Best of Luck Guys working during halloween. [vid of ballyfermot ramming inside]

Balfie

I'm sure alot of Boards members will join me on wishing all you guys in the Emergency Services alot of luck for tomorrow night.

Stay Safe Ladies an Gents.

-Corkie-

Balfie wrote: »

I'm sure alot of Boards members will join me on wishing all you guys in the Emergency Services alot of luck for tomorrow night.

Stay Safe Ladies an Gents.

Good thread Op. Stay safe lads and lassies..

msg11

I'll expect a brilliant service as always. It's just the gob****es that attack them that I have a problem with.

starviewadams

Fire brigade has been into my estate 3 or 4 times so far tonight,last two times they waited for the Garda van to escort them in,just in case the local gurriers decide to ambush them like they did last year.If I was them I'd just let the bonfires burn themselves out!,not worth the risk at all.

cocoshovel

Its going to be a long night for all ES. I was talking to ambulance guys the other day and they were dreading it, or at least thats how it sounded.

In relation to Fire Brigades, do they have to show up and put out every bonfire or do people actually call them to do it? They should just leave them burn out if the neighborhood is that troublesome.

Balfie

as far as I know if its small enough they can leave it,? But if requested have to put it out if its a danger to others or housing.. If its huge an outta control I think they just put them out,.. But mostly do be on scene for a few mins before makin that decision,

These are just guesses tho, I have no idea how the fire brigades work out these situations on halloween..

starviewadams

Terrible stuff that happenned 2 mins down the road from me down the Blackditch Road in Ballyfermot on Monday night.

Hope all the Gardai who were injured recover fully,and that the scum who were behind the attacks get prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

eroo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=3Pf9b-RcpXQ

Well done to the members involved.. messy to say the least!

Locust

eroo wrote: »

... messy to say the least!

Just another day at the office

Turner

starviewadams wrote: »

Terrible stuff that happenned 2 mins down the road from me down the Blackditch Road in Ballyfermot on Monday night.

Hope all the Gardai who were injured recover fully,and that the scum who were behind the attacks get prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

THE Halloween mayhem which left five gardai hospitalised was orchestrated by one of the city’s most notorious gangs.

Street lights in Ballyfermot were broken and four jeeps were stolen from locations in the Midlands ahead of Monday night’s violence.

A female garda required nine staples in her head after being pinned to the wall by a crazed driver in a stolen jeep.

"This was planned for a long time – the gang broke street lights to prevent them being caught on CCTV and they stole the jeeps from properties in Athlone over two weeks ago. The four vehicles were kept at a location before they were used on Monday night.

“Gardai received intelligence that officers were to keep out of the Croftwood area of Ballyfermot but of course they can’t give in to these thugs,” a senior source said.

A gang of young thugs which is linked to notorious Anthony ‘Harpo’ O’ Driscoll (33) is suspected of being behind the violence.

Harpo, of Croftwood Park, Ballyfermot, is a chronic alcoholic and drug addict who has previous convictions for offences such as drug dealing, attempted burglary, unlawful carriage, property damage and seriously assaulting a man with three others.

Harpo was only 19 in 1997 when caught red-handed with IR£200,000 worth of heroin when gardai watched him digging a parcel of drugs from under a sleeper on the Dublin to Cork rail line.

Heroin

Youths on horseback warned Harpo by wolf-whistles that he was under surveillance and he dropped it. Gardai recovered the heat-sealed plastic parcel containing 782g of heroin.

Harpo’s crew are also the chief suspects for organising a spate of car thefts in the Ballyfermot area last Christmas.

Two people were arrested following the disturbing scenes on Monday night after Garda Linda Bury narrowly escaped death after being struck by an oncoming jeep in Ballyfermot.

One was a 15-year-old boy who defecated into a sample jar in Clondalkin Garda Station when gardai requested that he provide a urine sample.

The other person arrested is a 35-year-old man who has numerous previous convictions and has served jail sentences.

Harpo has not been arrested yet but sources say gardai are building a case against him.

Out of the five injured officers, Gda Bury, suffered the worst injuries but was discharged from St James’s hospital yesterday. She is said to be in a “very traumatised state”.

