WTF - John Carthy tribunal cost over €20m

DonJose · 13-03-2009 02:16PM #1

Ok you fire 30 rounds at the police in the US and they blow you away, case closed and end of story. Over in Ireland you do the same and theres a fukking tribunal that cost over €20m :eek: Then another payout of €100k to his family :eek: Fukk life insurance, I'm buying a shotgun.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0313/abbeylara.html

arybvtcw0eolkf · 13-03-2009 02:20PM

I just caught it on the news, sickening.

Terry · 13-03-2009 02:26PM

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers'

twinytwo · 13-03-2009 02:49PM

comes down to the fact that most people in this country are too politicaly correct... like i mean if a guard hits someone a slap then 99% of the time they prob deserved it right?? A guy is out at a protest starts a riot/ruckas or what have you so get bashed by police as you do and somehow he can sure for assault .. this country is tied up in red tape and legal BS.

pcworldsucks · 13-03-2009 03:35PM

The bastard cost us ,the taxpayers, €20 milion! I hope they shot him in the bollix first, its the least he deserved for blowing 20 million of our money.

Pyr0 · 13-03-2009 03:39PM

The sickening thing is, there is absolutely nothing we can do about it now. It's typical of people in this country to try and grab at anything they can. "He shouldn't have died" Yeah f*cking right, if you fire 30 shots at the police what do you think will happen ? Oh right silly me, your family will get a nice little payout in the end.

They should have shot him when he raised the gun the first time.

Zadkiel · 13-03-2009 03:41PM

pcworldsucks wrote: »

The bastard cost us ,the taxpayers, €20 milion! I hope they shot him in the bollix first, its the least he deserved for blowing 20 million of our money.

He's dead though and wasn't aparty to this particular farce and didnt cost us a penny. Its the way the countries run thats at fault.

hunter164 · 13-03-2009 03:45PM

All the way to Longford, all the way to Longford, to shoot a lunatic.

Ironbars · 13-03-2009 03:48PM

Firstly, he never actually fired at the Garda....... before you crazy people run away with yourselves it wasnt like de niro in Heat.He was inside the house firing at the ceiling/wall and when he was outside the house and within clear range of more than one sniper, they should and could have taken the shotgun arm instead of a head shot .

Grow up and learn to read between the lines..........

ejmaztec · 13-03-2009 03:55PM

If we complain enough, they'll have another tribunal to investigate why the first one cost so much.

It wasn't me! · 13-03-2009 04:04PM

Ironbars wrote: »

Firstly, he never actually fired at the Garda....... before you crazy people run away with yourselves it wasnt like de niro in Heat.He was inside the house firing at the ceiling/wall and when he was outside the house and within clear range of more than one sniper, they should and could have taken the shotgun arm instead of a head shot .

Grow up and learn to read between the lines..........

I may be mistaken, but I was of the impression that he fired several rounds at the Gardai over the wall.

Second, I don't recall ever reading that there were snipers there. I don't even know whether the Gardai/ERU employ any or have the tools for them.

Third, that's never, ever the procedure, for excellent historical reasons.

Abbeylara was a stupid tragedy and happened through a failure to enforce the firearms act. As I recall, the investigating officers from other countries found that the main fault of the Gardai at the scene was that procedure wasn't followed and Carthy should have been shot far earlier.

Cathmandooo · 13-03-2009 04:05PM

Ironbars wrote: »

Firstly, he never actually fired at the Garda.......

Yes he did

there were bullet holes in the pillars at the gate where gardai were hiding behind.

Daroxtar · 13-03-2009 04:56PM

Ironbars wrote: »

Firstly, he never actually fired at the Garda....... before you crazy people run away with yourselves it wasnt like de niro in Heat.He was inside the house firing at the ceiling/wall and when he was outside the house and within clear range of more than one sniper, they should and could have taken the shotgun arm instead of a head shot .

Grow up and learn to read between the lines..........

As far as i remember it -He shot the megaphone the cops were using off the bonnet of the cop car right beside a cop. He also shot the gateposts the gards were crouched behind.Thats too close for comfort with a 12 guage shotgun from 20 yards. The snipers themselves wouldn't try that.

He was shot in the leg first in an attempt to knock him but that failed then as he turned and raised the gun again a second shot was fired which went into his lower back which ricocheted in his abdomen and exited through his groin. I'm pretty sure that was the fatal shot. I do not remember hearing about a deliberate heart/head shot and i took a good bit of interest in the case as I worked with him on the building of a shopping centre in galway about 18 months before this happened and no offence to the poor lad but he was not quite all there. The majority of the shots he fired were fired randomly, but thats just the point.. when faced with a distressed psychiatric patient carrying a loaded shotgun who knows where the next one was going?

Its a tragedy but the cops had very little options left and i doubt anyone wanted to kill him.

twinytwo · 13-03-2009 06:25PM

Ironbars wrote: »

Firstly, he never actually fired at the Garda....... before you crazy people run away with yourselves it wasnt like de niro in Heat.He was inside the house firing at the ceiling/wall and when he was outside the house and within clear range of more than one sniper, they should and could have taken the shotgun arm instead of a head shot .

Grow up and learn to read between the lines..........

