Gee, I wonder why a taxi driver wouldn’t want to drive into a traveller halting site at night 🤔 genuinely a mystery. Must be because he’s racist, I guess.
Gee, I wonder why a taxi driver wouldn’t want to drive into a traveller halting site at night 🤔 genuinely a mystery. Must be because he’s racist, I guess.
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I can’t get a taxi to take me from Waterford city to Tramore most nights
Regina Doherty said the senator wasn’t the first and won’t be the last if they don’t do something about it – I wonder did she ever offer her a lift ?
There are housing estates across the country that some taxis won’t enter.
Racist as well I suppose.
Is that not the woman who had a husband found guilty in court very recently? Something about illegally poaching a bunch of salmon
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A taxi driver’s responsibility is to earn a living and provide for his family, not to take risks for her favourite cause
> However, the taxi driver instead said that he would drop her into the halting site if she kept the Garda operator on the phone.
Says a lot.
Spurious statement. Plenty of these sites are hotbeds of criminal activity and places wheres it’s common to do a runner on a driver. Nothing to do with racism and more to do with the law of statistics. If I’m on the graft and if there’s a chance that what little I earn is going to be taken from me, I’ll probably skip that route and stick to somewhere safe.
There is nothing wrong with discrimination if it makes your life safer…
I wonder if she has any thoughts on the pony that was left to die on the Cloverhill Rd last week?
Maybe he’d be worried about the potential emenies he’d find inside the halting site.
Okay so that’s wrong of me to slag how she said the word enemy, but the point remains that halting sites are a dangerous wee place to be at night time for someone who isn’t a member of the traveller community.
My Dad use to drive for doctor on duty back in the 90’s and early 00’s. The fact that he said more about the horrible shit he’s seen in traveller halting sites compared to going away to the Leb in the 80’s is concerning. Can completely understand why a taxi driver wouldn’t feel comfortable doing that.
Great timing to test out that new law that got put into place…..
https://www.breakingnews.ie/amp/ireland/man-who-changed-victims-lives-forever-after-dancefloor-attack-avoids-jail-1453495.html
Three references, one from Ardara GAA Club, one from family friend and **Senator Eileen Flynn** and one from his employer, were handed into court.
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Legend has it she cried into Mugatnys face near Longford.
Crazy how she was just given the position of senator just based on what community she was from.
Not even CIE goes on some routes after 6pm
Amazing how Irish people feel *entitled* to racism against travellers. Talking about statistics and right to be cautious… when women say that about men you’re up in arms defensive. Feel free to waste your time arguing it, my blocklist awaits and I’m not replying to bigots
That’s not racism, racism is if you say something like “I’m not taking you because you’re a traveller”.
He allowed her into the car, took her outside the halting site and wanted to drop her off outside. Forcing someone to drive somewhere they aren’t comfortable driving isn’t racism. If you live down a cul de sac and a driver doesn’t drive down it to drop you the extra 100m, you don’t tell them you’re not paying them and start ringing the Gardaà like a Karen.
And also, refusing to pay the driver and ringing the guards will do no favours for the next time she calls a taxi.
Plus, she told her story in the Seanad, whilst wearing a hoodie and jeans whilst everyone else was dressed in formal clothing…
When I worked at Dominos we were not allowed to take orders for delivery to the halting sites because the drivers kept getting held up with shotguns.
Then they cry racism.
Looks like skeletor survived the fall into the chasm.
Various takeaways won’t deliver to my house despite it being less than 10 kms from my house, I don’t call racism, the area I live in is the problem that they have, I don’t like it because I would enjoy buying from these places, but I don’t call bigotry or racism.