LIDL last night (top and middle), this morning (middle pic) and with Gardai at the scene this afternoon and a video compilation of events (above).
Citywest, Fortunestown Lane, Tallaght, Dublin 24.
LIDL bulldozed by stolen digger…
Safe dragged down street…
Centra and Topaz attacked with angle-grinders…
‘Serious incident’ at Dublin supermarket investigated (RTÉ)
Lidl in Dublin looted and smashed on Friday night (Irish Times)
Pic: PA
Update:
Nine people have been arrested following robberies and looting at two shops in west Dublin.
..A small number of gardaí responding in an SUV could not get to the scene due to the weather conditions, which included snowdrifts of up to five feet.
Nine arrested following looting in west Dublin (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
Incredibly, it’s the @IrishTimes that’s sharing that picture of the ‘fire’ at #Lidl – This photo was from a fire in German in 2016 – It’s not from the digger / looting story at #Tallaght #Jobstown #Fail #FakeNews pic.twitter.com/ITlnX7nhFg
— Will St Leger (@WillStLeger) March 2, 2018
Oh dear.
Update:
The remains of #Tallaght Lidl.#StormEmma #SNOWMAGGEDDON #BeastFromTheEast pic.twitter.com/0ISUGUuKXh
— Lomas Longstrider (@Aiteall) March 3, 2018
Meanwhile….
To the pitchforks!
Thanks John Gallen
Update:
Two politicians react to the #LidlLooting that took place last night. One grew up in #Tallaght and one did not.
One has respect for the people of Tallaght and one does not.
What in the world does local FG TD @brophytalks have to say about his shameful colleague? 😠 pic.twitter.com/oZlp5tCyuG
— Irish Political GIF (@ROIGIF) March 3, 2018
Um.
Pics: PA, Rollingnews.
Alternatively…
Ruillebuille writes:
After the disgraceful scenes at Tallaght it’s a pity the news media don’t show what happened last night in Clondalkin when a fire engine got stuck.
In fairness.
Bleeding bread junkies
I think addict is a more respectful and useful term. Just follow the Swiss model. The addicts arrive at the bakery in the morning and are given their daily dose (2 -3 white bread) so they can go about their day.
LANDLORDS, GARDAI, FINE GAEL, DAVID DRUMM – they can all do no wrong.
No let’s stir up national outrage over disadvantaged people stealing 50 euro worth of Tayto crisps.
Did you not see the massive SUV that some of these “disadvantaged” folk were bundling their stolen goods into? And most of they were stealing consisted of slabs of beer.
After the disgraceful scenes at Tallaght it’s a pity the news media don’t show what happened last night in Clondalkin when a fire engine got stuck.
https://www.facebook.com/karinaadoyle/videos/pcb.10215221941637656/10215221938117568/?type=3&theater
White bread, don’t do it.
https://youtu.be/VmIN9ulmy-E
Bread
What the…….
The Celtic Tigers back. Bet you the digger’s been operated by Bertie.
Stupid ladyparts are pretty identifiable in some of the videos going round whatsapp.
Bit of Darwinism in action.
They were arrested in the last video i saw..
same here
one funny one of lad going face first in snow
What did ladyparts ever do to you other than give you birth and sustain your formative years?!
I’m getting loads of videos on this, gardai have stopped the digger driver now and have arrested one for sure. They we’re trying to open the safe with it. Scumbags, then will complain about lack of facilities. Flipping heck, it is like the purge alright. John Connors had an interesting tweet sticking up for the looters too, but ye won’t be sharing that….
What was interesting about it?
Here we go
Connors
@johnconnors1990
“Put it this way, if i see any young ones or young fellas robbing a few loafs of bread from a big corporation I will not be calling @gardainfo . These cnuts are robbing all of us everyday.”
ah Christ…
I’ve had a lot of respect for him and the role model that he is, is an example of doing something different and creative, but I’ve lost a lot of respect with that comment.
Call it what it is ffs
Is he wrong?
what’s your opinion?
wtf is wrong with you?
