Neighbourhood Watch Merged Thread

Arciphel wrote: »

Chuck, this news item as reported in the papers today is very concerning.
However, according to the information I received this incident didn't happen as described, and is being blown out of proportion - that the girl in question was in fact the victim of a prank by other kids in her school/class.
Her parents reported the matter to the school and the gardai and it was only later that it was realised that the girl in question knew the kids who had carried this out as some kind of ill-advised prank.
I have contacted the community garda for confirmation as to what the details of this case are, so far as they can tell me.
Did you get confirmation from the gardai as to the particulars of this case?

yes i've heard this too, but the incident in corduff did happen and so too did the one in carpenterstown etc.

On another note, I believe the newspaper was told their facts were wrong and decided to go ahead.

I totally get what you're saying.

Arciphel wrote: »

Just spoke to the gardai in Blanchardstown, they are currently in a meeting to decide what they can & cannot share in relation to this incident, they took my number and are going to ring me back once a decision has been made. They said they have received a lot of similar calls this morning. Will update where once we know what the final outcome is.

If the newspaper knew their facts were incorrect and decided to print the story anyway... well, I don't even know where to start with that. :mad:

I don't know what facts are incorrect specifically but I know they were informed some facts were incorrect. A paper never refuses ink.

btw: I think your comments are also on FB if I'm not mistaken.

Arciphel wrote: »

Jaysus, don't "out" me on FB chuck! :eek::eek::eek: LOL

Nah I'd ever do that. I'm a decent lad, no matter what the others say.

THIS JUST IN

"Just been on the news another attempted abduction of a girl in clonsilla last night - same thing someone using a bag over the young girls head,this is disgusting and very scary"

This is a new one again apparently.

January wrote: »

I think they're getting it mixed up and the report on the news is the same as the one being reported in the newspapers.

That's what I would suspect too, but Clonee and Clonsilla are completely separate areas. I think you are actually spot on but better safe than sorry.

The Indo certainly havent the smarts to separate those areas. Clonsilla runs into Ongar runs into Clonee runs into Littlepace.

DvB wrote: »

Oh absolutely, agree 100%.
I was just pointing out that depending to who you talk to in the area they'll describe it as any of the 3 areas I mentioned, so the chances of a Journo looking to fire out an article ASAP getting that right are slim to none, irrelevant of the article content.

Yea, a lot of people like myself just refer to the likes of manorfield, hazelbury etc as Clonee. I refer to Ongar as the village and the general area. Apparently Risheeney village is in Clonsilla, but i always refer to it being in Hartstown.

saranac1 did you ring the gardai about it? NCT website shows it as a blue Audi A4.

saranac1 wrote: »

Yes that's it, they are very aggressive and ruthless at what they are doing regarding robberys

Did you report it to the gardai?

LookingFor wrote: »

So unfortunately, I ran into the lady from this post again, at Hazel Lawn. Just in the last half hour or so.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=93142581&postcount=2264

She crossed the road TWICE to meet me. She said 'What are you doing here? Why are you here? Go back to where you came from!' I couldn't say anything to her as she continued down the road, this time she didn't stop really. There was a man walking a little further up the road - after, I went up to him to ask if he saw her and/or recognised her, but it turned out he was a non-national and didn't really understand what I was saying so I left it.

She was wearing a kind of copper/gold/brown coloured jacket, short, spectacles, mousy-blond-grey-ish hair, she's Irish.

More than last time I'm thinking there's definitely mental health issues here, but I wish she would stop picking on me!

Unfortunate for this woman that she meets you, why dont you stop going into the area, it doesnt need your intolerance.

For the decent folk out there there is a house in this area that is a home to some elderly handicapped women and has been for over 20 years

Shemale wrote: »

Unfortunate for this woman that she meets you, why dont you stop going into the area, it doesnt need your intolerance.

For the decent folk out there there is a house in this area that is a home to some elderly handicapped women and has been for over 20 years

I live in the area!

I know those ladies, my mother goes to mass with them, and she is not one of them.

Thanks for the helpful input!

The only reason I am putting it out there is to know if this is something that is known about, or if it's something I should be flagging with someone. I may be exasperated by it in the immediate aftermath of one of these incidents, but I don't think that's too out of line when you're being accosted like that.

LookingFor wrote: »

I live in the area!

I know those ladies, my mother goes to mass with them, and she is not one of them.

Thanks for the helpful input!

