![]() ![]() The second level of settled community aggression is financial.Ī human rights commission last year reported on council spending on accommodation. They opposed a council plan to move the survivors of the fire to a nearby site. Meanwhile, before the Carrickmines funerals, local settled people mounted a picket. The settled community has within it a sizeable minority of disturbed people. They got their wish - five of the dead were children. One person said they prayed that “none of the fatalities are children”. But 268 people went out of their way to express dislike of that. At one stage, 645 people liked a simple “rest in peace” comment. We won’t quote any of the foul comments, we’ll just mention two decent comments.Įach comment on the site had a “like” and a “dislike” button. As the Travellers’ site burned, the online comments mounted. Their activities last week were feeble compared with their conduct in October 2015 after the Carrickmines fire. Travellers are about 0.7pc of the population. It shouldn’t be a big deal, but for the persistent aggression of my own community. Inevitably, there is friction, with enough blame to share all round. Two quite different cultures - the settled community and the Travellers - share the same space. Turns out the Travellers have a history going back at least 600 years, and the travelling thing isn’t just a hobby - it’s as innate to their culture as house-hunting is to mine. The government set up a commission to organise this - made up of civil servants, gardaí, farmers, priests and judges. Soon they’d be just like us, in all our perfection. Get ahead of the day with the morning headlines at 7.30am and Fionnán Sheahan's exclusive take on the day's news every afternoon, with our free daily newsletter.Įnter email address This field is required Sign Up The shotgun episode occurred in the period when the settled community had decided to fix “the Traveller problem”. No need for shotguns when you can manipulate national and local budgets. In the period since then, the political establishment hasn’t found it necessary to take up arms against the Travelling community. In that position, Mr Donegan disgraced himself, his party and his government. Just over three years later, Fine Gael (“the law and order party”) made him minister for defence (I’m guessing they chose defence because he knew so much about shotguns). Shooting at Travellers didn’t harm Mr Donegan’s political career. Mind you, if the Travellers fired back, they’d have gone to jail for decades. The good old days, yeah? When a man of substance could make his point with both barrels and rely on a nod and a wink from the judge. Mr Donegan was charged and brought to court where he was sentenced to three years in jail.Īh, no, sure I’m only kidding. He opened fire because he didn’t want them in his area. Take on AI bots in Practice Mode to sharpen your farming skills offline or squad up with your friends and take on other players online.More than 50 years ago, a prominent Fine Gael TD from Louth - Paddy Donegan - was convicted of firing a shotgun at Travellers. Play online with up to 10 players per match, in public lobbies and private rooms. Can you survive to the end and take on the final boss? Play Online or Offline Level up your farmer and complete challenges to unlock over 100 cosmetics, including hats, shovel skins, costumes, and emotes! Survive the Hordeīattle zombies in Horde Mode where you take on waves of infected farmers and animals. Chase a chicken around the map in Chicken Run, steal the enemy’s prized pig in Capture The Pig, defend the scarecrow in King of the Crow, and more! Cosmetics Game Modesīattle enemy farmers in different game modes that change the way you play. Shot at by a sniper? Well they just planted you your very own sniper gun to fire back with! Harvest weapon plants quickly for more ammo or let them grow for a larger clip. Reloading isn’t an option, so grab one of the deadly crops planted by the bullets of you and your enemies. Fire your bullets into the ground to plant your ammo. Shotgun Farmers is an online multiplayer shooter where missed shots grow guns. ![]()
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