Woman fined 100€ for breaking lockdown 2km limit

Double O Seven · 01-10-2020 1:52pm #1

I am a bit suspicious of this story, why didn't she just tell the gardai that she was going shopping for essential goods not available locally. It seems to me that the gardai used lockdown as an opportunity to prosecute people who are on their radar for other reasons https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/woman-32-fined-for-breaching-covid-19-lockdown-in-bid-to-stroll-on-salthill-prom-with-boyfriend-39537427.html

Bob Harris · 01-10-2020 1:54pm

That crinkling, rustling sound you hear when you move....that's your tinfoil hat OP.

Allinall · 01-10-2020 1:54pm

Double O Seven wrote: »

I am a bit suspicious of this story, why didn't she just tell the gardai that she was going shopping for essential goods not available locally. It seems to me that the gardai used lockdown as an opportunity to prosecute people who are on their radar for other reasons https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/woman-32-fined-for-breaching-covid-19-lockdown-in-bid-to-stroll-on-salthill-prom-with-boyfriend-39537427.html

Not all people lie to the guards.

medi_bai · 01-10-2020 1:55pm

Double O Seven wrote: »

I am a bit suspicious of this story, why didn't she just tell the gardai that she was going shopping for essential goods not available locally. It seems to me that the gardai used lockdown as an opportunity to prosecute people who are on their radar for other reasons https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/woman-32-fined-for-breaching-covid-19-lockdown-in-bid-to-stroll-on-salthill-prom-with-boyfriend-39537427.html

She admitted to breaking the rules:

Mr Hassett told Ennis District Court that his client intended to walk the prom in Salthill in Galway with her then boyfriend before returning home to Limerick.

Person prosecuted in law break shocker

01-10-2020 1:55pm

Maybe every thread on covid should start in conspiracy theories forum until checked by a mod

01-10-2020 2:01pm

Op, did you read the part where her ex partner can't attend court as he's suspected covid positive?

Behavioral pattern possible

freshpopcorn · 01-10-2020 2:09pm

Double O Seven wrote: »

I am a bit suspicious of this story, why didn't she just tell the gardai that she was going shopping for essential goods not available locally. It seems to me that the gardai used lockdown as an opportunity to prosecute people who are on their radar for other reasons ]

I suppose she wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer!

Double O Seven · 01-10-2020 2:21pm

Allinall wrote: »

Not all people lie to the guards.

Not all people were traveling 50+ miles to go for a walk by the seaside during lockdown.

end of the road · 01-10-2020 5:08pm

Double O Seven wrote: »

Not all people were traveling 50+ miles to go for a walk by the seaside during lockdown.

well it seems this numty did and she got caught.
nothing to see here.
just more fo-outrage over nothing.

Spanish Eyes · 01-10-2020 5:10pm

Just goes to show how garbled the messages from Gov are. Never knew about the potential fine. Must take care now!

mrcheez · 01-10-2020 5:21pm

Jesus Christ, going to court over €100 ?!?

GarIT · 01-10-2020 5:27pm

mrcheez wrote: »

Jesus Christ, going to court over €100 ?!?

The value of €100 to you might be the value of €1000 to someone else. There were times in my life where I lived on €250 a month.

mrcheez · 01-10-2020 7:29pm

GarIT wrote: »

The value of €100 to you might be the value of €1000 to someone else. There were times in my life where I lived on €250 a month.

Sure but I'm just surprised a court is held over such amounts, and a judge attends.

Surely the Judge earns that just for sitting down and stretching their legs.

Was this small claims court or something bigger?

01-10-2020 7:56pm

mrcheez wrote: »

Sure but I'm just surprised a court is held over such amounts, and a judge attends.

Surely the Judge earns that just for sitting down and stretching their legs.

Was this small claims court or something bigger?

Its a criminal court and it was the judge that decided the amount

pinkyeye · 01-10-2020 8:29pm

mrcheez wrote: »

Jesus Christ, going to court over €100 ?!?

Does seem a ridiculous waste of court time. Why not just fine her on the spot?

...Ghost... · 01-10-2020 8:40pm

pinkyeye wrote: »

Does seem a ridiculous waste of court time. Why not just fine her on the spot?

To make others think twice. It's only a hundred euro, but who wants to be going to court over it?

01-10-2020 8:57pm

pinkyeye wrote: »

Does seem a ridiculous waste of court time. Why not just fine her on the spot?

Because there's no allowance in law for that?

pinkyeye · 01-10-2020 9:04pm

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Because there's no allowance in law for that?

