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Off duty Garda calls PSNI officers who arrested him in taxi row "orange *****"

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    Just another piece of s##t with some authority showing off his true colours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭h2005


    Would they not be more of a high vis yellow?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    h2005 wrote: »
    Would they not be more of a high vis yellow?

    New recruits would certainly start with that colour, but when you wear a high vis jacket it tends to darken as time goes by. The old jackets are still there.:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,097 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    anyway the article is full of hyperbole - "older gardai are horrified...".fcuk that. older people are horrified at the best of times. meaningless claptrap.
    lazy journalism at it's worst/best.

    I'm by no means an "older Garda", i've less than 10 years done, but i'm still horrified. That member is nothing but an absolute and total twat and deserves everything he gets thrown at him. I get judged by the actions of idiots in the force like this. And i couldn't care less if there was alcohol involved, i get drunk, sometimes too much, but i don't insult our colleagues in the North, across the sea, anywhere. It's utter stupidity.
    shane9689 wrote: »
    i understand i gaurd getting drunk and maybe committing a minor offence during x-mas, but the part about limerick just highlights the corruption...i mean really? a brothel? and a fight? i wouldnt touch a place like that (mostly because theyre run by scumbags not because im against prostitution) and im no angel

    Corruption? Really? How is it corruption? More idiots with drink on board making stupid decisions which they should have had more clout about, yes. But corruption? If you can prove how it is corruption, then i'll accept the answer, but i think you're just using the word incorrectly.

    Look, we are a force of 13,500 (all ranks). It is guaranteed that we have the bad eggs. Every walk of life has them. You'd imagine giving someone a badge and some authority would teach them humility, but no, even with the added responsibilities you can't change certain people. I'm ashamed to call them colleagues, and i would apologise on behalf of them, but that's up to them to do. Just please don't judge every other member on the actions of these fools. Some of us want to make a difference, some of us want to be that person who does their job properly, some just treat it as a job and do what they must, but you will have the fools who just can't handle it and think they are gods gift. Well, they are, they're gods gift to stupidity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    I'm by no means an "older Garda", i've less than 10 years done, but i'm still horrified. That member is nothing but an absolute and total twat and deserves everything he gets thrown at him. I get judged by the actions of idiots in the force like this. And i couldn't care less if there was alcohol involved, i get drunk, sometimes too much, but i don't insult our colleagues in the North, across the sea, anywhere. It's utter stupidity.

    perhaps - but gardai are just human. a few jars and a few insults are hardly a hanging offence.

    if you read the article - older gardai weren't horrified by this incident but by the riff /raff hired in the early noughties.
    I.e. YOU :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,142 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    I'm by no means an "older Garda", i've less than 10 years done, but i'm still horrified. That member is nothing but an absolute and total twat and deserves everything he gets thrown at him. I get judged by the actions of idiots in the force like this. And i couldn't care less if there was alcohol involved, i get drunk, sometimes too much, but i don't insult our colleagues in the North, across the sea, anywhere. It's utter stupidity.



    Corruption? Really? How is it corruption? More idiots with drink on board making stupid decisions which they should have had more clout about, yes. But corruption? If you can prove how it is corruption, then i'll accept the answer, but i think you're just using the word incorrectly.

    Look, we are a force of 13,500 (all ranks). It is guaranteed that we have the bad eggs. Every walk of life has them. You'd imagine giving someone a badge and some authority would teach them humility, but no, even with the added responsibilities you can't change certain people. I'm ashamed to call them colleagues, and i would apologise on behalf of them, but that's up to them to do. Just please don't judge every other member on the actions of these fools. Some of us want to make a difference, some of us want to be that person who does their job properly, some just treat it as a job and do what they must, but you will have the fools who just can't handle it and think they are gods gift. Well, they are, they're gods gift to stupidity.

    Hang in there Guard..........we'd be up the creek altogether without ye! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,097 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    perhaps - but gardai are just human. a few jars and a few insults are hardly a hanging offence.

    if you read the article - older gardai weren't horrified by this incident but by the riff /raff hired in the early noughties.
    I.e. YOU :)

    Wasn't hired in the early 00's! I'm awesome so they hired me outside of any recruitment!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    Maybe he thought he was being tangoed.




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22 LikeClockwork


    Amazing isn't it? Gardai abuses psni in a drunk and disorderly incident and he's defended and people divert by blaming the indo for being a rag. Whereas if it was joe public it would be pitchforks at dawn.

    Gardai or anyone in a position of power really are unjustifiably held in high esteem in this country. No wonder we have the politicians we have.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    A number expressed concern about the lax vetting when the force was rapidly expanded with the intake of 2,000 extra recruits in the 2004-2006 period at the direction of then Justice Minister Michael McDowell.

    Senior sources said the intake was so rapid that proper vetting was not carried out in many cases and not at all in some cases. It later emerged that people had been recruited into the force with convictions for traffic, disorder and other offences.

