Ben Gilroy
Mary Carolan, in The Irish Times, reports:
Anti-eviction activist Ben Gilroy has been jailed for three months over failure to comply with a High Court order to complete 80 hours community service after he admitted criminal contempt.
On Wednesday, Mr Justice Brian McGovern found there was a “deliberate and conscious” breach by Mr Gilroy of the October 2017 community service order, arising from Mr Gilroy’s admission, earlier in 2017, of criminal contempt.
Anti-eviction activist Ben Gilroy jailed for three months (Mary Carolan, The Irish Times)
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Interesting that you can be held in contempt of court for expressing opinions about the administration of justice in an affidavit.
” [Gilroy] had also alleged he was “threatened by members of a semi-secretive society wearing wigs and black cloaks” who believe they are “superior to other members of society” and who “act in a clandestine fashion to hide their criminality”.”
That seems to have been the red rag to the bull on the bench?
What ever you think of Gilroy, can people now be held in contempt for swearing an affidavit “from information and belief” even if that belief is offensive to the bench?
“The contempt related to Mr Gilroy having, in a sworn statement in proceedings by Allied Irish Bank seeking to enforce a €3.2 million judgment against another man, accused the court of “criminal intimidation and threats” and compared the action of a court to that of “a thief putting a gun to his head and robbing him of his wallet”.”
Did you intentionally ignore this bit?
that’s one way of looking at it. another is to focus on the fact of his admitting to a criminal offence and subsequently ignoring the court-mandated punishment for it.
Constant Markievicz would be spinning in his grave.
tee-hee
very good
Whatever happened to that genius? Didn’t he borrow in excess of 17 million?
This has made my day.
Police state.
That’s better than Ben Gilroy policing things.
I’d be sure he took sound legal advice before bunking off !
CSO ( Community Service Obligation ) is under the Probation Act as far as I know & if flouted the sentence is according, regardless of original crime or offence !!
Gilroy is a spoofer who has led many a distressed mortgagor up a garden path never resolving their problems.
massive +1
another massive +1
they can jail this guy for three months but if you rob someone with a needle in Temple Bar you’re out in a few days.
It’ll be like the TV licence “criminals”. He’ll be processed and out in a couple of hours and won’t get the prison martyrdom he wants.
well, not exactly a few days..
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/criminal-court/homeless-man-jailed-after-threatening-staff-with-syringe-during-robberies-1.3652043
So some lad had the nuts to declare his thoughts directly on the judiciary system.
He also had the courage to of his convictions to protest by not undertaking his Community Service Obligation.
Fair fk’s to him I say.
In truth, it is probably accepted by all parties that any threats he made are unlikey to be ever acted upon.
Just like Margaretta D’Arcy, for attempting to carry out a protest for cause with humanitarian underlinings, he was thrown 3 months by McGovern.
Unfortunate to see another ‘Irish’ man unable to find any camaraderie in McGovern,
who’s belief in upholding the law to a black & white standard takes precedence over
any underlying cause.
Keeping the unwashed / underprivileged / unconnected in their place under the guise of upholding law and order.
Don’t want the whole place going to the dogs now do we.
The dogs have come to us already, tearing at our weakest in society?
Yes, we should all just ignore the laws that we don’t like.
So some lad had the nuts to declare his thoughts directly on the judiciary system.
He also had the courage to of his convictions to protest by not undertaking his Community Service Obligation.
Fair fk’s to him I say.
In truth, it is probably accepted by all parties that any threats he made are unlikey to be ever acted upon.
Just like Margaretta D’Arcy, for attempting to carry out a protest for cause with humanitarian underlinings, he was thrown 3 months by McGovern.
Unfortunate to see another ‘Irish’ man unable to find any camaraderie in McGovern,
who’s belief in upholding the law to a black & white standard takes precedence over
any underlying cause.
Keeping the unwashed / underprivileged / unconnected in their place under the guise of upholding law and order.
Don’t want the whole place going to the dogs now do we.
The dogs have come to us already, tearing at our weakest in society?
your unpaid m50 toll that you forgot to pay has now jumped from the 3.30e or whatever it was to 149.00e for a single journey. But just pay it Rob, don’t appeal or fight the unjust and extorionate fine, for a bridge that has covered its building costs decades ago, the NTR stiil needs to hit its target
of €1,155,786,122 in toll fees by next year, and every cent counts.
Ireland needs people like you, the type who flinch every time a windowed envelope comes through your letter box from an unknown source.
Know your place Rob, your just about holding down that industrial wage paying job, and more importantly
you can afford that iphone and your daily latte. No point rocking the boat at tthis stage in life.
Can’t beat the system Rob. Keep your head down and you will be fine.
I’ll drop in a bottle of Lucazade to you in St. James when yoo have been on that trolley for 24 hours.
Just think, it could have been 30 hours if the taxes from that bridge hadn’t found their way into the health service.
Everything will be fine Rob.
Agree with your last point – I have somehow never managed to find myself in comtempt of court. If you think toll bridges are too expensive or the fines are too steep, don’t use them.
Rob_G: for someone who’s never found yourself ‘in comtempt of court’, you’re very contemptuous of others who post their opinions on BS – and some might say, obtuse and hypocritical as well.
FG have invested well in you… by their standards anyway.
Enjoy the snow and chocolate in Belgium.
Ok. Are you going to present any counter arguments, or will you be sticking to the lame wordplay?
Ben, of the ancient clann Gilroy (TM) I’ll have you know. He is impervious to their punishments
Ben Gilroy
Less working class hero.
More a Comma Man…..
Gilroy is a boorish thug. He is being punished for his disgraceful behaviour in and out of court. He behaved so aggressively in court that the barristers had to be escorted by Gardaí when leaving. He is a scumbag, thug who uses intimidation and harassment to try and get out of his very significant and long overdue debt. This jail sentence has been a long time coming.
Shoulda made it six
I assume he refused to contract with the court so not sure how this happened.
They can jail Ben Gilroy, but they can never take away the freedom of the one named Ben of the family name Gilroy.