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It amazes me that many Irish people on here don't realise
That if the Brits adopted the same Israeli punitive logics in their dealings with us
They'd have have carpet-bombed the island in the 1970s
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It's 15 years to the day since Gardaí raided my cottage in the Burren to arrest me & dismantle my grow house
Next day was fired from my job as a stone mason
To avoid a lengthy prison term I threw a late CAO app in to study law in TCD
Moral of the story? Late CAO apps are great
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Some extraordinary outrage responses to this.
Have people forgotten where the balaclava'd Gardaí in this image is taken from?
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Ah yes
A state that was once a murderous colonial power
Lecturing a former colony
On how to do anti-colonialism proper
"Anticolonialism must not lead to antisemitism" - an important and timely reminder from Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, both for Germany and Ireland.
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What is wrong with sub editors?
@IrishTimes
This is such an irresponsible headline.
She had a cold ffs – the vaccine trial didn't make her sick.
20%+ of people are saying they won't take a vaccine now: there's no reason to think this won't grow.
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The last 48 hours illustrates how An Garda Síochána has learned nothing from the Disclosures Tribunal experience.
The ultra close relationship between the Garda hierarchy and certain crime reporters - drip feeding highly sensitive and potentially damaging info about a suspect -
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Gerry O'Carroll tried to frame Joanne Hayes for murder
Her false confession was extracted by violent coercion
When she wrote a book about this experience, he sued her for defamation
And a jury found in his favour
He put a small brave publisher out of business
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I've studied journalism for the past 10 years including several years observing and interviewing reporters.
This is nonsense.
The reason mainstream political journalism in Ireland don't do this is not resourcing, it's cultural
Here's the issue with The Ditch. It takes a lot of resources to do the kinds of investigations they're doing. Resources commercial media can't afford to commit.
And what have they found for all this effort? A few non-declarations of assets and a few planning strokes.
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In case people are confused
No human rights framework anywhere on the planet contains a right to protest that includes a corollary right to enter a bus to undertake a head count
That's never been part of any right to protest
Because that's not protest
Asked Simon Harris about why Gardaí reportedly allowed protesters to count asylum seekers on a bus in Inch.
He said Gardaí have to use discretion, trying to balance “competing rights” including right to protest.
He says blockade should end, however.
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Serious disinformation being deployed by Dept of Justice here
Ireland would have to engage with 'Taliban and narco-terrorists' in order to legalise drugs
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Hard not to think about the recent instinct of some presenters in RTÉ to join in the Tánaiste-led pile-on against the Ditch over it's funding
A strategy which was so obviously designed to distract from the substance of The Ditch's reporting
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'We're most welcoming people'
'Only in Ireland'
'Racism is an English thing'
How's the Irish exceptionalism delusion going for people these days?
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An observation on the Táinaiste's attack on The Ditch (rather than the substance of its reporting about Niall Collins)
During the Garda Whistleblowing scandal, then Garda Commissioner Callinan went into the Dáil & undertook an ad hominem attack on Maurice McCabe & John Wilson
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Notable how few people are considering the possibility that the strong rejection of the family amendment might be significantly rooted in racist far right propaganda...
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That such desperate attempts to draw some sort of moral equivalency between the Irish left and far right are continuing to do the rounds in public debate
After people have been burned from their homes by far right
Highlights the profound moral bankruptcy in our public sphere
Powerful response from
@paulmurphy_TD
on
@RTEUpfront
to the notion that far-left protesters have any equivalence to the far-right.
Excellent stuff.
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Worried about the optics of having enthusiastically given imprimatur to genocide, are we?
I spoke with
@UN
SG
@antonioguterres
following my visit & contacts with regional leaders.
The EU will be tripling its humanitarian aid for vulnerable civilians in Gaza and the wider region.
We will redouble efforts to ensure this support reaches those who need it.
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Amazing things about Irish farmers
They own the overwhelming majority of what we foolishly consider to be 'our natural heritage'
Receiving vast public subsidies to do so
Yet hysterically oppose any public good amenity that might touch 'their land'
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Anyone know who this absolute king is?
"I'm concerned about young people getting convictions."
Wealthy neighbourhoods aren't policed for drugs.
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I'd be very curious to know what intel has justified masked armed Gardaí carrying out a forced eviction
When I've never come across a case of Gardaí experiencing armed resistance by housing activists.
Now happening in Pimlico, Dublin 8: Gardaí Public Order unit engaged in full-on violent mobilisation in support of eviction.
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I'm trying to think of an activity other than motoring that could kill two children in two days and not result in front page headlines in every national title calling for a national conversation about the problem with that activity.
