Pissed TD threathens female Garda

Zebra3

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/drunk-td-threat-to-ruin-garda-career-2343669.html

I feel if it was an ordinary punter done this they'd be facing a stretch in the Joy, yet it seems like this scumbag is gonna get away with it.

And if Enda Kenny knew about this how come the toerag hasn't been thrown out of FG?

And if Sheehan has any shred of decency left, he'll resign his seat asap.

Duckjob

Zebra3 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/drunk-td-threat-to-ruin-garda-career-2343669.html

I feel if it was an ordinary punter done this they'd be facing a stretch in the Joy, yet it seems like this scumbag is gonna get away with it.

And if Enda Kenny knew about this how come the toerag hasn't been thrown out of FG?

And if Sheehan has any shred of decency left, he'll resign his seat asap.

I've a feeling Fine Gael could be about to bail Fianna Fail out out of their troubles once again.

It supposedly happened last July. Seems like a great coincidence that it happens to only come out now on Cowens bad news week.

As for the incident in question, why was the scumbag not slapped in handcuffs and arrested as soon as he made an attempt to start his car, same way any of us would be ?

gonedrinking

Just goes to show how much of an "old boys club" FG is that Kenny didn't do anything about this.

FG should use this as an excuse to get rid of Kenny and appoint a leader the country might actually vote for in the next election.

faceman

He's 77 and he says "when we [fine Gael] get into power..."

LOL

flash1080

It's looking good for FF in the next general election!

The Scawgeen

He should have spent some of his 'expenses' money on a taxi. I think a lift home in the back of the squad car was in order either. I'm assuming some of his buddies drove him home.

Zebra3

Interesting to see that in another article in the Indo, the guards say they are targeting boy racers.

Yet no charges have been laid against this potential killer for trying to drive his car while pissed and for threathening a guard. :rolleyes:

This country is so corrupt. :mad:

Mahatma coat

He Should be made climb Croagh Partick, and then dragged back down along the jagged rocks by the balls.

deelite

Didn't a judge recenlty send a "drunk" who badmouthed a garda to go up Croagh Patrick to do the stations of the cross. Why didn't this happen again.

Poly

How can you prove he was drunk? maybe he was just suffering from nasal congestion

Qualitymark

Is everyone in the Dáil a raging alcoholic?

PCPhoto

Qualitymark wrote: »

Is everyone in the Dáil a raging alcoholic?

no .... but its cheaper to drink alcohol than soft drinks in this country - even with the cheap drink in Leinster House (why is there a bar in leinster house ???)

Qualitymark

PCPhoto wrote: »

no .... but its cheaper to drink alcohol than soft drinks in this country - even with the cheap drink in Leinster House (why is there a bar in leinster house ???)

Why indeed? Alcohol is a nice unwinder after the week's work is over, but the idea that it should be part of daily life is crazy.

Horrifying article in the Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1313358/The-dark-truth-Irish-Prime-Minister-Cowen-s-drinking.html

efb

Guys TDs cannot be arrested going from or going to Dail Eireann.

The head on him, such a hick TD

flash1080

PCPhoto wrote: »

no .... but its cheaper to drink alcohol than soft drinks in this country - even with the cheap drink in Leinster House (why is there a bar in leinster house ???)

Soft drinks are cheaper, and like alcohol, they're a load of **** too.

bronte

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Sully

The Indo seems to be twisting Kennys words. There seems to be two articles on this and one suggests Kenny told the Guard to "ignore what he said" and not the incident. I think most of us would have said not to listen to a drunken individual shouting threats if we were his friends.

The general conduct is nothing to do with the party and I doubt Kenny wants to get involved in something thats absolutely nothing to do with the party.

Zebra3

efb wrote: »

Guys TDs cannot be arrested going from or going to Dail Eireann.

They can.

It's then up to the TD to claim immunity.

Qualitymark

In any case, the garda wasn't arresting him, was she? Just trying to stop him driving when she didn't consider him fit to drive safely.

Zebra3

Sully wrote: »

The Indo seems to be twisting Kennys words. There seems to be two articles on this and one suggests Kenny told the Guard to "ignore what he said" and not the incident. I think most of us would have said not to listen to a drunken individual shouting threats if we were his friends.

