Eileen Flynn halting site taxi issue

It would be interesting to hear what crimes may or may not have been committed against taxi drivers in that halting site. It is telling that he agreed to drive in once she kept the Garda operator on the phone.

The bould senator knows well why the taxi driver didn't want to go in there, and must have been delighted when he wouldn't, as she knew it was perfect headline material.

Ironically enough by not driving in he suffered the fate of not being paid that most taxi drivers are afraid of when dropping members of the travelling community.

"However, the taxi driver instead said that he would drop her into the halting site if she kept the Garda operator on the phone."

That dose missed this point in her whinging, wonder why he would want a witness? Maybe she should ask herself that question.

It's not clear from the article whether the driver was paid at all. I hope they were.

What's galling is that the other clowns in the Seanad are taking this as evidence of a racism issue. If it's still Labre Park she is living in' I'm not surprised the driver wouldn't go in.

Perhaps Regina could give her a lift home next time🙄

“Last night, I got a taxi home from town and the taxi driver refused to take me into my house in a halting site,” Flynn told the Seanad.

There, in a sentence, is what is wrong with the travelling community's attitude towards us chumps in the "settled community"

My house in a halting site.

Free house, but in a halting site, so the option to keep horses, and move whenever there's a bit of tarmaccing to be done. All on the taxpayers dime.

There's a halting site near me where the skip company have to have a council "liason officer" with them every time they drop or pick up a skip, as the drivers were being threatened, and "accidents" kept happening when they drove in.

I think that is the apt comparison.

There is significant discrimination against the travelling community and this must be called out when it happens. This is not an example of it, and doesn't do the just cause of the travelling community any good.

It's no coincidence that senator Flynn has chosen to highlight this issue now on the first day of a high profile abuse case involving members of her community. Deflection at it's finest.

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So the taxi driver took the fare and wanted to drop her outside the halting site. i.e. not enter the gated community.

She then refused to pay, he said he was calling the guards then she called the guards and the operator told her she was wasting their time.

She accused him 4 times of committing a crime in the Seanad after been told by the operator there was no crime being committed. She also told the operator that she wouldn't let "any harm come to him". That's a pretty weird thing to say and probably justifies him dropping her at the gate.

Not an ideal situation all round, but there is 2 sides to every story, maybe as a public representative why didn't she ask him why? Have a conversation about it, instead of branding him a racist criminal to the nation.

Taxi Drivers have a tough job as it is and there is a reason a lot of them now seldom work past dark.

He could be a dick, he also could well be just looking out for himself based on past experiences which every person in this country are entitled to do without be labelled criminal racists.

They're white Irish people. What is this ethnic minority?

A friend of mine is a retired station captain of a Dublin City Fire Station, he told me himself under no circumstances will they enter a halting site without the Gardai assisting first.

You've some reading to catch up on. They are an ethnic minority.