Garda escorts

tritium · 05-12-2012 08:49PM #1

Just spent an even longer stretch than usual getting home this evening! Traffic already slow with diversions for the osce conference. Then to confound it all, traffic coming onto the quays is forced (rather aggressively) to pull over by a Garda escort to make way for a shower of overpaid dicks, whose only collective claim to fame is screwing up the world economy!

So folks, should a Garda escort really be provided in anything other than emergencies ( by which I mean pregnant woman about to give birth rather than Hillary Clinton took 10 minutes too long in the shower)?

endacl · 05-12-2012 08:51PM

You survived OK though? Got to the interweb just in time to tell us?

;-)

05-12-2012 08:53PM

Somewhat disappointed after reading thread title

joydivision · 05-12-2012 08:54PM

Get the bus if you dont like the traffic .
I like looking at police escorts . Its like an action film .

UCDVet · 05-12-2012 08:54PM

Is that why the city was a friggin parking lot yesterday? (I skipped work today, so I didn't notice).

If so - my god, it sucks. When is this thing over?

LostCorkGuy · 05-12-2012 08:55PM

I thought this was going to be some thread about a new pimping deal set up to help our poverty stricken state

UCDVet · 05-12-2012 08:56PM

joydivision wrote: »

Get the bus if you dont like the traffic .
I like looking at police escorts . Its like an action film .

That's why I always take my private jet to the office....

weiland79 · 05-12-2012 08:56PM

Might have had something to do with pitchfork weilding mob chasing after them.

NegativeCreep · 05-12-2012 08:58PM

Pregnant women giving birth?? They managed without a Garda escort this long I'm sure they'll be grand.
I think the politicians were right to have a Garda escort today considering it's budget day. There's a lot of idiots out there who would have done something to an unattended politician today.

Ted_YNWA · 05-12-2012 08:59PM

do they not favour Mondeos more these days ?

endacl · 05-12-2012 08:59PM

joydivision wrote: »

Get the bus if you dont like the traffic .
I like looking at police escorts . Its like an action film .

Oi! You're supposed to be practising your guitar, JD! Not messing about on boards!

:-)

franktheplank · 05-12-2012 08:59PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I think the politicians were right to have a Garda escort today considering it's budget day. There's a lot of idiots out there who would have done something to an unattended politician today.

I resent being called an idiot.

Pipmae · 05-12-2012 09:00PM

Two sides of Merrion Square were closed to traffic. The side with Govt buildings and the one with the FAI headquarters (sorry don't know my north, souths, etc

). The traffic was manic and that was around 4.50pm. I can only imagine what it was like later. I heard Molesworth Street was closed as well but I didn't see it myself.

NegativeCreep · 05-12-2012 09:00PM

franktheplank wrote: »

I resent being called an idiot.

What would punching a politician solve? It'd only get you put in jail

endacl · 05-12-2012 09:00PM

Do the guards even still drive escorts? I thought it was all mondeos these days? With the odd avensis thrown in just to mix it up a bit.

Hazys · 05-12-2012 09:02PM

07734 wrote: »

Somewhat disappointed after reading thread title

I thought it had something to do with this: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/men-caught-in-prostitution-sting-by-undercover-gardai-enter-guilty-pleas-2956079.html

franktheplank · 05-12-2012 09:02PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

What would punching a politician solve? It'd only get you put in jail

Punching? What kind of a keyboard warrior do you take me for?

endacl · 05-12-2012 09:03PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

What would punching a politician solve? It'd only get you put in jail

Jail terms end. Punching a politician? Well, that's forever....

tritium · 05-12-2012 09:11PM

LostCorkGuy wrote: »

I thought this was going to be some thread about a new pimping deal set up to help our poverty stricken state

Not a bad idea, offer 'extras' if berlusconi, Strauss-Kahn or the Clinton family are in town.....

tritium · 05-12-2012 09:12PM

joydivision wrote: »

Get the bus if you dont like the traffic .
I like looking at police escorts . Its like an action film .

Sorry, but rush hour bus doesn't work for creche pick ups

Must be nice being you...,

WoollyRedHat · 05-12-2012 09:13PM

Who's in town? Are the boys back in town?

tritium · 05-12-2012 09:16PM

I think the politicians were right to have a Garda escort today considering it's budget day. There's a lot of idiots out there who would have done something to an unattended politician today.

isn't that a reason not to give them an escort.....

Besides, no reason they can't just drive their own cars in rush hour like the rest of us

narwhalthe · 05-12-2012 09:18PM

Yeah I was also expecting something about ban gardai offering something other than a hefty fine.

repsol · 05-12-2012 09:24PM

In terms of delays,police escorts cause very little because they pass quickly. Safety is another story.Anyone driving an emergency vehicle does so on their own licence. You are not permitted to break the lights.If you injure someone or god forbid kill someone,driving on blues and end up in court,you will be asked what the nature of the call you were on was.If you can answer that it was an armed robbery or similar life or death situation,any judge will cut you some slack.If you are making sure some VIP or GAA team or whatever gets from A to B quickly,you are fecked. The "I was told to do it " defense will not work.

endacl · 05-12-2012 09:33PM

narwhalthe wrote: »

Yeah I was also expecting something about ban gardai offering something other than a hefty fine.

Fine hefty ban gardai? Now we're getting somewhere...

MagicSean · 05-12-2012 09:34PM

repsol wrote: »

In terms of delays,police escorts cause very little because they pass quickly. Safety is another story.Anyone driving an emergency vehicle does so on their own licence. You are not permitted to break the lights.If you injure someone or god forbid kill someone,driving on blues and end up in court,you will be asked what the nature of the call you were on was.If you can answer that it was an armed robbery or similar life or death situation,any judge will cut you some slack.If you are making sure some VIP or GAA team or whatever gets from A to B quickly,you are fecked. The "I was told to do it " defense will not work.

None of that is correct.

loobylou · 05-12-2012 10:10PM

UCDVet wrote: »

Is that why the city was a friggin parking lot yesterday? (I skipped work today, so I didn't notice).

If so - my god, it sucks. When is this thing over?

You aint seen nothing yet.
Just wait until the new year and we hold the EU presidency, there'll be convoys like that every day.

paddy147 · 05-12-2012 10:14PM

Hazys wrote: »

I thought it had something to do with this: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/men-caught-in-prostitution-sting-by-undercover-gardai-enter-guilty-pleas-2956079.html

Could you imagine he gardai actualy getting STUCK IN though????:pac::pac:

Wasnt there a garda recently convicted of running a brothel from an apartment he had bought/rented out???

Duiske · 05-12-2012 10:15PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

What would punching a politician solve? It'd only get you put in jail

Free food and accommodation at the taxpayers expense ? Sure it would just be like being on... ah, nevermind.

paddy147 · 05-12-2012 10:17PM

Duiske wrote: »

Free food and accommodation at the taxpayers expense ? Sure it would just be like being on... ah, nevermind.

Ah now theres a great plan for the students of Ireland to get a FREE Education and a degree.;):pac::D

Then they could really fcuk Ruairi Quinn and his education fees over,BIG STYLE

dgt · 05-12-2012 10:31PM

07734 wrote: »

Somewhat disappointed after reading thread title

As am I, thought this instead

Garda escorts

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