From left: Ruth Coppinger, Mick Barry, Paul Murphy, Robert Ballagh and Lynn Boylan MEP
And so it begins…#JobstownNotGuilty Defending the right to protest #right2water #not1pipe #vinb pic.twitter.com/eOJjeWSO5W
— Mick Caul (@caulmick) April 24, 2017
Jury selection underway in Jobstown false imprisonment trial. Paul Murphy, Michael Murphy & Kieran Mahon have pleaded not guilty. @rtenews
— Orla O’Donnell (@Orlaodo) April 24, 2017
.@rtenews Scott Masterson, Frank Donaghy, Michael Banks & Ken Purcell have also pleaded not guilty to falsely imprisoning J Burton and Karen O’Connell
— Orla O’Donnell (@Orlaodo) April 24, 2017
Jobstown false imprisonment trial adjourned for 10 minutes or so, after which jury selection will resume.
— Orla O’Donnell (@Orlaodo) April 24, 2017
More to follow.
The Jobstown Not Guilty group is live-blogging from the court here
Seven plead not guilty to false imprisonment of Burton and adviser (RTE)
Earlier: For Your Consideration: Jobstown: A Protest On Trial
Pics: Katie Hancke
Aww would ya look at the poor little tykes, isnt it very hard for them altogether.
I bet each and every one of them already has some kind of book deal or deals with newspapers setup to line their pockets with once the court case is over.
You’ve cracked it.
It was fecking book deals all along.
It wasn’t about social issues…that was just a cover*.
*see what I did there?
Your arguments are paper thin
Looking at the tweets about it, there is a raffle for a weekend in Paris, 20 minute video, high profile supporters and multiple protests plus city posters up all over the place.
How many books will they sell VinLieger, do you reckon?
Based on previous Irish political far-left bestsellers?
#JobstownNotGuilty
Unfortunately for Paul Murphy et al, the prefixing a sentence with a pound sign, does not automatically make that statement true.
#does so
You doubly screwed up by not initial capping the words AND using a space.
#SoNowSo
You’re like the grammar mammy. Swooping in with your wooden spoon and gently correcting people’s poor spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Tis great.
Grammar nazi’s in comment sections usually annoy me but the space point is a good one.
There was a famous story about a shop called Pen Island deciding to have a web presence and not really worrying about spaces and capitalisation in their web address.
Don’t be like http://www.penisland.com …..
(Disclaimer: That hasn’t been a pen shop for quite a while and I’m sure as hell not clicking on the link to check what it is now, I’d advise against it.)
its still selling pens
Nazis.
I know it’s a douchebaggy thing to do but it makes me giggle.
Need a psychiatrist? therapistfinder.com
At least experts-exchange.com copped on relatively quick and added the hyphen.
Are we supposed to be commenting on this? Is it not supposed to be illegal to comment of legal proceedings until after the verdict has been released?
I have no idea but the court sections of newspapers would be pretty empty if that was the case.
Ha! That never even crossed my mind.
I’m not complaining. I think the jobstown case is a strange one, even if we may have discussed it to death at this stage.
That said, people still love a good argy bargy about everyone’s favourite contentious issue, water charges.
I don’t think they give a poop what we say.
#NoOffence
#IMadeBunsButMyDaughterTurnedTheSwitchToGrillAndRuinedThemSoIAmAngry
#Don’tTakeYourEyesOffHerForAMinute,D’yaHear?
Little FUPPER.
My own brat likes to do that.
She laughs evilly and then disappears to wreak havoc by covering the walls of my bedroom in shampoo, or something ‘charming’ like that.
Utts hilaires.
I’ll get my own back by being THE most embarrassing mother when she gets older. Won’t be much of a stretch. I’m a nawful eejit.
The Embarrassing Mothers Club.
If it’s not a thing by now, it definitely should be.
“I will be live-blogging the Jobstown Trial from the courts, as it happens.”
I thought that it was illegal to do so.
I don’t believe so (so long as you are not recording audio or video).
Sub judice.
Something tells me that a jury of their peers will decide rather than Twitter or Facebook. Please spare me the conspiracy theory about jury selection and stick to the facts. They were charged with false imprisonment – not with protesting. The rest is just spin.
Ahh but they don’t recognise anyone not from tallaght or jobstown as their “peers” its called being a reverse snob, also more commonly know as being an effin twat
The jury selection thing is an odd one. In certain districts of South London, it used to be standard advice that a client should elect for trial by jury when charged with receiving stolen goods, even when caught bang to rights and no mistake. The jury would never convict, on the basis that as denizens of New Cross or wherever it may have been, half the jurors would have been guilty of it themselves at some point or another.
There’s no business like show (trial) business…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-L7b4FW0AAPSfm.jpg:large
Well that puts to bed the complete nonsense about stacked juries etc.
Clear, reasonable and impartial guidelines from the judge.
It wasn’t nonsense until the DPP rowed back on earlier restrictions, and that was only after the defence barrister complained of ‘social-profiling’.
It’s a pretty sad reflection on your life if blocking Joan Burton’s car is considered a good use of your time.
Says the guy posting on the comment section of a blog under a fake name.
Haha!!!
Jury summons sent out to residents of Dublin 2, 4, 6, Castleknock and certain wards of DLR.
This trial is a huge mistake. It’s a politically motivated show trial and could have easily been avoided. Petty revenge of the Labour party.
whether that is true or not, and it is a massive stretch in my opinion, none of that matters to the judge who can only look at the crime as it is set out in legislation and whether it actually occurred or not
The jury decides that, not the judge. The judge is the moderator.
right you are in this court
At 6% in the polls, it is very petty indeed. Timed for right after the Labour Party Conference this weekend.
They did well there. How did they manage it? As in getting the DPP, the cops, and the judiciary to obey them?
I don’t know why Labour hasn’t stopped this nonsense
As soon as the Constituency Commission chew through the Census stuff, and remap a few constituencies and move around the seats a bit
we’re heading for another election
Agreed on the first part (I didn’t really understand the first part).
Joan and pals should really have asked for the charges to be dropped. Even on a cynical level, they’re only creating martyrs
They aren’t creating martyrs – the defendants will be forgotten as quickly as the electorate forgot how much FF f****d up the economy and are now back supporting them again. Someone has already been found guilty in a previous trial – where are the murals in his honour?
The Twitter generation has a short attention span.