And could someone please explain why the Irish Independent‘s Fionnán Sheehan is speaking from the perspective of Garda Siochana as opposed to, you know, the Irish Independent‘s Fionnán Sheehan.
Anywho, here’s LingoGate, which kicked off just before the closing titles.
Vincent Browne: “Fionnán, do you think this will run and run and can those gardaí remain in the force, in your view?”
Fionnán Sheehan: “Well I think what will be important from the gardaí’s perspective will be seeing how the senior management responds to it. We have the garda ombudsman commission there in place which is already conducting its own investigation but I think the garda commissioner will have to be seen to act in this case because it’s a very poor reflection upon the gardaí, whatever way you want to look at it.”
Browne: “But it’s also part of the lingo of Irish males. Irish males think that talking about, ‘I’d rape that one and whatever’, thinks this is funny. It’s part of the lingo. I think it is.”
Laura Noonan (irish Independent): “I’ve never heard any Irish men jokingly refer to raping somebody.”
Browne: “I’ve, I think that it’s not unusual and not in any way to justify – far from it – but it’s part of the lingo. We are a screwed-up society in that regard as well as in other regards.
And on that hopeful note we’ll say goodnight.
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