Horse riding maybe.
An 8 y/o on his bike in Cork
A 14 y/o teen walking in Limerick
A man cycling his bike in Kilkee
All dead in 2 days
@RSAIreland
@GardaTraffic
get your sh!t together!
@IrishCycle
@SafeCyclingEire
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It's quite telling that this has gotten so little attention
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Try walking around the city centre of Dublin with a child under 10, or with an adult with mobility issues and tell us the current stranglehold cars have on the city is about freedom
The language of freedom & autonomy has been hijacked for exclusive use by motorists
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Remember when medics from the Cannabis Risk Alliance were on national airwaves telling us with great confidence that nobody was really prosecuted for cannabis possession?
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When police say they're worried decriminalising drugs will compromise their stop & search powers
They mean it will rob them of an easy way to retrospectively justify what would otherwise be an unlawful search
That's why UK's College of Policing opposes 'smelled cannabis' as a
The Gaurds strongly advocate against decriminalisation/legalisation, their reasons:
- Compromises stop/search powers
- Promotes 'drug tourism'
- Will cause issues with the UK.
#CADrugsUse
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If new Supreme Court judge Séamus Woulfe did attend the Oireachtas
#Golfgate
event it's equally as - arguably more so - serious as a cabinet Minister.
As AG he drafted these regulations.
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The State has just spent millions of Euros in a failed prosecution based exclusively on the evidence of Jonathan Dowdall.
The State offered him to the courts as a reliable & honest actor.
But no, it's the leader of SF who has questions to answer about the saga.
A must-read from
@fionnansheahan
In aftermath of Regency trial, questions over Jonathan Dowdall’s relationship with Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Féin refuse to go away
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That a very new operation like The Ditch has turned out more original reportage about political and governance misfeasance than the Irish Times has produced in 20 years, hints at a deep cultural problem in our 'newspaper of record'
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It's extraordinary that this needs to be said
But if evictions are illegal
Multiple serious crimes are likely to be involved in carrying out an illegal eviction
Gardaí facilitating the eviction even though tenant has confirmation from RTB and Treshold that this is an illegal eviction and landlords men were violent towards tenant.
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This is what impunity looks like.
Fascism depends on impunity to grow.
Firefighters were called at 7am to vacant buildings alight at Crooksling off the Blessington Road
7️⃣ Seven fire engines including a turntable ladder and emergency tender were sent to the scene
🛣️ Traffic restrictions on the
#N81
due to hose lines
🚒 Operations are continuing
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Tenants' right were once the most powerful political organising force in Ireland
Now Ireland's cultural obsession with private property rights means landlords can act with near-impunity
Can you imagine the Garda response if a tenant did this to their landlord's home?
The actions of this gang of men who brutally attacked me at my home while I held closed my door have now been officially declared illegal. Will the Gardaí now prosecute them for assault?
@gardainfo
@GardaTraffic
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James seems a little too proud in this picture imo.
A bit of humility please, you're a public servant.
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In Ireland, the only solution mainstream politicians offer in the aftermath of awful attacks like that in Talbot St is 'more Gardaí' and 'tougher sentencing (powers for courts'
But we aren't a particularly under-policed state (if we take that to mean 'how many cops are employed'
TD Jim O’Callaghan said the only way to reduce criminality was to have ‘a serious Garda presence there’.
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Do you ever wonder what Gardaí might have said, if Ireland had put the question of decriminalising homosexuality to a Citizens' Assembly, and they were invited to give their views on legal change?
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I have an opinion piece in
@irishexaminer
today where I question the inevitable political calls for 'more Gardaí' in the aftermath to terrible incidents like the Talbot St attack:
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I am going to say it because it's not said enough.
If it weren't for Irish protestants, Irish republicanism as we understand it today would not exist.
Irish protestants have a much longer and deeper history of radical revolutionary republicanism than Catholics here.
It's striking that so many people like O'Toole here keep mentioning that 80% of the RIC were, in the end, Catholics.
Other than playing into persistent sectarian a-historicism over what kind of Irish were/could be involved in liberation action here what is its relevance?
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Irish-abroad Euro-technocracy is a strange drug.
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I attended the
@CitizAssembly
yesterday as an observer
Along with
@iancriminology
and Senator Lynn Ruane, we had communicated with the Assembly's secretariat to convey our serious concerns about the dearth of relevant criminal justice & policing expertise heard by the Assembly
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Unsurprising that the Phoenix is the only media organisation willing to point this out.
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To any journalists out there parroting the line that it's all social media's fault this man's life has been ruined:
Gardaí didn't need to leak deeply sensitive and damaging info on Twitter.
