Danny healy rae and the guard

I guess I'm reading that video completely different than some, I see a garda with bottles that he must of confiscating for whatever reason and DHR walking behind him raising his arm up and down to the bystanders who react by roaring and cheering the garda turns around to go back down the street and it looks like he wanted DHR to get off street and onto the footpath and it's more of an attempt to redirect him than a shove, that's my reading on it, why did DHR feel the need to start doing what he done was it because it was a younger member of the force to try and belittle them,would he have done the same if for example it was a more mature garda, having said that everyone is entitled to interpret the video what ever way they want but my interpretation of it.

If that's your reading of it,you need to go to specsavers,but maybe you just don't like HR.

If anyone else did what the Garda did on a street you'd be well in your right to turn around and introduce his nose to Jim Johnson.

Like many I don't like DHR as a politician but that's a disgraceful reaction from the Garda. I'm sure he'll get a talking to regardless of an official complaint.

yes an rightly so.

we pay these guards to know and uphold the law not go around assaulting members of the public and acting like scumbags while on duty.

it shouldnt matter what DHRs opinion or choices are around this. this scumbag should be reprimanded and suspended for this.

imagine what other laws he breaks . does he do his job correctly in other areas and violate rights or gather evidence corectly ect. doing this so openly should lead to an investigation into his other actions and into who trained him and who ever is his superiors.

Don't like either Healy-Rae but we've all met and wanted to punch power-tripping Gardai like this. In an era with camera phones and bodycams, they won't get away with antagonising the public like this anymore.

No real time of the HRs and definitely would be in support of a more physical approach to policing but to go out of your way to push a 71 year old man In front of cameras and large crowd is out of other .. if he is doing that in full public view what is he at other times .
Lucky on the day it was a party atmosphere and not a hostile environment . If he did that to my father i would be raging . With that attitude I don’t think public policing is his ideal profession.

This should be a very simple case of Garda assault and then escalating behaviour when called out.

Secondly the public shpuld have full access to the Garda bodycam, sadly Garda themselves get to decide when to switch it on - and when to switch it off.

As with all public sector workers there is no accountability to the actual public. And they all get paid either way, and the Gardai get paid more than almost all of them!

I'm all for a bit of rough and tumble between lads actually. Nothing wrong with a bit of messing or shoving here and there on a day like that when emotions are high but the context needs to be right. A Garda and a politician in a crowd doesn't fit that bill. I can only imagine that the Garda was pissed off about something else that happened in the moments leading up to this.

Healy Rae was a Garda's dream there - uniting the crowd, being a clown, making people smile. So I don't think it had anything to do with Healy Rae. I'd say something happened just before it.

He should have stayed tf away from that young girl. Bang out of order.