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Garda Apology

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  • #122
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Sixtoes wrote: »
    You are scum also. Get a life you prick.

    Not a great argument


  • #123
    Mrsmum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Mrsmum


    Does anyone know if she is in contact with her grown son now ?


  • #124
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Mrsmum wrote: »
    Does anyone know if she is in contact with her grown son now ?

    They are.


  • #125
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    Jupiter Mulligan wrote: »
    Translation: I disagree with you but haven't the ability to articulate why.

    yep, they always resort to personal attacks, the last refuge of the fact-less, as soon as it's exposed that the reality doesn't match the spin.


  • #126
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Mrsmum wrote: »
    Does anyone know if she is in contact with her grown son now ?

    ffs will you listen to the programme or read even one newspaper


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  • #127
    Mrsmum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Mrsmum


    eviltwin wrote: »
    They are.

    That's great.


  • #128
    Jupiter Mulligan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Jupiter Mulligan


    Nobelium wrote: »
    yep, they always resort to personal attacks, the last refuge of the fact-less, as soon as it's exposed that the reality doesn't match the spin.

    The depressing thing is that it recently joined the Irish public service at a starting salary of €40K a year. Seems a shockingly high starting salary for such an uncouth, inarticulate, foul mouthed specimen.


  • #129
    Mrsmum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Mrsmum


    Edgware wrote: »
    ffs will you listen to the programme or read even one newspaper

    Actually I didn't hear the programme but I read a piece on it from The IT, RTE and even The Sun and it wasn't mentioned. Relax, it's hardly worth a ffs.


  • #130
    Sixtoes
    Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Sixtoes


    Jupiter Mulligan wrote: »
    Translation: last week teacher taught me the word "scum" and then someone in the playground said "prick" and we all laughed. I really like those two words and I am trying to use them as often as possible.

    Translation: Jupiter Mulligan = arse hole.


  • #131
    Sixtoes
    Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Sixtoes


    BOOM


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  • #132
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Did Nicky Kelly receive an apology from our resident RUC man?

    Frank McBrearty?

    Family of the murdered Richie Barron?


    Funny set of priorities our society has these days :rolleyes:


  • #133
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,956 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Mod

    Less of the name calling and personal abuse please, attack the post not the poster.

    Thread re-opened.


  • #134
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,329 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    What are we talking about here.
    Link to the story anyone??


  • #135
    deandean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭deandean


    Sorry but I don't like unreserved apologies 30+ years after the fact, by people who had nothing to do with it.
    They tend to cost me, the taxpayer, a lot of money.


  • #136
    tedpan
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭tedpan


    cjmc wrote: »
    What are we talking about here.
    Link to the story anyone??

    this


  • #137
    Elemonator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭Elemonator


    Cork Trucker wrote: »
    I'm the child of a man who had an extra marital affair, should i sue his wife for my existence and the subsequent years in state care because she wasn't doing a good job on my father (a state employee at the time) in bed? My mother was only a school girl who wasn't even at junior cert age when he shacked up with her so can't blame her.

    That really doesn't make any sense. She is due a lot of compensation, between forced adoption and the depravity of the situation.

    In your situation I'd blame your father is to blame. Doesn't seem like either his wife or your mother had anything to do with or control over the situation. It's statutory rape in fact.


  • #138
    [Deleted User]
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  • #139
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    Elemonator wrote: »
    She is due a lot of compensation, between forced adoption and the depravity of the situation.

    There was no 'forced' adoption. Other female Gardai who found themselves in that situation at that time, opted to keep the child and kept their jobs. They were even transferred closer to home.
    Edgware wrote: »
    The Commissioner and Minister doing the PR job and announcing an apology. The correct approach would be to meet Majella in person.

    The Garda regulations of the time obviously had a catch all charge " bringing the Garda Siochana into disrepute"
    I do know of a female Garda who became a single mother also around that time and she received a transfer to near her family home and kept the baby. Does that mean different approaches to this situation occurred in different Garda areas?


  • #140
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,221 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    judeboy101 wrote: »
    So let's explore this, let's say jimmy arrives in temple more tomorrow and starts to sell legal but highly distasteful German dungeon porn to his fellow recruits. Hq find out and he is kicked off the force for bringing them into disrepute. 5 yrs later German dungeon porn becomes mainstream and popular, everyone watches it. Should he get compo and an apology? No he doesn't, he knew what I would happen, just like she did.

    Jaysus. You just love winning, don’t you....


  • #141
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,279 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    So is this what happened

    She got pregnant by another recruit

    The recruit offered to marry her, she refused

    She then was put under pressure by Garda management to put her baby for adoption which she did. Against her will

    Then she kept her job in the guards until late 90s

    Is that it more or less.


