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kerry4sam · 03-03-2009 12:02am

metman wrote: »

50/50. Either it'll fall off or it won't?

yeah im sure the manufacturers see it that way also ah sur you'll have a 50/50 chance you won't get a strong breeze in the back-door to you when you're 500ft up

Com1186 · 03-03-2009 2:22am

Praise for Gardaí as pair found guilty

http://www.braypeople.ie/news/praise-for-gardaiacute-as-pair-found-guilty-1654955.html

GARDAI have been praised for their investigations which led to the convictions of two men found guilty of assaulting an off-duty inspector and another man in Bray.
Insp. Jim Delaney, his girlfriend Eva O'Connor and their friend John Crowe were attacked by Edward Doran and John Cox and three others in a laneway between Killarney Road and Ardmore Crescent in the early hours of January 27, 2008.
Finding the pair guilty of assault, Judge Murrough Connellan told Bray District Court that the detectives who investigated the attack were to be commended for their work.
'They are to be congratulated, not castigated,' said Judge Connellan.The two men denied the assault, both claiming alibis for the night of the attack.

deadwood · 05-03-2009 1:50pm

Apparantly, we're workers now. Not just the strong arm of an oppressive fascist regime. Glad that's been cleared up so.

Pity, though. The fascists always had sexier uniforms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y-8YMcinkc

eroo · 09-03-2009 12:51am

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5864941.ece

The SRR, which conducts intrusive and long-range surveillance, has been given responsibility for monitoring other dissidents in Armagh, Fermanagh and Derry, including RIRA bomb-makers and CIRA explosives experts. The National Surveillance Unit (NSU), an elite garda unit, has also been deployed to the border region.

]Recent intelligence made available to the PSNI, MI5 and Crime and Security, the garda spying agency, suggests an upsurge in activity in dissident activity. The terror organisations, which have a floating membership, have stepped up recruitment and reorganised their internal security to counter infiltration by the police. They have also acquired weapons, including handguns and machinegun pistols, from criminals involved in the drugs trade in Dublin and Louth.

“The RIRA and CIRA are no longer obsessed with the notion of mounting a ‘spectacular’ bomb attack on a highprofile target,” said a security source. “It is just as likely that, sooner or later, a PSNI officer on the beat will be shot dead by a stranger who simply walks up to them and produces a gun.”

Dissident terror groups have recently extended their targeting to include civilian workers employed by the Northern Ireland Policing Board. Their aim is to force soldiers back onto the streets to support the PSNI.

The terror groups have become factionalised, making monitoring more difficult. The RIRA has divided into four groups and the CIRA has split.

“A year ago there were three terrorist groups with a defined membership. Now there are at least six, and possibly a seventh organisation which has yet to declare its existence,” the security source said. “The membership of these groups is made up of committed republicans who live in both urban and rural communities. That is why specialist undercover troops are being used to monitor suspects who live at remote farmhouses along the border and in housing estates.”

There have been more than 15 attacks by republican terrorist groups since November including shootings, booby-trap bombs, landmines and the attempted Ballykinler attack.

15 attacks/attempted attacks since November? Makes for worrying reading! However I look forward to hearing about plenty of arrests North and South in the not too distant future, just like the last time dissidents kicked up.

lehanemore · 10-03-2009 8:08pm

Trojan911 · 13-03-2009 11:40am

Death in Custody

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The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 52 year-old man while in Garda custody at Navan Garda Station last night.

The man, understood to be from the locality, was taken into custody earlier yesterday afternoon, according to a statement issued this morning by the office of the Garda Ombudsman Commission.

The statement said the man "was said to have been in an intoxicated state and was taken into custody for public order reasons."

"Late last night, gardaí found that they could not rouse the man from sleep and medical assistance was called."

The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

State coroner Dr. John Lacey was consulted and the state Pathologist Dr. Marie Cassidy is expected to conduct a post-mortem later today.

The man cannot be named at this time for family reasons.

The matter was referred to the Garda Ombudsman Commission by the Garda Síochána under section 102 of the Garda Síochána Act, 2005.

This is the procedure where the ombudsman is notified in cases where serious harm or death is thought to have occurred during a Garda operation.

donvito99 · 13-03-2009 6:41pm

Explosion at house in Blackrock, Dublin

Friday, 13 March 2009 17:02
A house in Blackrock has been completely destroyed by an explosion this afternoon.
Dublin Fire Brigade says the front of the house at St Anne's Square, Temple Road, collapsed following the explosion.
Four people have been taken to hospital following the blast.

It is understood three of those taken to hospital were in a house nearby at the time of the explosion and one other person was a passer-by.
There is no update yet on their condition.

