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The Garda Strike

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  • #572
    Boggy Turf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭Boggy Turf


    They do - it's an illegal act for a start. They have already lost the respect of many people because of corruption and treatment of whistleblowers. They will suffer more reputational damage if they strike.


  • #573
    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,164 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Amanda.ie wrote: »
    If the government got rid of the pension levy that only public servants are paying it would be great, this was brought in when the country was in need and wasn't meant to stay.
    While everyone is paying USC not everyone is paying the pension levy.

    For all the posters who are saying the guards wont be missed, we never see them etc tomorrow might just be the one time you do need them, but it's like when the power goes, it's the one time you want to boil the kettle but you can't.

    Fair play to them, all the public service should go out with them to support them.

    go and ****e. The horror of a pension levy. Oh no.. the poor dears.


  • #574
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Boggy Turf wrote: »
    I don't think it matters anymore, their reputation is damaged, even further.
    Reputation won't pay your bills.


  • #575
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Donal55 wrote: »
    I look forward to ICTU putting the boot in for everyone else when this is resolved.
    Yes. Support your local union.


  • #576
    Boggy Turf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭Boggy Turf


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Reputation won't pay your bills.

    That doesn't make sense.

    Why are you defending Gardaí so blindly? What is your link?


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  • #577
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Boggy Turf wrote: »
    Different to being killed in the line of duty

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Garda%C3%AD_killed_in_the_line_of_duty

    And different again to being murdered (1 every 6 years since 1930 on average)
    Is it too low for you? Seems like it.


  • #578
    Amanda.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭Amanda.ie


    Ronan|Raven wrote: »
    go and ****e. The horror of a pension levy. Oh no.. the poor dears.

    Are you paying it? have you any idea how much it is?

    If you answer yes to both you can have an opinion on it.


  • #579
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Boggy Turf wrote: »
    That doesn't make sense.

    Why are you defending Gardaí so blindly? What is your link?

    I always support my gardai, nurses and teachers. I want the best. You have to pay to get them.


  • #580
    wpd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭wpd


    tayto lover wrote: »
    I always support my gardai, nurses and teachers. I want the best. You have to pay to get them.

    we have the worlds most expensive politicians so applying your logic you think they are the best!!!


  • #581
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,506 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Not buying the whole death thing, there was 18 people killed in Farming last year 30 the year before. It's far from the most dangerous job other there. Not trying to make little of the guys who died in the line but I just don't buy it's that dangerous a job in comparison to a lot of others that are a lot less paid.


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  • #582
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Do guards in Dublin get extra than guards in rural areas?

    I'm guessing they do with the cost of living etc?


  • #583
    wpd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭wpd


    anyone who considers the garda underpaid should review some of the complaints against them
    http://www.gardaombudsman.ie/publications/investigationreports.html


  • #584
    Amanda.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭Amanda.ie


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Not buying the whole death thing, there was 18 people killed in Farming last year 30 the year before. It's far from the most dangerous job other there. Not trying to make little of the guys who died in the line but I just don't buy it's that dangerous a job in comparison to a lot of others that are a lot less paid.

    Farming is dangerous but many accidents can be prevented.

    If a guard stops a car he/she has no idea who the driver is or if they are armed, same if they attend a house they have no idea who is inside.
    They cant just stand back and think about things, it's a different type of danger.


  • #585
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    wpd wrote: »
    we have the worlds most expensive politicians so applying your logic you think they are the best!!!

    I don't want to see the cream of the country's youth leaving for foreign shores and nursing, teaching etc in Canada, Australia etc. We had enough of that.
    I don't give a damn about politicians of any colour or hue or what they get tbh. I care about the people i will need if I go into hospital, have a burglary or a fire.


  • #586
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    wpd wrote: »
    anyone who considers the garda underpaid should review some of the complaints against them
    http://www.gardaombudsman.ie/publications/investigationreports.html


    1+1 = banana


  • #587
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,839 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    RoboKlopp wrote: »
    Do guards in Dublin get extra than guards in rural areas?

    I'm guessing they do with the cost of living etc?

    No they don't, there are no talks of introducing one at the moment either. Wouldn't surprise me if it's revisited down the line though.

    All London Metropolitan Police officers receive a London weighting payment and London allowance top-up.


  • #588
    Amanda.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭Amanda.ie


    RoboKlopp wrote: »
    Do guards in Dublin get extra than guards in rural areas?

    I'm guessing they do with the cost of living etc?

    NO.

    Guards in rural areas can be busier as they don't have as many members as Dublin for eg.
    Gardai in rural areas deal with everything, city guards might only deal with drugs, shop lifting. Not saying city guards only do this btw


  • #589
    zeroliner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭zeroliner


    All the scally wags will be out tomorrow.


  • #590
    wpd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭wpd


    a british soldier sent to afganistan was on stg£17,000, do you think the garda checking passports at dublin airport deserve any incremental pay for the dangerous nature of their work


  • #591
    wpd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭wpd


    zeroliner wrote: »
    All the scally wags will be out tomorrow.

    they are out every day


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  • #592
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    It's some pantomime


  • #593
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    zeroliner wrote: »
    All the scally wags will be out tomorrow.

    I have my gun beside my bed every night.
    Come in at your peril scallywag.


  • #594
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    The_A wrote: »
    I'll be Batman who's Robin then?

    Everyone else?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #595
    zeroliner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭zeroliner


    wpd wrote: »
    they are out every day

    they'll probably have more play time tomorrow

    God only knows what's in store.


  • #596
    zeroliner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭zeroliner


    tayto lover wrote: »
    I have my gun beside my bed every night.
    Come in at your peril scallywag.


    ah jaysus taytos. hope it isn't loaded


  • #597
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    zeroliner wrote: »
    ah jaysus taytos. hope it isn't loaded
    You bet it's loaded.


  • #598
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    Police in the UK and other countries are not paid as much as the Gardai, but they are not striking?
    As a foreigner said the other day, why do police not strike elsewhere?


  • #599
    zeroliner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭zeroliner


    tayto lover wrote: »
    You bet it's loaded.

    :D


  • #600
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    zeroliner wrote: »
    :D
    I'm the Padraig Nally of North Louth.


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  • #601
    Amanda.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭Amanda.ie


    maryishere wrote: »
    Police in the UK and other countries are not paid as much as the Gardai, but they are not striking?
    As a foreigner said the other day, why do police not strike elsewhere?

    Why do people go on about other countries? This is Ireland and our cost of living is way higher than those other countries mentioned.


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