I think his comments are in general poorly phrased but the part about big corporations fleecing us on the price of essential food items is itself beyond doubt. Here’s the thing Harry – I don’t hold him up as some kind of icon or spokesman in the first place. It’s horrible to witness how quickly the mob mentality has become the norm every time some mouthy traveller posts a dumb tweet. Truly pathetic
He then deleted it and denied its contents and proceeded to dig himself into a massive hole before threatening to sue everyone.
Who cares John? Why so exercised about the mindless outpourings of some z list celebrity?
Thanks Anne.
I’m seeing videos now of the centra being looted, once they got through the security gate all these people just appeared. Wandered in slowly and nonchalantly, reminded me of the walking dead/the purge.
Totally idiotic that
He’s in the process of damage limitation now. Awkward.
He’s attempting a climbdown now.
It was OK when they broke into LIDL to steal bread.
Everything else is not OK.
OK
Someone should tell him to just stop trying to explain himself now…
https://twitter.com/johnconnors1990/status/969693993926873088?s=19
What a tool. If he thinks Lidl are robbing shoppers, he can take his custom elsewhere.
Oh no he’s being tried by the twitterati someone fetch a priest!
Is he, you seem very exciteable by all this. I mean you see libtards, and Twitter trials… mad world you live in.
Keep’s informed now, ya hear!
Not the sharpest tool. And he wonders why he can’t get an agent!! Wouldn’t mind but Lidl as companies go aren’t the worst, pay living wage, good stores, affordable food etc
@Ami B, you might be less tedious if you weren’t so predictable.
You and your ilk are the most predictable of all Lilly twitching away like bejaysus behind your lace curtain
Have you got the cabin fever too Ami?
You sound like me.
he just keeps getting worse, tweet after tweet
@Ami B – You’re a bore who is trying too hard. But you know that already.
This is why I like life without twitter.
Much less noise.
Lilly has a boo boo for seeing the “poors” act the maggot. Doesn’t like when others point out the truth if the truth isn’t the same old boring middle class toffee nosed conservative consensus
You haven’t pointed out anything. You’ve just whined like the whiner you are.
anyone seen ami b or Pat Kenny’s wife?
Lace curtain Lilly
Grow up you fool
Anyone for whiiiiine?
Terry McMahon backing him up now and broadsheet endorsing it.
Shurrup or he’ll sue you too. you’ll be sorry. very sorry. lol
Yes, John, robbing us with sliced pans for about 60p each in old money. What a rip!
Maybe he can make a movie?
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2018/02/27/i-want-to-make-a-film-about-travellers-if-i-can-get-funding/
Meanwhile, the Irish army are sweeping snow off the Main Street in Newbridge for the cameras?
All we need now is copycats?
Jeez – I was watching the news last night and there were a load of people in Tallaght sweeping snow off the streets. copycats!
In a nation of feel good community spirit stories Citywest raises its head to destroy a discount supermarket. I wonder if that will be included on the brochures for the houses being built next door.
Knackers gonna knack- just look at that post about the army above
Ami B gonna B banned
Thanks again for your help
anyone seen Pat Kenny’s wife?
at the exhaust pipe?
anyone ami b Warden of the snort Pat Kenny’s wife
jusbslike
Jusayinlike and his multiple personalities are the worst features of this site. Every day I’m harangued and pestered here by this troll.
Awe..hugs
She’s here. What do you want?
Ooh, so close to a career/being an advocate:
https://twitter.com/johnconnors1990/status/969665903506984960
+1
Now deleted
I blame Leo
All the same shallow snooty, toffee nosed tedious twits
Pavlov’s dog, fast out of the traps at the mere mention of her master, Leo. I hope he’s paying you per post ;)
Poor little lace Curtain Lilly is running out of slurs.
Getting paid by the word, I see. Keep typing, oh dreary one.
Have you anything to contribute Lilly other than by sniping at the poor?
Are you poor? Too bad. If you won the lottery tonight, you’d still be a boo boo.
Ami has anyone seen Pat Kenny’s wife?
She’s off having whiiiiiine!
