Say something nice about An Garda Siochana

BalboBiggins · 29-12-2020 11:36PM

It’s a job 95% of people wouldn’t do for 100 grand a year.

Dunfyy · 29-12-2020 11:36PM

It gives jobs to country folks and let's them live in the big smoke

29-12-2020 11:43PM

An organization that turns their back to the country twice in 20 years in order to line their own pockets despite being far from badly paid.

A disgrace of an organisation where discipline is just lip service.

Daragh1980 · 29-12-2020 11:46PM

The Left and ACAB people will hate this thread. Great to p*ss off those malcontent misfits

dxhound2005 · 29-12-2020 11:48PM

salonfire wrote: »

An organization that turns their back to the country twice in 20 years in order to line their own pockets despite being far from badly paid.

A disgrace of an organisation where discipline is just lip service.

Say something nice about An Garda Siochana.

Kylta · 29-12-2020 11:48PM

Daragh1980 wrote: »

The Left and ACAB people will hate this thread. Great to p*ss off those malcontent misfits

I personally think its a great little thread this one, I'm having loads of fun, good stuff this

TuringBot47 · 29-12-2020 11:54PM

salonfire wrote: »

An organization that turns their back to the country twice in 20 years in order to line their own pockets despite being far from badly paid.

What's your definition of being well paid when guards are regularly attacked, have to put their lives on the line etc?

I've a cosy well paid office job earning multiple times their wages, there's a bit of guilt there for that.

There's other conditions like not living where they are stationed etc

ExMachina1000 · 29-12-2020 11:55PM

They are good at texting and driving

bassy · 30-12-2020 12:15AM

come on you boys in blue come on you boys in blue the best we,ve ever seen the boys in blue

Kylta · 30-12-2020 12:18AM

Edgware wrote: »

Cheap lager taking effect?

I personally don't drink. I suggest you try for better quality in your drink, sorry to here your a dip of a dipso, try seek out AA, and I might treat you with respect in the future. I suppose its not easy being a down and out, are you homeless too?

Your Face · 30-12-2020 12:19AM

They're not all from Mayo so that's nice.

SineadSpears · 30-12-2020 12:20AM

BalboBiggins wrote: »

It’s a job 95% of people wouldn’t do for 100 grand a year.

I'd do it for 100k a year. I'd make a terrible guard though. If I could get to 3or4 years before getting booted out, sure I'd give it a bash

bassy · 30-12-2020 12:22AM

there not all from dublin so thats even nicer......................................................

boombang · 30-12-2020 12:32AM

Two men were attacking another with a hammer in the street outside my flat once. I called the guards and the place was black with them in about two minutes. Not an easy scene to confront and control, but they did it in seconds.

K.P. Egan · 30-12-2020 12:37AM

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Ave Sodalis · 30-12-2020 12:37AM

Years ago, I was travelling from Dublin back home in a car I borrowed from my cousin. There was an oil spill at a set of lights, the brakes did almost nothing, and I slid into the towhook of the transit in front of me. There was a fair bit of damage to the car because of the hook, but the van was fine. The guy in the van was a Grade A pr*ck about it, roaring abuse at me, insisting on getting the gardai out, accusing me of speeding (even though I slowed down a few hundred metres before that to let him out of the petrol station) etc. He continued his torrent as I rang my boss to tell her I'd be late, and was still at it when the Gardai arrived.

At that point, I had gone into shock, from having the brakes not working when they should have, damaging a car that wasn't mine, and from yer man. I was shaking like crazy and could barely get a word out. A lovely garda took me away from the raving van driver, whilst her colleague was essentially telling him to cop on a bit as I heard him say "can you not see she has gone into shock?". They took the details of myself and the van driver and sent the van driver on his merry way. They both then made sure I got something sugary to drink and stayed with me until I stopped shaking and was in a fit state to continue driving.

Strumms · 30-12-2020 12:38AM

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

They are fighting both criminals and the judiciary

Watching offenders strolling out of court after multiple suspended convictions.

That from the outside looking in must be the hardest part of doing that job...

You see some wanker off his head on drugs, attack a person walking down the street randomly, leave them in a bloody heap, minus teeth and consciousness, try do the same to you and your colleague... sentenced to 2 years suspended, they , their friends and family, pissing themselves leaving the court....

Ten of Swords · 30-12-2020 12:39AM

Thread is getting derailed with petty arguments and trolling, it stops now. Back on topic or don't bother posting

Mad_maxx · 30-12-2020 12:43AM

TuringBot47 wrote: »

Your comment is disgusting.

Decent ordinary people have nothing to worry about.
Only scumbags don't like the guards.
Or people raised in scumbag estates who have it drilled into them not to talk to the guards / socially conditioned to fear being labelled a rat.

