Can you imagine if everything we did as kids and teenagers was recorded as it is now? Disaster.com!

Too right Winston. Kids today are no better no worse than we were.

Well said John.

Thank You Andrea……

Well said
It’s dreadful to see this :-(

Might be true in some cases but not this time. They were fighting over a boy. Whoever win ‘got’ him. This is what the brother tells me anyway.

Alcohol increases testosterone in the body. Males are much better equipped to deal with testosterone in their system as it’s in there in plenty supply anyway. Women are not as use to the effects of it and it affects them more severely and in smaller quantities.

The vast majority of studies say that alcohol inhibits testosterone production.

Kevin your too polite!

Why thank you, Mark; I try my best to be.

Ladies and gentlemen….I introduce the future of Ireland!
Don’t they do us proud?

When did anybody think it was a good idea to video a fight and post it on the net?

The girl who was hit first has a nice handy case if she wanted to pursue it as all the evidence proves she didn’t actually start the fight and she could claim defense.

Of course she was a fool for even going to the field in the first place to fight…..ah feck it they are all idiots including those watching :)

Did anyone see the older young person (possibly adult) about halfway through?!! Just standing there watching.. weirdo.

Barry…..and you personally know this “fool”?…

Just think of that might Sminky shorts cartoon that will be based on this. Every cloud etc.

@LInda, I’m almost certain that is an adult @1:14. If so, I think he has questions to answer.

You can say that again

Well said Diarmaid..

Well said

I couldn’t agree more. It is shocking, disgusting and very distressing to watch. And you are spot on, neither girl wanted to be there, it’s all the pressure nowadays to settle anything and everything by fighting. I hope both girls are actually okay and fair play to the girls who eventually broke it up and ended it. That could be any of our children, let’s not forget that.

Are you a parent ? If not shut the hell up cause u don’t have any ideas what your talking about

Cheers lads, ppls reaction on here is nearly worse than the video tbh!

Brian o’grady – I’m a parent and i agree 100% with him comment so don’t think it matters whether or not he’s a parent.

Brian o’grady – I’m a parent and i agree 100% with his comment so don’t think it matters whether or not he’s a parent.

Clearly you belong back in school Brian judging by your comments and both their infantile nature and atrocious grammar and spelling. Hopefully when I am a father, I certainly pray my kids never encounter yours, looks like you’re instilling great morals!

Sorry my grammar and spelling suck. I try to teach my daughter restraint, if someone hits one tell them not to do it again, if they try to do it again make sure they can not do it again. I’m sorry if my comments came across as being gruff or personal, it’s just a subject that’s close to my heart. I was bullied when I was in school and never stood up for myself. I never want my daughter to be in a position where by she is bullied

Next they’ll have the Guards doing sting operations on the smokers behind the bike sheds.

Agree totally cops were never involved in any fights that happened when I was in school, if you got caught u got a smack upside the head from the principle and when u got home another smack up side the head from ur parents. It’s a school yard fight surely the cops can make better use of there time

once a complaint is made gardai investigate… more and more people complaining all the time … fights in and out of school and on and off the pitch at sporting events… a lot of a garda time is spent taking a lot of statements for varying assaults

Brill. Any more details? Was it a Queensbury Rules type of thing?

Any more details on that, Paul?

Without naming the school or parents involved not much, though there was damage to school property so local papers might start snooping!!

thank your lucky stars you never went to my school i suppose – but it did happen frequently.

People are suggesting all sorts of things here that we don’t know for sure – bullying etc – there’s a bit of 2+2=5 going on in this thread. If we think a bit of hair pulling warrants garda attention then fire away but i’d sooner have them out investigating serious cases.

Roy..

a lot of garda time is spent on such incidents..

Thanks!

well said conor my thoughts exactly !!!! big deal about hair pulling !!!

if they didnt investigate and one of these girls self harmed because of cyber bullying you’d be looking for people to be sacked. the country really needs people like you

I wholeheartedly agree with this person Pat who ever he is.

I’m outraged!

that was a laugh out loud moment.

I take your point re: the Gardaí investigation focusing on the video taking for pleasure, but what law has been broken exactly?

Brian o’Grady, I have never ever been in a physical fight with ANYBODY and furthermore I don’t know anyone who has been! Fighting like that is never the way to settle a dispute, that’s why the worlds in the state it’s in!

You’ll find its education by the parents is the issue, if the parents instill self respect from a young age their kids are very unlikely to get involved in such nonsense.

I wouldn’t blame the school for this, likely it took place away from school grounds for a start….I blame the parents of everyone involved.

What a load of nonsense. The only possible victims of anything in the video are the girls fighting.

well said Sean……people obviously watched with blinkers,…they only saw the violence and not the victim!!!!

Absolute rubbish. Children spend the majority of the day in school, with the remainder for parents to instil morals in them (and remove any classroom/street misinformation). It is 100% down to the school and the education system to help children resolve disputes in school without violence, for boys and girls. The school principal may be shocked and appalled, but they should have their ear to the ground for disputes in classrooms. Whether it is in their contracts or not, they are in charge of minors, and they have to know how to deal with them.

The other point is that this is an obvious case of bullying, and while guards should not be involved in petty school fights, this example looks like one perpetrator (the girl in the cream hoodie at the start) influenced one girl to attack the other, and she is the one that should be made an example of by the school.

