Worth a read. This needs to be discussed more, especially the following:
>The constant response from frontline workers was that there was a sense of fearlessness about the children. They felt untouchable, that nothing would happen to them, and they were emboldened as they know security staff can only ask them to disembark or contact the guards if that is refused. So for some workers who would have to see them over and over again, they reluctantly choose to ignore them for their own safety.
> Frontline worker “Michael” spoke of his experience. “Yeah, they are out of control as well. We do try our best to avoid them because what can we do? There’s nothing we can do to them people, we can’t say anything to them, we can’t put them on for anything because of their age.”
This is difficult to read but is reflective of my experience of public transport (and also of Dublin in general).
It’s not public transport as a whole, certain part of Ireland, maybe certain routes and certain times, headline from the article is misleading. Always using public transport, I come across characters as such and that’s it and we can all be a bit eccentric, so I don’t mind that. I’d hate if this frightened people from using public transport when it doesn’t apply to their area. I know my mother in her 70s and would glance at that and would be afraid to get on the bus again, even though not in Dublin and never have issues, probably be worrying about me now using the bus.
All this would take is one public kneecapping 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤔🤔🤔.. ah Dundalk in the 80’s.. 🤣
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Worth a read. This needs to be discussed more, especially the following:
>The constant response from frontline workers was that there was a sense of fearlessness about the children. They felt untouchable, that nothing would happen to them, and they were emboldened as they know security staff can only ask them to disembark or contact the guards if that is refused. So for some workers who would have to see them over and over again, they reluctantly choose to ignore them for their own safety.
> Frontline worker “Michael” spoke of his experience. “Yeah, they are out of control as well. We do try our best to avoid them because what can we do? There’s nothing we can do to them people, we can’t say anything to them, we can’t put them on for anything because of their age.”
This is difficult to read but is reflective of my experience of public transport (and also of Dublin in general).
It’s not public transport as a whole, certain part of Ireland, maybe certain routes and certain times, headline from the article is misleading. Always using public transport, I come across characters as such and that’s it and we can all be a bit eccentric, so I don’t mind that. I’d hate if this frightened people from using public transport when it doesn’t apply to their area. I know my mother in her 70s and would glance at that and would be afraid to get on the bus again, even though not in Dublin and never have issues, probably be worrying about me now using the bus.
All this would take is one public kneecapping 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤔🤔🤔.. ah Dundalk in the 80’s.. 🤣