IS Lilly another of your personae?
hugs. xoxo
Hangings too bread for them… etc
Too true, they should be hung, drawn and sliced like a pan.
This is breaking news here in the UK!!! ..lol
I, for one, am looking forward to Paul Murphy’s grassroots social media campaign to influence the jury ahead of the criminal trial.
#Light-FingeredLidlLootersNotGuilty
As if on cue we have a plethora of snotty little Terenure College boys wielding verbal baseball bats- such tough little boys – yet would wet themselves if they met an actual traveller or native of Jobstown – utter trash
You need to the these comments in a bit. It’s like watching someone paint with an old broom with those broad strokes.
jus’ sayin’
tidy, not the.
Sorry – you’re not Terenure College? Blackrock or Clongowes then?
Jaysus. Talk about missing the point,
*yawn*
I imagine that the irony of the fact that you are the only one talking like a “tough little boy” in this thread is lost on you, but anyways…
Perhaps you will tell us which part of Dublin you are from, so we can go through your roof with a JCB to steal your stuff – I bet you would feel differently about private property and the rule of law then :)
Obnoxious meat grinding
Where’s anyone ami?
Out with Pat Kenny’s wife?
What a weirdo
anyone?
Freak and nobody
anyone is Warden of the snort and Pat Kenny’s wife
jus trump lite
The missus is having a little lie down right now. Can I help with anything?
Keep it in perspective. It was a crime, it was a bit sensationalist and brazen so it is getting people talking. Crimes happen everyday and are wrong.
But in the bigger picture. The LIDL will be put back up. It’s basically a big shed so it shouldn’t take that long. There will be insurance paid out. Several men have been arrested and will hopefully be convicted if they are the right people. What was stolen an damaged are commodities owned by a large company, not comparable to an individual’s home and property.
Thanks for that, I was hiding under the bed until you clarified everything for me there.
Crimes are not wrong – in John Connor’s world. & he’ll bust ya if you disagree.
Sinn Féin could use this against Muphy and the PBP politically.
Tiocfaidh ár thaw.
why doesn’t bs put up a post about their hero Connors tweet….
Apparently they stole everything from Lidl apart from the work boots and father’s day cards!!
Boom! Boom!
Nick that from Boards.ie, did we?
I can neither confirm nor deny that. ;-)
It’s from The Journal. http://www.thejournal.ie/lidl-dublin-looted-3882869-Mar2018/#comments
loving the reaction of the won’t someone think of the children brigade.
It’s absolutely extraordinary
Like a circus act
Its a New Holland – not a JCB. Sloppy reporting.
heard d4 accents in the videos bstds stitching up decent tallaght people.
This is why we can’t have ice things.
Hah!
Snowpocalidl
You used to be so much better than that…. :)
Dear kindly Sergeant Kripker
Don’t give us no reproof
We had to drive a digger
Through a supermarket roof
With all this snow that’s fallin’
We thought it was the Beast
Golly Jaysis we had to get some yeast!
:0) fair dues like!
:-)
(Krupke, though, shoulda left it Krupke.)
Condemnation rampant from watchers of RTE Young Offenders (a punishment in its own right) over on the Journal.
Oh I’m sure they’re loving this.
have to use my posh phone voice for the next few days to avoid a lynching the mob have there pitchforks out
Crime happens , and always very disappointing, the courts will deal with it , but have a look over on the journal, some of the broad brush comments , I find that far more worrying … all the agendas , usually thinly veiled , but not tonight …
Yep. Good range of Mensa candidates evident:
From:
“Dey shud bring bak hangin xoxo”
to
“They should make them pay water charges as punishment”
D’ya know what you need ta’ do Phillie
Along with a few others here
Stay away from the Journal
I can tell ya now
I’ve bin there a half a dozen times, if that
Ever
An’ it hasn’t done me a bitta harm
As a local, I’m very upset by John Connors comment — and very sad that he doen’t see how comparing teenagers stealing drink to a biblical idea of someone stealing “a loaf” to feed his family is ultimately very very degrading to our community (and even the community he is seen to represent).