Is there not? I didn't realise that, sorry. If you're caught speeding etc. fine on the spot, I just presumed the same applied to these laws.

TheBlackPill · 01-10-2020 9:14pm

Named and shamed. Fine not onerous as nobody got sick or hurt. But this will follow her for life. Work visas, holidays to us. Any job that requires Garda vetting. Justice done unless she is a career layabout scrounger
Edit on 2nd thoughts re-reading the article. Hmmm

ForestFire · 01-10-2020 9:17pm

Could she not claim a defense of....

Seamus Woulfe "did not break any law or knowingly breach any guidelines"

hynesie08 · 01-10-2020 9:17pm

TheBlackPill wrote: »

Named and shamed. Fine not onerous as nobody got sick or hurt. But this will follow her for life. Work visas, holidays to us. Any job that requires Garda vetting. Justice done unless she is a career layabout scrounger
Edit on 2nd thoughts re-reading the article. Hmmm

You're wrong and it's slightly weird how much pleasure your taking in this.....

TheBlackPill · 01-10-2020 9:18pm

When the pillars of society are weak, and don't face consequences, how can be expect people to be better?

Sardonicat · 01-10-2020 9:20pm

Double O Seven wrote: »

Not all people were traveling 50+ miles to go for a walk by the seaside during lockdown.

Maybe they were planning on taking another form of exercise together.

bobbyy gee · 01-10-2020 9:21pm

why was a bus running if you can't travel

TheBlackPill · 01-10-2020 9:23pm

bobbyy gee wrote: »

why was a bus running if you can't travel

Essential journeys on public transport

...Ghost... · 01-10-2020 9:23pm

bobbyy gee wrote: »

why was a bus running if you can't travel

Essential travel for work/education

robbiezero · 01-10-2020 9:25pm

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Just goes to show how garbled the messages from Gov are. Never knew about the potential fine. Must take care now!

Nor me and I broke that 2km and 5km and whatever else km tons of times.

...Ghost... · 01-10-2020 9:31pm

robbiezero wrote: »

Nor me and I broke that 2km and 5km and whatever else km tons of times.

A tonne is a unit measurement for mass. No wonder you broke the rules unknowingly

kravmaga · 01-10-2020 9:46pm

TheBlackPill wrote: »

Named and shamed. Fine not onerous as nobody got sick or hurt. But this will follow her for life. Work visas, holidays to us. Any job that requires Garda vetting. Justice done unless she is a career layabout scrounger
Edit on 2nd thoughts re-reading the article. Hmmm

There is more to this, id say she was taking the piss out of the Garda, I was stopped outside of the 2km limit back in the summer at a Garda checkpoint.

If you take a look at her, she looks like a skanger.

Cant see her even having the money for a holiday in the USA. Never mind even getting ESTA or a Visa.

I was not brought to court.

I just got words of guidance and a producer for not having my licence on my person.

kravmaga · 01-10-2020 9:53pm

Double O Seven wrote: »

I am a bit suspicious of this story, why didn't she just tell the gardai that she was going shopping for essential goods not available locally. It seems to me that the gardai used lockdown as an opportunity to prosecute people who are on their radar for other reasons https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/woman-32-fined-for-breaching-covid-19-lockdown-in-bid-to-stroll-on-salthill-prom-with-boyfriend-39537427.html

On Garda radar for what other reasons? Do tell? Care to expand?

end of the road · 01-10-2020 10:47pm

kravmaga wrote: »

On Garda radar for what other reasons? Do tell? Care to expand?

the poster has closed their account so we will never know.

01-10-2020 10:57pm

What's with all the new opened accounts posting anti Garda crap then running?

Mr. Karate · 01-10-2020 11:40pm

Is the 2km limit still in effect or did this happen months and only just recently ended up in court? I haven't heard anything the 2km limit in months.

freshpopcorn · 02-10-2020 1:32am

Mr. Karate wrote: »

Is the 2km limit still in effect or did this happen months and only just recently ended up in court? I haven't heard anything the 2km limit in months.

It happened months ago!

02-10-2020 9:56am

She was essentially in court for lying to a Garda- had she said she just wanted a break the guard would have advised her to turn around and go back home- no more about it.

Mr Hassett told the court that Ms O’Keeffe panicked when she told gardaí that she was on her way to see a sick relative in Galway.

