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Off duty member in hospital after assault

  • 16-09-2012 10:42am
    #1
    source
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,312 ✭✭✭


    From here
    GARDA SERIOUSLY INJURED IN LIMERICK ASSAULT
    16 September 2012
    An off-duty member of the Gardai has been seriously injured following an assault in the early hours of the morning.
    The incident occurred in the St Patrick's Road area of the city around 3.30am.
    Live95fm's Denis Tierney has more...
    The Co. Galway-based Garda was returning home from a night out with his wife, who is from Limerick when he was confronted by three men.
    The Garda was struck in the face and hit his head on the ground sustaining a serious head injury in the process
    The victim who has a number of years of service with the force was taken to the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Dooradoyle where his condition is described as serious.
    Gardai at Henry Street are appealing for any witnesses to come forward and contact them at 212400.


Comments

  • #2
    d3exile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭d3exile


    Here's to a speedy recovery!


  • #3
    wicklaman83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭wicklaman83


    No different from any week-end attack unless you knew that the offenders knew he was a garda. Cant see the point of the post.


  • #4
    pah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭pah


    wicklaman83 wrote: »
    No different from any week-end attack unless you knew that the offenders knew he was a garda. Cant see the point of the post.

    Eh....Because this is the Emergency Services forum??

    Dont know the guy but would still consider him a colleague.
    I wish him a speedy recovery.


  • #5
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    wicklaman83 wrote: »
    No different from any week-end attack unless you knew that the offenders knew he was a garda. Cant see the point of the post.

    Can't see the point of your presence in the ES forum. A look at your post history indicates that you are only here to put the boot in when you can. Your aim seems to be focused on the Gardaí for the most part. I wonder why that is.


  • #6
    Harry Bosch.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭Harry Bosch.


    wicklaman83 wrote: »
    No different from any week-end attack unless you knew that the offenders knew he was a garda. Cant see the point of the post.

    If you do not want to read pointless posts about a member of AGS being assaulted then do not come to an Emergency services forum, this member is/could be a colleague and a friend of any number of people on hear, i suggest you join the Walter Mitty forum.. Wishing the member concerned all the best.


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  • #7
    Tyron Jara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭Tyron Jara


    Heres too a speedy recovery. Hopefully they'll catch the guys who did it!


  • #8
    wicklaman83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭wicklaman83


    MagicSean wrote: »
    wicklaman83 wrote: »
    No different from any week-end attack unless you knew that the offenders knew he was a garda. Cant see the point of the post.

    Can't see the point of your presence in the ES forum. A look at your post history indicates that you are only here to put the boot in when you can. Your aim seems to be focused on the Gardaí for the most part. I wonder why that is.

    Sorry I think i'm being mis-understood. He was an attack on an off duty member with his wife in his own time. It was not an attack on An Garda Siochana as such. There is no mention it was related to any cases etc he was on. If this was the case i'd say it would of been reported as being so.
    Whose to say it wasnt a neighbour,relative or some other personal reasons. If this was the case i dont see why it would need to be posted on a public forum.

    I dont aim to put the boot in but i will high light pointless comments when i see them which incidentally seem to be on garda related threads.
    I've been a silent observer of this forum for some time and have yet to put the boot in against the gardai.
    When you are finished wondering you might be so good as to let me know your answer. I have great respect for the gardai and deal with them constantly with the nature of my job.


  • #9
    wicklaman83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭wicklaman83


    Harry Bosch. wrote: »
    wicklaman83 wrote: »
    No different from any week-end attack unless you knew that the offenders knew he was a garda. Cant see the point of the post.

    If you do not want to read pointless posts about a member of AGS being assaulted then do not come to an Emergency services forum, this member is/could be a colleague and a friend of any number of people on hear, i suggest you join the Walter Mitty forum.. Wishing the member concerned all the best.
    If you dont mind but if a mod feels i need to be reprimanded i'll take it but i wont take it from a random member of boards.
    And its here not hear


  • #10
    source
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,312 ✭✭✭source


    wicklaman83 wrote: »
    Sorry I think i'm being mis-understood. He was an attack on an off duty member with his wife in his own time. It was not an attack on An Garda Siochana as such. There is no mention it was related to any cases etc he was on. If this was the case i'd say it would of been reported as being so.
    Whose to say it wasnt a neighbour,relative or some other personal reasons. If this was the case i dont see why it would need to be posted on a public forum.

