The two racers need to be arrested and also the person driving the van in which the video was shot. He was all over the road and heading into oncoming traffic and it seems like he was holding a video camera the whole time.
I couldn’t give a toss about their culture. They were illegally racing on the road and put lives at risk and should face the consequences.

The Travellers have been pussy footed around for years, They have flouted laws, have more spent on Social houses per unit , and want everyone to bend over backwards to appease them. Nothing will happen, a list of serious road laws were broken , but hey it seems in Ireland laws only apply to the hard pressed taxpayers.

There is an off road sulky track near Leap in West Cork. Custom built for the job. The problem is that it is not just the culture of travellers it is the constant hassle that seems to follow there total disregard for others.

This pandering to the needs of travellers needs to stop. I’m sick of them getting everything on a plate, Especially when they show blatant disregard to others and the law. The Gardaí need to come down hard on this sort of activity. The ISPCA should also have the authority to confiscate the animals. Rant over.

In accepting the crimes of the minority for fear of discrimination, it is the majority that are discriminated against

“He encouraged those wishing to do it to co-ordiante with local authorities in order to do it in a safe way.”
A safe way would be a track or field. Those animals should not be running on tarmac or concrete!
Why not give Fairyhouse or similar a few bob and go nuts in there some day during the week? Heck, I’ll even video tape it for them!

Discrimination against us “non-travellers”. If I did what they did in that van, I would be done for dangerous driving, probably no tax, have the van impounded and lose my license. They get a slap on the wrist. Sickening.

Why do we, as a society, continue to indulge the Traveller Community? If any non-Traveller engaged in this reckless behaviour he would face the full rigours of the law without public sympathy. Travellers are not an ethic minority, they are just Irish and should be treated as such for better and worse. Those who engage in criminality should be treated in the same way as non-Traveller criminals. Can we really justify continuing to fund the cost of State-backed Traveller advocacy groups?

“don’t do it again” Jeez, tough words, they must be so sorry for doing it after that stern talking too!! How about a prosecution!! Is the article accurate, they only acknowledged the safety risk to the people directly involved in the incident and not the other motorists on the road!! I recall a case a few years back where two high performance cars were filmed racing up the M50, the road was empty but the Gards, heavily prosecuted both of them, no less should be done to those involved in this incident!!

what is this nonsence about travellers being a different ethnic group ?…they are white Irish same as most of us….they just choose to live in an anti social way….I for one do not like to be referred to as part of the “setteled” communinty as it implies that formally I was a traveller…those clowns in Cork should be jailed for endangering lives…and apart from anything else the image the portray to visitors or tourists of Ireland is appaling

Oh that’s telling them. The whole lot of them should be locked up! Considering a young woman only lost her life on that road recently and alot of loves have been lost on that road over the years displays in abundance these guys respect for life and society. This is an activity ONLY TRAVELLERS engage in and to set an example they should be all prosecuted for it!

I notice Pavee Point’s statement didn’t include a request for those involved, or those that know them, to come forward and confess to the Guards. Does this organisation recognise that their community should be following the laws of the state? The state which, as others have pointed out, funds the anti-social lifestyle they choose to live. The government needs a comprehensive plan aimed at integrating this group into mainstream society.

Idiots above are those laughing at taxpayers and nearly killing them while receiving handy social welfare dole money. They should all be thrown into a rotting hole

6 shots fired into traveller house on saturday night in Balbriggan, and not a word said about it on the news. Sure it’s only a family feud…well what about the rest of the residents that have to live in the estate! They don’t worry about the law because when they’re threatened with it they use intimidation and bully tactics. The Gardai let them away with it rather than risk a full scale riot involving slash hooks. Sick of listening to their “ethnic minority” bullshit. Just because your part of a minority group, doesn’t make you above the law. What if some Iranian nationals decided to bury a woman up to her naeck in the Phoenix Park for a stoning..would we all accept it as part of their “culture”.

no mention of a danger to the public mr archibald

Grab the reg plates of all them idiots obstructing justice and reckless driving. At least that would be something, and take their licenses and stuff.

As I stated in my post yesterday pavee point is a useless organisation with its own self interest at heart- it is used by travellers to take the heat off themselves in situations like this- don’t do it again shows the Irish people what contempt the pavee point organisation shows for the Irish people- its not good enough

Also, because of the tried and tested legal system in this country, the gardai can’t use any of the video evidence uploaded onto YouTube unless they can obtain the original hard copy as evidence. Simply watching it and taking down the reg numbers and bringing them to court won’t work. It Will be dismissed. Sure, they’ll know who did it, but who owns the evidence? That’s not going to be handed over ! More than likely it’s deleted by now, albeit they were stupid enough to upload it…. So maybe…..

Jail the pikeys

Delighted to hear pavee point condemn this act and not say what they usually do that its “part of our culture”…for 2 long travellers have trotted out this excuse of ‘it’s part of our culture” and “this is discrimination” too many think they are above the law, not paying car tax, insurance, income tax, rent etc!! If they want to be accepted into society this special treatment has to stop, for example a traveller can do a CE scheme at 16 while the rest of us have to wait til 25 years old!!!!!

More stick and less carrot is needed in relation to the traveller gang. Im personally am glad that Clare coco have ceased building traveller specific housing, due to it costing 7 times more to build due to having to concrete the copper pipes into the walls.

Seriously “don’t do it again “. Is that the best he could come up with. The likes of this is going in every week across Ireland. This one was only brought to attention because someone recorded it. I’ve seen those horse and traps going across the m50 on occasion.