The general conduct is nothing to do with the party and I doubt Kenny wants to get involved in something thats absolutely nothing to do with the party.

Of course this has to do with Fine Gael.

Kenny will rant on about being tough on crime while he turns a blind eye to one of his own TDs threathening a guard and trying to indulge in drink driving while leaving our national parliament as an elected member.

Fine Gael:"Tough on crime unless it's one of our own". :rolleyes:

Up de Barrs

I doubt we will be seeing any tweets from Simon Coveney about his drunken colleague.

Time for him to be sent on a pilgrimage now!

Run_to_da_hills

Its about time they removed the bar at Leinster House and banned elected politicians from drink altogether.

These same muppets are quick enough to pass laws curtailing drink on the rest of us.

Biggins

Qualitymark wrote: »

Is everyone in the Dáil a raging alcoholic?

No. Not all!

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The FG TD should resign. Enda Should apologise on behalf of his party, that they should be dragged into the plonkers words used - and vocally distance himself from this FG cretin.

molard

that garda should hae left that td go.then phone ahead and have him pulled over.he should have been arrested the ungrateful fool. digging up the story now after cowen hoarsness is showing the indo up as a ff paper.

Bosco boy

If the sergeant goes for promotion now and dosent get it then she will probally claim it's because of this incident, it's likely that if anything now she'll get promoted quicker because the authorities won't want to be accused of being involved in stalling her career, I think it was a smart move on her part to report it, she had a pretty good witness in enda.

dvpower

The gaurd thought he was too intoxicated to stand up, but still allowed him to drive? WTF
The sargent decided to deal with it by having a word with Kenny? WTF.
Then the newspaper decided to sit on the story for two months? WTF.

This should be fun.:)

Wertz

FF & FG: two sides of the came corrupt, conniving, crooked coin.

If this was anyone else who threatened a cop, never mind trying to drive off whilst obviously unfit they'd at the very least be spending 6 hrs in a cell and facing a judge on a public order charge the following week.
But since it's one of our fine elected parasites, they get to swan off...

It's an incident like this that goes to show that if such people aren't held accountable for a relatively minor happening such as this, what chance is there of bringing charges against the likes of those who made paupers of the population and flushed our economy down the bog?

nlgbbbblth

Qualitymark wrote: »

Why indeed? Alcohol is a nice unwinder after the week's work is over, but the idea that it should be part of daily life is crazy.

Horrifying article in the Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1313358/The-dark-truth-Irish-Prime-Minister-Cowen-s-drinking.html

refers to Cowen visiting his father in Leinster House in the "late eighties". His father died in 1984!

Guy:Incognito

Up de Barrs wrote: »

I doubt we will be seeing any tweets from Simon Coveney about his drunken colleague.

He's being uncaracteristicly quiet alright. Someone should give him a shout on twitter to remind him.

Catari Jaguar

Did he call her "Sugar Tits"?

Duckjob

Qualitymark wrote: »

In any case, the garda wasn't arresting him, was she? Just trying to stop him driving when she didn't consider him fit to drive safely.

Excellent. I'm looking forward to being gently cajoled out of my car soon by the guard that discovers me driving gee-eyed and asks me not to drive it anymore.

mickydoomsux

Qualitymark wrote: »

Why indeed? Alcohol is a nice unwinder after the week's work is over, but the idea that it should be part of daily life is crazy.

But it is. As a nation we are obsessed with drink. Nothing happens in Irish life without it. Public drunkeness is widely accepted. Thousands of people a year are caught drink driving. Our leader can go on the radio half tore/hung over and a huge chunk of the population will defend him because 'ah shure, haven't ya done the same yourself of a Monday morning'.

RoundyMooney

A statesmen he is, worth every penny :rolleyes:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0602/1224271677114.html

moonpurple

in reply to op
pissed td threatens garda..allegedly
do the gardai brief journalists about a fairly recent incident?
garda quotes leader of opposition, was that garda operating in donegal in the mcbrearty case?

somebody is worried about something;)

Micky Dolenz

And the FF propaganda machine goes into full swing.

