Agree..when my house was broken into 2 weeks ago the guards were at my door within 2 mins of the call…they do a great job with not a lot of thanks for it…& no I’m not a copper:)

Sorry for your bad luck. But, compared to the German police in the 70s and the British police in the 80s, the Irish version is fairly benign. I’m not belittling your situation, but to really see how badly the police system works, we have to look at yearly statistics. Overall, how effective are they? Your situation ma be the norm, or it may be an exception to the norm. I don’t know, and I won’t damn the police to charges of incompetence, laziness or corruption until I do.

Thanks,although they were still in the house when I rang the guards so that’s probably why they came quicker,anyway i personally think they do a good enough job with the resources they have,although hate those traffic cops,they’d do their own mother..!!

@ Tara -an embarrassing apology; my comment was in answer to Bang Bang. But I’m sorry to hear of your bad luck, and it’s good to hear that you felt the Gardai were on your side.

Same as Barry, comment not posted, for reasons I can’t say or understand. I suppose we can’t be seen to upset the tiny extremist minorities in this country for fear of…for fear of…..I don’t know exactly, Journal maybe you can explain, or will your usual silence will speak volumes?

I sent an email about half an hour ago about this… Still no reply!

Your comment was probably garbage as I the case with most of your posts.

Republican? It was the funeral of criminal trash

What a stupid comment

Nick. Call the Gardai? You mean make a booking. My friends motorbike was stolen, It took the Gardai over FOUR (4) hours to arrive. It happened on North Strand so there were 3 stations all within less than a mile from the scene. Most times a waste of time.

I’m down here.

Is that you with the glasses?

@bang bang why didn’t your friend just walk a mile to the Garda station and report it instead of waiting for 4 hours?

Which language are you speaking? Mixture of cockney slang thrown in with some “Talla” gutter talk. Are you 12? If you wish to be taken seriously on a discussion forum, grow up a bit and try and use an educated adult’s lexicon. Seeing as the majority of people are screaming at the Gardai to do something, they brought along the journalists to witness and record it. Those who were arrested are nothing in society and were not to be afforded any respect or privacy. Bring them on down here to Darndale and we will save the tax-payers the cost of keeping them in Jail. Let’s see how brave these “republicans” are now when in custody – they will be spinning and ratting out their “comrades” in order to cut deals as Mountjoy and Porlaoise are no please to be during a recession – they are cramped and smelly, not much room for their tracksuit collections.

Albert you are a big fat liar, first you say look at you first comment and you are only new on this, and then look down further and you say your on fb a while and you only have your friends on your real profile. Now you are a smaller person, with a smaller mind, and a tiny dick without balls, first you were from Doneameade now your from Darndall. You are a coward with a big mouth and a liar.

@Denise,

I see the lardy lass from Derry with the poor English, general spelling and grammar is back! I thought myself and the other posters had seen the last of you considering we ran you off the boards last week.? You and that other 32csm head, Kerron O Luain, broke records for the most red thumbs on posts! you must have put 10 Euro credit on your mobile this morning, or was it sterling you used?

You see people like you need to quit while your ahead. Being from Derry, you have no idea how Dublin and it’s surburbs are laid out. I live in Donaghmede ( pay attention to the correct spelling ) as Alan Ryan did. I work in Darndale, Belcamp ( again pay attention to the correct spelling ) with addicts in recovery. Alan worked in the same area, although his day was spent doing much different things.
You see Denise, Darndale, Donaghmede, Killbarrack, Clearwater, the Malahide Road are all within a 10 mile radius. You can walk to each in about 10 mins from the Malahide Road.The areas have their difficulties and the local people do their best to get past them. The are also has another scurge, or at least it did until recently. I thought you 32csm heads could at least be bothered to learn the geography of the places you spend so much time in down here? Then again, your just a harmless lass, with an Irish flag on her facebook page, a few BEBO / you tube links to RA music and you think your a sympathiser ! So funny!

And one last point – if you weigh over 15 stone, don’t go onto forums calling others fat. I see from your FB pages you could do with a good gallop through the fields of Derry and a month away from Mcdonalds!

Bye now Denise, and do yourself a favour, invest in a good Oxford dictionary, your a bit old for all that teenage text speak, it’s so not cool when your over 40!

One thing for sure they were not afraid unfortunately for the police they have to consider innocent people no matter if it’s a group or criminals shooting at a funeral or a car chase sometimes they have to step back.

Save face? Why would you think they need to save face?

Most ridiculous comment candidate right there

The real Irish army should have been sent in force to remove the tricolour. It’s the flag of the Irish people not some wannabes with twisted ideas of What being Irish is. The real IRA and eirigi are basically a fascist movement with no regard for democracy