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  • #142
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    What an amazing thread, which makes one wonder if this place is any better than the attitudes laid bare again of "old Ireland".


  • #143
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    So is this what happened

    She got pregnant by another recruit

    The recruit offered to marry her, she refused

    She then was put under pressure by Garda management to put her baby for adoption which she did. Against her will

    Then she kept her job in the guards until late 90s

    Is that it more or less.

    That's it in a nutshell. It wasn't the dark ages. Contraception was readily available. She's obviously feeling guilty for her actions. She should be embarrassed to be drawing attention to herself.


  • #144
    MrFresh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭MrFresh


    Jupiter Mulligan wrote: »
    Getting him into trouble, of course. :rolleyes:


    How did she get him into trouble?


  • #145
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    It is an interesting question more generally as to how getting a big pile of taxpayer cash while the perpetrators retire on full pensions somehow makes up for past wrongs.

    If I were her or anyone else I'd much prefer those directly involved to pay me a smaller sum from their own pensions - enough to reduce theirs to the basic state pension. Even then this is a difficult one because the majority of people would have agreed with the Garda decision at the time.

    That way things might actually change. In this case it has changed because culturally society has changed, but many other injustices can and still do happen today.


  • #146
    1641
    Registered Users Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭1641


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That's it in a nutshell. It wasn't the dark ages. Contraception was readily available.


    Contraception was widely available ? Get lost.

    In the early 80s we were still operating under the Health (Family Planning) Act, 1979 - the "Irish solution for an Irish problem".
    Contraception was available for "bona fide family planning purposes" and had to be dispensed by a Pharmacist on production of a valid medical prescription. There were Family Planning clinics in the cities which circumvented this - and around the country there could be found GPs who interpreted "bona fide family planning purposes" loosely but it was still a act of determination and subterfuge for singles to get contraceptives. It certainly could be done but they were not widely available and you would probably be technically breaking the law. It wasn't until 1985 that the law was liberalised (somewhat).


  • #147
    boetstark
    Registered Users Posts: 825 ✭✭✭boetstark


    riemann wrote: »
    So this lady is talking about getting personal apologies from 2 heads that didn't have anything to do with how she was treated over 30 years ago.

    If she's so keen to move forward why bring all this up after so long?

    Why go after people who didn't do anything to her, instead of pointing the finger at those actually responsible?

    One wonders what the end game is.
    Loves limelight and money in equal measure. Terrible what was done to her but that was Ireland in the 80's.
    She is rubbing drew Harris nose in it


  • #148
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    1641 wrote: »
    Contraception was widely available ? Get lost.

    In the early 80s we were still operating under the Health (Family Planning) Act, 1979 - the "Irish solution for an Irish problem".
    Contraception was available for "bona fide family planning purposes" and had to be dispensed by a Pharmacist on production of a valid medical prescription. There were Family Planning clinics in the cities which circumvented this - and around the country there could be found GPs who interpreted "bona fide family planning purposes" loosely but it was still a act of determination and subterfuge for singles to get contraceptives. It certainly could be done but they were not widely available and you would probably be technically breaking the law. It wasn't until 1985 that the law was liberalised (somewhat).

    When I was in college in 1989 there was war when they installed a condom machine. There was even a friend of mine who was against it. To this day we take the piss out of him over it.


  • #149
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    1641 wrote: »
    Contraception was widely available ? Get lost.

    In the early 80s we were still operating under the Health (Family Planning) Act, 1979 - the "Irish solution for an Irish problem".
    Contraception was available for "bona fide family planning purposes" and had to be dispensed by a Pharmacist on production of a valid medical prescription. There were Family Planning clinics in the cities which circumvented this - and around the country there could be found GPs who interpreted "bona fide family planning purposes" loosely but it was still a act of determination and subterfuge for singles to get contraceptives. It certainly could be done but they were not widely available and you would probably be technically breaking the law. It wasn't until 1985 that the law was liberalised (somewhat).

    In 1983, a single woman just had to go to her GP and get a prescription for the Pill, same as now. This is FACT. Mind you, they also had to get a prescription in order to legally obtain condoms!


  • #150
    boetstark
    Registered Users Posts: 825 ✭✭✭boetstark


    honeybear wrote: »
    Agree. Heard radio documentary yesterday (think it’s repeated tonight at 7). Not an easy listening experience.

    Which she has got , twice


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  • #151
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    She played a dangerous game back then. She knew the field she knew the consequences and repercussions. Play dangerous games win stupid prizes.


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