RoundyMooney

Actually the twats are on both sides of the divide.

Typical of the Indo to release it now, though.

I wonder if Fungus Fanning has any more in his FF crisis file, to only be used in emergencies?

beanyb

dvpower wrote: »

Then the newspaper decided to sit on the story for two months? WTF.

This should be fun.:)

I doubt this is the newspaper sitting on it. I'd imagine that someone involved with FF informed the Sindo of the incident this week, to try spread the controversy around. FF have probably been sitting on it, waiting for the best opportunity to pounce.

Guy:Incognito

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

And the FF propaganda machine goes into full swing.

That or someone is responsible for their own actions maybe?

Was Simon Coveney not the FG propaganda machine going in to action?

The need to blame FF on everything gets very tedious after a while.

Micky Dolenz

Stekelly wrote: »

That or someone is responsible for their own actions maybe?

Was Simon Coveney not the FG propaganda machine going in to action?

The need to blame FF on everything gets very tedious after a while.

How convenient it comes to light now.

Of course Conveney's comments were political motivated but ya know what? he has no power, the FF do, and have had for a while now. These are our government, who should we blame.

Guy:Incognito

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

These are our government, who should we blame.

The TD that got locked , tried to drive his car then threatened the Gard that wouldnt let him maybe?

Micky Dolenz

Stekelly wrote: »

The TD that got locked , tried to drive his car then threatened the Gard that wouldnt let him maybe?

The story is a bit off.

What I find interesting that there was no subsequent Gardai investigation. I can only assume there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute, a non story if that is the case.

Tigger

prosecute a td?

are you mad

look this show that this whole crap about worrying about getting fg or anyone else in is bullshyt he got special treatment we have been done the second we got in to a car on public property (last time i checked we still owned leinster house) all he goyt aws told not to drive he threatens a gaurd and he gets no punishment and kenny tells the cop to be quiet.

if it was me i'd runninmg up and down the sugar loaf with no driving lisence

Micky Dolenz

Tigger wrote: »

prosecute a td?

are you mad

Jim McDaid and Christy O'Sullivan would beg to differ.

PeterIanStaker

RoundyMooney wrote: »

Actually the twats are on both sides of the divide.

Typical of the Indo to release it now, though.

I wonder if Fungus Fanning has any more in his FF crisis file, to only be used in emergencies?

I'd say it's gonna be "FG TD ate my hamster" from now on. Indo's a rag:rolleyes:

But I still think this drunken gobsh1te should be in a cell - maybe one of FG's proposed Drunk Tanks?

Coriolanus

At this stage, I'm actually convinced that FG was infiltrated by FF agents pretty much wholesale, and they're being paid top dollar to provide enough grist for the rumour mill that FG will never shake FF out of power.

Biggins

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

The story is a bit off.
What I find interesting that there was no subsequent Gardai investigation. I can only assume there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute, a non story if that is the case.

...Or that because of who was involved, it was thought better/beneficial if it wasn't followed up?

Micky Dolenz

Biggins wrote: »

...Or that because of who was involved, it was thought better/beneficial if it wasn't followed up?

I don't believe that. Sure wasn't the head of the traffic core done for DD.

There is more to this story that meets the eye and if it is true, the Gardai in question is no good at their job. They had the law on their side and they failed to enforce it.

efb

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I don't believe that. Sure wasn't the head of the traffic core done for DD.

There is more to this story that meets the eye and if it is true, the Gardai in question is no good at their job. They had the law on their side and they failed to enforce it.

They didn't the politian had imminity

dlofnep

Threatening the career of a Garda is bang out of order. That is a grosse misuse of power and if Enda Kenny does not kick him from the party, then he is once again showing that he lacks any sort of backbone.

Biggins

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I don't believe that. Sure wasn't the head of the traffic core done for DD.

There is more to this story that meets the eye and if it is true, the Gardai in question is no good at their job. They had the law on their side and they failed to enforce it.

As you say there is something more to this story and if the present wage payers or the next future ones (FG?) after the next election, are asked for more manpower, overtime, equipment, etc... would they previously be remembered to be biting the hand that would later be asked to feed them?