Teens torturing animals on Galway-Dublin train

Ten of Swords · 09-10-2025 11:35PM #1

This seems to have gone under the radar. No big news outlets reporting it, only 2 local papers and Gript.

Last Sunday a group of teenagers were on the Galway to Dublin train causing chaos but they had small animals with them (cats, ducks, chickens etc) and proceeded to torture them on the train by beating them, burning them with lighters and pulling out their feathers.

The also sprayed burning aerosol at a passanger too.

No security or gardai intervened.

https://www.westmeathindependent.ie/2025/10/08/irish-rail-passengers-left-terrorised-and-terrified-on-athlone-to-dublin-train/

https://www.shannonside.ie/news/reports-of-animal-mistreatment-on-local-train-service-274906

https://gript.ie/reports-of-mistreatment-to-animals-on-irish-rail-train/

road_high · 09-10-2025 11:53PM

I think the Ballinasloe horse fair was on? A wild guess I’d say it was involved

PixelCrafter · 10-10-2025 12:23AM

You'd really wonder about this country sometimes. The tolerance by authorities here of the abuse of animals is a national embarrassment, not to mention the lawlessness.

If that happened in any other country there'd be a major police response waiting for them. Should be an investigation into why there was no response too.

geographica · 10-10-2025 12:27AM

disgusting behaviour (and unacceptable)

Mrs OBumble · 10-10-2025 12:27AM

Lots of reports, but not a video in circulation?

geographica · 10-10-2025 12:28AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123893192#Comment_123893192

why does there have to be a video for everything nowadays?

Strumms · 10-10-2025 12:30AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123893192#Comment_123893192

cause you are really gonna want to take out your phone and start filming scrotes who are already exhibiting violent behavior, 👀

Tork · 10-10-2025 12:36AM

A moving train is an awfully small place to be when it's populated with people who are behaving like these teenagers. *allegedly*. At a guess, most of the passengers were doing everything they could to avoid attracting their attention, not waving a phone around. Not that it'd make any difference. The enablers will continue to enable.

Francie Barrett · 10-10-2025 12:52AM

Was on the train home to Galway a few weeks back. There were four young men snorting lines off the table, no sh1tes given for the dozen or so other people in the carriage. I reported it, but what am I going to do personally? I'm in my 60's, there's four of them in their 20's and they're coked up to the max.

iMac Hunt · 10-10-2025 07:19AM

Need more of this https://youtu.be/xuRuVnju2XE?si=GLv4GCCC4O7QGs_S

Ten of Swords · 10-10-2025 08:27AM

Supposedly the Irish Transport Police will begin operating by the end of 2026

I'll believe it when I see it 🤣

Thelonious Monk · 10-10-2025 08:29AM

Animal cruelty is ignored in this country. We have feral teens in Dublin that are allowed gallop horses around the city centre and go around on those sulky things, not travellers, just townies which are also a protected species in some ways.

Thomas St and Christchurch is always covered in horse sh*t and there has been footage of horses lying for dead on the roads around there.

No one does anything and the worst thing is some tourists pay these scumbags to bring them around.

If you tried this for 5 seconds in England you'd have animal rights groups all over it immediately but they have a long tradition of animal cruelty prevention, we just ignore it as everyone is afraid of travellers and inner city dublin townies, including the garda and other authorities.

ancapailldorcha · 10-10-2025 09:09AM

That was a tough read. Sounds almost like something from a horror film than a train in a developed country.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123893391#Comment_123893391

I have to agree. Here in the UK, that sort of thing just wouldn't happen. If it did, it'd be front page news for days.

batman_oh · 10-10-2025 09:20AM

Let a section of society operate with impunity outside of the law and have people apologise for it and ignore everything they do and you get this.

SuperBowserWorld · 10-10-2025 10:40AM

RTE should be explaining why this was not reported and investigated. And issues like this.

I don't want my money spent on Donal Skehan or Ray Darcy and their ilk. I want the national broadcaster to deal with national issues. If I want a shopping channel, I can watch YouTube for free.

GNWoodd · 10-10-2025 10:57AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123893812#Comment_123893812

Nobody wants to take these people on .
Not the Guards not the Councils , nobody .
There was a thread on here a short while ago where a woman raised the issue of her family grave being damaged by an adjoining headstone. ( put in place by the ethnic minority who love big headstones )
The thread was shut down .
Why can these issues not even be discussed ?
If those in charge of maintaining a level of decency in society won’t deal with them , individuals will deal with them .

elperello · 10-10-2025 11:10AM

There are many studies showing a clear link between children treating animals cruelly and criminality in later life.

This incident needs to be thoroughly investigated.

Children Who Are Cruel to Animals: When to Worry | Psychology Today Ireland https://share.google/Zxj88ui9uRBHLIMUS

pjohnson · 10-10-2025 12:39PM

I'm sure PaveePoint have a statement ready blaming RTE already.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123893812#Comment_123893812

OscarMIlde · 10-10-2025 12:46PM

That's absolutely despicable. The guards should be all over this. They have CCTV at the stations and on the trains. They must have info on the tickets that were scanned. Investigate who it was, investigate their parents and how they were letting their children do this. Get them for every thing they did; animal cruelty, dangerous behaviour, assault, arson. Fine or jail the parents.

z80CPU · 10-10-2025 01:50PM

" Fine or jail the parents "

Won't happen. 😡

StormForce13 · 10-10-2025 02:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123894435#Comment_123894435

Probably because it's far more important to legislate against hate speech (especially when it's directed against minorities who may or may not specialise in being cruel to horses and other animals).

Mrs OBumble · 10-10-2025 02:36PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123893200#Comment_123893200

Yet it happens on planes all the time.

batman_oh · 10-10-2025 02:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123894628#Comment_123894628

People film gangs of 20+ scumbag teenagers torturing animals and threatening people all the time on planes?

And you are the one implying something didn't happen? Interesting angle!

TheValeyard · 10-10-2025 03:31PM

Absolute scumbags who will get away with it because the government and law enforcement like to ignore and pretend youth crime is not an issue. Double so if they are from a certain ethnic Irish background.

Ten of Swords · 10-10-2025 04:00PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123894628#Comment_123894628

Do you actually want to watch the animals being abused? WTF

Hodger · 10-10-2025 04:37PM

They wonder why most pubs don't want to serve them and most people don't want bo halting site near them. Let's call a spade a spade there are valid reasons why they are disliked.

rogber · 10-10-2025 07:54PM

Horrendous story. Perpetrators should have the same things done to them

skimpydoo · 10-10-2025 08:32PM

Are the kids involved likely to become involved in the tramac trade when they are older ? And will they say "Yes Boss" and "Hi Boss" a lot?

gameoverdude · 10-10-2025 08:39PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123895602#Comment_123895602

That's unfair! Im calling ya out right now!

Galwayguy35 · 10-10-2025 09:36PM

They got on at Ballinasloe.

It's baffling why the media won't come out and say what their background is when reporting this case.

Ten of Swords · 10-10-2025 09:54PM

See the op - no media (bar 2 local papers and Gript) are reporting this.

Gript did a follow up piece today, one passenger called the gardai and when they got an unsatisfactory response they reported it to GSOC (or whatever they're called now). The updated report suggests some animals were killed on the train too

https://gript.ie/passengers-contradict-irish-rail-on-animal-cruelty-claim/

Teens torturing animals on Galway-Dublin train

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