    I dont aim to put the boot in but i will high light pointless comments when i see them which incidentally seem to be on garda related threads.
    I've been a silent observer of this forum for some time and have yet to put the boot in against the gardai.
    When you are finished wondering you might be so good as to let me know your answer. I have great respect for the gardai and deal with them constantly with the nature of my job.

    The reason I've started this thread, is to share the news that a former colleague of mine and current colleague of the members of this forum was attacked.

    It's quite possible that it was because of his job it's also possible it was a random attack. We don't know as yet, that's why it is being investigated. Until we know why this attack happened we can only guess, and given the profession involved it is quite probable that this attack happened because of his job.

    Either way, members of AGS like to know when incidents like this occur. I have merely facilitated this.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
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    wicklaman83 wrote: »
    No different from any week-end attack unless you knew that the offenders knew he was a garda. Cant see the point of the post.

    What's the point in a story like this?

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/senior-traffic-garda-had-no-car-tax-or-nct-cert-207526.html


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  • #12
    wicklaman83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭wicklaman83


    foreign wrote: »
    wicklaman83 wrote: »
    No different from any week-end attack unless you knew that the offenders knew he was a garda. Cant see the point of the post.

    What's the point in a story like this?

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/senior-traffic-garda-had-no-car-tax-or-nct-cert-207526.html

    I've no idea. You'll have to ask Jimmy Woulfe since he wrote it. I can see why he wrote it as its mostly bad press about the gardai that the public like reading.
    Personally i dont which is why i wouldnt post a link to the article high lighting it.
    It was you.


  • #13
    pah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭pah


    Regardless wicklaman - how you are unable to grasp "the point of this post" is beyond me.

    If an Irish man was assaulted for instance after a liverpool game while visiting the city and this was posted in a liverpool soccer forum- I would be able to comprehend why. Even though the assault may or may not have anything to do with football.


  • #14
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    On the Australia Forum we regularly post Threads that involve Irish people being assaulted in Australia even if it was not for the reason of being Irish.


  • #15
    Duiske
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    source wrote: »
    The reason I've started this thread, is to share the news that a former colleague of mine and current colleague of the members of this forum was attacked.

    Bit confused by the different reports of this incident. Did the Garda actually live in Limerick ? If he did then its possible that he was known to his attackers as a member of AGS. Anyway, wish the guy a speedy recovery and hope his attackers are caught. Anyone who strikes another person about the head hard enough the cause serious injury deserves everything they get.


  • #16
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,423 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Everything available to the public now points towards it being an attack on an off-duty member; there is no mention of a robbery or of a previous altercation between the member and the assailants. This would lead me to believe it was a pre-meditated attack.

    A speedy recovery to the member, and my best to the friends, family and colleagues. I hope they catch the scum.


  • #17
    kub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭kub


    Duiske wrote: »
    Bit confused by the different reports of this incident. Did the Garda actually live in Limerick ? If he did then its possible that he was known to his attackers as a member of AGS. Anyway, wish the guy a speedy recovery and hope his attackers are caught. Anyone who strikes another person about the head hard enough the cause serious injury deserves everything they get.

    Unfortunately this crime happened to a member of AGS here in this jurisdiction. Because i have a feeling that if it had happened in any other civilised society, the attackers would receive a sentence appropriate with the crime.
    But not here, where the legal system has a vested interest in the attackers being set free as soon as possible, so that they can commit another offence, to keep the legal proffession coining it in.

    I do pray however that this gentleman makes a full recovery and that his misfortunate wife has not been scared mentally for the rest of her days. I wish his colleagues all the best in finding whoever is responsible for this terrible assault.
    But please be prepared for the dissapointment when the sentence is given to the guilty parties.
    All we can hope for is that old saying, 'what goes around, comes around'.


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