The two girls who were fighting, it is hard to say if there is any blame, as the pressure to organise a fight and then to turn up is so high if the school doesn’t give guidance – I’m not saying a rule that if you are at a fight you will be suspended, but rather through a bit of guidance.

Alien8, maybe you depended on schools and teachers to teach you everything but I certainly didn’t.

Parents thought me self respect, the difference between right and wrong, you can’t depend on the school for this as really its not their job. Parents have a responsibility when they have children, its important they teach them stuff as well.

@Barry. That is a shocking thing to say. How are the parents the ones to blame? When I was in school, one of my best friends was bullied from the day we started school until the day we left. She was beaten up a few times and would always try to defend herself. If some moron had filmed it, a 2 minute fight out of 5 years of abuse, people would have wrongly assumed that she was just as bad but she was a good girl, from a good home, with good parents. Bullies don’t target other bullies.

Andrea Rock Massey, the parents are blamed for the bully and to a much lesser extend the victim,

Nobody forced the victim to go into an arranged fight, I was bullied in school from end of primary up and many people over the years tried to get me into an arranged fight. i had more cop on then to do so and that cop on was thought by my parents from a young age.

Being bullied is bloody awful that I understand first hand that i can assure you but even if you are the victim you can avoid certain situations like arranged fights.

@ Barry that is the biggest load of nonsense i have heard so far on this issue……..all of your point are based on assumptions….how do you know nobody forced one of these girls to take part??, …………blaming the parents is an easy cop out, there is definitely a victim in this whole scenario and the core issue is definitely bullying….are you are a parent???….if one of your children was put under peer pressure and heavily bullied to partake in such behaviour what would you do??…..go to a corner and give yourself 20 lashes??…because you as a parent would be seen in the eyes of others as a bad parent?….well,I would’nt…and I don’t think you would either!!!!

John Kavanagh, your saying blaming the parents is a easy cop out, thats funny because by your own logic so is blaming the school. So who’s left to blame…the kids…society as a whole?

Your saying nobody forced the girl to be involved in an arranged fight, really?

So you think that people physically brought her to some field restraining any attempt for her to get away and made her stand there against her own will, they then made her stand there and await the fight? Utter Nonsense.

She could have walked away the same as any of us if we were in the school, sure she would have had to put up with name calling etc but nobody forced her into a arranged fight she had to agree to it.

Just because a person is bullied doesn’t mean they have to take part in arranged fights,

Barry…I am not blaming thee school….it took part away from the school and the uniform is the only link…..they may have not brought her physically to the field but they may have mentally pressurised her through bullying..she may not have had the strength or courage to walk away, why are you blinkered to this point…..there are graveyards right throughout the country with chhidren who tried to have the courage to walk away but could not cope!!. do you blame their parents too??!!!

Parents and Schools either have a policy/ethos on violence or they don’t. Both have a duty of care. If no policy exists, children are being failed. If a policy does exist in this particular situation, it’s not working and again children are being failed.

I blame Katie Taylor………

Give them a Sports Council grant . Rio here we come.

It’s happening all over the country, Gardai are finding weapons including blades, knives and baseball bats being used in after school fights. They have to get involved because a kid will be killed if it continues.

Next they’ll be told to investigate some lad gettin a slap in a junior-B gaelic football match!

Oh you and your siblings battered each other, ok then, call the guards off and let all teenagers at each other. Hell, that fight was so tame lets give out weapons, after all it is just part of growing up….. Mother of god are you for real and I hope you’re not a parent!

Seriously, kids fight all the time. If the Gardaí were to investigate every school yard scrap, they’d have no time for anything else. It is a matter to be dealt with by the school and the children’s parents, not the Gardaí, in my opinion.

You don’t see the irony in what you’re saying. You say it’s a tame fight and that nothing should be thought of it, yet that parents with attitudes like yours are going to stop it by being the sole intervenors? These are young girls pulling the heads off each other. If you’re wondering why our streets are awash with violence on weekend nights, that video is your answer. Cause you, ppl on here and parents excuse violence from a young age and even label it tame. Wake up ffs. Violence breeds violence! Personally I would drag the lot of them before the courts and scare the living s**te outta them!

Diarmaid you really need to get a clue and move into the real world, sometimes fighting is the only way to resolve an issue, i was bullied for three years in school because I was seen as an easy target, I would never fight back or defend myself cause I knew I would completely lose it if I did. Eventually it got so bad one day that I was goin to commit suicide when I got home one day. As I was leaving the school grounds two of them started laying into me, I snapped, I fought back and eventually had to be pulled of them. The moral of my story is that sometimes good people have to do bad things.

Brian there is a massive flaw in your argument, by letting off the victim, you too let off the perpetrator. Nothing a victim does is ever going to scare a bully off and if you took the time to actually read my comment I said one or both of these girls are victims and my issue is more with the onlookers. Fact remains, higher intervention is required to sort out this rubbish and if your honest belief is that violence should be the first port of call to stop violence I also feel sorry for you.

Niamh – your comment “What if one of the kids brought a knife or other type of weapon” is not relevant – they didn’t.

Interesting. What are the other reasons?