The cause of the blast is not known but Bord Gáis personnel are on their way to the scene.
An eyewitness said five units of the fire brigade, three ambulances and the garda helicopter were all at the scene.
St Anne's Square and Temple Road are closed due to the incident.
Traffic is being diverted via Carysfort Avenue and there are delays in the area as a result.

www.rte.ie

donvito99 · 16-03-2009 7:29pm

Three family members die in Drogheda fire

Monday, 16 March 2009 17:32

Three members of the same family have died and three others have been injured in a house fire in Co Louth.

The blaze broke out in the house on the Moneymore housing estate in north Drogheda this morning.

The three who died were aged from eight to 21 years of age.

Two three pople, who were also injured in the fire, have been transferred from our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda to hospitals in Dublin.

The two adults were transferred to St James Hospital while the 13-year-old boy is now at Temple Street Chilren's Hospital in Dublin.

The adults have been named locally as Anthony and Kathleen McDonogh.
Drogheda Fire Service says it was alerted to the fire at 7.50am this morning.

The fire is believed to have started in the living room downstairs in the front of the house and quickly spread to all rooms except for the kitchen, which is at the back of the house.

Neighbours tried to get into the house but could not do so because the house was ablaze.

The fire has since been brought under control.
Two other children were staying with relatives at the time.

www.rte.ie/news

RIP

eroo · 24-03-2009 5:30pm

A Thai fireman turned superhero when he dressed up as comic-book character Spider-Man to coax a frightened eight-year-old from a balcony, police said Tuesday.

Teachers at a special needs school in Bangkok alerted authorities on Monday when an autistic pupil, scared of going to lessons, sat out on the third-floor ledge and refused to come inside, a police sergeant told AFP.

Despite teachers' efforts to beckon the boy inside, he refused to budge until his mother mentioned her son's love of superheroes, prompting fireman Sonchai Yoosabai to take a novel approach to the problem.

"My fireman rushed back to the fire station and took out his Spider-Man costume... The boy immediately ran into his arms with a smile," sergeant Virat Boonsadao said.

He said the fireman keeps the costume at work to liven up school fire drills

Brilliant!

daithip · 24-03-2009 9:00pm

Could have saved alot of time if he had just worn it under his uniform like Superman

eroo · 28-03-2009 4:35pm

Saturday, 28 March 2009 14:32

A number of garda cars have been damaged after chasing a stolen car through part of north Dublin.

Gardaí say the car was stolen in Ballymun this morning and was spotted in Clontarf at 12.30pm.

Gardai chased it as far as Sutton and a number of patrol cars were damaged during the chase.

The stolen car crashed in Sutton and the driver abandoned it and ran into the sea.

He was arrested a short time later and is being held in Clontarf Garda Station.

Brilliant!

donvito99 · 28-03-2009 7:12pm

I actually saw this chase in progress this morning on the N32. There were two marked and one unmarked, very high speed.

kerry4sam · 28-03-2009 7:14pm

maybe they thought they could wash away their sins

donvito99 · 28-03-2009 7:22pm

kerry4sam wrote: »

maybe they thought they could wash away their sins

Or walk on water!

deadwood · 28-03-2009 9:52pm

They thought they'd make a clean getaway.

At least they dipped their lights.

Must do better.:o

daithip · 29-03-2009 3:50pm

Was his name Reginald Perrin?:p

gerire · 29-03-2009 6:44pm

This is slightly worrying for those of us starting out.
They could get us who are in Phase 1/2 with this as we are technically not on a salary yet just an allowance so when we get attested we would be moving to salary;

[edit] Ok Ive re read it and we should escape but it still does not stop a scenario where someone with only 2 years juniorness to myself will be on a completely different deal

http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2009/mar/29/radical-plan-to-slash-generous-public-sector-pensi/

Controversial move would only affect new recruits and save exchequer billions

ALL new entrants to the public sector face the prospect of losing the traditionally generous defined benefit pension under a radical plan being considered by the government that would save the exchequer billions of euro in pension contributions.

The plan, which would see new recruits being shifted to less generous defined contribution pension schemes commonplace in the private sector, would prove controversial with the public sector unions.

They regard defined contribution pensions as 'yellow pack', because the final pension is dependent on investment returns, compared to defined benefit arrangements, where the employer, in this case the government, takes all the risk. The plans do not seek to alter in any way the pension entitlements of current workers or those already retired.

A series of options to deal with the escalating cost of public sector pensions has been outlined to ministers. One of the key proposals is that new entrants to the public sector, starting two years from now, would no longer have access to the defined benefit pension scheme currently offered to Ireland's 357,000 public sector workers. To help sell the new
pensions, the government is considering a state guarantee of a certain minimum investment return.

