Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

An Post Worker Robs Elderly. No Jail Time

  • 19-11-2015 4:43pm
    #1
    ClovenHoof
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭


    Sociopathic behaviour from the Orwellian Inner Party members in Public Sector Unions and naturally the politicians and courts make sure they suffer no jail time. If this was a worker in the private sector they would be already in jail.
    A pensioner who had been told by Hennessy she had only accumulated four instead of five weekly pension payments on a particular day made a complaint to An Post and an internal audit was carried out. Gardaí were later notified.

    Det Garda Alan McCarthy said the accused woman’s modus operandi was to tell customers they had accumulated entitlements of one less than the number to which they were entitled. She would then pocket the extra payment.

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/post-office-worker-who-stole-60k-from-welfare-recipients-avoids-jail-365537.html


Comments

  • #2
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Money was paid back in full, suspended sentence of 2 and a half men years, and her psychological issues were noted.

    What would putting her in jail accomplish?


  • #3
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,731 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    If this was a worker in the private sector they would be already in jail.

    AIB staff avoided jail after stealing 40 grand more.
    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/aib-worker-spared-jail-after-stealing-100-000-1.1970487

    Anglo Irish Bank staff avoids jail after stealing 200 grand.
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/former-anglo-employee-who-defrauded-200k-from-bank-avoids-jail-30459511.html


    BOI manager avoids jail also.
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0618/325544-former-manager-jailed-for-stealing-from-bank/


  • #4
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    How did the Public sector Union keep them out of Jail ?

    21/25



  • #5
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    Sociopathic behaviour from the Orwellian Inner Party members in Public Sector Unions and naturally the politicians and courts make sure they suffer no jail time. If this was a worker in the private sector they would be already in jail.



    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/post-office-worker-who-stole-60k-from-welfare-recipients-avoids-jail-365537.html


    War is peace
    Freedom is slavery
    Ignorance is strength


  • #6
    Steppenwolfe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 416 ✭✭Steppenwolfe


    uch wrote: »
    How did the Public sector Union keep them out of Jail ?

    Apparently it was the " Sociopathic behaviour from the Orwellian Inner Party members .... " that did the trick. Devious little feckers those sociopathic orwellians, don't you know.

    Why I'm wastng time even replying to this nonsense thread is beyond me.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Steppenwolfe wrote: »
    Apparently it was the " Sociopathic behaviour from the Orwellian Inner Party members .... " that did the trick. Devious little feckers those sociopathic orwellians, don't you know.

    Why I'm wastng time even replying to this nonsense thread is beyond me.

    THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS


  • #8
    sonny.knowles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 607 ✭✭✭sonny.knowles


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Money was paid back in full, suspended sentence of 2 and a half men years, and her psychological issues were noted.

    What would putting her in jail accomplish?

    Punishment?


  • #9
    sonny.knowles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 607 ✭✭✭sonny.knowles


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS

    At the 5 lamps? Are you sure?


  • #10
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    It comes as no surprise, the judiciary in this country are the most detached shower of blissfully ignorant **** ever. They live in their silly little pampered bubbles and base their ridiculous decisions on the utter bull**** the equally detached solicitors and barristers feed them. The system is a complete disgrace.


  • #11
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    Sociopathic behaviour from the Orwellian Inner Party members in Public Sector Unions and naturally the politicians and courts make sure they suffer no jail time. If this was a worker in the private sector they would be already in jail.



    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/post-office-worker-who-stole-60k-from-welfare-recipients-avoids-jail-365537.html

    So true. No private sector worker ever committed a crime and got a suspended sentence in the history of the state.

    What involvement has a trade union or any politician in the trial? I seem to have missed that bit in the coverage of the case I read.


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    ClovenHoof
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ClovenHoof


    osarusan wrote: »
    AIB staff avoided jail after stealing 40 grand more.
    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/aib-worker-spared-jail-after-stealing-100-000-1.1970487

    Anglo Irish Bank staff avoids jail after stealing 200 grand.
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/former-anglo-employee-who-defrauded-200k-from-bank-avoids-jail-30459511.html


    BOI manager avoids jail also.
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0618/325544-former-manager-jailed-for-stealing-from-bank/


    Has anyone else ever noticed that a private sector job to a civil servant is working in a bank?


  • #13
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    Has anyone else ever noticed that a private sector job to a civil servant is working in a bank?

    I think you'll find many private sector criminals are not bankers. Suspended sentences are a joke for sure but they are not the prerogative of the public sector.

    Still waiting for an example of trade union or political influence in the case.


  • #14
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,731 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    Has anyone else ever noticed that a private sector job to a civil servant is working in a bank?

    Do you have anything at all to say on your 'if this was private sector they'd be in prison' comment?

    I mean, in light of what I posted, would you like to revise or qualify it in any way?


  • #15
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Hands up if anyone is actually suprised at all
    360_F_102352090_ie3kLjDIvgrT1sxVDknWCUh8PxgMYzM7.jpg




  • #16
    corkgal1981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭corkgal1981


    An Post employees are not public servants.


  • #17
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    corkgal1981 wrote: »
    An Post employees are not public servants.

    They're a semi-state company and so are as good as because they're still being paid by the state.


  • #18
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    uch wrote: »
    How did the Public sector Union keep them out of Jail ?

    Nada. The thread is just an excuse to bash the union

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #19
    corkgal1981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭corkgal1981


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    They're a semi-state company and so are as good as because they're still being paid by the state.

    Not since 1984.


  • #20
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Sociopathic behaviour from the Orwellian Inner Party members in Public Sector Unions
    Agenda much?


  • #21
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    Sociopathic behaviour from the Orwellian Inner Party members in Public Sector Unions and naturally the politicians and courts make sure they suffer no jail time. If this was a worker in the private sector they would be already in jail

    Are you posting in the wrong forum

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Advertisement
Advertisement