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No comment from Gardaí on GSOC "slip-up" story

After new revelations today, the Garda Síochána is staying tight-lipped on the issue of bugging.

THE GARDA SÍOCHÁNA are remaining tight-lipped on reports that the Garda Ombudsman ordered a sweep for bugs after a senior garda let slip that he knew of the contents of a confidential report.

Today’s Sunday Times reports that the knowledge held by a senior member of the force was found to be “disconcerting” for staff in the Ombudsman’s office.

The paper says that the discussion related to text that had been discussed at GSOC HQ, but did not make it into a report.

However, the Garda Press Office told TheJournal.ie that they would not be making a comment this morning.

A spokesperson said that any statement would come from the Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan, but that the decision to make a statement would rest with him alone.

Elsewhere, The Sunday World newspaper has revealed that they have made a complaint to the Ombudsman relating to one of their journalists.

The paper claims that gardaí have requested the phone records of investigations editor Nicola Tallant.

Read: The GSOC bugging saga: Here’s what’s happened since the story broke last Sunday

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    Oct 31st 2023, 8:01 AM

    Why are the comments closed on covid 19 vaccine article??
    Give mine to someone else please I won’t be taken it

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    Oct 31st 2023, 8:11 AM

    Comments closed on almost every article now.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 8:11 AM

    So?

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    Oct 31st 2023, 8:21 AM

    I, for one am delighted the comments are closed. No one cares what you do with it you sad man.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 8:29 AM

    Why not?

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    Oct 31st 2023, 8:51 AM

    @Joe Kelly: it’s people like you that’s the problem, just follow suit there like a nice little sheep

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    Oct 31st 2023, 9:07 AM

    I find it sad you really felt the need to come on the journal and tell the world mate. If you don’t want the vaccine there’s millions more of the Irish population that don’t need nor want to know your preference. It’s a personal choice. Keep it personal. There’s a good reason the comments are closed on most articles.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 9:07 AM

    @: Great, the people in charge of distribution will note down “Anonymous user on the Journal won’t be ‘taken’ the vaccine specifically reserved for them so we have a spare”. That’ll be helpful.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 9:14 AM

    But you’re a virus and you need to be eradicated… would you not do us all a favour

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    Oct 31st 2023, 9:21 AM

    @Megan Ward: should read the resident journal Muppet refuses vaccine…

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    Oct 31st 2023, 9:26 AM

    @Thomas Meaney: what about a couple of years ago when people were been classed as second class citizens for not taken it you vaccers were not keeping it personal then ,

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    Oct 31st 2023, 9:31 AM

    I got all my vaccines. It’s a personal choice. We have all moved on. Your body your choice.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 10:19 AM

    @tom pepper: the snowflakes have us outnumbered , we’re not aloud an opinion on something that might upset them

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    Oct 31st 2023, 10:54 AM

    @Annette: For now. It wasn’t 2 years ago. Severe restrictions on individuals. Even when They knew the limited value it had against later variants.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 2:55 PM

    @tom pepper: Hardly surprising, in fairness. Place is infested with hate mongers and conspiracy theorists who mistakenly believe they have some sort of constitutional right to not only spew their nonsense, but spew it on a privately owned site.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 3:34 PM

    @tom pepper: yep, and The Journal keep asking for ‘support’. Open up the comments AND bring back the Thumbs Down otherwise, nope…

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    Oct 31st 2023, 5:28 PM

    I’m well aware of it. But I can make my own informed choice. You do what you want, and I will do what I want. It’s time for us to move on. I had to get over losing someone from covid, and I’m still dealing with it. But you have your choice

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    Oct 31st 2023, 9:24 PM

    @Gar Fitz: so?

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    Oct 31st 2023, 8:58 AM

    The amount of work he did for people in addiction and especially for men not mentioned at all by the MSN. His own wishes were when this time come that Friends would be done this list, yet no outlets mentioning his selfless work for others. That’s a shame to be honest

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    Oct 31st 2023, 8:33 AM

    I grew up with friends, from age 14 to 24, reminds me of good times. Now i am bald, overweight in my 40s.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 8:42 AM

    Did you try HRT?

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    Oct 31st 2023, 10:48 AM

    @: TRT

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    Oct 31st 2023, 9:28 AM

    So farewell then Chandler Bing.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 7:38 AM

    Give it a rest

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    Oct 31st 2023, 7:40 AM

    @: u okay, hun? You have a lot of anger. Everything okay at home?

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    Oct 31st 2023, 7:41 AM

    @: give what a rest?

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    Oct 31st 2023, 7:46 AM

    @Johnno Reilly: Well whatever it was, this is the reason the journal closes the comments section. Think of the money they could save if they got rid of their comment moderators.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 7:57 AM

    @Johnno Reilly: We can’t virtue signal anymore:(

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    Oct 31st 2023, 8:15 AM

    I thought the article was about friends and Matthew Perry

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    Oct 31st 2023, 10:48 AM

    Regular visitor to Epsteins Island. No mention of this strangely enough.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 10:54 AM

    @Sean Wilde: Source: trust me bro. Perhaps if there was verifiable evidence of this it would be mentioned in articles about his death? Not really that strange, is it?

    Sure there are people who have rushed out to theorize that he was killed because he was about to reveal the truth about Hollywood.

    If only the enlightened few could make up their mind and decide on a theory to stick to.

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    Oct 31st 2023, 2:07 PM

    The journal .The last bastion of free speech and censor free said no one ever

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    Oct 31st 2023, 10:27 AM

    Who?

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    Oct 31st 2023, 11:27 AM

    @Tommy Haze: Matthew Perry. The internet provides people with very few opportunities to offer up opinions or share personal information about themselves. One exception, seems to be the comment sections below news stories which are centred on some of the most famous, well known and recognisable people on the planet. Often, it is here where people take a rare chance to let the world know ‘hey, I exist and shall be heard’ and do so by stating just how cool, intelligent and above it all they are.

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    Nov 1st 2023, 1:16 PM

    I believe his ‘ friends’ were conspicuously absent for years after the series ended. Time now I suppose to turn on the tap of those crocodile tears. The programme, anyway was a cynical concoction of mid- Atlantic emotional mush. Bewildering!

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