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Election candiadate beaten in broad daylight by scrambler thug

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  • #2
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,478 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Ban electric scooters though


  • #3
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Maybe they fell off a swing and it's all a cover story to protect their cred.


  • #4
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,595 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    The true victim here is the grammar in that piece.


  • #5
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Batten got battered.


  • #6
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,738 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Ah jaysus come on. That poor woman must have been petrified. No excuse for this behaviour. Hope she makes a speedy recovery and that scumbag is caught.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



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  • #7
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    I sympathise but look at how much policy / politics she got out of it:

    Batten said: "Now while I do not in anyway blame our hard working members of An Garda, someone could have been seriously hurt in this incident and any chance of catching those involved would rely on a quick response which with one car for the area is impossible.

    "Luckily no one was seriously injured and we still managed to get a good clean up done.

    "Three observations I have from this incident:

    "Our Gardai simply aren't resourced to protect our Communities and the Minister for Justice and the Garda Commisioner need to act now before more innocent peoples lives are damaged.

    "I completely support my colleague Willie O'Dea's comments that 'parents must take responsibility for children making life a misery for elderly people and families in communities across the country."

    "[Parents] should be penalised in some shape or form, through fines"

    "Uninsured Mini bikes, scramblers and quad bikes are not toys for teenagers to play with, they are motorised vehicles which posse a danger to the general public and those who drive them."

    "I'm in full support of my parties position on empowering the Gardai to seize and destroy these vehicles when stopped without the proper paper work."


  • #8
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    I sympathise but look at how much policy / politics she got out of it:

    Batten said: "Now while I do not in anyway blame our hard working members of An Garda, someone could have been seriously hurt in this incident and any chance of catching those involved would rely on a quick response which with one car for the area is impossible.

    "Luckily no one was seriously injured and we still managed to get a good clean up done.

    "Three observations I have from this incident:

    "Our Gardai simply aren't resourced to protect our Communities and the Minister for Justice and the Garda Commisioner need to act now before more innocent peoples lives are damaged.

    "I completely support my colleague Willie O'Dea's comments that 'parents must take responsibility for children making life a misery for elderly people and families in communities across the country."

    "[Parents] should be penalised in some shape or form, through fines"

    "Uninsured Mini bikes, scramblers and quad bikes are not toys for teenagers to play with, they are motorised vehicles which posse a danger to the general public and those who drive them."

    "I'm in full support of my parties position on empowering the Gardai to seize and destroy these vehicles when stopped without the proper paper work."

    Is that not four observations?


  • #9
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    corner of hells wrote: »
    Is that not four observations?

    Vote and make it so :)


  • #10
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,280 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Ban electric scooters though

    Why?
    What's this story got to do with electric scooters?


  • #11
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    “Peaceful protest”


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  • #12
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,035 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    There craziest part of that is the Gardaí referring to it as a "minor assault". Since when is breaking someone's wrist a minor assault?


  • #13
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,229 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I know it's not the point of the thread, but who lets this shíte get published?
    Rachael Batten, who is running in the Artane/Whitehall area, spoke of her disgust after the man attacked a woman with one of her sweeping brushed before turning on her and throwing her to the ground.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #14
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    When will these hate crimes stop.


  • #15
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Stark wrote: »
    There craziest part of that is the Gardaí referring to it as a "minor assault". Since when is breaking someone's wrist a minor assault?

    The left have started to normalise election candidate abuse and assault, it was inevitable that any ‘incidents’ would be downgraded in severity by officialdom.


  • #16
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    When will these hate crimes stop.

    When people stop doing things to make people hate them.


  • #17
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Your Face wrote: »
    When people stop doing things to make people hate them.

    What did Muslims ever do to you?


  • #18
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,139 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    The left have started to normalise election candidate abuse and assault, it was inevitable that any ‘incidents’ would be downgraded in severity by officialdom.

    Oh a new poster who must get ptsd when confronted with a left turn.


  • #19
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    What did Muslims ever do to you?

    Eh, Constantinople.


  • #20
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Oh a new poster who must get ptsd when confronted with a left turn.

    Very humourless. You probably piss yourself when you turn right.


  • #21
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,139 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Very humourless. You probably piss yourself when you turn right.

    I've never noticed really. But I'm not that easily triggered anyway. This thread has triggered you about "muslims" "peaceful protests" and "left". There cant be much left now?


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  • #22
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,624 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Where is the thread again on how great the city is to live in compared to the country???


  • #23
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    pjohnson wrote: »
    I've never noticed really. But I'm not that easily triggered anyway. This thread has triggered you about "muslims" "peaceful protests" and "left". There cant be much left now?

    So we aren’t allowed comment unless it meets your narrative? Jog on, mate.


  • #24
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,675 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Not a nice thing to happen to anyone, doubt the scobe that did it had a clue who she was let alone what party she was canvassing for.

    Just another scrounger who will spend his whole life being a drain on the country.

    The kind of person Solidarity/PBF lwould call the most vunerable in society.


  • #25
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,139 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    So we aren’t allowed comment unless it meets your narrative? Jog on, mate.

    No you can. Just generally the thread title on a discussion forum does tend to indicate what angle the discussion should take. I'm cool with whatever random ride you wanna take


  • #26
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Batten beaten with a brush?

    Is that the best you can come up with AI ?


  • #27
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Oak Park Envirnmental group
    Proofreaders needs to be hired.


  • #28
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    The left have started to normalise election candidate abuse and assault, it was inevitable that any ‘incidents’ would be downgraded in severity by officialdom.

    FFS, less than three years ago, one of your crowd murdered an MP in the UK.


  • #29
    Bio Mech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭Bio Mech


    hairyslug wrote: »
    The true victim here is the grammar in that piece.

    Ah come on this is a serious incident and all you can focus on is the gram....

    Oh jesus you're right. I stand corrected


  • #30
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,928 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    "A local election candidate in North Dublin was battered...."

    Such a poorly written article.


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