We are not all that stupid, that, as working class “scum” we think robbing a shop is ok because the only victim is a faceless company.
This as well from one of our councilors: https://twitter.com/Emm511/status/969702104448282624
I just don’t know :-(
First name, Emma.
Ah here.
Good grief…. :/
Fun for all the family:
https://twitter.com/46Flynn/status/969640903060131845
Dress up in pink.
In fairness, one brought a LIDL bag.
She’s hot
He didn’t say that. He said if he saw young people stealing bread he wouldn’t call the guards. He didn’t say anything about stealing alcohol or knocking down a building and he didn’t say it wasn’t wrong to steal bread either. He just said he wouldn’t report it
You’re wasting your time with those idiots George
Here, I don’t know where your from BUT the amount of crap me and my kids have to live with because people won’t report it.
I know travellers are a sensitive topic and the crap he got last night was out of order, but what I was seeing from himself and PBP was pretty much the same as if they said “good enough for them”. Like this is just part normal life and it’s outsiders judgeing us or something.
At least Paul Murphy seemed to have some clue about life up here. We have to get our post from the sorting office. The buses don’t run to our estates once cause a lad pissed on a driver.
Don’t talk to me like I’m thick. This is my life
None of that means you get to put words in someone else’s mouth. He wrote the words he wrote not what you think he wrote.
What words did I put in his mouth? He said he wouldn’t call the Garda and shops are ladyparts.
I’m saying that kind of poo talk helps no one and is exactly why people call the likes of us scum.
Its pretty black and white but you want to dismiss what I’m saying? Thanks mate
Who really gives a tuppenny fupp what he would report?
But if he wants to backtrack and make people believe he wasn’t advocating looting a place by saying he wouldn’t report it, he’s a bigger dope than I thought.
“Put it this way” John, shut your pie hole before you make yourself look even more stupid.
It’s his own Twitter account so he can say what he wants on it. People are talking about it so they do seem to care.
Well said George
Irish Times spreading #flakenews about the event:
https://twitter.com/WillStLeger/status/969692459151306752
Soon not to be published:
Dear Sir,
Lidl more research is needed.
Yours, etc.
Paul Delaney
Dalkey
FG making political capital already:
Noel Rock
https://www.facebook.com/kevin.murphy.75873708/posts/1894621600548898
Not surprising, given how it didn’t take long for a PBP councillor to defend the looters, as per Peadar’s link above.
Sinn Féin also making capital.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/lidl-in-dublin-looted-and-smashed-on-friday-night-1.3413492
““I absolutely condemn wholeheartedly the robbery and subsequent damage done to the store. Tallaght has been very badly hit by the severe weather and emergency services and gardaí should not have to deal with type of criminal activity at the height of a weather crisis.”
He said local people he had spoken to in Tallaght were “so angry at what has been carried out”.
“The mindless destruction of the shop is an absolute disgrace.”
However, he is right.
http://www.azquotes.com/quote/642502
Bravo GG..
Brilliant quote – thanks
You’re quite welcome. As if FG need reminding of their roots.
Yes, your 100 year-old quote was a really winning and pertinent contribution to events happening in 2018.
dung beetle
Thanks for this comment rob_g
Take some time to get some rest now
As if we didn’t need any more proof of Fake News
Stephen Farrelly is not too bright.
I’d be tempted to post what I think of the little class traitors and their activities tonight but it would come out as boo boo and pootle and tootle. As an adult, I can’t be bothered.
jase..I really don’t get some peoples obsession with social media at the best of times…Twitter seems especially adept at ruining careers & helping make eejits out of some users who should keep what’s in their head private. yer man Connors there is clearly talented & exciting actor looked to have a fine future for himself, I hope this doesn’t kill it altogether for him.
Assuming that’s a proper cash safe they could have spent all night bateing it up with that digger bucket even driven over it whatever, it would not have budged.
I feel very sorry for the Lidl staff & lets hope it doesn’t mean they end up losing their jobs.
I watched ‘Cardboard Gangsters’ last night. Surely there had to be better performances last year other than this predictable, average in every element production. Get yourself a loud Dublin accent, use every gangster cliche in the book, act like a ham et voila. Just sayin.