    So the fact they've reopened Garda recruitment and are mad to get the ball rolling again to show that the country is getting back to normal, will the same lax vetting procedures be in place and let the usual, learn nothing from the past, happen or will they take 5 minutes to see who they are letting to be the Guardians of the Peace in Ireland?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Amazing isn't it? Gardai abuses psni in a drunk and disorderly incident and he's defended and people divert by blaming the indo for being a rag. Whereas if it was joe public it would be pitchforks at dawn.

    Gardai or anyone in a position of power really are unjustifiably held in high esteem in this country. No wonder we have the politicians we have.

    The Indo is a rag, but you're right otherwise. The level of deference to authority people have in this country is pathetic. If it's not the church that people go out of their way to defend and side with, then it's Gardai or politicians.

    I guess that's the mentality that being walked all over for generations leads to.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    WOW drunk people do stupid things


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,945 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Why all the hate for the indo? What d' yiz rate above it- the mirror, the star!
    Probably all public servants hating it coz they wont ignore that the average wages in ps are 50% higher.
    Unlike rte who report on anything but it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    Wasn't hired in the early 00's! I'm awesome so they hired me outside of any recruitment!

    Sorry 2013 - less than 10 years - somewhere early 00's made sense to me.

    apologies.

    I'm sure the old guard judge you though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 392 ✭✭grainnewhale


    I blame Michael mc dowell and the lack of proper vetting. some of these guys didn't even have a farther, brother or uncle in the force. they may have even let some f.f types in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭jonsnow


    I blame Michael mc dowell and the lack of proper vetting. some of these guys didn't even have a farther, brother or uncle in the force. they may have even let some f.f types in.

    The whole jab at Michael McDowell and the FF-PD coalition did feel a bit weird alright.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 392 ✭✭grainnewhale


    in reality, it looks like a story about nothing which quiet possibily is based on pure ****e


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Shock horror, Gardai are human like the rest of us. So someone gets drunk and makes a stupid drunken comment. Big deal, must've been a quiet news day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    it remains to be proven that the gardai was incorrect.
    The officers could well have been orange c***s


    anyway the article is full of hyperbole - "older gardai are horrified...".fcuk that. older people are horrified at the best of times. meaningless claptrap.
    lazy journalism at it's worst/best.

    "Older gardai" = some aul fella that drinks in Jim Cusack's local that claims to be a retired guard. Mind you after one Power too many he also claims Elvis is living on the moon with Marilyn Monroe and Jim Morrison.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Can we have a few words from the serving 'officer' in Galway? He usually has an unbiased view of things :rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    porsche959 wrote: »
    "Older gardai" = some aul fella that drinks in Jim Cusack's local that claims to be a retired guard. Mind you after one Power too many he also claims Elvis is living on the moon with Marilyn Monroe and Jim Morrison.

    Not the auld fella from Maamturk? I thought he died a few years ago after falling from a barstool at Maam Cross while talking to Bono on his cell phone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Sorry 2013 - less than 10 years - somewhere early 00's made sense to me.

    apologies.

    I'm sure the old guard judge you though.


    The old gaurd? The ones who covered up sex abuse in this country for years, who framed people for murder and who allegedly where involved in a pedophile ring in Dalkey? Who in the name of all that's good are those criminals to judge? The youth gaurds are absolutely excellent and it was these gaurds who often reported the activities of the old lot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    MaxFlower wrote: »
    My interpretation.

    Slow news day at the paper huh? You seem to have a knack for making a mountain out of a mole hill.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    I think its about time we boycotted the gardai. They depend on our custom. I'll be getting my own passports made up and solving my own crimes from now on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    The old gaurd? The ones who covered up sex abuse in this country for years, who framed people for murder and who allegedly where involved in a pedophile ring in Dalkey? Who in the name of all that's good are those criminals to judge? The youth gaurds are absolutely excellent and it was these gaurds who often reported the activities of the old lot.

    Yep agreed. Not to mention the "heavy gang" of the 1970s. Beating false confessions out of suspects in the name of "national security" and all that.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Kelly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    porsche959 wrote: »
    Yep agreed. Not to mention the "heavy gang" of the 1970s. Beating false confessions out of suspects in the name of "national security" and all that.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Kelly

    The old gaurds were recently described as putting loyalty before honesty and that's the best way to sum a lot of them up imo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    Most of the this so called old gaurd are still there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Most of the this so called old gaurd are still there.

    Yes unfortunately. Even those who willfully covered up multiple sex abuse scandals. Imagine having to work with low lives like that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    I'll give the garda force about fifty years for it to become clean if not more.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    I'll give the garda force about fifty years for it to become clean if not more.

    To reach the top you have to be one of them to get there, the young guys and gals that went into that institution with high hopes, those that stood by those dreams, remained Guards with dreams shattered.


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