They had you.
The last 48 hours illustrates how An Garda Síochána has learned nothing from the Disclosures Tribunal experience.
The ultra close relationship between the Garda hierarchy and certain crime reporters - drip feeding highly sensitive and potentially damaging info about a suspect -
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Among many other things
I am reminded here about all the times tenants have called Gardaí asking for assistance when landlords illegally and often violently enter their homes
Only to be told
'it's a civil matter'
I was thrown out with excessive force from Nancy Pelosi's honorary doctorate of law
@ucddublin
earlier today for representing the views of students as
@UCDSU
President. Why does UCD continue to platform Zionist warmongers whilst silencing students?
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This lot have gone very quiet haven't they?
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The performative cruelty of this is obviously the most notable feature of this most recent innovation of a long-standing practice of hostile urban design
It's also another useful illustration of the contempt our Gov has for people who live in & use the city's limited amenities
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Very large contingent of Gardaí doing some big clear out at gates in T1 of the airport.
They're hassling people who have taken photos - directing them to delete them.
Anyone know what if any power they might be relying on?
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I received a 5 year prison sentence for growing cannabis.
That was "getting off easy"
Our sentencing regime shows the utter perversity of punitive political values
'Justice not served' by maximum two-year sentence for causing death by careless driving
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The President of the European Commission's official statements have given imprimatur to crimes against humanity.
This is genocidal.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:
"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."
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Based on what I've heard over the past few weeks, particularly in the national broadcaster
I don't have confidence in the current generation of Irish journalists to report on what's happening in Palestine
At best, seems a dearth of deep understanding of the region's history
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Just passed Convention Centre which is hosting a citizenship ceremony
1 of the great innovations of Alan Shatter's tenure in DoJ
Moving to see everyone joyfully taking pics with their family & friends
Many holding tricolour
Nice to see it held by those without corrupt motives
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This type of 'hook' might get a few more people to read the article: but shitloads more won't bother reading it (as you surely know by now).
All they will take in is your stupid, misleading headline.
@IrishTimes
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Curious how An Garda Síochána have never considered bringing criminal charges for misconduct in public office among other potential crimes against the original Garda Detectives in the Kerry Babies case
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Excuse me?
Anyone who really believes in democracy should have nothing but contempt for an institution which bases privileged national leadership status on the basis of magical blood.
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I am not sure how high the toleration for child killings on our roads our national and local government have
before they'll concern themselves with inconveniencing motorists
But it seems to be be a despicably high threshold
I'm trying to think of an activity other than motoring that could kill two children in two days and not result in front page headlines in every national title calling for a national conversation about the problem with that activity.
Horse riding maybe.
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Vast majority people living in "rural Ireland" (i.e. areas outside the 6 or 7 major urban centres) are not farmers and even fewer are turf cutters.
They're also not landowners and are excluded from what little bit of nature hasn't been destroyed.
He wants a new landowners party
Our front page today has certainly got people talking. While Fitzmaurice may not lead any new party, he's in no doubt there's a need for one.
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He describes whistleblowers like McCabe & Wilson – who brought genuine problems of Garda malpractice & corruption to public attention – as 'disgusting'
It's not uncommon for those on the defensive to attack the messenger
This is a common experience of whistleblowers
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I had the pleasure of being taught Torts by William Binchy before he retired
He was engaging, charming, & very generous to students
He is, however, a deeply political actor
& has used his status to significant political effect over the years
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I'd be very curious to know what offence Gardaí are claiming is involved here
Likely they're thinking public order legislation
If that's the case, then given the Supreme Court has struck down vagrancy offences as unconstitutional, this has to be an abuse of public order regime
Asylum seekers have been told they cannot stay on Grand Canal, and that they are committing an offence. They have not been told where buses are taking them to - people are understandably nervous.
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The principal reason most medics have no appreciation for the harms of prohibition is because they are drawn almost exclusively from socio-economic and ethnic groups which never experience the destructive violence of the State's pursuit of the War on Drugs
Every tweet you will read about cannabis harm (particularly from members of my own profession) will ignore the harms of prohibition. I guarantee you will not read one single tweet about what it means being a consumer in the Wild West of the illicit market.
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has led to significant and unnecessary harm to the now exonerated man, Ashling Murphy's family and the broader community.
Gardaí did not need to share any details of who they had arrested with the media to do their job. If they did so to assuage public fears then it has blown up
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Recommendation looks to be a Portugal-style form of decriminalisation of all drugs for personal use.
