Eileen Flynn halting site taxi issue

Id love to see all the idiots that stood up and supported her that day go for a walk take turns and go for a drive or a walk in that place tonight alone, without an entourage and cameras and security guards.

This is "social justice", the outcome is all that matters, not the cause. TheJournal were running a series not so long about about the disproportionate amount of Travellers in prison. At a glance you'd assume they were highlighting their crime rates, but no, the whole series was about how this was proof of discrimination. You're essentially meant to abandon reason, and convince yourself that the poor little Travellers are thrown into prison just because they are a minority group and not because they've committed crimes that would get any of us locked up.

Discrimination is the perfect card to smokescreen all the crime committed by travellers.

Nobody cares who anyone is but if you suffer at the hands of Traveller crime you are not going to like them and unfortunately tens of thousands of people have suffered traveller crime particulary in rural areas where theres no guards to protect the non traveller community.

Heard her on Newstalk moaning that she can never get anywhere due to being a member of the traveller brigade.

Well she wasn’t even elected to the senate, “nominated” by Martin ONLY because she is a traveller. Some democracy we have.

Remember that chance we had to get rid of that undemocratic part of our political system?

There would be at least a dozen doses that I can think of that we’d be hearing very little from now if that referendum had gone the other way.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/travellers-suffer-overt-racism-from-gardai-and-judges-tkrwxbtwj.... An article from last year..

The media wont be interested in anything he has to say anyway unless its apublic hanging they are in it for. No negative opinions are allowed when it comes to certain sections of society.

At the risk of going off-piste, this thread brought to mind John Connors (not the Terminator one) - remember him? He was like the media's patron saint of long-suffering travellerdom. John was everywhere, you couldn't turn on a TV or radio or open a newspaper, but John would be there, holding forth on every subject under the sun. He was being hailed as a cross between Marlon Brando and Nelson Mandela. He was literally a media darling, a man who could do no wrong.

Then, he threw it all away. He made the ultimate mistake of forgetting his place on the hierarchy of equality. He criticised Roderic O'Gorman for being photographed beside Peter Tatchell, and accused Tatchell of being a paedophile apologist.

Overnight, John was disappeared from the Irish media. He appeared in 14 movies of various hues up to that day, but hasn't appeared in one since. He went from being a permanent fixture on Television and radio, to being a persona non grata. John broke the progressive omerta, and has paid the price.

One hopes for Eileen's sake that she is smarter, and keeps her true opinions to herself.

John Connors said in an interview some time ago that he was moving to England to get acting gigs as people were 'discriminating against him at casting calls' because he was a Traveller, or only offering him roles where the character was a Traveller.

He did himself no favours criticising Thatchell for sure. There is a set position on issues like this in most of the Irish media. You see it on decrimialisation of drugs too, and increasingly that's moving to all drugs on chats on RTE for example, not just cannabis.

I have a friend who's an actor in Dublin and who has several gay people in his social set so has no problems on LGBTGQ issues. However he said that even if it was suspected he hadn't enthusiastically supported gay marriage rights in the referendum - which he had - he'd never get another acting job here, which makes him uneasy.

Crime is another topic where there seems to be unanimity in most of the media: a recent discussion on treating crime by over-18s far more leniently on RTE Radio One saw everyone, including the unbiased presenter, agreeing this was very much needed for people up to the age of 23.

No dissenting voices heard, which worries me. I'd worry even if I agreed with the issue. Dissent is important to democracy

She’s due on the tonight show Tv3 now. Still moaning. Expect a free reign and no challenging debate or questions put to her..

At least we have someone on here talking some sense: Ian O’Doherty.

Walk her to the door..😖

Who is this host?

A Claire Byrne clone in personalty and looks