Garda escorts

tritium

Just spent an even longer stretch than usual getting home this evening! Traffic already slow with diversions for the osce conference. Then to confound it all, traffic coming onto the quays is forced (rather aggressively) to pull over by a Garda escort to make way for a shower of overpaid dicks, whose only collective claim to fame is screwing up the world economy!

So folks, should a Garda escort really be provided in anything other than emergencies ( by which I mean pregnant woman about to give birth rather than Hillary Clinton took 10 minutes too long in the shower)?

endacl

You survived OK though? Got to the interweb just in time to tell us?

;-)

07734

Somewhat disappointed after reading thread title

joydivision

Get the bus if you dont like the traffic .
I like looking at police escorts . Its like an action film .

UCDVet

Is that why the city was a friggin parking lot yesterday? (I skipped work today, so I didn't notice).

If so - my god, it sucks. When is this thing over?

LostCorkGuy

I thought this was going to be some thread about a new pimping deal set up to help our poverty stricken state

UCDVet

joydivision wrote: »

Get the bus if you dont like the traffic .
I like looking at police escorts . Its like an action film .

That's why I always take my private jet to the office....

weiland79

Might have had something to do with pitchfork weilding mob chasing after them.

NegativeCreep

Pregnant women giving birth?? They managed without a Garda escort this long I'm sure they'll be grand.
I think the politicians were right to have a Garda escort today considering it's budget day. There's a lot of idiots out there who would have done something to an unattended politician today.

Ted_YNWA

do they not favour Mondeos more these days ?

endacl

joydivision wrote: »

Get the bus if you dont like the traffic .
I like looking at police escorts . Its like an action film .

Oi! You're supposed to be practising your guitar, JD! Not messing about on boards!

:-)

franktheplank

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I think the politicians were right to have a Garda escort today considering it's budget day. There's a lot of idiots out there who would have done something to an unattended politician today.

I resent being called an idiot.

Pipmae

Two sides of Merrion Square were closed to traffic. The side with Govt buildings and the one with the FAI headquarters (sorry don't know my north, souths, etc ). The traffic was manic and that was around 4.50pm. I can only imagine what it was like later. I heard Molesworth Street was closed as well but I didn't see it myself.

NegativeCreep

franktheplank wrote: »

I resent being called an idiot.

What would punching a politician solve? It'd only get you put in jail

endacl

Do the guards even still drive escorts? I thought it was all mondeos these days? With the odd avensis thrown in just to mix it up a bit.

Hazys

07734 wrote: »

Somewhat disappointed after reading thread title

I thought it had something to do with this: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/men-caught-in-prostitution-sting-by-undercover-gardai-enter-guilty-pleas-2956079.html

franktheplank

NegativeCreep wrote: »

What would punching a politician solve? It'd only get you put in jail

Punching? What kind of a keyboard warrior do you take me for?

endacl

NegativeCreep wrote: »

What would punching a politician solve? It'd only get you put in jail

Jail terms end. Punching a politician? Well, that's forever....

tritium

LostCorkGuy wrote: »

I thought this was going to be some thread about a new pimping deal set up to help our poverty stricken state

Not a bad idea, offer 'extras' if berlusconi, Strauss-Kahn or the Clinton family are in town.....

tritium

joydivision wrote: »

Get the bus if you dont like the traffic .
I like looking at police escorts . Its like an action film .

Sorry, but rush hour bus doesn't work for creche pick ups

Must be nice being you...,

WoollyRedHat

Who's in town? Are the boys back in town?

tritium

I think the politicians were right to have a Garda escort today considering it's budget day. There's a lot of idiots out there who would have done something to an unattended politician today.

isn't that a reason not to give them an escort.....

Besides, no reason they can't just drive their own cars in rush hour like the rest of us

narwhalthe

Yeah I was also expecting something about ban gardai offering something other than a hefty fine.

repsol

In terms of delays,police escorts cause very little because they pass quickly. Safety is another story.Anyone driving an emergency vehicle does so on their own licence. You are not permitted to break the lights.If you injure someone or god forbid kill someone,driving on blues and end up in court,you will be asked what the nature of the call you were on was.If you can answer that it was an armed robbery or similar life or death situation,any judge will cut you some slack.If you are making sure some VIP or GAA team or whatever gets from A to B quickly,you are fecked. The "I was told to do it " defense will not work.

endacl

narwhalthe wrote: »

Yeah I was also expecting something about ban gardai offering something other than a hefty fine.

