. These guys aren’t poor, they could afford to pay for cleaning & maintenance & it could be done by setting up some sort of travellers’ management group for sites & then give people some say in how they are run.

    in the short term- you could make it classier & go for gladiator games (with lions and tigers & redundant hedgefund managers thrown in as well)

  24. Fill3rup
    September 24th, 2008 @ 10:59 am

    off subject but does anyone have any info on the Mcsavage beating David Mcsavage got last night?

  25. morgor the rabid
    September 24th, 2008 @ 11:00 am

    KILL THEM ALL!!!

    Pisssssss

  26. Batty O'Sullivan
    September 24th, 2008 @ 11:19 am

    Jo: I just got a text from Holemaster saying
    ‘I’m so tempted to dress up as the grim reaper and walk the corridors at 3am pointing at the annoying ones’. Nice to see him back to form :)

    Heh. While I was at Butlins on a summer job some lunatic got drunk in the staff bar and while weaving back to staff accomodation decided to entertain the Lions Club chalets with cries of ‘bring out your dead, bring out your dead’. Massive investigations next day with instant sacking threatened. Wonder who that was (cough).

  27. Sister maggot
    September 24th, 2008 @ 11:20 am

    Maggot, answer the phone or the dog gets your chocolate!!!

  28. Twenty Major
    September 24th, 2008 @ 11:33 am

    There was the butchers in London as well, ‘Halal, is it meat you’re looking for?’

  29. Batty O'Sullivan
    September 24th, 2008 @ 11:38 am

    There’s a house in Cork with two stone pillars either side of the gate. On the left hand pillar it says ‘Knock’ and on the right it says ‘House’.

    Not the impression the lady of the house was searching for, I’d say.

  30. Conan Drumm
    September 24th, 2008 @ 11:57 am

    There’s a house called Muff (it’s on one gate pillar) in Clonskeagh at the back of UCD… I keep expecting to see Diver scrawled on the other pillar.

  31. Fill3rup
    September 24th, 2008 @ 12:00 pm

    I keep expecting to see Diver scrawled on the other pillar

    You know what to do then Conan,dont you…

  32. Hooronahonda
    September 24th, 2008 @ 12:00 pm

    If he doesn’t answer Sister M can I have his chocolate?

  33. Hooronahonda
    September 24th, 2008 @ 12:02 pm

    … fuck the dog.

  34. Jo
    September 24th, 2008 @ 12:08 pm

    There’s no way I’d give you chocolate if you fucked my dog.

  35. Hooronahonda
    September 24th, 2008 @ 12:25 pm

    I’d demand cash off the owner if I fucked their dog Jo. Oh yes I would.

  36. Jo
    September 24th, 2008 @ 12:29 pm

    What, like stud fee? Do you have papers? I’d be doubtful of your pedigree, hooronahonda.

  37. Jeannie
    September 24th, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

    My husband’s sister married into a clan of travelers. What a bunch of nutcases. But clever and sly. If they would only use their talents for good instead of evil. In fact, many of the 2nd generation (here in Canada) have made good for themselves but probably went through hell trying to break away. I clearly remember the grief my SIL’s husband took for buying her a house that didn’t have wheels on it.

  38. Hooronahonda
    September 24th, 2008 @ 12:53 pm

    No, look. The main thrust of my earlier entry was to request that Sister Maggot give me the chocolate destined for Maggot rather than waste it on a mutt and I didnt really care if the dogs feelings were hurt, ergo ‘…fuck the dog’.

  39. didhno
    September 24th, 2008 @ 12:55 pm

    Travellers + Genocide = World a brighter place

    We should tell Dubya that the pikeys have been hiding Osama for years.

  40. Dan
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:06 pm

    Fill3rup, McSavage got a beating?! What/where/how/who?! That’s just made my day…

  41. Fill3rup
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:07 pm

    I dunno.dempsey mentioned something about it on Today fm this morning but i was half asleep so didnt get all the details.
    Apparently he told some fella that his girlfriend was beautiful and he lamped him…

  42. Fill3rup
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:07 pm

    made my day too..

  43. Twenty Major
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:18 pm

    Oh God please let that be true and critically injured.

  44. Fill3rup
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:23 pm

    i know,ive been googling for info all morning to no avail

  45. porridge
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:24 pm

    can’t be critically injured. he’s immune to critics, otherwise he would have stopped inflicting “comedy” on us long ago

  46. Hooronahonda
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:24 pm

    I want some public spirited citizen to give David McWilliams a beating.

  47. Hooronahonda
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:24 pm

    …fuck McSavage.

  48. SAm Crea (economics correspondent)
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:25 pm

    Is it true that some reporter in The US asked Dubya what he thought about all the bank closures, to which he supposedly answered,

    “well if the bank is closed, use the atm..”

    Must have been a spoof, surely..

  49. Hooronahonda
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:26 pm

    Oh bollox.

  50. Whiskeyintheditch
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:28 pm

    The cunts took the fireplace out of my Grandmother’s house the morning she was being buried.

  51. Fill3rup
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:32 pm

    …fuck McSavage.

    Thats the spirit H..

    Fuck im in the face repeatedly with his guitar…

  52. maggot
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:39 pm

    re the whinging about the phone -I did say the Damart catalogue had arrived. What did you expect ?

    Traveller sites – committees etc will never work – what is needed is someone like Vera or scary grub who will strike terror in all involved – and of course ‘letter of the law’ grub who would make sure everything is done exactly as written down in the camp er site rules.

