Railway Crime and Compensation

Relevance to Irish Sport?

This thread has been started a hundred times before under various guises. Everyone wishing to put forward their tuppence worth has done so previously. You say that people can ignore your threads. However, this point is negated when you bring in non-relevant items to genuine sports / betting discussions.

There are any number of more appropriate forums to start these political type threads (even on this site) without clogging up the Irish Sports one. You will also find people far more interested in such topics and willing to debate same. We all know  you are really just looking for a jousting match so why not go to the best platforms for same?

The word appropriate is a dead giveaway.

You can ignore,you can create your own threads,you can snipe but you can't censor.

Its relevant and it is sports related in a way.

I have no wish to censor or supress another's views. Frankly I couldn't give a flying monkeys about your political views. This is more to do with the forum being clogged up with threads on exhausted topics that the vast majority on the Irish Sports forum don't care about (or at least, certainly not what they come on here for).

If anyone else had deemed it relevant a thread would have been started before now. The PP Cheltenham offer is relevant, hence the thread. Ditto the football bets thread. It's also only tangibly related to sport as you would have started the thread if it had been normal English tourists and not in the background of the CL game.

I won't be making any further replies as I've said my piece.

You have just realised it is sports related.

For a fellow that doesn't give a flying monkeys you make a good impression of someone with a vested interest.

You made plenty of comments on non sporting threads in your other guises.

That chilling threat in your last line has thrown me a bit.

Quack,quack.

TellTheKing don't feed the troll. In his warped world kids were a legit target for pedophiles

^ What a thing to say,explain yourself Rocketfingers.

No, Wildman should explain what he has said down the years in regards to kids getting abused. I believe it amounted to pretty much shut and take it type of attitude he has towards them.

Wildman I will give it to you - You are some man for reading what you want to see. It's an amazing ability really to ignore what people say and seamlessly replace it with your own version of events.

I am worse for replying but if there is one thing that gets my goat its flagrant spoofing, particularly when used to validate skewed logic. I have had one previous username (of which I advised of previously when I began posting recently). I can only ever recall getting involved in one non-sport thread which was about the Troika bailout for Ireland a few years ago. If I wanted to discuss politics or other non-sporting topics I would do it elsewhere.

It's a pity you don't focus your efforts more on betting (which you do know) as opposed to these waste of time threads.

a load of racist Chelsea fans pushing a black man off a metro in Paris is related to this country how?

who says French transport will not pay him compensation? who says CIE or the Irish government would if it happened here?

it's guessing which renders the thread pretty pointless if you ask me

as for those Chelsea fans let's hope they get what's coming to them, a nice away visit to Galatasary should do the trick

You're sick Rocketfingers,nasty label to put on anyone, you want to be full sure of your facts,you are crossing a line.

you want to be full sure of your facts


while I don't agree with what Rocketfingers has said if it has no hard fact to it maybe more would consider your point valid Pa if you actually posted that line above to your mate every now and again

Excuse me how am i sick, looks at the treads he has wrote about it on, there are more than 1 or 2 so you should have no issues finding them. Anyway you don't worry about it i am sure wildman is capable of defending himself (If he sees anything wrong with what i wrote)

Well said PF

Premier i'd have said it if it was anyone else,its disgusting, a pure lie thats unjustified.

ON COMPENSATION A PEADOPHILE CONVICTED FOR TEN YEARS IN JAIL IN BELFAST   GOT 15000£ OF FACEBOOK AND 5GRAND OF THE BLOKE WHO POSTED THAT HE IS NOW RELEASED = STRANGE WORLD WE LIVE IN  SO THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE CAREFULL OF slandering ANYONE

PREMIER      YOU BACKED ANYONE IN CRICKET ? 

I HAD DABBLE AT WINDIES 55/38   AFTER IRELAND BEAT THEM  STILL TO BIG PRICE @28/1 AS CERT FOR 1/4 FINALS AND ANYTEAM THEN ONLY HAS WIN 3 GAMES TO LIFT CUP

Allways a danger of litigation rearing its ugly head on this subject,best its dropped Now

I would never sue anyone.

