Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

Not at all seeking to blame an individual (even less so one party to the Stardust tragedy) as this is the LL thread I was just pointing out the recklessness and ill considered judgement of the Liveline editorial team in putting an unedited non professional reporter eyewitness live on air as the situation was still unfolding in a very terse atmosphere. Even the actual professional reporter on to Joe before her preempted the caution with which such situations should be handled when he said something to the effect of I have an eyewitness here with me that you might want to talk to subject to the perspective of your editorial team. It’s one thing interviewing eyewitnesses for use in edited inserts afterwards. It’s entirely another situation using them on the fly in a live and uneditable volatile situation. But Joe and his crew love and thrive in the drama and spontaneity of the live emotions and in the moment immediacy, all good and well perhaps for the general cut and thrust sob stories of LL but potentially very dangerous in a situation like this.

AGS is a mess and it's been known for a while from the top down and the govt of the day have a big hand in that whether it's politicising them, prosecuting them, gender quoting them, under resourcing them, intersectionalising them.

I'll say it - it's no use having 5 foot nothing female guards, out of shape and speccy at that (and that's lots of male guards too), patrolling anywhere. And that's IF there's even a foot patrol to be seen in Dublin city. Watching the Sky News stationery camera on Parnell Sq, you could see loads of them waddling about.

Don't forget McEntee and Drew Harris looked like they wanted garlands thrown at them for their announcement of a new Garda station on our main boulevard in our capital city only a short while ago which turned out to be a glorified Tourist Info office.

👆️These are not serious people = sparrowlegged scumbags can do what they want and they know it, weak non-existent street policing + not enough properly trained, fit capable guards and proper salary for them + revolving door justice system + possibly the worst city council in the world...it goes on and on and has festered over the past decade or so.

Funny Friday loive from Parnell Square

That actually is a possibility.

Lets not forget Joe almost caused a run on the banks back in 2008:

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/lenihan-lash-at-joe-duffy-banks-panic/26478869.html

Joe, as an ex Social worker, will have a particular slant on this that may not coincide with the majority

On the other hand, they attacked a fibre-gade veh-ickle - so he'll probably want the antagonists burned at the stake!

could we borrow the French riot squad to sort the kip out, ya know wat I meen

So the boyos get bail while hundreds of council workers clean up the city centre.

I'd be giving the scrotes brushes, shovels and wheelbarrow and supervise them til the place is cleaner than it ever was.