It's official: Gardai are above the law.

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Where did I take anything out of context? I never said the above three lines, you did.

The quotes just got messed up when I was posting, I've edited it

Mr.Micro wrote: »

If he was a regular citizen, the Judge would be describing him as a "dangerous man" and a risk to society. What a sham.

...And then still only give him 6 months in prison.

TBH the original sentence was a joke for the seeming nature of the assault. To get extra leniency simply because he at some point in his life he had to a luminous jacket beggars belief.

humanji wrote: »

Nowhere has that actually been said...

It's not a smart move. Inference comes to the rescue! Another negative notch on their part to not state their real reason in place of legal nonsense. Any half wit could pick up on the fact he got an undeserved slap on the wrist.

A farce imo.

Heres more of it...
A MAN who claimed a number of gardai "beat the crap" out of him was awarded €52,400 in damages by a High Court jury yesterday.

By a majority of nine to three, the jury found excessive force was used on Michael Turner (40), a fitter and driver from Ballyogan Wood, Carrickmines, Dublin, following his arrest outside a nightclub in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, in August 2002.

Mr Turner brought the action against the Garda Commissioner and Minister for Justice for assault, battery, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. The claims were denied.

His counsel, Mark De Blacam, told the court Mr Turner was on a night out on August 9/10, 2002.

He met a friend and they went to a bar where he had five or six pints and a cocktail before they went to Nemo's nightclub until around 1.30am or 2am.

As he was standing at the doorway of the club, he was accosted by a bouncer who told him to "f**king leave".

He was grabbed by the throat and pushed against a wall.

A garda van arrived and Mr Turner was handcuffed, lifted by the hands and legs and thrown into the van, counsel said.

On arrival at Dun Laoghaire garda station, he was dragged from the van, and kicked and punched with one garda leaning on his back, counsel said.

He was dragged into the station and, when he asked for a doctor, was told "you are getting f**king nothing", counsel said

He had a laceration to his head and was bleeding profusely. He was later brought to St Michael's Hospital where he received a number of stitches.

It was alleged that at least one garda used a baton.

Mr Turner was later charged with a number of public order offences but all were dismissed.

Under cross examination, Mr Turner accepted he resisted arrest but said it was because he hadn't done anything.

Garda evidence was that he was kicking and lashing out before being brought into the garda station.

They claimed he had tumbled to the ground when he was being taken into the station and at that time it was observed there was a cut on his head.

- Tim Healy

Irish Independent

I wonder will the thugs/Gardaí involved in this be in court any time soon ?

LighterGuy wrote: »

Was talking to a taxi driver the other night about gardai. he said it best and I would agree:

".. meet a gardai on his own off duty he is usually alright... put the uniform on him and watch the power goto his head..."

gardai are wan*ers and if anyone says otherwise clearly lives in a bubble.

Any problem I ever had with a guard was caused by me, completely disagree with you. That's not to say all guards are sound but ya get w@nkers in every walk of life

There were emotional scenes in court after Judge Ó Donnabháin made his order with Foley's family flooding from the public gallery to embrace him amid tears.

Yesterday, Foley's mother had collapsed in tears and had to receive medical treatment after Judge Ó Donnabháin imposed the 18-month sentence with 12 months suspended.



A big fiasco so, Its as if he is a victim. You would swear he was going down for years, Which in essence he should be..