1-2-3-4-5, Gardai working overtime
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.
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 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
September 24th, 2008 at 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?
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 9:15 am
camps with the words “social welfare will make you free” over the gate
September 24th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Of course – football stadiums. But making sure it is in a Pinochet style one.
September 24th, 2008 at 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
September 24th, 2008 at 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″
September 24th, 2008 at 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…
September 24th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Anto I am sure you’ve heard of Finglas’ own “Lino Ritchie”
September 24th, 2008 at 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!
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 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”
September 24th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Check your mail you shitehawk
September 24th, 2008 at 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)
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 10:45 am
6-7-8-9-10, now they’re doing it for Shell…
September 24th, 2008 at 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 :)
September 24th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Heh – he’s a card that HM :)
September 24th, 2008 at 10:50 am
…or the Russian landscaping service, Ivan Hoes.
September 24th, 2008 at 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)
September 24th, 2008 at 10:59 am
off subject but does anyone have any info on the Mcsavage beating David Mcsavage got last night?
September 24th, 2008 at 11:00 am
KILL THEM ALL!!!
Pisssssss
September 24th, 2008 at 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).
September 24th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Maggot, answer the phone or the dog gets your chocolate!!!
September 24th, 2008 at 11:33 am
There was the butchers in London as well, ‘Halal, is it meat you’re looking for?’
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I keep expecting to see Diver scrawled on the other pillar
You know what to do then Conan,dont you…
September 24th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
If he doesn’t answer Sister M can I have his chocolate?
September 24th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
… fuck the dog.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
There’s no way I’d give you chocolate if you fucked my dog.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I’d demand cash off the owner if I fucked their dog Jo. Oh yes I would.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
What, like stud fee? Do you have papers? I’d be doubtful of your pedigree, hooronahonda.
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 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’.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Travellers + Genocide = World a brighter place
We should tell Dubya that the pikeys have been hiding Osama for years.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Fill3rup, McSavage got a beating?! What/where/how/who?! That’s just made my day…
September 24th, 2008 at 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…
September 24th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
made my day too..
September 24th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Oh God please let that be true and critically injured.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
i know,ive been googling for info all morning to no avail
September 24th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
can’t be critically injured. he’s immune to critics, otherwise he would have stopped inflicting “comedy” on us long ago
September 24th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I want some public spirited citizen to give David McWilliams a beating.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
…fuck McSavage.
September 24th, 2008 at 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..
September 24th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Oh bollox.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
The cunts took the fireplace out of my Grandmother’s house the morning she was being buried.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
…fuck McSavage.
Thats the spirit H..
Fuck im in the face repeatedly with his guitar…
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 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
September 24th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Whiskey, you should have cremated her, that way you would have got to keep the fireplace a bit longer.
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Pissflaps!!
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I don’t think you can do that on blogger, Nonny, but I’m sure it’s possible via the statcounter.
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 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?
September 24th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
they would be able to tell by email address.i think thats it nonny.
September 24th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Not in blogger, Nonny. It’s quite basic in that regard.
September 24th, 2008 at 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?
September 24th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I see. Thank you most kindly.
September 24th, 2008 at 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?
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 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.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I said Nonny would return!
September 25th, 2008 at 4:22 am
Are your travellers more like our blacks or our mexicans ?
September 25th, 2008 at 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.
September 25th, 2008 at 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.
September 26th, 2008 at 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…
September 26th, 2008 at 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’?
September 27th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
twenty likes XTC!
December 25th, 2008 at 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.