Rodney Bathgate wrote: » Forwarded up the Gardai. Hopefully they come down hard on these miscreants.
colm_mcm wrote: » Tough time for the Gardai, considering the whole thing was kicked off by a police officer. Any show of force will be bad PR.
Blaze420 wrote: » There’s no such thing as bad PR when gatherings like this are banned and illegal - I hope the shades batter the absolute **** out of the *****
Phoebas wrote: » Does not compute.
Rodney Bathgate wrote: » Wasn’t aware that a Garda was involved. Do you have a link to that story? A show of force is exactly what is needed. Here and in the US. Last thing we need is ‘antifa’ fascist scum looting and rioting in Ireland like we are seeing across the US.
Blaze420 wrote: » Let me spell it out for you since you have difficulty - mass gatherings are ILLEGAL. If you participate in a mass gathering then i sincerely hope you get the absolute **** kicked out of you by the gardai or otherwise. It’s completely your OWN fault
colm_mcm wrote: » Read my post again.
Rodney Bathgate wrote: » No need. The Gardai weren’t involved, so claiming it is a ‘tough time’ for them is nonsense.
colm_mcm wrote: » You’ll concede that the Gardai are a police force though?
Rodney Bathgate wrote: » Not sure of the relevance of that but we have a police force, the same way every country on the planet has at least one police force. The similarity ends there. Ours is a national police force. Ours is for the most part unarmed. Civilian injuries or deaths due to police intervention here are minimal. For white or black people. So no, not ‘tough times’ for the Gardai.
colm_mcm wrote: » You don’t think that the type of people who will disobey the CV19 restrictions to protest in Cork as a knee jerk reaction to something that happened 6000km away won’t be filming every interaction between Gardai and protesters? You don’t think any force used, legitimately or otherwise, will be compared (legitimately or otherwise) to what happened in Minneapolis? If I was a Garda, the last place I’d want to be is there.
Rodney Bathgate wrote: » Let’s hope they do their duty and come down hard. See if we can gets Lugs Brannigan out of retirement for the day.
colm_mcm wrote: » Given they did SFA in Dublin, I wouldn’t hold out much hope.
Edgware wrote: » Obviously there's no sporting fixtures on so people have to find something else to do Maybe they could organise a barbecue and invite some local travellers. Of course it's easier to identify with an issue 3000 miles away. Not too many African Americans on the Rochestown rd