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Bean gharda / Garda

Capri · 2014-10-09 11:45:31

Considering that there's a focus on individual groups being represented in AGS, is it time to revert to calling the girls Bean Gardai again, and when/why did it change in the first place seeing as it's linguistically correct to call one a Bean Gharda ? Just looking at this in the Met…

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09-10-2014 12:45pm

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Capri

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Considering that there's a focus on individual groups being represented in AGS, is it time to revert to calling the girls Bean Gardai again, and when/why did it change in the first place seeing as it's linguistically correct to call one a Bean Gharda ?

Just looking at this in the Met http://content.met.police.uk/Site/metbpa , can you imagine what'd happen if you formed a Met White Police officers assoc. ?? :rolleyes:

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#2 09-10-2014 1:17pm
Schindlers Pissed

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Why? A Guard is a Guard. If that's the case lets call other groups "Oriental Guard", "Sub Saharan African Guard", "Indian Guard"…………it's pointless in my opinion.

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#3 09-10-2014 2:24pm
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The Garda uniform isn't tailored to suit religious/ethnic needs (remember the Sikh who wanted to wear something other than the standard issue hat) and that's a good thing in my book, it's one level where we're different from the UK for once.

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