Fine hefty ban gardai? Now we're getting somewhere...

MagicSean

repsol wrote: »

In terms of delays,police escorts cause very little because they pass quickly. Safety is another story.Anyone driving an emergency vehicle does so on their own licence. You are not permitted to break the lights.If you injure someone or god forbid kill someone,driving on blues and end up in court,you will be asked what the nature of the call you were on was.If you can answer that it was an armed robbery or similar life or death situation,any judge will cut you some slack.If you are making sure some VIP or GAA team or whatever gets from A to B quickly,you are fecked. The "I was told to do it " defense will not work.

None of that is correct.

loobylou

UCDVet wrote: »

Is that why the city was a friggin parking lot yesterday? (I skipped work today, so I didn't notice).

If so - my god, it sucks. When is this thing over?

You aint seen nothing yet.
Just wait until the new year and we hold the EU presidency, there'll be convoys like that every day.

paddy147

Hazys wrote: »

I thought it had something to do with this: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/men-caught-in-prostitution-sting-by-undercover-gardai-enter-guilty-pleas-2956079.html

Could you imagine he gardai actualy getting STUCK IN though????:pac::pac:



Wasnt there a garda recently convicted of running a brothel from an apartment he had bought/rented out???

Duiske

NegativeCreep wrote: »

What would punching a politician solve? It'd only get you put in jail

Free food and accommodation at the taxpayers expense ? Sure it would just be like being on... ah, nevermind.

paddy147

Duiske wrote: »

Free food and accommodation at the taxpayers expense ? Sure it would just be like being on... ah, nevermind.

Ah now theres a great plan for the students of Ireland to get a FREE Education and a degree.;):pac::D

Then they could really fcuk Ruairi Quinn and his education fees over,BIG STYLE

dgt

07734 wrote: »

Somewhat disappointed after reading thread title

As am I, thought this instead

repsol

MagicSean wrote: »

None of that is correct.

Why don't you enlighten us then genius?

Mickey H

dgt wrote: »

As am I, thought this instead

Oh they were a massive yoke. A right hoor to go.

Pottler

I'm just glad it is all good for pregnant women giving birth. Any un-pregnant ones dropping a sprog in a hurry could get a bit weird.

Any red-blooded male who doesn't have a weeeny, teeny little pang of "jammy gits" as the cops fly past lights blazing, stopping traffic at will, either has a really cool job, or no balls.

Zab

Like these two?

DonLimon

UCDVet wrote: »

Is that why the city was a friggin parking lot yesterday?

What the fcuk is a parking lot?

cup of tea

joydivision wrote: »

Get the bus if you dont like the traffic .
I like looking at police escorts . Its like an action film .

Last time i took the bus, the bus didn't have magic powers to make traffic disappear. Damn ye Dublin folk with your new technology.

patwicklow

A lot of garda now stuck in the cars as all the stations closing up so they are kinda homless and are just driving about

corktina

Garda Escorts? do they do massages too?

Lyaiera

Myself and a few friends were walking across town one day, to the pub from a small parade that had closed off a couple of not-important roads. We came to a set of traffic lights and were waiting for the little green man, to cross. A guard on a motorbike pulled up next to us and asked, "Are ye waiting to cross?" We of course said yes, then he pulled out into the middle of the road with his lights on, stopped traffic, left everyone waiting cross, and took off. I was dying to get to the pub at that point so I could tell everyone we had a Garda escort to get us there.

Sunnyisland

A major security operation is being mounted in Dublin as a two-day gathering of foreign ministers from 50 countries gets under way.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/1206/osce-foreign-ministers-dublin.html

This is what its all about and don't forget in 2013 we host the EU presidency, lots of escorts doing the rounds then :-)