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Attacks on emergency services

  • 20-11-2011 05:59PM
    #1
    MagicSean
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    http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1120/mayo.html
    Gardaí have arrested one man following what is believed to be a petrol bomb attack on Castlebar Garda Station in Co Mayo overnight.

    A male in his 20s entered the station this morning at around 4am.

    He threw what is believed to have been a petrol bomb in the public office of the garda station.

    Two members of the Garda Siochanna were on duty at the time though nobody was injured.

    Emergency services attended the scene.

    The man was arrested a short distance away and brought to Westport Garda Station, where he is being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act.

    This is just the most recent escalation in attacks against the emergency services yet for some reason there is very little press given to any of them. Even the Ballymun ambush on Halloween got very little. It wasn't too long ago that the GRA started a billboard campaign to highlight the danger of the job. I think the GRA and the unions should launch a similar joint campaign to highlight each an every attack suffered by the emergency services. Just wondering if people think this kind of campaign would be beneficial at all or do you think the last one was in any way effective.
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