  53. maggot
    September 24th, 2008 @ 1:52 pm

    I did find this from a few years ago – never thought I’d say it, God Bless Boyzone

    http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60683742.html

    “THE comedian son of Foreign Minister David Andrews was beaten up by Boyzone heavies after cracking jokes about the group on a top TV show, it was alleged last night.

    The funnyman, who uses the stage name David McSavage, was left in a neck collar after bully boys attacked him backstage at Denmark’s top talk show. ”

    from 1998

  54. size ten
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:15 pm

    Whiskey, you should have cremated her, that way you would have got to keep the fireplace a bit longer.

  55. Jo
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:31 pm

    Thanks for clearing that up, H. Imagine, I thought you were wanting to take the chocolate and actually fuck the dog too! Colour me embarrassed! There’s a story for the women’s quilting circle.

  56. Matt Vinyl
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:31 pm

    The news of McSavage’s timely demise is unfortunately premature. The bloke apparently only said he was ‘going to get’ mc savage. FFS, I’ve said that loads of times about him but it never made the Ian Dempsey show.

  57. Fill3rup
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:38 pm

    Pissflaps!!

  58. Nonny
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:40 pm

    Twenty, on blogger you can see peoples IP addresses can’t you? Or is there a specific way to identify a bodies IP address?? Its just this little fraggel cock sucker posing as me is giving guff on Mrs Cats blog, I don’t want readers and such to think it is me.

  59. Twenty Major
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:44 pm

    I don’t think you can do that on blogger, Nonny, but I’m sure it’s possible via the statcounter.

  60. The Daily Irish Blah
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:46 pm

    In the interests of fairness, my esteemed organ (no sniggerring in the cheap seats) shall start a campaign to put all pavees in a large field, with nothing to listen to but the self-important, and in no way humourous musings of David “The Cunt” Mc Savage.

  61. Nonny
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:46 pm

    When I had a blog and people would post a comment and the IP address would be at the end. Is it not the same?

  62. Fill3rup
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:47 pm

    they would be able to tell by email address.i think thats it nonny.

  63. Twenty Major
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:48 pm

    Not in blogger, Nonny. It’s quite basic in that regard.

  64. Jo
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:50 pm

    Yeah, I think you need super tech skills, if the email address doesn’t come up. HOwever, I think you can ask fmc to block the poster?

  65. Nonny
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:52 pm

    I see. Thank you most kindly.

  66. Fourth Former
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:53 pm

    So, the trouble all kicked of on the 12th July? Did nobody think to call the PSNI? They have years of experience of fighting gougers in July. Is there not meant to cross border cooperation these days? What caused the trouble – was it a dispute over traditional routes?

  67. Jo
    September 24th, 2008 @ 2:57 pm

    Brief hiatus as everyone rushes over to fmc’s blog to see what the what was.

    Well, ok, I did, And Twenty did, like a noble Julian of Famous Five fame.

    I wouldn’t worry about it Nonny. It’s just plaaaah. Stay calm and it will just dribble away.

  68. RedLeeroy
    September 24th, 2008 @ 3:32 pm

    All very well tarring and feathering the anonymous (and yes nonny it must be annoying when folks pretend they are you) if you get 100 comments per post. But if you get 3 or 4 comments anonymous could be the difference between blog life and death. Ahh who the fuck am I kidding they are cunts.

  69. maggot
    September 24th, 2008 @ 4:05 pm

    I said Nonny would return!

  70. SouthernMan
    September 25th, 2008 @ 4:22 am

    Are your travellers more like our blacks or our mexicans ?

  71. Yacuncha
    September 25th, 2008 @ 8:42 am

    It all started when Madonna’s hubby made that film with Brad Pitt where the pikeys fight and kill each other and a few Brit gangsters. our knackers think that’s the way to live, slashhooks by the bedside.

    Social welfare should be based on need. A family with an 08 camper in front of their corpo flat shouldn’t be receiving social welfare.

  72. Tom
    September 25th, 2008 @ 9:38 pm

    “Should we put up with this kind of behaviour from anyone? Irish, Polish, traveller, space alien? No. Yet the travellers want to be treated differently, with deference, with respect. We build them houses, they trash them and we have to pay for their upkeep and repairs. They commit crimes and when anyone dares to criticise them for it we get some spokesperson telling us not to tar them all with the same brush. They squat on public land and county councils have to pay millions to get rid of them.”

    If I didn’t know better, I would say you’re referring to blacks (not all, mind you)in large cities in America. Here in Chicago, they are killing each other at an alarming rate lately. Most of the victims are innocent bystanders who are the unfortunate receipients of poorly aimed guns.

  73. beady
    September 26th, 2008 @ 3:15 pm

    Southernman: Look at it this way…

    Our travellers won’t let their kids marry Mexicans…

    Afraid the grandchildren would grow up too lazy to steal…

  74. francis mahon
    September 26th, 2008 @ 3:26 pm

    Put them all in a football stadium? What a wonderful idea – Waterford United have been suffering from declining attendances over the past couple of seasons – an influx of itinerants would give them a timely fillip.

    And dare I say, they would hardly be noticed among the regularly attending ‘fans’?

  75. B'dum
    September 27th, 2008 @ 11:11 pm

    twenty likes XTC!

  76. The Phantom
    December 25th, 2008 @ 3:49 am

    beady

    Very funny, except that if you see the Mexicans in America, they’re very hard workers. Put the native Americans and Irish to shame. Really.

    This isn’t a comment on immigration things, just an observation.

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