Memento

Some memories are best forgotten......apparently

Maybe he needs to start using tattoos!

Willie O  is hoping that once his name is cleared , as part of an ongoing and extensive   Garda Investigation   (and I use the words 'ongoing' and 'extensive' loosely!)  he will return and serve at the cabinet.

In an interview on Limerick's Live 95FM  he stated that if his name is cleared, he would have "every prospect" of returning to senior office.

"At the end of the day, if it emerges as a result of the enquiry that is being carried on that I did nothing wrong, I'd have every prospect of returning I would suspect and I would be working very hard in that direction."

The  investigation  began following a complaint that Willie O made a false affidavit, which led to the whole  brothel  debacle.

The Garda investigation involves a statement made by Willie O that he received false info from a Garda. A short time later he seemed to suffer from a bout of STML (short term memory loss!) in that he could not remember the name of the Garda that gave him the, er, wrong information!  A short story is always a  disclosure !

Could it be a case of if he doesn't remember the name of the Garda, the Garda investigating will clear his name? He needs them all the same, doesn't he?

I'd like to know the name of that Garda, wouldn't you?


They don't want the truth, they make up their own truth.

Now, where was I?

Every Garda has his price..

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

At last night's  GRA Conference  in Limerick, PJ Stone, General Secretary, Garda Representative Association (GRA) advised that Gardai who are struggling to pay debts 'could' be vulnerable to  corruption ! He stated that international experience has shown that low paid forces are susceptible to 'being got at'. He warned that Gardai who are not being paid enough are at risk of becoming corrupt.

Cash strapped Gardai want to overturn current regulations banning them from taking part time jobs.... Nixers !

"There is always the likelihood - and it has been proved in other countries where you pay police forces at a rate of pay that puts them in a vulnerable place - that there is a risk of people being got at and that's a fact of life," he said

You can't squeeze them on the one hand, where they're not in a position to pay their debts, and then on the other side of that introduce a strict discipline code which could effectively mean they might lose their jobs as a result of that difficulty," said Mr Stone.

If it's a case that some financially strapped Gardai can be  'got at' , then get rid of them, they shouldn't be in the force in the first place, right!

Wasn't it Indira Gandi that once said... One must beware of Ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money!

Manhandlers and Nixers..

The Garda Ombudsman have confirmed that they will be conducting an  investigation  after the death of John Nevin, Templemore, who died whilst in custody on Saturday. They confirmed that Mr. Nevin was taken into custody and later became unwell and was taken to Nenagh Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The cause of death is yet to be released. A post mortem is to be conducted at Limerick Regional Hospital.

His family have expressed concern surrounding the circumstances of this death and said they 'will not rest until the full truth is revealed'

Apparently Mr. Nevin suffered from mental illness and had been hospitalised on a number of occasions in relation to same. His family called the Gardai after he became agitated on Saturday. His family wanted him taken to hospital. What arrived was a 'special team' from LIMERICK allegedly armed with stun guns, and 'manhandled' Mr. Nevin into a squad car. It is alleged that Mr. Nevin received an injury to his forehead before he was taken away by the Gardai.

This is the second incident of a death in Garda custody in recent days. The Garda Ombudsman are also investigating the death of a man whilst in custody in Tallaght Garda station last week.

Seems a bit excessive if not extreme to send a special team ALL THE WAY from Limerick. Sure isn't Templemore 'the home of the Gardai' like!?!?

The Templemore mentality eh :) they believe that they are a breed apart from the rest of society and subject to different modes of behaviour from the rest of us.

No wonder people are loosing confidence in the force!


THEN we have Garda John Dope who wants/has a job as a bouncer  on Saturdays......

A motion that is to be put forward at the Annual Conference  Annual Conference  starting this evening in Limerick, states that the Gardai should be allowed to work as barmen and security guards when they are off duty. The GRA say that a vast majority of rank and file members are experiencing 'serious financial difficulties'. Delegates will also be demanding reversal of pay cuts and pension levies. Well crikey, we wouldn't want them pawning off their  uniforms   to any ole criminal gang now would we :)

Change the record..

Nine men in their 20's and 30's were arreseted this morning in Limerick, suspected of links to  organised crime  with seven held under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act and can be detained for up to a period of seven days. One under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, and one under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, in order to 'curb' gang related activity.

Apparently up to 100 Gardai and the ERU, including officers from the Nation Bureau of Criminal Investigation were involved in this so called 'pre planned operation'.  Sure, aren't all their operations 'pre planned'?!?

Nothing recovered but gardai said searches would continue throughout the day.