My sister was saved by the guards/unmarked special branch from being raped by two immigrants, one legal the other illegal. Date rape drugs found in their flat later.

Only the criminal and morally bankrupt tend to have a poor view of the guards.

those are pretty broad statements , there are pretty alarming incidence of corrupt practice within AGS this past two decades , two commissioners in succession were forced to resign due to involvement in the Garda Maurice Mc Cabe scandal

if you think everyone who has ever had issues with AGS are scumbags , you are a naive individual indeed

Lynn Door · 30-12-2020 12:46AM

Joking aside I am in my final year of law and I can honestly say I have never dealt with a more genuine and honest, funny and helpful profession in my life. Just stay on the right side of them

Samsgirl · 30-12-2020 12:53AM

I work with Guards every day of the week and 99.9 percent of them are sound. Nobody would believe what they put up with in their line of duty. Very few would do their job.

Would love to see some of the brave keyboard warriors come into a Garda Station and see they kind of people they have to deal with.

Tig98 · 30-12-2020 01:01AM

Most people calling them pigs etc are just pure cretins imo. This is by and large an extremely safe country and peace of mind at night time is incredibly important.

I used work in a ****ty minimum wage job in a shop and often dealt with people stealing, guards were always really helpful and took the matter out of my hands so I didn't have to put myself in any harms way or even worry about it. One in particular would speak me up to my boss for handling situations and it got me a raise. A guard pulled over my elderly aunt who had lost her sister that week and he spent a long time talking to her and settling her nerves.

I feel safe in cities, I feel safe at home. There are always "bad" spots one should avoid but I have rarely felt properly scared for my wellbeing. I've a friend in Dubai where police are a load of cowboys and he lives in constant fear of committing a minor misdemeanour or drawing attention to himself

99nsr125 · 30-12-2020 01:12AM

pgj2015 wrote: »

You were lucky. slow down, that is way too fast in a 100 km zone.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, that's just about moving

purifol0 · 30-12-2020 01:23AM

Samsgirl wrote: »

I work with Guards every day of the week and 99.9 percent of them are sound. Nobody would believe what they put up with in their line of duty. Very few would do their job.

Would love to see some of the brave keyboard warriors come into a Garda Station and see they kind of people they have to deal with.

"Very few would do their job" - You should tell that to the thousands of applicants that apply every time there is a recruitment drive. It's almost like people really want a job that has very high pay for low skilled work with a huge pension upon extremely early retirement.

Plumbthedepths · 30-12-2020 01:24AM

I posted earlier in the thread that my son is a Guard. I was in the fire service, dealt with house fires, car crashes , pulled bodies out of rivers, removed suicide victims from trees and one from a railway bridge. Easy for me as I was dealijg with the dead. My son has had the heartache (no training can overcome this only experience and the what appears to be indifference but never really the case )of going to someone’s door and telling them a loved one won’t be coming home. Dealing with the living is tough, nothing to fear from the dead only give your respect. Anyway I’m bias it’s a crap job someone has to do it hence the pay, there are a few rotten eggs but thankfully the decent ones negates that small cohort.

fluke · 30-12-2020 02:17AM

I probably give out about GAA heads more than I do about the guards. There.

Tomaldo · 30-12-2020 02:34AM

martingriff wrote: »

In fairness we only hear of the bad lot mostly but even then I would not use gestapo. Some people think that the gardai have to earn there respect but the Gardai just have to give it

Have you never heard of 'The Heavy Gang'

Samsgirl · 30-12-2020 02:50AM

purifol0 wrote: »

"Very few would do their job" - You should tell that to the thousands of applicants that apply every time there is a recruitment drive. It's almost like people really want a job that has very high pay for low skilled work with a huge pension upon extremely early retirement.

Yeah...... sure that's exactly it.

Huge difference in applying for a job you have no practical experience of and actually doing the job.

Mules · 30-12-2020 03:07AM

I find them mostly helpful. It's like any other job. Some are good and some are less so. I think the younger ones are better cus the older generation often came across as arrogant. Of course the older generation were more likely to turn a blind eye to small stuff and that could be handy

You'd feel sorry for them dealing with drunks on a Saturday night, not to mind murderers. They'd have very difficult situations too like people committing suicide and telling families about deaths. It's not a job I'd be able to do. And in fairness, there would be anarchy without them.

30-12-2020 03:37AM

Samsgirl wrote: »

Yeah...... sure that's exactly it.

Huge difference in applying for a job you have no practical experience of and actually doing the job.

Everyone applies for a job they have no experience in at least once in their life.

Since 2015, they have gotten increases in rent allowance, annual leave allowance, parading allowance, shift allowances, increasing pension contributions threshold, a pay increase last January, a pay increase in October, pay increases coming next year.

And today moaning about some allowance at the GRA conference.

Who are the real thieves.

Say something nice about An Garda Siochana

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