Gun shots in Balbriggan (Barons Hall Park)

coadyd

Did anyone hear the gun shots last night ? I heard five quick bangs and my first instincts were that they sounded like gun shots. But i put it out of my mind and passed it off as fire works .

This morning walking my son to school we passed the crime scene 4 or 5 shots in the window of one of the apartments facing the road near to the school.

This place is gone to hell .

Anyone else hear them ? or have any info on the circumstances?

goodmuface

i passed by last night and saw a police cordon on the apartments, it looked like something big had happened, asked the Guards but they said nothing,

Morpheus

Place hasnt gone to hell, everywhere in dublin elements of scum have moved in, what can you do? nothing until the gardai get the resources that they badly need.

http://www.herald.ie/news/shots-fired-at-balbriggan-home-3228332.html

coadyd

I can see a serious decline in the area over the last five years . Yes there is scum everywhere but not all of them shoot guns in windows with no regard for anyone in the apartment . As far as i know there are kids in that apartment too .

The Hill Billy

That Herald article is a disgrace. Making a tenuous connection to an entirely different local incident just to fill column inches.

Hootanany

Morphéus wrote: »

Place hasnt gone to hell, everywhere in dublin elements of scum have moved in, what can you do? nothing until the gardai get the resources that they badly need.

What resources do they need sure they get boot allowance this allowance that allowance if they stopped all these allowances WE might be able to afford a decent Police Force.

ElleEm

The Hill Billy wrote: »

That Herald article is a disgrace. Making a tenuous connection to an entirely different local incident just to fill column inches.

It does read a bit like local gossip. Was it referring to that incident that happened years ago in the pub in town or a more recent one?

Edit: Just Googled it and there hasn't been a recent "pub brawl" in Balbriggan so it is most likely referring to the one in 2009, but is making out that it's all happening in Balbriggan now.

Cardinal Richelieu

The Hill Billy wrote: »

That Herald article is a disgrace. Making a tenuous connection to an entirely different local incident just to fill column inches.

That's the basic standard of the Herald these days, its a tabloid rag full of cub reporters, posers and sleazy columnists who recycle the same stories throughout the week. God help the Indo since the Herald editor is its new editor.

Neil_Sedaka

The Hill Billy wrote: »

That Herald article is a disgrace. Making a tenuous connection to an entirely different local incident just to fill column inches.

Was that the incident in the Old Boro In Swords by chance?
I remember there was a stand off with the Guards and the place was trashed by a few undesirables.

The Hill Billy

Nope - It was in John D's in Balbriggan. But it was back in 2009. IMHO - it is dreadful reporting by the Herald by dragging that up & associating it with an unrelated incident in 2012. Sensationalism, simple as...

Morpheus

Hootanany wrote: »

What resources do they need sure they get boot allowance this allowance that allowance if they stopped all these allowances WE might be able to afford a decent Police Force.

You plainly have no idea what you are talking about, typical crap aw theyre civil servants, they get this and that ... etc... all aspects of our society are being shaved and the gardai more so than others.

The problem is the management level folk and not rank and file, sort out the upper tiers and REORGANISE the rest.

They need patrol cars, increased numbers, better training, equipment, radios, etc along with a better justice system and PROPER f*king sentences for the scroats they take in and frankly they need more armed units, and specialised crime units (some of which have been shut down, or downsized due to the recruitment embargo and recession) they then would be better placed to enforce arms control and take on the criminial gangs and subversives.

Balbriggan has become worse, but not more so than anywhere else, thats my point, ive lived there all of my life. If you are involved in drugs etc, then it doesnt matter where you live.

doesnt help though that the herald added 2 plus 2 and came up with 5... shoddy yet typical sensationalist journalism.
:mad:

Just like to add, that John D's is now redesigned and reopened as the Mill Race and is quite a nice pub and many locals drink there - no problems any more.

coadyd

Morphéus wrote: »

You plainly have no idea what you are talking about, typical crap aw theyre civil servants, they get this and that ... etc... all aspects of our society are being shaved and the gardai more so than others.

The problem is the management level folk and not rank and file, sort out the upper tiers and REORGANISE the rest.

They need patrol cars, increased numbers, better training, equipment, radios, etc along with a better justice system and PROPER f*king sentences for the scroats they take in and frankly they need more armed units, and specialised crime units (some of which have been shut down, or downsized due to the recruitment embargo and recession) they then would be better placed to enforce arms control and take on the criminial gangs and subversives.

Balbriggan has become worse, but not more so than anywhere else, thats my point, ive lived there all of my life. If you are involved in drugs etc, then it doesnt matter where you live.

doesnt help though that the herald added 2 plus 2 and came up with 5... shoddy yet typical sensationalist journalism.
:mad:

Just like to add, that John D's is now redesigned and reopened as the Mill Race and is quite a nice pub and many locals drink there - no problems any more.

I agree that the Garda are under resourced . But when i say Balbriggan has gone to hell maybe i need to clarify .
I am not sure what the rest of Balbriggan is like I am just talking about the area I live in .
The amount of petty crime around is shocking so much so that a number of us up here have had enough no more hiding behind doors any antisocial behavior or teenage drinking in the car parks around where we live is not going to be tolerated . I'm not talking about a vigilante group just sick and tired of people who don't even live here thinking they can do what they like.

Khannie

Very best of luck with that. We had some trouble in our area a while back. The JPC (http://www.fingaljpc.ie/) did help out. The council cut down bushes (if you're reading this, thanks for your help Martina) that were hiding people lighting fires / drinking / doing drugs and the Gardaí were very helpful though they are highly limited because of the Skerries station opening hours which I think are a shambles, personally. Things have been much better in the last few months.