A good starting point from a health approach
Unfortunately, this will not at all address concerns over misuse and abuse of police powers under Misuse of Drugs Act
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I spent several years in England studying police communications
Mostly focused on the media team, but also spent a lot of time looking at their social media strategies
It's interesting to contrast English & Irish police comms
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Aside from getting to play with the 'big boys'
One of the remarkable things about being inducted into the big club of European racist colonial powers
Is the particular forms of amnesia it has induced about our own experience
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And yes, school guidance counsellors, I am available to give your students advice on how to use university education to avoid lengthy prison sentences
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My fav media interpretation of public order policing was the time Gardaí were unaware the audio recorder they confiscated from a Rossport protester was still running & they joked about threatening to rape her
RTÉ Radio 1 had Paul Williams on saying he felt sorry for those Gardaí
The only difference with this weekend is a slightly more fractured media interpretation of Garda tactics: normally it's unquestioningly supportive of AGS risk decisions.
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I don't know what this claim is based on given we do not have an accurate national system for collecting data on racial discrimination or violence.
It feeds into a dangerous complacent belief in Irish culture that racism is what the English do.
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If you want an easy Dublin-based example of how rich areas always get the nicest of infrastructure, cycle westward along the grand canal greenway beginning in 'silicon docks'
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The record of court-imposed punishments in Ireland is rich with examples of courts which punish drug offences harshly while punishing serious inter-personal violence comparatively mildly
The War on Drugs has among other things perverted the moral judgement of key decision makers
Sick to my stomach reading this. BTW the same judge gave a man 7 years in prison for growing and selling cannabis
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A consistent theme in policing across the globe of the past 60–70 years is that police often have blindspots to the far right, and downplay or ignore the risks posed
On the flip side, police often over-estimate or exaggerate threats from the left
See e.g.
#Spycops
Inquiry
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Good reporting on this
But given how frequently we are seeing well-documented examples of Gardaí both ignoring criminal offences involved in coerced illegal eviction, and facilitating those evictions
You would think there'd be a bit more media concern
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Police forces that engage in crude performative tactics in response to political challenges to their effectiveness often employ 'mass arrest' as a 'show of strength'
These tactics are normally short-lived, like their effectiveness
They are rarely targeted or 'intelligence led'
Gardaí have said they have arrested more than 500 people in the last week alone, as they gave an update on policing in the capital in the wake of a number of high-profile attacks
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Though it went almost universally remarked upon at the time in Irish media (except, of course, for
@ThePhoenixMag
)
Keir Starmer has repeated claimed he will violate the Good Friday Agreement by campaigning in Government against United Ireland, &/or refusing a border poll
i know it’s beyond trite at this point, but still wilds me out how this guy’s self styled schtick as a ‘forensic human rights lawyer’ doesn’t extend to him understanding war crimes or the ready existence of video evidence directly contradicting himself
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An Garda Síochána, like other police forces, have a variety of strategies to stop victims from bringing legitimate criminal complaints
A not uncommon strategy is to threaten the victim with prosecution
So, the Gardaí have just told me that because I made this guy go back into the correct lane that I am liable to prosecution for “holding up traffic.” I don’t want to test it, so he is getting away with it this time.
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I think the siege mentality of many in
@sinnfeinireland
is an obvious – & in many cases understandable – response to unquestionable media hostility in the Republic (& a longer history of actual state repression on both sides of the border).
But it also creates a toxic culture
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Irish political journalism at the national news orgs is almost exclusively access-based
Cultivating personal sources within Gov is prized at a cultural level
Doing the kind of boring trawls through public docs is not prized, particularly if it jeopardizes sources relationships
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'Zero Tolerance' law enforcement is only for working class youths
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I feel bad for other former colonies that don't have words like Shoneen to describe the revisionists, apologists and celebrators of their colonial oppressors.
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This is an extraordinarily poorly conceived panel
Not a single person with expertise on the far right or radicalisation
That person was, as I understand, merely included as an audience member
@paulmurphy_TD
has at least personal experience of far right threats & intimidation
On
#RT
ÉUpfront tonight:
@KatieGHannon
is joined by Pat Leahy, Dr Ciara Kelly,
@Mickcliff
,
@paulmurphy_TD
and our live studio audience to discuss last week’s Dáil protests, how they were handled and what happens next.
Watch Upfront @ 10.35pm on
@RTEOne
.
@rtenews
|
#RT
ÉUpfront
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in their faces.
Why is it that certain crime journalists are able to report on ongoing investigations in their absolute infancy - when nobody has any idea what the hell is happening?
What public interest is served? It certainly does not aid the investigation.
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Do I have regrets?
Well yes, some very nice stone cutting tools went missing while Gardaí were searching my home
Never to be found again
And yes I did ask that they be returned
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I teach a class on collusion for my undergraduate policing module.