There are three males in Sligo Distrct Court today, Thursday 10th may, charged with these exact offences. Interesting to see what penalties, if any, they will get. Apparently, the offence for it is so old, that the maximum fine is something like €2

It is good to see Pavee Point speaking out to condemn such behaviour. Pavee Point represent less than 1% of the population who in turn take up much more than 1% of headlines and other activity.
The chaotic nature of traveller life is worrying. Obesity levels among it young men is epidemic , suicide levels are above the national average and because most travellers are early school leavers there is no opportunity to progress in life. This is really evident when for whatever reason they appear on TV or are interviewed. As society moves forward the Travelling Community stays still which means they travel backwards. Where will they be in 50 years ? The Traveller issue needs addressing sooner rather than later preferably from within.

Many newsworthy items are not reported in full, for fear of offending sensibilities, or incurring the wrath of the professional lefties-those who make hay at the taxpayers expense through free legal aid, slurping at the trough of unnecessary quangos-set up by Bertie & Co. to appease the lobbyists, or providing services to people that the rest of us do not, it seems require.

The pilfering of scrap around the country has been put down to “organised crime”, the gang warfare of recent times has been similarly pigeon holed, and the explosion of crime in areas such as West Dublin remains an unquestioned anomaly.

One person has been arrested says it all. Somebody show the Gards how to access YouTube you can read all their car reg plates and do them for wreckless driving. If it was any other group they’d have ERU onto them.

Wow. “Don’t do it again…”
That’s it?!!!

The rest of us, i.e. the law abiding citizens who cares for their country now need to speak up. I do not mean just ranting on forums like this. We need to challange the media taboo that does not permit a reasonable discussion on the topic of (capital T) travellers. We need to challange the labels which they and their media sympathisers use: ‘disenfanchised’ ‘marginalized’ ‘oppressed’, (take you pick), so that theses labels no longer carry water.

As regards the media sympathisers, it is all the more galling that those commentators who lecture us and set the agenda, usually live in nice area’s where they will never experience the havoc that travellers can wreak.

fck the Guards, Fck the law, fck you, fck me, fck the horses.. these poeple are a law unto themselves we only get in their way. what a life though no accountability. Go On Patrick!

Bet you all feel great now, knowing that some of your hard earned taxes are going toward paying Pavee Point to come out with these wonderful appeasing and constructive solutions.

What went unremarked on during this morning’s interview (sadly RTÉ shy away from possibly offending demographics), was the pronouncement by this quango’s talking head that we need to throw more money at the problem, namely though landing the problem at the door of local authorities. They should, he mused, liaise with traveller groups in order to allow the poor unfortunates somewhere to bate their horses around in an orgy of gambling and roaring.

See? Even when they screw up, we’re still expected to pay for it.

As I suspected they’ll get away scot free only to do it again elsewhere. The Garda are for too lenient on Travellers, hard pressed taxpayers get the full brunt of the law while Travellers get a slap on the wrist. I’m of the understanding that laws apply to everyone in the state regardless of ethnic background, correct me if I’m wrong.

We all know that this incident will get brushed underneath the carpet, and no matter how many of us voice our diss-approval on how these young men behaved.. Nothing will be done about it, it’s like farting against thunder…

Im on my way to rob a bank.
I wont do it again your honour.

“Gardai are appealing for witnesses” ?? Looking at the video am sure they can round up a few witnesses :) there called Gardai !!

Shoot their horses… race over, prisoner arrested, problem sorted. One thing a traveller gives a shit about is their horse boss.

“Appealing for witnesses?” The guardi were there!

If you ring the Gardai they will tell you it is not illegal to be on the road and won’t investigate. They will only investigate the illegal driving. More chance of getting a parking ticket from a Garda than the Travellers getting even a second glance.

Why are the Gardai looking for witnesses to this, they were right there watching them race and then did nothing. 1 prosecution is a joke. There was cars and vans driving on the wrong side of the road.i came upon one of these races between Lahinch and ennistymon about 2 years ago. I had to pull over to get out of there way as they were on my side of the road coming at me. I had my wife and 2 kids in the car.this happens regularly and the Gardai do nothing. If that was 2 regular people not travellers they would be jailed.the Gardai are a joke

I saw this video first on Tuesday at lunchtime. It popped up on facebook and twitter. By yesterday it had made it onto the Irish TV News and by this evening onto the BBC News. I wonder how long it will be before the EU/IMF/ECB Troica will see it. I love ‘citizen journalism’! Only the truth can set you free!

A little unfair to boil the headline down to Gardaí say “don’t do it again”. One was arrested and the other one probably will be too.

The races on the N2 north of Ashbourne Sundays 6am are much more exciting…

Some pony though!!

“do it again as we would prefer to be out checking tax. Its a little less dangerous you see”

Its only a bit of fun, sure its good training for the Garda.

First of all, travellers are indeed an ethnic minority, which is defined as “A group that has different national or cultural traditions from the main population.” Ethnic minorities need to be protected by law and have the right to exercise their own cultural practices, however this does not extend itself to the behavior shown in the video, which Pavee Point have already said.

Secondly, people are complaining that travellers are not punished to the full extent of the law as settled people would be in a similar circumstance. Of course there should equality in exercising the rule of law to all people regardless of ethnic background. But you can’t say that you want travellers punished to the full extent of the law, while continuing to discriminate against them in every other aspect of society, that’s not equality.

Travelers are entitled to use the roads. They pay tax too.