"It was a planned operation under the new legislation to deal with criminal gangs, so it's probably one of the first of its kind in the country," Chief Superintendent David Sheahan told the Limerick Leader.

"It's a major offensive against serious criminal activity in the city".

Nothing recovered - well considering those involved in crime knew that they would be coming, considering ALL the publicity in the media in recent weeks, about a so called clamp down on crime! Forewarned is forearmed eh!

Does Commissioner Murphy and Minister Ahern think we are all plebs?  A crack down, my arse!

Tis a 'craic' Garda Unit all right! :>)

I'd like to actually see them arrest a big cheese!

 
When some people are born they get a ticket to a freak show. When you're born in Limerick, you get a front row seat!

Heyday

"Early in life I had learned that if you want
something, you had better make some noise."

Make some on April 24th g'wan!

via Mulley

Does my bum look big in this?

Some of Irelands most notorious criminals are offering the Gardai €30,000 for uniforms! apparently so they can be used against gangland rivals.

Via The Telegraph

Senior sources within An Garda Siochana have confirmed that they are aware that some of Ireland's most vicious criminal gangs, -- including the Dundon-McCarthy group and several of the leading gangs in Dublin -- have sought to exploit the discontent in the Force over recent pay cuts by offering cash lump sums in exchange for uniforms.
It is known that new young gardai in Dublin and in other cities like Limerick, Cork and Galway have been approached in recent weeks by gang members, who have informed them of their cash offers ranging between €10,000 and €30,000 for full uniforms. 

One Senior Garda was quoted as saying

"We are aware of the unhappiness over pay among the rank-and-file, but any co-operation with these gangs is a most serious offence. I have heard about these offers of money for uniforms,"

Unhappiness over pay among the rank and file!!! jazus desperate times call for desperate measures eh!

Last Month  at the GRA conference uniform security was on the agenda.  One proposal was the introduction of legislation preventing other workers, i.e.security staff, from mimicking garda uniforms, equipment and transport.

Manimals

Stephen Reilly from Athlone was charged at Mullingar Court with threatening to kill and rape Leanne Collins, daughter of Steve Collins  and sister of the late Roy Collins.  He threatened to slit her throat and rape her.  Leanne is a student in Athlone.

Via the Irish Times

Judge David Anderson was told Ms Collins and her boyfriend had been walking in Beech Park, Athlone when Mr Reilly, who was the backseat passenger in a car which pulled up beside the couple, jumped out allegedly wielding a hammer and told them they were “fucking dead”.
He then chased Ms Collins’s boyfriend and took a bag which he dropped containing a new pair of Nike runners, a T-shirt and a pair of shorts valued at €180, the detective garda said. He said Mr Reilly then pointed at Ms Collins and warned her not to telephone the gardaí.  The threatening phone call was made to Ms Collins later when Mr Reilly warned her again not to contact gardaí and told her he was going to kill her, he said.

It is also alleged that he threatened to have Wayne Dundon sort her out.

Bail was refused and he is due before Cloverhill District Court on April 22nd.

Retail Therapy?

A hat trick..

On the 13th of March Mary Ryan O'Brien of Sharwood Estate, Newcastlewest (also the habitat of John Ryan, an individual with over 80 convictions ranging from public order offenses to knife possession!) AND of Ballinacurra, Weston (habitat of Darren Hehir who is currently in prison for firearm offenses. His brother Joe and Ger Dundon were involved in a  tail gating  expedition earlier this year!)  was arrested in Galway not once, not twice! but three times!!!! for shoplifting over €1,700 worth of goods from Tesco, cosmetics from a pharmacy and theft from Debenhams. (the gardai obviously didn't detain her that long on each arrest eh!).

Her Solicitor made a plea that she was on medication and that her hubby was killed in a crash back in 2009. She has over 180 previous convictions dating back to 2002. She gets around eh! Excuses her legal advisors have made over time - she needed clothes, a young mother of two, fell on hard times etc....

In January 2009 she was questioned in relation to the theft of €760 worth of cosmetics from a pharmacy in Newcastlewest and yet again, a short time later, within minutes apparently after being released, she stole from a local petrol station! All this happened while she was on 'temporary release' from prison! She was supposed to be serving a couple of months in prison for theft in 2008. The excuse presented at that time was drugs, under the influence and all that.... In April 2009 she was sentenced to six months in prison. In May 2009 she was charged with being a passenger in a stolen car.

In November 2009 she was charged with theft of €462 worth of goods from a pharmacy in Dooradoyle, Limerick. The excuse this time as that she was not stealing for her own use, but to 'move on' and 'support herself'. O'Donnell sentenced her to ten months, suspended for two years.



Christ, isn't the judicial system gone way beyond a joke!

Miles High

There is an art . . . to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Pamela Hickey  of Ashford, Patrickswell, has been charged with operating and obtaining a service by deception in relation to chartering flights through Monarch Airlines, from Shannon to Gatwick. She falsely secured flights for Munster games/Munster rugby fans dating back to September 2004/2005. A Detective Garda Margaret Nagle and Garda Thomas Kilfeather charged her. One might remember Margaret Nagle from her brothel raiding a while back

She was also charged with creating false documents under Section 25 of the Criminal Justice Theft and Fraud Offenses. Her reply to the charges... 'Yes, it's true". A book of evidence is due before the court on Tuesday the 1st of June 2010.

Pam has been around!

Back in 2003 she was fined €1,000.00 plus €500.00 costs for organising a rugby trip to France without a licence. She pleaded guilty to illegal tour operating. At the time she ran a creche in Limerick and sold rugby packages under the name of 'Munster Sporting Club' from said creche. She also organised a Rugby trip to Rome which left over 300 fans stranded at Shannon Airport. The chartered company Brittania Airways cancelled the flight because it claimed payment had been received.
Her Solicitor at that time, Pat Barriscale said Pamela Hickey did not make any profit out of the Munster flights, but operated them to enable the best supporters in the Heineken Cup to travel to support their team.

As she left the court in 2003, Hickey was greeted by Munster fans who sat in the public gallery.

that's how they roll

 Wayne Dundon    has   some neck

Convicted criminal Wayne,  who was recently released from prison is claiming that he is being  harassed by the Gardai in Limerick. The Gardai have declined to comment (as is the norm *cough*).  If true, he wouldn't be the first person, convicted criminal or otherwise,  to become a victim of Garda harassment.  I'm inclined, in this instance, to believe that the Gardai are carrying out some form of intimidation.  They can't get to him any other way!  And, sadly, that's how the Gardai generally role!  Let's wait and see what the Gardai will do next.  If indeed he has made a formal complaint, then they will undoubtedly retaliate in some way.  Maybe there is an arrest on the way.....

And it's not the first time Wayne he has complained about something either..... ..

He has always denied any involvement in the murder of Limerick businessman Roy Collins and denied any involvement in organised crime in Limerick and denied Garda claims that he is one of the most violent criminals in Limerick. 

He lodged a complaint to the Press Ombudsman last year about reports linking him to the murder, on grounds of breaches of the code of practice (truth and accuracy, distinguishing fact and comment, fairness and honesty, respect for rights including the right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence, and incitement to hatred against Dundon and his family).

"Just because the guards say I'm involved in something does that make it true. The sort of allegations that have been written about me, I've never been charged or arrested for any of them or brought to court for them," .

"I'm not an angel, I've never said that. But I've just done five-and-a-half years, why can't I be left alone? There is more proof that aliens exist than there is for some of the things I'm meant to have done."

His Solicitor (Peter Madden) maintained that certain press and media convicted him without trial or sufficient evidence and stated that Dundon was in prison at the time the murder occurred and that Gardai had not approached him regarding the murder or charged him.  In his statement at the time, Peter Madden said the allegations 'carried no weight'.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. - Malcolm X

Bulletproof

Commissioner Murphy has 'shot down'  ASGIs (Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors) request to have armed Gardai 24/7.  The Commissioner has always maintained that An Garda Siochana will remain an unarmed police force for as long as he is Commissioner. ASGI want Regional Support Units (RSU) armed around the clock on a full time basis to counteract increase in armed violence ("health and safety considerations for all members") . They made their feelings known at an annual conference (while some would say the annual 'shin dig knees up').  Held over three days in the Radisson Hotel in Galway.  At present, they stay in uniform patrol until called to a serious/critical incident, then change into 'tactical dress' and whip out weapons from the boot of their vehicle, into RSU mode.

However, it was just a while ago that Joe Dirwan General Secretary ASGI voiced concern over the whole RSU project!!!  At the time he said of the new system "blurs the traditional ethos of the unarmed, uniformed gardaí, which has served this country so well",  but they then agreed to partake in the pilot programme. 

I think this guy sums it up eloquently.... just what I was about to say..

Get Real Lads..

..."Most members of the public who take pride in the Garda Siochana as their protectors will have looked on aghast at officers living it up in the Galway Radisson.
How can anybody take you seriously when you stay in one of the top hotels in this country and continue to grumble about cuts?"...