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GARDAÍ ARRESTED TEN people today in relation to 31 separate incidents of shoplifting in the Bridewell area in Dublin.
Five men and five women were arrested as part of ongoing investigations under Operation Táirge by Gardaí attached to Bridewell Garda Station, Dublin 7 .
The ten people (aged 20s-40s) have appeared before the Criminal Courts of Justice this afternoon.
Two other people arrested today are now referred to the Garda National Youth Diversion Programme while warrants are being served on a further 13 people for retail theft offences.
These incidents of theft occurred in both large international chain stores as well as local, independent retailers within the community.
Operation Táirge commenced last December with the aim of reducing organised retail crime which has an adverse effect on the economy, the profitability of the retail sector and small business owners in particular.
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Almost as if they’re trying to hide something…
@Rochelle: What Else,.
We used to have a saying in a place I worked
“If it’s not written down, it never happened”
Hopefully the majority took a copy of the recording and these can be combined, transcribed and put online.
Destroying these recordings is akin to the four courts being destroyed. Valuable records are gone forever.
@Sequoia: No point writing anything if others subsequently don’t read… the survivors were told they told they could _not_ take a copy of the recording. It says so in the article.
This is a shambles. Heads should roll!
@AJ: Unfortunately nothing will happen. That’s how things work here and the people of this country stand back and let it happen.
@David Corrigan: Agreed, only I’d go a step further and say the sheep who continue to vote for FFG, regardless of their actions, are complicit. Nobody can feign ignorance any more.
Its all like its a clear plan to try bury as much evidence from victims as they can, outside if whats in the reports.
It is deliberate destruction of evidence. Even the investigation commission is corrupt.
@Jules: A white-wash, with original testimonies destroyed so no-one can verify the report for themselves.
It’s an absolute disgrace. It should be announced publicly as to who was responsible for making that decision and they should be made to answer as to why in the hell they thought it was a good idea. Well we all know the reason why. They seem to be going out of their way to hurt these people further.
It seems the norm to destroy evidence in this country. Unfortunately no one again will be held to account. Remember when the criminal case of banker Sean Fitzpatrick collapsed when evidence was shredded by the state ..An outcry for a few days and then disappeared.
@Donal Desmond: the outcry hardly lasted for a few days, it was the subject of a retrial and oireachtas hearings, and hence media scrutiny and comment, over a number of years in fact
@D. Memery: Seanie was a worried man alright. Comical caper.
@D. Memery: He still walked free…The media coverage was nil.
That’s what you get from ffgg GOVERNMENT, people really need to wake up to this shower.
@Pauline Fedigan: They don’t care.
Did you ever notice how these articles are avoided by the blatant FFG followers.
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Check out the number of comments on banning pets for tenants. That’s the kind of thing they really get their teeth into.
@Pauline Fedigan: Now, if only everybody voted for S.F, 0r better still, was made to vote for S.F.
This is an outrageous cover-up. I assume the Commission and its chairperson are safely beyond questioning by any authority but let’s hope we still have news media to shine a light on this disgraceful abuse of power.
The Catholic Church in Ireland may have had some of its controls exposed and some of its privileges limited but there are still powerful and influential secret societies still operating – and I mean the Knights of Columbanus, Opus Dei etc etc etc.
@Bramley Hawthorne: Agree totally, they should be Vetted by the survivors.
A rotten little country we are.
@Fr.Todd Unctious: From a; Rotten Religion.
@ÓDuibhír Abú: Agreed
Shameful it appears this commission was set up to fail to cover up the failings of the church & state.
Why do the authorities continue to kick out at the victims of these crimes. Sick sad individuals.
If this is allowed to happen it just shows that it was people of authority and the arm of the state that were complicit in this horrible period and that they and their actions will not be brought to account and not “All of us” as Micheal Martin put it. Such an awful phrase for a leader to put on the people. Sweep, sweep, nothing to see here. Sickening.
Section 45 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 states:
(1) If a tribunal is established to inquire into a matter all or part of which was within a commission’s terms of reference, all evidence received by and all documents created by or for the commission relating to the matter or that part of the matter shall, at the request of any member of the tribunal, be made available to it by—
(a) the specified Minister, if the commission has been dissolved, or
(b) the commission, if not already dissolved.
(2) Nothing in this section prevents a commission whose terms of reference are amended under section 44 (2) from retaining copies of any evidence or documents made available by it to a tribunal of inquiry.
(3) Evidence that is received by a commission in accordance with this Act or with its rules and procedures and that is made available to a tribunal under subsection (1) is deemed to have been received as evidence by the tribunal in accordance with the Tribunals of Inquiries (Evidence) Acts 1921 to 2004.
So after we exhume these alleged double burial plots to ascertain if this commission of inquiry where given false evidence. We can think about a tribunal after we check if more lies are being used protect church\state intuitions.
Then again will survivors want to fight on or settle for a whitewashed investigation and what little compensation is offered?
@leartius: I think this act is actually the issue, a commission of investigation takes and hears evidence in private, whereas a tribunal of inquiry does so in public, this was also why originally the records were to be sealed. Could the destruction of the recordings be in line with the fact it was a commission rather than tribunal?
Is Justice Murphy a practicing Catholic by any chance ?
@Itsonlyme: I wonder are some of them members of; Knights of Columbus, or Opus Dei, Knights Hospilar, secrets sects of Roman Church.
No one person to blame/systemic failure/lessons learned/moving forward/.
Did I miss anything?
@Gods Curse: Yes, the last Century.
A kick in the teeth for the survivors.
What would happen if each survivor made a sworn afidavif in the presence of a solicitor? Could they be combined in a historic record later?
Church and State continue to disgust me with everything thy do
Well said, bring the; United Nations, OH, wait no, the Vatican has a Permanent Observer Seat at the; United Nations. Are they all in the same; Bed.
Definitely state collusion in a cover up, disgusting. Should be a outside panel of investors from other countries!
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