Steve Collins leaves Ireland

It's a ****ing disgrace that these innocent people had to leave their country because of people like these **** heads. It's disgusting. Pathetic wastes of space. They should be shot on sight if they leave their house.

My name is URL wrote: »

Everyone says he should be shot.. so will somebody just have done with it already?!

Literally nobodies would care

I'm not advocating murder btw.. you can easily make it look like a tragic accident.

I can't see the guards putting much effort into solving the case if it was to happen. It'd be a great service to the decent people of this country.

Manic Moran wrote: »

Seriously? These are just misunderstood people who just want to make a living selling drugs, and the fact that a family is going through huge upheaval is the result of the government's drug policy? Not because the criminals in question have no respect for laws or life? I'm sure that if drugs were more legally accruals, they would be honest, law abiding people who wouldn't harm a fly...

I believe the point being made is that by criminalising drugs we have handed a profitable monopoly to criminals. Legalisation would remove their primary revenue stream. I doubt that the gangster class would instantly become upright business people providing legitimate retail services to their community, however they might find it more difficult to purchase their Glocks without the funding that control of the drug supply affords them.

This isn't about drugs, legalising them isn't the real issue here. If they legalised drugs the vermin would turn to racketeering or prostitution or something else. Scum are scum. The fact that people can be forced from the country by these types is insanity. It's terrorism, albeit on a smaller scale. This stuff just goes on and on and on and nothing changes. Moving these people around is just like spreading the cancer. We need internment.

Spread wrote: »

Cannot see that happening ........ regardless of what statements the Gardai release. However, I wish them the best. Limerick owes the Collins family. If there were more people like him there, these mutants would not have been able to take root. AFAIK, a newspaper did a story back a few years ago stating that ........... some of these were the offspring of Black & Tans. Anyone remember that story?

Got it ........... here 'tis:

Black and Tans still terrorising Limerick!
I READ the Mail on Sunday last week. It wasn't by choice, but it was fascinating in the same way that celebrity reality television can be for some people I suppose. The reason was a number of very amused texts from republicans telling me the paper was claiming that the thugs running the Limerick drugs gangs were descended from the Black and Tans.
Larissa Nolan, who seems to have moved from frothy gossip for the Sunday Independent to being a crime correspondent (Good grief) writes that, "Senior gardaí sent to solve the serious crime problem in the city believe that some of the most infamous crime gangs in Limerick are direct descendents of the Black and Tans."
Showing the mark of a journalist trained in the intellectual crucible of the Sindo Larissa manages to base the article on quotes from an unnamed Garda source and an unnamed Limerick historian. Names Nolan, you need names.
Anyway, it's not clear what the point of the whole piece is. According to Ms Nolan the gardaí were tipped off because, "The main crime gangs bear distinctly British names like Collopy, Campion, Dundon, Stanners and Crawford, a fact which aroused the interest of gardaí looking at the case."
Did it? Did it really? One of the biggest criminal investigations in the history of the state. Massive political and media pressure on the gardaí to break up the gangs and you can just imagine them sitting round the staff room wondering whether they can prove the gangs have, and she did use this phrase, ‘bad blood’ because, ‘..it helps to understand the problem’.
Maybe Nolan thinks we should just automatically lock up people descended from the Tans. Actually, come to think of it....

Did you read that the weekend just gone?

A google reveals similar articles from as far back as 2005!

Riddle101 wrote: »

F*ck sake, his son was shot dead because he refused someone from the gang entry to the pub. These guys have chips on their shoulders, it's a shame that our justice system is a sham because if this happened in the US for instance, they wouldn't be throwing their weight around, they'd be more cautious but that's another topic really.

Its worth nothing, that they refused entry to Wayne Dundons 14 year old sister.. and for that he was executed... Damned if you do (and lose your licence).. dead if you don't..

Manic Moran wrote: »

Seriously? These are just misunderstood people who just want to make a living selling drugs, and the fact that a family is going through huge upheaval is the result of the government's drug policy? Not because the criminals in question have no respect for laws or life? I'm sure that if drugs were more legally accruals, they would be honest, law abiding people who wouldn't harm a fly...

From my own experience it is a mistake to separate the drugs issue and the criminal gang/family issue in Limerick, the two of them are very much interlinked.

While I don't believe that the legalisation of drugs would instantly change the way things are down there I do believe that these criminal families need to be attacked by the law, constantly and efficently, in an effort to reduce the profitability of what they do.

It will require a huge combination of issues from sterner and actually enforced sentences, removal of revenue streams, efforts within the community themselves to undermine these scum. It's a complex issue, i don't think people in this thread should throw the baby out with the bathwater. The efforts of AGS and the government to reduce the power these gangs hold has failed, and something new needs to be done. I think most of us can agree on that.

I've been face to face with these ****ing pricks, I've had friends gunned down outside their house in the middle of the night as these scumbags exercised their criminal minds. I've stood face to face with chaps who just got out of jail and were out on the town celebrating their new found freedom and can pretty much guarantee you that the term "no respect for human life" doesn't quite cover the attitudes of these people.

The simple truth is what gives them cause for their chosen action is the rewards they can get from it and the fact that sentences are a ****ing joke. Who the hell is going to stand there and give evidence against a group of people who have proven time and again that if you rock their boat they will come after you and your family.

The current method of operation by the powers that be is a joke and has left decent people all over this country to stand alone against the scum that terrorise them. It's ****ing sickening.