Cass wrote: »

Look at what we've had in the last year alone:

• Maurice McCabe being relentlessly victimised
• The Commissioner under fire from the public and from some quarters of the Dail.
• "Loosing" her phone
• IIRC three other separate issues relating to her actions (including the promoting of her husband to Chief Super just weeks before the civilian board was due to take over that role)
• Templemore financial scandal
• Millions of fraudulent breath tests.
• Gardancluding, according to the records, a Superintendent lying under oath at the Jobstown six trial (this is actually recorded and the word used is lying)

• The last commissioner now stands accused by several journalists and others of personally libelling McCabe as a paedophile - an accusation which would seem to imply he had knowledge of the fake Tulsa records;
• Several, if not all of the senior management team being damned to the PAC by senior civilian Garda management (the auditors involved in the Templemore case) who said they had no confidence in them and that they had been obstructed in their audits by the senior management team;
• Several other mobile phones (not just the current Commissioners but also her predecessor's and several of those from the senior management team) going missing;
• A non-garda gmail account being used by the current Commissioner for sensitive emails, which not only breaks the Gardai rules on such things but also quite a few data protection rules on account of the data involved being personally sensitive stuff and being housed (because this is gmail) on servers outside the jurisdiction (meaning under different rules from the EU, which is a major no-no), and since the Gardai also manage state security, it kindof breaks common sense as well;
• Near-comical meetings with the new Policing Authority which verged on the Commissioner telling the Authority that she didn't have a report they were obviously going to need because the dog ate it;
• Several other whistleblowers being ill-treated in a similar manner to McCabe, if not so visibly;
• Data protection. I mean, seriously, where do you even start? PULSE records being accessed regularly by Gardai illegally and the information being handed or sold to third parties; our FCA1s going missing and turning up dumped; PULSE data itself turning out to be erroneous, inaccurate or just plain wrong -- wholly separately from the just-plain-falsified stuff now, this is where stuff gets entered wrong because the system's so broken that a Garda can't even sit down at a terminal and enter it in, he or she has to call it down a phone line to someone else to enter it in;

gunny123 wrote: »

What i liked was the target system. No spotting scopes, tv, and video cameras or any of that, you shoot and your score pops up on the display.

Also can you imagine the poo-storm if you tried to open a range like that in Ireland, facing the back of someones house ? The phoneline to Joe Fluffy would go into meltdown.

Sparks wrote: »

Lindybeige? Essentially, amateur historian with a particular interest in ancient soldiering and ancient logistics. Has a lot of entertaining youtube bits taking the swords-and-sandals genre of films to pieces pointing out their really god-awful errors.