Sulky Racing on Irish Roads - Any ban there ?

According to the Sunday World it is illegal. I think that is the same as a ban?

RECKLESS RACERS | Ireland's illegal sulky racing scene dominated by thugs with gangland connections.

Trying to charge travellers for animal cruelty offences or any offence is like trying to nail jelly to a wall.

Not that they care much about getting in trouble anyway, it's not like they're keeping down jobs.

Enforcement is the word you're looking for.

As much chance of it happening as ...... well, something that never, ever, ever happens.

A few weeks ago, a horse had to be put down by the Curragh after its hoof got caught when the sulky driver went over a cattle grid.

The photo in the link below might distress some...

https://kildare-nationalist.ie/2023/03/30/horse-driven-to-death-on-the-curragh/

Much easier to stop a motorist for borderline breaking a red or going 10 over the speed limit.

two minute conversation, only a few more minutes to record and log the offence..

getting into verbals with people who will argue the sky is pink, everything is ok cause of ‘culture’ etc…. The judges don’t back them, and the don’t back us, the general law abiding citizens so…. You’d probably not feel it’s worth the effort.

incredible leeway is indeed accurate…

No deterrent.

Something not adding up here. The "culture" people are heavily over represented in the prison population. How are they getting there, if the Guards are not arresting them?

I will begin with a short slide presentation, giving the committee a brief overview of the extent of the over-representation of Travellers and other ethnic minority groups in prison and to give an explanation for that. As the committee will be aware, Travellers in Ireland represent less than 1% of the total population, but they account for 10% of the prison population. Traveller women make up, at least, 15% of all women in prison.

It's not that they don't get arrested, it's that, when involved in cultural activities (sulky racing on public roads, slash hook combat at weddings/funerals/communions etc., bare knuckle boxing, domestic violence, tax evasion, building scams, UK reg vans that never get reregistered here, lack of road tax & insurance, dumping of rubbish, animal cruelty, child neglect etc. etc.) they are generally "let at it" as long as it's not too blatant that it becomes an embarrassment, or there's too many calls to the Guards about it. For stuff like burglary, drug dealing, assault etc. they will get arrested like anyone else, mainly because it doesn't fall under the "sure it's their culture, let them at it" umbrella.

Imagine how many of them would be in prison if they were routinely charged and imprisoned for their cultural activities.