cassid wrote: » I would hate to be in his position 15 years!! Sounds like intimidation at the highest level. After the video aired, a load of gardai drag home out of his house, no search warrant was provided to the solictor or family and after 3 hours he is released.
extra gravy wrote: » The note underneath the video is hilarious: "Less than 72 hours after posting this video, Joe reported that "up to 20 Gardai and a number of detectives in riot gear" stormed his house while Joe and his family were still in bed. No warrant was shown. Joe was handcuffed. His wife and elderly father were directed to co-operate - "or else!" All Joe's computers, phones, files and documents were seized - as well as those of his family. Joe was taken to the barracks and charged with obstructing a search warrant - despite no warrant having ever been shown - and no personal 'obstruction' on the part of Joe or his family having taken place!" Up to 20 Gardai and a number of detectives in riot gear stormed his house without a warrant? As if. He sounds like a Walter Mitty.
cassid wrote: » I don't believe everything I read. I know a few gardai and a few investigators in GSOC, so I would be familiar with some cases of initimation by gardai.
wildlifeboy wrote: » A garda detective with a vendetta causes 15 years of harassment with over ten cases of trumped up charges
extra gravy wrote: » So many gullible fools in here, it's scary. Once they hear "garda" and "corruption", they'll believe any old crap from whatever crackpot is spouting it.
irish_major wrote: » I watched the whole thing. 50 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
wildlifeboy wrote: » I for one belieive the story, why whould he put his neck further ut on the chopping block?
Wang King wrote: » Because his stairway doesn't go all the way to heaven?
steddyeddy wrote: » Well we have precedent with the Donegal case.
irish_major wrote: » He talks about numerous articles which upon googling I have been able to find none of. Bizarre in this day and age. He says there was a special sitting of roscommon court on st stephens day, yet again nothing about this on google. And theres no doubt about it that that would be on google!
feargale wrote: » Not necessarily. A court on Stephen's Day would be specially convened at short notice for essential business e.g. dealing with someone just arrested or remanding someone in custody for an extended period. It would be routine business lasting maybe ten minutes. If you were a journalist who had worked Xmas Eve would you leave the racecourse, your tv or your local on Stephen's Day to cover that?
AudreyHepburn wrote: » So this man is a convicted criminal with some ten different charges/offences to his name and the Gardai are the corrupt ones? I'm not denying that some Gardai have done some seriously corrupt things but this is not the case here. Let's not have this thread degenerate into the usual senseless and needless garda-bashing free for all. If you have repeated run ins with the Gardai then I would suggests it's yourself you need to look at, not them.
wildlifeboy wrote: » Oh if it says it in that rag it's definitely true
irish_major wrote: » You think that a court case called at short notice on stephens day and a man ended up with a 100 euro fine, that this wouldn't make any paper?
Yellowblackbird wrote: » We are not in fact musicians of the late renaissance music. Or indeed the early or middle renaissance. We are Criminals.