I certainly wouldn't sue the state.

These stances will annoy compensation seekers and the deeply corrupt legal profession and for that I'm thankful as I dislike both groups.

you called me a racist before as I did not agree with you that asylum seekers should be drowned off the Italian coast, remember that thread

Norn I backed New Zealand outright at the start, really enjoy Gayle and Samuels this morning though Chris is a beast when he is in the zone

I called you a hothead as you inevitably lose your temper,you then descend into personal abuse and finally say you will post no more but you always return.

You are as constant as the Northern Star and were you a bouler we would make plenty backing you.

more lies, I will get the thread back up later when I get home just to prove it

Where are these alleged lies.

Why would I call you a racist as that is your favourite catcall.

Hitler,racist these are your chants to anyone who loves his country,its a fall back position when you lose the argument.

On the topic of compensation, I thought the case in the high court today of the the traveller family sueing the school in Clonmel was the most frivolous and most ridiculous case that probably ever came before the court. Thank god the judge saw common sense and came to the right conclusion.

I wonder who is paying the legal bills for this case, there seems to be a lot of talk and bluster from pavee point/Irish Travellers movement about it. These are government funded bodies. It would be a disgrace to use government hand outs to try and swindle more money out off the taxpayer.

Whilst I would be one of the first to criticise traveller behaviour and their attempts to label themselves a "Culture".
I find it hard to criticise the woman in court today....you can't on one hand criticise their behaviour whilst also blocking doors to those of them who want to improves themselves and their children.

As for Wildman, don't listen to the criticism, you bring much needed entertaining debate to this forum. If it wasn't for you and a few others, we'd be left listening to backslapping rubbish from wannabe tipsters with little proper debate/opinion given.

now if people want to read about spurious court cases......

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/psychiatric-nurse-awarded-130000-after-weetabix-boxes-fell-on-her-during-tesco-shopping-trip-31019733.html

also to be clear on the traveller case, surely its unfair to judge a persons suitability to school on their kin. This turns the school into nothing more than a publicly funded education club.

The fact she or her son are travellers have nothing to do with the case imho.

Traveller's are not anymore discriminated by this policy anymore than any other section of society such as non-nationals, people who arne't from the area or poor people who couldn't afford secondary level education. It was a ridiculous basis in which to go to the high court. I now realise it went to the supreme court also, which beggers belief. The costs for this must be astronomical, who is paying for it?

I'm not defending the rule by the school, I think it makes no sense either. But the woman took the case on the basis that because her son was a traveller, his father was less likely to have gone to secondary school. This was a ridiculous assertion as there are many other sectors of society who would fall on the wrong side of this rule. In this particular case, it has everything to do with the court case.

They also made the point that their closest school apart from this one is a 20 mile round trip. That is not far at all by modern standards. Many people living in rural areas would travel a lot further to go to school. This case was a complete waste of money.

Presumably The Irish Traveller movement who were with her outside court today. I agree in this case Travellers are not anymore discriminated but the court should enforce a fair an equitable way of deciding how to fill places in the school. The school is publicly funded and so each individual should have a fair and equal chance of entry. By limiting places to kids of alumini, it makes a mockery of fair and equal education. Its a stone age idea that if my auld man didnt attend then i won't be either.

The school in question has an entrance exam as well or at least used to by which they would divide students by their ability.
Why they cant use that exam to decide places is beyond me.

Its a typical Irish attitude, reward who you know and not what you know.

But the woman took the case on the basis that because her son was a traveller,

I agree, poor decision by her legal team to approach the case on that basis.....You'd have to presume ITMovement probably forced it that way to get some PR in the off chance the case was successful

If that is the case, it is a disgrace of the highest order. Bringing this case to the supreme court was a complete waste of time and money. It was never going to be successful in a million years. If the government are giving money to an organisation like this and they are pissing it away in such a fashion, their funding should e taken off them. You'd wonder what kind of eejits are sitting on the equality organisation also. They found in favour of the plaintiff originally before it was overturned on appeal.