AGSI oh yes we can now let’s hope the unions for the other front line workers have the balls to do the same.

Think he’s out numbered!

Ignorance is more suited to than incompetent village fool

Now shatter, tell us, do you think the morale is as high in the Garda workforce as you claim it is?
Is that egg on your face?

He will no all about disappointment when all the guards are struck down with a debilitating flu during the EU presidency.

What’s the odds on “inspector clueless” rolling over and giving in to the GRA . clueless will be told by the eu to calm the situation.

Lets hope so, they have not done much for them in the past. Is that a back bone I hear growing.

Hugh- do you remember that whole thing about serving the Irish nation and staying out of politics? Ring any bells? It’s a sort of fundamental component of the Garda ethos since it was set up? They must have mentioned it in Templemore?

Oh how true the words you speak.

Here, here Mike.

@Mike Brennan,While I agree completely with your comments ,I have to make one small adjustment.” He should never be seen again.” Period.

Have to agree with you 100 per cent, we need the rest of the front line services to also stand up to these bully boys and stop licking Brussels arse. The public also need to show support for them and get of their arse and be seen on the streets with them. We must also be prepared to endure so more suffering on their behalf. Fear not people it will not last long for when they see people united they will s…t themselves . The old age pensioners proved that not too long ago.

Fair play to you Mary ,Alan Shatter may believe that the legacy handed to this goverment is not of his making, just wondering how he squares that with sitting in oppisition at the time, does he really expect all the people of Ireland to believe there was no inclination that the economy would at sometime hit a recession . It’s the way you deal with the recession that makes the difference,Alan Shatter needs to understand he and those who are in oppisition to-day as well as yesterday need to step up to the plate, the elderly people in rural areas need more than just sound bites

Hear hear.

They don’t give a dam.

@mary, @james & @patrick – you truly embarrass yourselves with that rubbish. “Two years in”….?…the enormous debts ran up by Fianna Fáil will take a generation to clear. I hate to tell you this but “ten years in” we’ll still be paying for their mismanagement. This country remains on economic life support and the lack of realism evident in your surprise that there are ongoing cuts is stunning. Truly stunning.

That is what this country needs and the people have to stand shoulder to shoulder with them. Come on people look at the bigger picture here, see what is happening around ye the fat cats want the little people put firmly back in their cage the state of the country is the excuse they need to slash wages / do away with all improvements gained / make us fight each other / time for us little people to tip our hats to the gentry who so kindly give us work / work all hours they decide and be grateful for any crumbs they might trow to us from the top table. Keep on watching and doing nothing and it will happen right in front of your eyes.

Never was a truer word said.

Reilly makes Shatter look like “the Taoiseach in waiting ”
Holy God !!

@paulanthony- maybe we should broaden your “chart” of bad Ministers and include the last Fianna Fáil Governments? Now let me see…. Have either Reilly or Shatter destroyed the Irish economy for a generation or surrendered our sovereignty? No? Well then as a Fianna Fáil member you really should just sit there quietly in the corner holding up a banner saying “Sorry”.

Dead right Callinan is only another yes man could not give a dam about the Garda on the front line or the danger they face every day, he has his plush office his inflated salary and will lick arse as long as he has too until its time to retire on his big fat inflated pension.

Exactly the way it is if every old age pensioner female was raped and brutalised tonight and every old age male was murdered he still would not give a dam. He and his fellow vampires would be delighted at the amount of old age pensions they would save on paying out.

We. Have. No. Money.

Somehow we managed to scrape together €200k for this gimp tho, and something similar for 166 colleagues and general ar5elickers and hangers on. Touting for a bit of that action are ya?

Yes. We. Do. It’s spent badly. Enda kenny gave himself a pay rise at the beginning of the year. So tell him we have no money

Now now don’t get personal,,, ah ok so.

This country depends on exports I wonder could we export him to Israel. While he is here its like talking to a wall.

That is what is going to happen if people don’t stand up to them. God help us but it will come to vigilantes roaming rural Ireland to try and police the countryside.

Be gone I say be gone, for evil will only prosper with your help.

Like the rest of the leeches he does not care one iota or maybe he is dismantling our guards to make things easier for the Shinners and their cronies for when they are in power after the next elections. This Government are the best weapon the Shinners will ever have they will have people voting for them in their droves the next time elections come. Well done Kenny, Shatter, Gilmore and the rest of yer lap dogs. Sein Fein could not have done it without ye.

How ironic. It would be funny if it was not so true.

@Al S Macthomais glad to see your last offensive comment was removed. A fan of MR AH and his cronies I take it.

He’s a bandwagon jumping pain in the hole

He’s minister for justice, and he’s totally useless at the job.

Your right he doesn’t care what he inflicts on the people of this country he will just go back to his big paying job when he doesn’t have a seat at the top table.

One of the worst we have ever had to endure and we thought McDowell. Was bad god help us can it get much worse.