Gardai Bury and Sinead Connolly were travelling in a squad car on Blackditch Road in Ballyfermot when their vehicle collided with an oncoming jeep just before midnight.

As the officers were attending to the incident, Garda Bury was struck by another oncoming jeep which resulted in her sustaining leg injuries.

kfoy@herald.ie

- Ken Foy

Best of luck to the injured members.

cocoshovel

............I don't want to live in this country anymore

TylerIE

cocoshovel wrote: »

............I don't want to live in this country anymore

Why?

Zambia

That is a shocking story. Truly sickening stuff.

Hope the members involved make fully recovery.

Corruptable

I see the same story is in the Sunday Independent today, and it's quiet clear that a female garda was almost killed after being struck by one 4x4 and a Yaris patrol car was scrapped by another 4x4.

It has renewed calls for a mandatory custodial sentence for assault on a garda or other member of the emergency services, which I would agree with given there is already a distinction provided by the offence of aggravated murder (formerly capital murder).

I would go one step further and say that armed gardai should have been deployed to this scene at Cherry Orchard, as it's clear that sufficient manpower and resources was not available for gardai to adequately defend themselves against superior numbers of scumbags.

I hope all injured, make a full and prompt recovery.

timmywex

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/just-14-gardai-on-duty-during-night-of-attacks-2927107.html

cocoshovel

2 Gardai in Kilkenny town were assaulted and sent to hospital on halloween night too.
I remember a few years back reading a headline about only 12 gardai in the town at night and running out of handcuffs. I wonder how low it is now. Is there anywhere we can find up to date Garda figures?

5500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQu1yg7G3QU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3PdsUSrWok

Was the second video gardai being rammed?

starviewadams

Sounds like it allright,sickening.

Slippin Jimmy

5500 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQu1yg7G3QU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3PdsUSrWok

Was the second video gardai being rammed?

Should be shot on sight, no questions asked. I don't know how any guard hasn't lost it yet and bet the absolute **** out of someone.

Paulzx

Duffff-Man wrote: »

Should be shot on sight, no questions asked. I don't know how any guard hasn't lost it yet and bet the absolute **** out of someone.

Because he'll end up sacked and in jail..........

cocoshovel

Paulzx wrote: »

Because he'll end up sacked and in jail..........

Just like the recent trial of the 3 Waterford Gardai.

Thepredator

These little brain dead rodents are obviously afraid of no one, there should be a curfew in place on halloween night in places like this and any minor on the streets after the curfew could be detained for a given time and the parent/s prosecuted. Maybe then they'll think about trying to control their scrote children.

Turner

Thnanks for finding the video 5500. Ill update the title of the thread to outline the video is available inside.

However i dont know if the jeep is ramming the nissan skyline or the Gardai in that clip.

savagecabbages

cocoshovel wrote: »

Just like the recent trial of the 3 Waterford Gardai.

I'd draw a big distinction between shooting someone in self defense when they are trying to kill you by ramming you with a car, and punching a restrained person in the face when they clearly pose no threat to anyone.

I'm sure there would be a trial/enquiry but anyone sitting in a car being rammed has a very good case to use force.

magicface1

Heard that a brother of one of the lads that rammed the members in ballyfermot did something similar in clondalkin last night and rammed 2 squad cars.

Sunnyisland

magicface1 wrote: »

Heard that a brother of one of the lads that rammed the members in ballyfermot did something similar in clondalkin last night and rammed 2 squad cars.

In all fairness you cant be going around saying that unless he is actually charged with an offence, Going on hearsay doesent get anyone anywhere.

magicface1

charged as of yesterday and released on bail..

kirving

They scumbags wouldn't get very far if they tried to ram a cop car in the US, the Gardai should follow the same policy

TransplantedDub

Kevin Irving wrote: »

They scumbags wouldn't get very far if they tried to ram a cop car in the US, the Gardai should follow the same policy

I have to say..living here in the states 22years now...never seen the likes of this ever, jeez I have to agree...the fight goes out of them when they are surrounded with a bunch of armed officers over here..And I know what you are going to say...the little gob****es would prob call your bluff...but they dont dare here... I really understand the frustration the Gardai must be under. Ship the little bastards off to the chain gang prisons over here in the deep south, that would knock the stuffin out of them :cool: