Excerpt from recording by confiscated video camera in a Garda vehicle on March 31, 2011, after the arrest of two women at Aughoose for public order-related offences relating to the Corrib gas project.
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Garda A: “Who is them two lassies, do you know the two of them?
Garda B: “I don’t know the second one, the first one is with blonde hair.”
Unidentified garda: “She was up on the tractor earlier on.”
Garda A: “It’d do no harm to get the second one’s name again?
Garda B: “She’s some Yank. I don’t know who the f**k she is.”
Unidentified garda: “ Is she a Yank?
Garda B: “It sounds like it, it sounds like it, the accent anyway
Unidentified garda: “Sounds like a Yank or Canadian.”
Garda B: “Well whoever, we’ll get Immigration f**king on her.”
Garda A: “She refused to give her name and address and told she would be arrested.”
Garda B : “…….and deported”
Garda A: “And raped.”
Garda B: “I wouldn’t go that far yet….. She was living down at that crusty camp [Rossport Solidarity Camp], f**k sake, you never know what you might get.”
Garda A: “Give me your name and address or I’ll rape you.”
Unidentified Garda: “Hold it there, give me your name and address there, I’ll rape you.”
Garda A : “Or I’ll definitely rape you.”
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Senior Garda To Investigate Treatment Of Corrib Protestors (Irish Times)
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