This morning (11.30am)
Anna Kavanagh, Of Athlone Community Radio, reporting on the latest developments from Strokestown, County Roscommon
Anna writes
Reliable sources tell me Garda Commissioner Drew Harris is going to Roscommon and the men arrested yesterday may be questioned by Gardai for up to seven days
Earlier: The Other Guys
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Let’s hope the Gardai in Roscommon are truthful with the Commissioner. As we see in the Commission of Investigation report published today into an armed robbery in 1998, the Gardai are to be “deplored” for some of their actions.
In 1998, one Garda member gratuitously kicked a criminal in the head while lying prone on the ground. Not only that, but other Garda members who witnessed the assault didn’t divulge what they saw after the public had complained.
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/MacLochlainn_Commission_of_Investigation_Final_Report.pdf/Files/MacLochlainn_Commission_of_Investigation_Final_Report.pdf
“53. While all of these events were occurring, one of the other raiders
had been apprehended and was lying, face-down, near a line of civilian
cars where he was being guarded by a member of the ERU. As two
civilians watched, this prisoner was kicked in the face by a member of
AGS, who was then led away by a colleague. The garda assailant asked
the raider, “Did you think I was sick?”, in an obvious reference to the Blue
Flu. Because the incident was not followed up by AGS, it is now
impossible to tell who the assailant was, other than that he was one of
the gardaí at the scene. The ERU member standing guard over the
prisoner must have been aware of this assault, although he says he was
not. One of the civilian witnesses to this assault reported it to AGS that
evening but her complaint was not taken down in writing, nor was it
followed up.
54. This incident gives some idea of the kind of scene this was. It was
fraught, it was dangerous and it was very traumatic. The incident was
also a good example of the kind of difficulty that attends the work of
AGS. When an armed raid takes place and the lives of citizens and
gardaí are put at risk, it is perhaps not surprising that some people react
with anger and this was certainly just such a reaction. It can only be
deplored but at least the assailant could have pleaded momentary loss of
control, had he ever come forward. What makes the incident far more
serious is that it was effectively ignored by AGS although at least two
colleagues must have been aware of it at the scene and another heard
about it that evening from one of the civilians who witnessed it. While
one can understand loyalty to a colleague, it is very wrong when such
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loyalty extends to ignoring an assault on any citizen, even a criminal.
The civilian witness who described to the Commission what had
happened concluded that, while she did not condone anything the
raiders did, this was not right. It was far from right, but the way in
which it was managed made it even worse.”
Perhaps Harris might give us all an insight into the incident that led to
the Citizens March in Castlerea last Sunday given that he visited the
town today, its also ironic that RTE carried a news report fronted by
Ciaran Mullooly from Castlerea yesterday outside the Police Station
How come he didn’t do a news report on last Sundays March…..from
outside the same Police Station where the March finished, its not that
RTE didn’t know about it.
Exactly.
Batsheet Gemma O’Doherty wannabe. https://twitter.com/newsworthy_ie/status/1075058559929516033 watch the videos, nasty bit of racism among the delusions.
For anyone following the lady on Facebook Live in Strokestown, be aware that she has shared a platform with a failed presidential hopeful in Kilkenny.
I never did. She of the wig with static curls so defiant that Panti Bliss would demand the Chinese ebay supplier of?
SOQ used ‘CONFUSION’.
– It worked.
7 days doesn’t add up. I understood they were detained for q’ing under the OASA, which has a limit of 3 days for q’ing. Would also be bizarre for the Commissioner to directly involve himself in a single investigation. So not really sure how ‘reliable’ the source is.
Let’s hope Drew has the balls to face up to these SF/IRA terrorist thugs
yes and protects the unregulated “security” services as they drive around in unregistered vehicles and evict people out of their homes..
but they don’t murder innocent people so as bad as they are they aren’t as bad as the ‘ra or their supporters . ie: you