The Sunday Tribune has also learned that the government is giving consideration to a new tax rate or levy on high earners as part of the upcoming budget. Last January, just before the unions walked out of the talks because of the public sector pension levy, the government put a proposal on the table to have a new 5% levy on those earning in excess of €250,000-€350,000.

The proposal was parked when the talks broke down, but with the unions now back for discussions, it is understood fresh consideration is being given to an additional levy. A new super rate is expected to be at least five percentage points higher than the current top rate of tax, which is also likely to be raised in the upcoming budget.

Ministers have already made a decision to effectively freeze the National Development Plan. Agreement has been reached at cabinet that all projects already signed off on will be completed but there will be no new approvals. The move is likely to save hundreds of millions of euro this year and raises serious question marks about some high-profile infrastructure projects.

It is not clear yet whether ministers will agree to include the idea of a change in pension arrangements in the final budget speech. A spokesman for the Department of Finance declined to comment.

March 29, 2009

tricky D · 29-03-2009 7:41pm

Yup that chase gave us a bit to talk about last night in the local. Once he was passed Sutton Cross he's in a dead end. He got stingered a few times and avoided a few others. One sting was somewhere around Howth harbour iirc, then he went up Main St and the very steep Balglass Hill and turned left onto Dungriffan Rd to avoid a stinger only to run into another one at the other end of this road (nice trap). However he took the stinger (or bits of it) for a ride to the summit where the wheel or tyre and bits fell off. Another 2/3 kms later he passes Strand Road and joins Greenfield Rd doing about 50 kmph according to the football lads. He spots the next stinger at the top of Church Road, rams the car left into the kerb and launches over the 2 foot wall onto the grass verge then into the sea. Hops out and starts making for Bull Island. Starts swimming with one hand holding the gun in the other until he gets to about shoulder deep. Can't hold the gun up anymore and can't swim anymore. So stops, throws gun away and makes his way back to the Gardai with guns drawn and gets cuffed at waist deep.

Here's where it ended

29-03-2009 10:12pm

Woman garda is savaged in attack

By Cormac Looney and Tom Tuite

Saturday March 28 2009

A FEMALE garda was savagely beaten on a Dublin roadway in the latest attack on an unarmed member of the force.

The officer, in her early 20s and based at Ballymun garda station, had her jaw, wrist and a rib broken when she set upon by a gang of youths after she responded with colleagues to a call at Shangan Road last Friday night.

When officers arrived at the scene at 9pm, to arrest a man for public order offences, they were attacked by a group of youths who kicked and punched them, before separating the young officer and assaulting her after pulling her to the ground.

A group of youths then beat her, breaking her jaw, wrist and a rib. After the assault the gang ran away, and paramedics were called. The officer was taken to hospital and treated for broken bones, along with lacerations and cuts. She is unlikely to return to work for months, the Herald understands.

A juvenile was detained at the scene and has been charged with public order offences, including causing a breach of the peace and being drunk in public.

The 17-year-old was released on bail yesterday at Dublin Children's Court. A garda told the court that a female colleague "received a broken wrist, jaw and rib, it is my belief that he was the main instigator".

A file is to be sent to the DPP and further more serious charges could be brought against him, the court heard.

A source said that the uniformed officers may have been lured to Shangan Road, to be attacked there by the group.

Critical

"There have been ongoing problems with minor attacks on officers in the Shangan Road area, and it appears that these incidents may be coordinated. It's only a matter of time before a garda is very seriously in Ballymun.

"Often the attacker are children, in their early teens. The older people are almost always out on bail. We catch them, charge them and they're back on the streets hours later."

The incident is the latest attack on a member of the force. It came four days before Garda Robert McCallion (29) was knocked down while attending to a stolen car call in Letterkenny, Co Donegal. He remains in a critical condition at Beaumont Hospital.

The Garda Representative Association launched a campaign this month highlighting attacks on members of the force, injured in the course of duty.

Source

Lets hope she makes a speedy recovery.

eroo · 29-03-2009 10:13pm

Real tough sort of lads aren't they? :mad:

kerry4sam · 29-03-2009 10:18pm

You know these stories actually send shivers down my spine at the very thought of the Gardaì themselves being viciously attacked :mad:

29-03-2009 10:35pm

The worrying part is that it seems that they might have been lured into the area for the attack. Apparently these brave people out in Ballymun still like to drop objects from the towers at Gardai below.

