More recently in the small town I live in here in Ireland (population 5000) there has been a feud between two traveller families. It has been on going for a couple of years now. Something about one man cheating on another mans wife. In their community, this is a big thing. So big there have been multiple shootings, knife attacks, a guy got knocked down with a truck, and the best two - one family threw a LIVE GRENADE into a terrace home - thank GOD it failed to detonate and most recently they attacked one man with machettes and cut off a few of his fingers.
Now if they want to do all of this out in a field it is fine, but it all has happened when they were IN TOWN in crowds of people. The machette attack took place while one man was picking up his 5 year old girl from school, so it happened IN THE SCHOOL YARD in front of dozens of small children and their parents who were picking them up.
http://www.clarechampion.ie/index.ph...rticle&id=3196
They have had to call in gards (police) from surrounding counties to patrol our small town due to the violence these two families are engaging in. Per the article link I posted, our local council is paying €4000 a month for mediation services now, in efforts to try and quell the violence two families have unleashed on our streets, in our community.
And it gets better. This article came out last week -
http://www.clarechampion.ie/index.ph...eral&Itemid=60
See with all the violence the settled travellers (ones that have taken up housing paid for by the council/tax payers) have been feuding and destroying each others houses. All the fighitng has destroyed the halting site homes where they are living. Total costs?
€910,288 providing maintenance of its standard 1,550 local authority housing units across the county, compared to over €492,019 looking after just 65 Traveller accommodation units.
That means the local authority spends about €587.28 per family in council houses per year versus €7965.52 per family living in halting sites in Clare. Thats 13.5 X more per family.
It is amazing that 65 families get more than half of what 1,550 families get in a year to pay for their accommodations., thanks to the fact their on going feuds and the cleanup associated is costing everyone else in town almost a million euro a year.
I got plenty more stories for ye. Just let me know. I worked the door and did private security for a while and can tell you stories of how they destroyed pubs, tried to rob building sites, and scammed locals. This is not what I read somewhere, I have lived this and seen this stuff with my own eyes. Thats where my opinion comes from.