It's really surprising how little academic work has been done on it.
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It should be noted
That despite the unbalanced dominance of fear-mongering pro-prohibitionist voices like O'Sullivan's and those from the Cannabis Risk Alliance at the
#CADrugUse
The Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to end stigmatisation of all drug users
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You're not allowed find out what went on in a public session of your local democracy without completing a bureaucratic exercise designed to enable transparency
Isn't it amazing how well we apparently fare in democracy indexes when the state operates as if it's the secret service
@StevenOMcCarthy
FOI takes four weeks to come back, and when I asked the council for those very documents, they couldn't/wouldn't share them without an FOI request.
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People have so quickly forgotten that a primary aim of the FG-Labour Gov post-2011 was to recover asset values of housing that declined during the crash
That aim fundamentally shaped housing policy in the 2010s
Sacrificing whole generations - scarity crisis by design
Varadkar warns against increasing housing supply ‘too quickly’
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Medical professionals with no expertise in criminal justice or policing write letter in an attempt to shape criminal justice and policing policy.
The Cannabis Risk Alliance is a political organisation.
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Maybe you would have been safe in your well-heeled southside suburb
Maybe not
But Dublin city centre would have been a pile of rubble
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I was interviewed last week by a few journalists about the Hutch verdict in the Special Criminal Court.
They asked me whether it was a good day for the court.
My response was that this was not the first time a weak case had been brought by the State to the SCC.
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Some of the people on here whining about Lynn Ruane
Who is one of the finest legislators in the Oireachtas
Have obviously never bothered watching proceedings from the Oireachtas committee on finance public expenditure and reform
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Happily
Most Irish people still instinctively repudiate the chauvinistic militarism at the heart Europe's attitude to the Middle East, and beyond
Thankfully many also see the echoes of our history in the routine dehumanisation of Palestinians
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A number of other belongings did disappear – wasn't particularly surprised
But there was something particularly despicable about having the tools of my trade taken
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This question of Garda-media relations doesn't even touch on the the far more troubling aspects of what we've seen from this investigation so far.
I just hope the panic of Gardaí to quickly demonstrate how great they are hasn't fundamentally tainted this investigation.
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You can think aspects of Irish public transport are under-policed; that drivers and passengers regularly fear for their safety and are intimidated
and
also think those young men on the DART were subject to excessive use of force by Gardaí
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Not unusual to see the far right highjacking fears of child sexual abuse and exploitation.
The irony of this tactic is that experience in other jurisdictions shows that the far right are typically chock full of child sex abusers.
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The rule on criminal incitement are pretty clear.
Over the past 3 years I've seen many posts by public social media accounts that come firmly within that rule.
Plenty on Thursday too.
For some reason AGS and DPP seem unwilling to deploy those laws.
@gardainfo
@HMcEntee
@TheNotoriousMMA
has surely ‘prima facie’ committed this offence. In the context in which he tweeted “Ireland, we are at war” it can only have been an exhortation to violence & hatred.
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Senator Lynn Ruane,
@iancriminology
and I have a piece in
@thejournal_ie
today
We highlight our serious concerns about the quality of information being provided to the
#CADrugsUse
regarding policing and crime in drug policy.
@CitizAssembly
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Gardaí making up rules that dramatically expand their coercive powers in direct interactions with the public is a growing interest of mine.
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I don't know what's going on but walking (let alone cycling) around Dublin 8 has gotten extremely difficult the last few days.
Drivers are back in force and are being bigger assholes than normal.
There are loads of kids walking and cycling around you dicks: slow down
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We have deluded ourselves into thinking that if you live in rural Ireland – you can access nature
Ignoring the fact that Irish agriculture has sterilised the Irish landscape
Even if you like the homogenous green fields – it's not like you can walk through them
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Narrator:
The real concern here is that AGS will lose search powers that can be abused without any oversight or accountability
In a wide-ranging interview, the Garda's top drug officer warns of a 'surge' in drug use if laws - currently being examined by the
@CitizAssembly
- are liberalised..
@drugsdotie
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This is a classic form of performative policing
Using the crudest kinds of police statistics to counter a perceived challenge to police effectiveness
This kind of policing politics has a long history in other jurisdictions:
Always based on cynical opportunism: never evidence
Dublin Gardaí have made over 2,135 arrests and conducted more than 4,615 high visibility patrols in the month since July, 28th.
In the past seven days their work led to:
⚪️494 arrests
⚪️1,591 patrols
⚪️€3,377,176 illegal drugs seized
⚪️€70,107 seized cash
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