To buy my first house two minutes down the street from traveller housing initiative?

It is very diffficult as it might be fine, they wouldn't be your direct neighbours and some travellers are fine and decent people. However, some aren't and the police won't touch them. There are also the terrible family feuds and dramas that they seem to have .

I didn't say none of that is true.

In short (and I'll type this slowly for you) there is as much anger towards the behaviour from much of the travelling community in Ireland, as there is in England.

When people are negatively affected by the behaviour of others, they tend not to give a shit where they're from or who their ancestors were.

And history has nothing to do with that. If you're life is being made a misery, you're not going to think back to any Irish or English history lessons and think it's ok.

And the fact that you can’t even explain your baseless claims about my comments, make your accusations questionable, at best.

Again, I’ll ask you, how are my comments bigoted?

@JollyGreenSleeves No, I’m not, nor am I prejudiced either because I don’t actually think all travellers are the same, but I will base a decision as important as buying a house on what I know. I think it’s a fair assumption most people would in that situation I think.

So in the instance of buying a house, which is what the OP is asking, I would say no because I wouldn’t want to think I’d be living near the kind of travellers I have met and seen, and there is no way of knowing for sure so assumptions will be made - rightly or wrongly.

In short, it is true.

Ireland has robust protection in place for the TC, which has a definitive cause of action when laws are breached.

And I guess you fell asleep during Irish history in school when it was being taught that Ireland was invaded and oppressed by Britain and the subsequent persecution that followed?

None of that is true? I must get onto the PHD educated historians then who have historic artefacts, to tell them they were filling our heads with nonsense then.

In short, this is not true.

And to be fair, the only hissy fit between the two of us came from yourself.

I thought you people were educated yet can’t even read what i responding too. Go back and look

I never said you did put up with anti social behaviour?

Perhaps have another read after your little hissy fit and see what I meant.

In short...Ireland are far more tolerant and embracing of the TC than the UK, where historically, Irish people on the whole were persecuted by the British.

I have to say, I'd heard of the Garden of Eden but I didn't realise it was just across the Irish Sea

Hard no, you won't even be able to resell if you hate it. Or if you do you'll have to massively reduce the price.

I'm from Cork and I can honestly say this is absolute bollocks.

We don't put up with anti-social behaviour in Ireland any more than we do in England.

That has nothing to do with prejudice and everything to do with expecting decent behaviour from everyone, no matter who they are.

The fact that you need me to dumb it down for you as to why you are a bigot just reinforces the fact that your EQ is questionable, at best.

No rock, that I'm aware. Just not a term I've heard.

I have heard "gypos" though.

How are my comments bigoted? They are my literal lived, real life experiences of growing up amongst the travelling community.

Please point out what exactly I have said that is bigoted.

We have a traveller site at the edge of the village. It was purchased originally as a field. As is common, the travellers then put a stables on the field then caravans and then other facilities. The council let them stay. They are truly awful neighbours. The children have used to catapults to take out windows and in once case a cat's eye. Lots of things have been stolen from garages/outbuildings. The male on the group is currently serving a significant sentence for holding up a taxi at gunpoint and the two families living there are generally abusive. We live a fair distance from this site and it still has an impact. I would certainly never buy a house anywhere closer.

Oh hi fan 👋🏼

although this is getting creepy 😬

Well I certainly don’t think I’m a ‘better tax payer’, but to be honest, of the many, many travelling families I know, the vast majority were given houses by the council and live on benefits. Very few of them are paying tax to any great degree, and the few I know who were, or I thought they were as they were building big houses, buying high end cars etc., they’ve all been raided now and CAB have taken their assets as they were deemed the proceeds of crime.

With respect, what rock have you been living under?

You have never heard the term "pikeys", "gypos" or any other term in the UK to refer to the travelling community.

Sure, in Ireland, a vast minority use it. But difference with Irish people is, they are quick to speak up to the bigoted person and correct them on their use of language.

In addition, courts slam the discrimination in Ireland and force commercial premises to pay hefty fines if they refuse them entry.

I was talking about her quote on them be far away from tax payers properties. Like there aren’t going to be paying tax on where they live. What make you think your a better tax payer than those tax payers?

Wouldn’t touch the house with a barge pole. Drop out.

Of course there is, by a minority few.

In the UK, it is a large majority, due to their bigoted culture.

The UK are a conservative nation, in general

Ireland, on the whole is a more prosperous country, with better systems. Poverty breeds crime in the UK, and with that social injustice, comes a susceptability to buy into the toxic conservative media, which perpetuates right wing bigoted views.

I'm an averagely educated British person and I've never heard the term "Pikeys" in my life.

I dread to think what lairiness @babylamb4 spouted in her deleted thread 😦