Excellent points here.
Here we have the “arty” character assassin determined to slather his vitriol with a generous helping of culturally appropriate references and a smattering of oh so clever acting notes, like as if he was some kind of important purveyor of the zeitgeist. A close relative to Lace Curtain Lilly and a distant cousin to I’m a Moderate Harry and Tell it like it is Rob_G this creature is often found lurking in the later editions of online blog comment sections.
You’re on duty early. Overtime?
I think Ami has the hots for you…
Lucky me. Ami = Luke Warm = pathetic stalker full of bile.
I thought she was me Lilly?
*cries silently, feels excluded
She is a He. You’re fooling no one.
Look Lilly or is it Anne or is it Jusayinlike – have your silly little online spats if you will, but please leave me out of it? Deal?
Huh? N all i gave were hugs.. xoxo
They obviously didn’t have much of a budget but Cardboard Gangsters was like Fair City meets Love/Hate light meets a junior cert English essay that received a C+. My toes curled during some of the scenes.
I’m sure the real decent people of Darndale were thrilled at the portrayal their community by this half wit in his ‘Straight to DVD movie’.
He is a real person from Darndale.
My god
Listening to the radio and the farce that resulted
Firstly the garda 4×4 could not reach the scene? No snow chains no tires fit for purpose or 4×4
Then 50 garda plus army personal from different areas
Meanwhile gurriers on jcbs etc then looting in jobstown
Is this for real and the nine arrested
Released on bail as the DPP compile a book of evidence
Meanwhile the emergency committee after grinding the country to a halt look so professional as the country cannot function
Life under Leo
Wait till brexit
I spent most of yesterday pushing 4x4s out of the hedges when out for a walk, they are no match for this level of snow, if the sump of vehicle is grounded your wheels are of little use. However the drivers seem to think they are invincible.
simple minded twits
na’ry a winter tyre between them I’d say
Anyone know if the store is opening today ta
Been open all night
good bargains there crazy prices some might even say
Lmao n1
D’ya know that fillum – one’ah the Hannibal one’s
With Julienne Moore the new Clarrrriccce?
The bit at the end with Mason Verger /Gary Oldman
When he gets tipped into the Wild Boar Pit
And there’s a feeding frenzy
The cries for help smothered by snorting and snarling
That’s what this thread is the image of
Does it finish with David carrying a drugged Frilly away to a lakeside house where they dine on anyone’s brains?
Depends.
Who’s David?
But being carried off to be wined and dined sounds about right
But there’s only one man for me
So be careful with this David lad
my money is on Johnny Keenan or that naughty memes lad
Ah t’would be lovely to spend an evening with either of those gents
Charger Salmons by any other name.
under a socialist government food and supplies would be distributed equally and fairly not locked behind the doors of multinational corporations and incidents like this would never happen
hahahah
As someone else said on the internets…. I cannot take credit for this insight….
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.
.
If all LIDL staff were issued with their own JCB, none of this would have ever happened.
Haaa…Ah here. Is that you Che?
correct.
of course, socialism properly construed wouldn’t have a “government.”
asylum seekers are responsible for this. this is becoming a huge problem in parts of Dublin
Untrue judging by the accents. However, it was looking black for LIDL depending on which picture you saw on Twitter, that is true.
I’m really delighted that our immigrant brothers are now fully integrated into scumbag society. Hopefully a few of them will aspire to higher political office and to join the serried ranks of the banking elites too.
Was that meant to be funny? I’m glad you find the poor such a great source of humour
She who can talk to herself will never walk alone!
Lol he takes no poo from himself all right.
What are you on about Lilly lace Curtain?
Ah I’ll leave you to figure it out dreary drawers Ami. Anne understood. It can’t be easy being so slow but tell yourself you’re a tortoise if that helps.
@anne – He can’t even keep track of his multiple faces. Just a day or so ago, he referred to rough sleepers as vermin, an inconvenience to office workers who have to step over them.
