Take the plastic bag off your head now.
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Would it be partly true that modern traveller culture is a lot like 18th/19th century mainstream Irish culture? . The religion, male domination, loads of kids marrying your cousin etc. And that the way we view travellers is a lot like how the Irish were viewed abroad? Criminals, lazy, too many kids, marry your cousin etc.
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Was it a ‘hot take’ ?
You’re not far off.
The culture of grabbing a wife that travellers do today was often practiced. Wimmin with potential acreage.
Cock fighting. Horse riding. Fighting. Drinking.
All widely practised.
People see the famine as the breaking point but the ‘free market’ had long begun the process of civilizing us bastards. The agrarian crimes often associated with secret socities were generally a rejection of capitalism and the move away from traditional economic means (barter) and particularly shared grazing and tillage.
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The donnybrook fair was meant to be an absolute free for all far worse than any ballinasloe or traveller wedding. Before it became a shop for posh cunts to buy their dinner.
Fairs were lethal.
Before towns became towns and mechanisms of the central state (post office, police, court, jail) people would have lived very reclusive rural lives
But the fair brought them together and we had family/ faction fights like today. The Ryans v the Ryans in Tipp.
A class elemental crept in here as the market took over society - small v large farmers.
But if you read police reports from the time tonnes of people were murdered at fairs or had their skull put in walking back from a fair.
You’d also see loads of people attacked for selling their potatoes at a different price to others or the agreed price - that moral economy again.
A vote for the monk will see potatoes sold at fair prices.
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That doesn’t seem very fair at all.
They are in leafy Douglas T12 
Just spotted The Mayor of Fingal (cc @Juhniallio) giving a pep talk to his Labour comrades at the junction of Killester Avenue & St Brigid’s Road before they split off to become lone insurgents/canvassers.
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Please tell me he wasnt wearing the mayoral chains?
Here’s one I prepared earlier but they’re wearing the red hi viz/substitute/Bainisteoir style bibs:
https://twitter.com/shanefolan/status/1858910570168156212?s=46&t=0sQkcb7z4szDmx1-2Xlm0w
The chap that ended up calling to my door was an SDLP fella from the north. Said Shane & Aodhan help them over the years & they return the favour.
It only dawned on me afterwards but didn’t Micky Martin & Colum Eastwood announce a FF/SDLP partnership a few years back? That seems to have quietly been abandoned.
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Vinny B getting stuck into Fine Gael. The longer this campaign goes on, the worse it seems to be going for them. I see The Journal fact checking Harris on scoliosis claims & The Ditch with a story about a FG candidate (Big Colm Brophy’s wife) allegedly seeking a pay off from a developer in return for not blocking a housing development. It’s amusing to see IRA/SF taking the high moral ground with all these press releases demanding Harris responds/apologises etc for this, that & the other.
https://twitter.com/vincentbrowne/status/1859330865718853850?s=46&t=0sQkcb7z4szDmx1-2Xlm0w
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And yet opinion polls have them flying it?
The Si surge had possibly flatlined & they were down 2 or 3 points in the most recent Sunday Times one last weekend. It’ll be interesting to see if there’s another one this weekend after his petulant & really weird carry on in the debate the other night. Difference between carefully curated social media stuff & campaign nitty gritty & being properly challenged possibly starting to take hold, but may be wishful thinking on my behalf.
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This is all lining up to be a glorious return for FF
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And Vinny is from a FG family
What do you hope happens?
Simon Harris develops scoliosis would be a decent outcome for me. Highly unlikely i know
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He need to develop a spine first so we could be waiting
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