Turner · 31-03-2009 4:24pm

tricky D wrote: »

Yup that chase gave us a bit to talk about last night in the local. Once he was passed Sutton Cross he's in a dead end. He got stingered a few times and avoided a few others. One sting was somewhere around Howth harbour iirc, then he went up Main St and the very steep Balglass Hill and turned left onto Dungriffan Rd to avoid a stinger only to run into another one at the other end of this road (nice trap). However he took the stinger (or bits of it) for a ride to the summit where the wheel or tyre and bits fell off. Another 2/3 kms later he passes Strand Road and joins Greenfield Rd doing about 50 kmph according to the football lads. He spots the next stinger at the top of Church Road, rams the car left into the kerb and launches over the 2 foot wall onto the grass verge then into the sea. Hops out and starts making for Bull Island. Starts swimming with one hand holding the gun in the other until he gets to about shoulder deep. Can't hold the gun up anymore and can't swim anymore. So stops, throws gun away and makes his way back to the Gardai with guns drawn and gets cuffed at waist deep.

Here's where it ended

Some pics from the scene. Armed gardai drawing their weapons.

eroo · 31-03-2009 9:24pm

Police are warning people to ask officers for ID following the recovery of a stash of police uniforms and equipment at a flat.

More than 100 PCSO uniforms and equipment were discovered at a flat in Salford.

Police issued a warrant to the flat on Cottenham Lane, Lower Broughton where they found the stolen goods.

As well as the uniforms, officers found police batons, jackets, body armour, handcuffs and CS spray holders.

It is believed the uniforms, which had old Metropolitan Police badges sown onto them, were being sold on the streets of Manchester for hundreds of pounds.

Greater Manchester Police are now reminding residents to always ask for ID when speaking to police officers.

The find comes after an aggravated burglary at the Royal British Legion in Walkden, in which two suspects were dressed as police officers.

A steward at the Legion's club was tied up and handcuffed by the fake policemen.

The offenders got away with money from gaming machines as well as the club's takings.

Det Insp Caroline Walker, of Salford CID, said: "This is a truly astonishing find.

"We have seriously disrupted the activity of bogus police officers across Greater Manchester.

"Just as importantly, it also gives us the chance to reiterate the message that people should always ask for ID, even when dealing with police officers.

"Genuine officers are always glad to show their ID and understand that the public have a right to know exactly who they are dealing with."

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donvito99 · 01-04-2009 2:34pm

Chief--- wrote: »

Some pics from the scene. Armed gardai drawing their weapons.

Are detectives issued with ASPs and stab vests or just sigs and cuffs?

Turner · 01-04-2009 4:56pm

Yes they are issued with asps, bullet proof vests and cuffs.

Also sigs or the old smith and wesson pistols.

eroo · 03-04-2009 3:07pm

03/04/2009 - 14:42:40
Gardai are dealing with a major public order incident in west Dublin this afternoon.

It is understood a riot broke out before lunchtime and up to 40 people are involved.

More than ten Garda patrol cars are attending the scene at Old Castle in Clondalkin.

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CharlieCroker · 03-04-2009 4:56pm

christ,
I was in clondalkin just before lunch today!!
Got out just in time:D:D:D

eroo · 03-04-2009 7:15pm

03/04/2009 - 16:11:37
A large-scale riot in West Dublin has been brought under control.

Up to 40 people were involved in the incident at a halting site in Clondalkin.

A number of Garda units remain in the area.

Gardaí received reports of major disturbances at the Old Castle halting site just off the Nangor Road in Clondalkin at 12.30pm.

A number of Garda units including officers in riot gear attended the scene, and they say the situation was brought under control by about 2pm.

Nobody was injured in the incident, and no arrests have been made.

A number of public order units remain at the scene and gardaí say they will maintain a presence in the area for a number of hours.

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eroo · 03-04-2009 7:17pm

03/04/2009 - 18:14:41
At least four people were shot and dozens taken hostage by a man armed with a high-powered rifle in New York, US officials said today.

Mayor Matthew Ryan said the hostage situation started this morning at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, about 150 miles north west of New York City.

He said the man had a high-powered rifle and police SWAT teams were at the scene.

Mr Ryan told the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin that Binghamton High School, a block and a half away from the site, was under a lock-down.

The newspaper, which quoted police radios, said at least four people were taken to hospital on stretchers.

There were 41 hostages in the building – 15 in a closet and 26 in the boiler room – and the gunman remains inside, according to reports.

The gunman was described as an Asian man in his 20s, between 5ft 8in and 6ft, wearing a bright green nylon jacket and dark-rimmed glasses, according to reports.

The American Civic Association describes itself as helping immigrants and refugees with counselling, resettlement, citizenship, family reunification and translators.

It also intervenes with emergencies, including fighting, hunger and homelessness, according to information from the association’s website.

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