Lace Curtain Lilly is at the cooking sherry clearly
And yellow snow for Dreary Drawers when he/she/it isn’t on the whiiiine.
Make that Luke Warm whiiine ;)
lol Sybil gets forgetful.
I hope you’re joking.
+1, west Dublin is becoming a ghetto, clonee tyrellstown, blanch and citywest all effed.
Meanwhile, in Tyrone https://tyronetribulations.com/2018/03/03/police-raids-foil-derrytresk-underground-bread-cartel/
Terry McMahon defending Connors now.
He’d defend Idi Amin if he thought it would get him a bit of attention.
haha.. he is a complete tool alright.
LOL Bertie!
Also, he’s the poorest excuse for a Celebrity Lookalike Richard Jobson that can be imagined
Hah! :)
You sound like a right aul wan.
Fair comment!
https://extra.ie/2018/03/03/news/irish-news/cars-burnt-out-tallaght?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ExtraSocial
it’s natural that these youths would lash out against the deprivation and lack of facilities in their area, it’s unfortunate but these youths have had to grow up in deeply disadvantaged areas we need understanding not judgement for these poor children
Yes correct however others do not behave like that
I believe in the cat and the old fashioned salt and bandage instead of jail
Law and order must be kept but at the same time improving the conditions must be done
That comes from resources and unfortunately this government could not run a piss up in a brewery
I propose an amendment to Ireland 2040. A clinical and meticulous sterilization of all known parasites in the gene pool. Stop the spawn at source.
That’d put an end to FG, ergo the 2040 plan in that case
Judging by the way it collapsed the storm might have blown it down anyways.
If beggars rode horses they’d ride them to hell. Sad thing is the good people of these areas are now forced back to the gombeen shops.
worst thing about this event is that its giving some oxygen back to the likes of Solidarity, Trots and their twitter trolls e.g. Irish Political GIFs. Lads in tallaght last night committed a crime, they got arrested and they will face the courts. leave it at that. they dont represent tallaght.
noel rock’s tweets et al, and the witty to and fro above in comments gives PBP/Trots relevancy. Best thing is to not make social commentary. Gives them a reason to feed their sense of injustice.
They are now are an irrelevant political force and they know it. Polls have been proving it for about 2 years. Thats what really hurting them most, not rock’s tweets. dont give them oxygen. let them die off.
No, the worst thing is some people might lose their jobs and not be able to pay there rent or mortgages.
To all the people scrolling down through the comments, how are ye? Hope you are well.
Just did that -ta! Let’s talk about “David”?
Ya what?
it’s the kind of journey you’d near expecting to be invited in for some tae & biscuits after undertaking
Exactly. Any scones doing the rounds actually?
You’re the resident scone man now.
Mmm… an oven-warm raspberry scone slathered in butter would sort us all out.
ok that’s very weird. because I did really actually make some today, all snapped up tho (prob because they lost their minds and thought they were sliced pans)
thinking of soaking cranberries in gin overnight before making the next set, I’ll let yiz know how that goes
I went to the shops yesterday..I could find a loaf a bread, nevermind a scone. It was mayhem. People would run you over for the last packet of sausages.
*couldn’t
What else would you expect in Limerick?
than you Qwerty and the same to yerself.
Thanks, hope life is returning to normal after the snow
Some of the snivelling left are making excuses. I am delighted to see the uproar about this. Hopefully it will cost PBP votes
Sinn Fein will clean up now:
https://twitter.com/ultan/status/969886210910015488
https://twitter.com/VoteHollandSF
“The #Lidl looting isn’t a case of beleagured proletariat turning against a mighty corporation, it’s a small number of scumbags destroying an amenity, local jobs and disgracing their community.”
Put it this way, they’d report the looting? Like anyone with any sort of moral compass would.
John Connors.. not so much.
because PBP are of course responsible for it.
is that what the snivelling right are going to say.
No Petey, the right will say that the looters are solely responsible. They believe in personal accountability – they don’t need to blame anyone else. Not the parents, not being underprivileged and not PBP.
On a separate point, just because Lidl are allowing the employees to work in other stores doesn’t justify this act of destruction.