The only reason I am putting it out there is to know if this is something that is known about, or if it's something I should be flagging with someone. I may be exasperated by it in the immediate aftermath of one of these incidents, but I don't think that's too out of line when you're being accosted like that.

To be fair the woman isn't well and I felt your post was more about a "crazy" woman than neighbourhood watch, apoligies if that wasnt the case. You have given a very detailed description and she is quite possibly someones mother who has dementia.

From and living in the area myself and would know most of the women living in that house and they are gentle as lambs, was.just suggesting she might be being cared for in that house.

January wrote: »

I reckon she has dementia and is mistaking you for someone else.

Yeah, I think this is most likely.

Good advice, sadly both my grannies and now my dear mum has it and I have watched all three decline.

Disagreeing/ arguing with them seems to make them more agitated.

One of my grannies hit me with a walking stick when I was about 8, she was roaring at me to get out of her house as she thought I was a stranger, all I did was twice say I am your grandson and that was enough for her to turn violent.

We are very very slow to react to these stories in this country, unfortunately

Shemale wrote: »

To be fair the woman isn't well and I felt your post was more about a "crazy" woman than neighbourhood watch, apoligies if that wasnt the case. You have given a very detailed description and she is quite possibly someones mother who has dementia.

From and living in the area myself and would know most of the women living in that house and they are gentle as lambs, was.just suggesting she might be being cared for in that house.

No hard feelings, I apologise also if I seemed exasperated or short about it.

January wrote: »

I reckon she has dementia and is mistaking you for someone else.

Just try your best to ignore it if it happens again, if she's not lucid it won't do her any good for you to try to explain that you're not the person she thinks you are.

Yeah, I think I've made the mistake each time of even pausing in the path when she approaches. If it happens again I won't given even the shortest pause and keep walking.

Praetorian22 wrote: »

a few people tried to contact Blanchardstown Station and there was no reply to the call.

:eek: That is scary!

I saw a few snips hanging around looking menancing on Sunday in coolmine woods

Larbre34 wrote: »

This is like the Little Britain sketch over again.

If someone is a witness or is asked to give information they havr, or be vigilant for persons in particular, their ethnicity is absolutely central to it. People of all colour commit crime, not being able to narrow down a genuine description by race, in case of racist overtones, is political correctness gone stark staring bonkers, and i weep for how insecure society has become.

Come on now, it's not that at all.
It isnt like this is a court of law, or someone giving a statement to the gardai. In either of those cases, yes, ethnicity is absolutley required to help definitively identify a suspect. On this thread though where someone is reporting an incident they heard about (probably heard second or third hand) it is pointless.

This is not political correctness. The constant inclusion of ethnicity or skin colour in reports of crime or anti-social behaviour by anyone other than white-Irish is a form of racism, albeit a passive one. How often do you hear a report that a 'white youth' commited a crime? It doesn't happen. Yet, if someone coloured commits a crime, their colour is noted in all reports. Similarly this happens with people from other ethnic backgrounds too.

I'd also like to point out that in most of our local schools at this point the vast majority of kids were born in and have grown up in this country. Their parents may be from overseas, but these kids are Irish. Referring to them as Roma or Nigerian is more than likely factually incorrect as well as pointless.


This subject has come up before on this thread and elsewhere. I will continue to snip out unnecessary racial labelling where it is appropriate. If you disagree with this, take it up with an admin or one of my co-mods, not on thread please. I feel strongly about this but I wont claim infallibility!

Back on topic now

@shemale, Boards.ie does not condone anyone taking the law into their own hands, so suggesting vigilantism is not on.
Please keep on topic.

Also someone has camera image of a break in but has been told it cannot be used. Does anyone know what the legal position is?

I heard a house in Hazel Lawn was broken into last week too, suspicious white transit seen a few times in the area beforehand.

athtrasna wrote: »

We are experiencing increased fly tipping in Waterville. It used to be in car park bays outside the clusters but last night before 11pm a car drove in to our cluster, opened the car door and threw out about six bin bags, a bucket of crap and a huge crate of God knows what in the middle of the road. No proper witnesses, just some of the neighbours piecing things together/spotted from a balcony etc. Because it's private property the council won't do anything, it's really disgusting and sickening.

This is very much an issue for your Mangement Company and their agents.

athtrasna wrote: »

I'm a director of the management company Caretaker went through it, no identifying items. So this illegal activity is something we have to put up with, I was just warning people to be vigilant.

Take the reg's and deal with it yourselves. You do not have to accept it.