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You will find that the majority of those travellers who just turn up at unofficial sites or street corners are the outcasst who have been refused entry onto proper sites.....

Gypsy sites tend to be self policing so you find that the travellers you see on the street are the criminals and those you may not get to see on the sites are in fact civil and community minded.

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good on ya for clearing that up lad

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so if I am reading that statement correctly then your saying that the IRA were infact not terrorists? who killed inoccent women and children for decades?

if that is what your saying then your a total arse.

if thats not what your saying? then please clarify and I will apologise..

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I understand where youtr coming from, perhaps i should have been more clear. I totally disagree with what the so called "IRA" did in England and agree they where terrorists,.... i refer to the true Irish Republican Army back home in Derry who fought for their homes and livliehoods when the Black and Tans converged on them.

I Totally agree that taking the conflict from Ireland to England and bombing innocent people was an act of Terrorism,... something that wouldnt have been condoned by the IRA or Provo leaders back home

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It's fair enough that you stand up for your community but you are mistaken when defending the IRA and Provo leaders.... they DID condone murders in England as well as Northern Ireland.

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My Father was in the army before WW2 and he told me that the black & tans were made up mainly from home grown Irish-men and a sprinkling of ex WW1 soldiers & that their behaviour and the way they treated their fellow Irish men was despised by both the Irish people & the British troops who would have nothing to do with them.

How true that is I don't know, as it's only second hand information.

As this episode in History was somewhere around 1920-21ish I do not see how it should be brought up as an argument for what the IRA did from the late 60's until what now unfortunately seems to be happening again.

P.S. I'm not being prejudice I happened to marry an Irish Girl and we lived happily for 5 years, admittedly we were actually married 35 years but the happy five have been since she left me!:D

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I went to Northern Ireland, Ballemena, for a holiday, i found MOST of the residents to be kind, courtious and very friendly. There is always a minority of unhappy residents, no matter where you live. If you are not happy with the environment then move on. I was not happy with the area i was living in, so i moved elsewhere.

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I understand what your saying vera but it not always a case of just being able to move on,... we have a lot of family in Accrington and Blackburn and most of them are in school.

Most of the travellers who still travel will be moving on to Lancaster shortly however for Michael O'Mara Murphys (King of the Gypsies) Funeral.

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Well while you are there, get on with life, enjoy it and stop moaning. If you don't like Accrington do not return after Lancaster.

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That is because most of Ballymena is more pro British than most of England. It is a really nice place.

I was offered a job there in about 2001. My company sent us over 2 or 3 times and we were even looking at houses. The only reason I am here now is we could not agree on the salary.

Looking back I am glad I turned it down. Shortly after I turned down a job on the Isle of Man - I am still not sure if I did the right thing with that one.

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Should have gone for that one Neil, you can drink as much as you like but you will never end up legless.

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I was messed about by the engineering manager during the recruitment process, he basically lied to me. I told the recruitment agent to tell him I could not work for him after seeing how he conducts business. :D

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No katex quite the opposite in fact, Accrington is a lovely little town,... i thinks thats why it attract so many Romas/Gypsies/Tinkers etc

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I just thought it was because we have more official sites than anywhere else in Lancashire.

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I thought it was because of the Hedgehog Farm over Ossy:hehetable