They had a policeman on the radio yesterday, about new equipment for the cops.
Newish equipment.
He was talking about the new extensible baton for our cops. That’s right. The same one the rest of the world has had for fifty years, but this is Ireland, the land that proudly boasts an unarmed police force despite [...]
You know what a reasonable, tolerant man I am except when I have to oppress idiots who disagree with me. Everyone knows that I’ll put up with anything except idiocy and intolerance.
So why has this turban thing got me so confused?
A Sikh is refused membership of the Garda reserve because he won’t take [...]
As you know, I don’t normally post too much about local news here in Limerick, but here’s one that caught my attention courtesy of Squid.
This involves a crash between a police car and two taxis and the subsequent behaviour of the police driver towards an injured passenger in one of the taxis. I posted [...]
Do you know what a cell phone is? No. It’s not an American mobile phone.
It’s what the drug-dealing murdering scumbags in our jails use to run their operations while they’re locked up. And what they occasionally use to call in to radio phone-ins as happened yesterday when one particularly vicious retard phoned [...]
Did you ever hear of Frank Shortt?
Probably not, but I won’t be long telling you who he is.
Frank Shortt owned a bar in Donegal, and in 1995 he was convicted of allowing drugs to be sold on his premises. The bastard, you might say. Indeed.
In its judgement last Wednesday, the Irish Supreme Court increased [...]
The media behaved disgracefully towards poor Tania Corcoran, who died giving birth to twins as did one of the babies. There was absolutely no reason to report that Tania was a member of the Gardai. It was irrelevant. There was no justification for printing headlines like Cop dies giving birth. Jesus, [...]
Do you remember the case of Dean Lyons?
No?
Back in March 1997, two mentally-ill women living in “sheltered housing” in Dublin were murdered in a savage attack during which the killer ritually mutilated their bodies. The crime, which came to be known as the Cannibal Murders, was plainly committed by a madman, and a forensic [...]
Dalkey is one of the most charming and salubrious of South Dublin suburbs. It retains most of the character it used to have when it was just a village, clinging to the edge of Dublin Bay. These days, it’s full of bistros. Art galleries. Bijou residences for a million bucks a [...]
I see the new Anti-social Behaviour Orders are ready to roll. According to today’s papers, the adult version will be available for the new year, with children’s asbos following in a couple of months. I see also, however, that the Guards won’t be ready to implement it because their Fancy-Dan computer system isn’t [...]
This is what a Garda shouted at a young child in a car as about ten of his colleagues dragged the child’s father away on a false murder charge. These were the same guards who were variously involved in perjury, intimidation, planting weapons, planting explosives, assaulting witnesses and false imprisonment. The same guards [...]