Mr Hassett stated that Ms O’Keeffe, of Ballynanty Road, Limerick, regrets saying that and regrets boarding the bus.

wellwhynot · 02-10-2020 10:12am

If what she says is true and she is a full time career for her mother in a wheelchair she is paid the princely sum of €1.50 hour for her caring duties by the state. She did not leave the house since Christmas. I would imagine she needed to get away and see her boyfriend for her own mental health. Why is Covid the only thing that matters In the country?

How much did golf gate attendees get fined as a proportion of their wages? What about the judge that attended? What a sham.

02-10-2020 11:05am

wellwhynot wrote: »

If what she says is true and she is a full time career for her mother in a wheelchair she is paid the princely sum of €1.50 hour for her caring duties by the state. She did not leave the house since Christmas. I would imagine she needed to get away and see her boyfriend for her own mental health. Why is Covid the only thing that matters In the country?

How much did golf gate attendees get fined as a proportion of their wages? What about the judge that attended? What a sham.

What about

What about

What about

They was a law, she broke it and got fined 100 euro. The other people didn't break a law but one still lost his job which was worth 100% of his income

Sardonicat · 02-10-2020 11:20am

wellwhynot wrote: »

If what she says is true and she is a full time career for her mother in a wheelchair she is paid the princely sum of €1.50 hour for her caring duties by the state. She did not leave the house since Christmas. I would imagine she needed to get away and see her boyfriend for her own mental health. Why is Covid the only thing that matters In the country?

How much did golf gate attendees get fined as a proportion of their wages? What about the judge that attended? What a sham.

I'm a full time carer too. During lock down I didn't see my partner at all (who lives in the same town) to protect the person I'm caring for. She left her mother alone (if she didn't and someone else came into the house while she was away that was also against lock down rules) she got onto public transport (mixing with others and further putting her mother at risk) with the intention of mixing with someone outside her home for a 'walk' (my ass). I'm glad you're concerned for the lack of breaks we carers are getting. Day services were supposed to open last month but won't now because the rate of community transmission makes it unsafe to do so. Because people won't follow the guidelines. Thanks to idiots like this woman I've been on call 24hrs a day for 6 months without a single break and no idea when I'll get one.

Chivito550 · 02-10-2020 1:52pm

How on earth is this newsworthy? We have really well and truly lost the run of ourselves.

02-10-2020 1:58pm

Chivito550 wrote: »

How on earth is this newsworthy? We have really well and truly lost the run of ourselves.

It would be great to say because there was **** all else going on but in reality, its lazy journalism. the majority of what happens in the criminal courts never makes the papers

JP Liz V1 · 02-10-2020 2:25pm

She was a carer to a vulnerable at risk person but needed a beach walk in Galway, no beach walks near her own place, fine her more and now fine all the house party organisers and part takers

El Weirdo · 02-10-2020 3:47pm

Deleted User wrote: »

She was essentially in court for lying to a Garda- had she said she just wanted a break the guard would have advised her to turn around and go back home- no more about it.

Unfortunately, the driver refused because he had to get his bus to its destination.

Mr. Karate · 02-10-2020 3:53pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

It happened months ago!

Thanks.

nthclare · 02-10-2020 4:04pm

Jayzus, I remember the 2k limit and there was the river Fergus 2k away lough inchiquinn 2.5 k but as the country man hops over fences it was 1.765432 k away

Then there was the green roads, and I'd stop at the 2k mark, like a guide biy I'd stop and turn around, I'd a few stones in a pile at the side of the road, and when it went to 5k I replaced the stones back to their sacred spot.

Ament I a great lad, validate me please, validate my integrity...

I'm an ACHIEVER, I'M AN ACHIEVER..

speckle · 03-10-2020 2:04am

nthclare wrote: »

Jayzus, I remember the 2k limit and there was the river Fergus 2k away lough inchiquinn 2.5 k but as the country man hops over fences it was 1.765432 k away......

I'm an ACHIEVER, I'M AN ACHIEVER..

That's given me the best giggle this week. Deserves one of those gold stars thingys, or even a clear nights sky full of the real ones

Thanks

nthclare · 03-10-2020 2:18am

speckle wrote: »

That's given me the best giggle this week. Deserves one of those gold stars thingys, or even a clear nights sky full of the real ones Thanks

With spwinkels of likkle ghold, sthaawes and a pat on the back.

And more validation, I want to be like Fwank in akkounts and be the best biy, and like Niamh in procurement... They vewwy good wokewaws, de boss like dem...

Woman fined 100€ for breaking lockdown 2km limit

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