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

Would they not be more of a high vis yellow?

cletus van damme wrote: »

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.

Potential-Monke wrote: »

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!

Maybe he thought he was being tangoed.

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?

cletus van damme wrote: »

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.

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.

rolliepoley wrote: »

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.

rolliepoley wrote: »

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.