I see your one of those?... if it gets to the point when snipers have to be used , (they are used as a last resort) it is always shoot to kill. Think of the abuse they would get if a sniper shot a suspect in the arm and he still managed to get shot off and killed someone?.... also a suspect dosent have to fire his/her weapon all he/she has to is point it at a guard/person and bye bye

Lizzykins · 13-03-2009 06:39PM

Well the guards are damned if they do and damned if they don't. If the guy had killed 5 unarmed guards there would have been ANOTHER €20 million tribunal. As someone else said if you were in the states and you piced up a gun what would you expect. And as for the family getting money-crazy.

galwayrush · 13-03-2009 08:05PM

We are excellent at wasting money in Ireland.:mad: To the powers that be......" sure it's only small money"

Fulton Crown · 13-03-2009 08:09PM

DonJose wrote: »

Ok you fire 30 rounds at the police in the US and they blow you away, case closed and end of story. Over in Ireland you do the same and theres a fukking tribunal that cost over €20m :eek: Then another payout of €100k to his family :eek: Fukk life insurance, I'm buying a shotgun.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0313/abbeylara.html

Whats the surprise...??

Guards fcuk up in Donegal - Tribunal = Mega bucks.:eek:

Politicians on the take..everywhere....Tribunal mega bucks :eek:

Some crustys trying to save the Redwinged Moorhen in meath ..you've guessed it !

(Them Eco warriors were absolutely right about the Glen o the Downs - that nice new road thats such a boon to commuters has ruined it....well...hasen't it. ??

Oh ! an that crowd of nutters down in Mayo...holding up an gas pipeline and costing the tax payer "millins".

This is Ireland mate - different rules....:eek:

Donny5 · 13-03-2009 10:42PM

Unfortunately.

Terry · 13-03-2009 11:14PM

Cathooo wrote: »

Yes he did there were bullet holes in the pillars at the gate where gardai were hiding behind.

Those bullet holes were from 1916.

Robbo · 13-03-2009 11:20PM

I think the moral of the story is that when a local whackjob has a shotgun and asks you for cigarettes, you should probably give him some. That'll be €20 million please.

irish_bob · 13-03-2009 11:26PM

the guy wasnt the full shilling and had a death wish , it was baschically suicide by cop

as someone said , he would have been blasted away after five mins had it happend in america and been a one day story in the newspapers

THIS COUNTRY

mikemac · 13-03-2009 11:27PM

Ironbars wrote: »

outside the house and within clear range of more than one sniper, they should and could have taken the shotgun arm instead of a head shot .

First he wasn't shot in the head nor was a head shot attempted
Secondly, training is to shot the mass of the body (chest). I'm always seeing this about hitting people in the arm, but why oh why didn't they disable him....

If an ERU officer shot him the arm and he got another shot and killed someone, we'd have two 20 million tribunals not one

30 shots, that's what they call in America death by cop.
In the US, he'd be killed in minutes and ne'er a word said.

Robbo · 13-03-2009 11:28PM

mikemac wrote: »

30 shots, that's what they call in America death by cop

Same can be said for holding a wallet. 41 times.

MagicMarker · 13-03-2009 11:29PM

Who's John Carthy?

johnnyskeleton · 13-03-2009 11:35PM

Terry wrote: »

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers'

And then the builders.

irish_bob · 13-03-2009 11:41PM

mikemac wrote: »

Ah, you're referring to [URL="xhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadou_Diallo"]Amadou Diallo.[/URL]

You can't compare that to a negotiation that happened for hours and not one, not two but thirty shots.

Should the ERU have waited for forty, fifty shots? A comrade shot?

Only mistakes they made was allowing him to have a firearm and then not taking decisive action sooner.

its difficult for gardai to take pre emptive action against mentally unwell people , take firearems ofd them , have them admitted to hospitals etc , any issue to do with mental health , the liberals own it

mikemac · 13-03-2009 11:50PM

I fully agree the gardai have a difficult job and I certainly don't want to second guess their decisions. They are the trained experts in this state and I trust them fully to take the correct decision.

blackbox · 13-03-2009 11:50PM

mikemac wrote: »

Ah, you're referring to [URL="xhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadou_Diallo"]Amadou Diallo.[/URL]

You can't compare that to a negotiation that happened for hours and not one, not two but thirty shots.

Should the ERU have waited for forty, fifty shots? A comrade shot?

Only mistakes they made was allowing him to have a firearm and then not taking decisive action sooner.

+1

If anything the guards were negligent by not shooting him sooner considering the threat he posed.

Why on earth did it need such an expensive enquiry to find out what happened? There was video evidence and a modest number of witnesses.

Dyr · 13-03-2009 11:54PM

It cost us 20 million in a tribunal because the gardai made a balls of everything up to the point when carthy came out shooting including precipitating the whole tragedy by beating him up while in custody.

Manic Moran · 14-03-2009 02:34AM

My concern with 'shoot to wound' as a policy is that there is some misconception that you are not using lethal force. A rifle round, even if aimed at a hand or whatever, is lethal force. What would be the outcry if someone tried to use a rifle at non-lethal force criteria by shooting a weapon out of the guy's hand, and the ricochet from the gun goes right through the targets head, killing him? Or if there were no gun at all, say the chap on the other end had a knife and the sniper just plain misses and kills him? If a trigger is being pulled on a rifle, the default position must be that the target poses a threat to life. And if he poses a threat to life, you'd be as best off making sure he is incapacitated quickly.

The highly publicised instance of the sniper shooting the gun out of the hand of a gunman in a wheelchair was subject to a variety of unique criteria and should not be taken as an example of standard procedure.

NTM

K-9 · 14-03-2009 03:34AM

The problem was, they knew he was a "nut case" and had history.

Local Guards would know that type of thing.

They never involved his psychiatrist, even though they knew he had problems.

The tribunals were set up to see if the Guards could learn from this.

Tribunals have shown up Garda problems over the years.

WTF - John Carthy tribunal cost over €20m

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