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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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Stop their dole. Forever. And put them to work. Let them choose that or jail.
@Alan OConnor: What jail do you speak of Alan?
@Alan OConnor: Jail or work?!! Are you sure you’ve thought this through Alan?!!
@Alan OConnor: So no dole money…Do you really Know the Consequences of what you just said…YET More Stealing, Ya Numpty!!! Geesh!!!
@Alan OConnor:
Would you, as a good Christian (judging by your comment), employ them?
The Koolock Klan take a day off from ‘protesting’?
@9QRixo8H: lol! They’re not getting the bus in to do it.
@9QRixo8H: you are missing a k, the family you come from,
@9QRixo8H: would KoolKlock Klan work better
@9QRixo8H: d1xk ead
@9QRixo8H: An extremely offensive stupid comment seeing as we all know who the culprits are.
@9QRixo8H: snobbery & prejudice alive and kicking in your head there, but do keep on with your virtue signaling & lecturing others on “tolerance “ from your small little pulpit!
Waste of Garda time…they’ll be back out by end of the week.
@Dan The Man: and where are you implying theyll be till the end of the week ?
@Dan The Man: more like back out from being detained same day,4 to 8 hours. Eventually when they go to court it will be a non custodial sentence that means nothing. The judicial system encourages them to continue in their chosen career.
@Dan The Man: You know they used to chop off fingers/hands of those who stole, would be a cost effective way bringing that back
@Dan The Man: they’ll be back out before the end of the day. Fact. Seen it many times when I worked as a security guard years ago. Even seen some caught again the same day. Not a care in the world, unstoppable. There was a lot more then 10 caught on a busy Saturday back then.
Probably on their lunch break from hanging around Moore Street trying to suss out unsuspecting targets to pickpocket. It’s endemic in their community. A drain on society if ever there was one!!
Odd how there wasn’t a WORD out of the twitterati yesterday when there was the highjacking of a car with a baby inside. Can ANYONE guess why?
@9QRixo8H: You should have tweeted something so.
@9QRixo8H: No. I can’t guess why. Will you tell us?
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: I think he is saying that there’s not a peep on X as the chief suspect is a white irish man. I’m never on X, so I wouldn’t know.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: ok I’ll give you another clue. Pop onto a certain ‘right’ wing newspaper and, despite it being the VERY NEXT DAY after the highjacking and kidnapping happened, there isn’t a word written about it today. CAN you guess why?
@Kevin Kerr: If you wouldn’t know, why are you commenting? Son of Sam
@9QRixo8H: I’ll say it because you just demand attention so much. Because it wasn’t a foreigner. Wasn’t that hard was it?
@Vince Cable: because I was talking to Sean as he genuinely, I believe, didn’t know what D Peader was talking about. Why have you a problem with this? Go away and annoy someone else
@9QRixo8H: You are a little attention seeker it seems, you have to point that out for some reason.
@Kevin Kerr: You said you didn’t know. So you gave the information anyway. You’re a serial killer.
@Vince Cable: I said I didn’t know if it was all over X or not. That doesn’t mean that I can’t explain what D Peader meant. Got it? Good. Now go away
@Alex: Point what out? What am I pointing out? Interesting how you weren’t angry or annoyed at the highjacking and kidnapping.
@Kevin Kerr: Well he was talking about X. And you said I don’t know. But you just had to comment. Give the victim’s family’s some respect at least.
@Vince Cable: Deary me. Take your trolling somewhere else
@9QRixo8H: it was a rightwing baby?
Just a publicity stunt if it was actual proper police work they’d be arresting them every day I suppose once every 365 days is something they should be ok for halloween and Christmas bonanza anyone convicted of a crime and getting tax payers sorry free legal aid if in receipt of a state sorry tax payer handout should have a large percent deducted and they’ll soon learn there’s no free lunch
@Stephen Byrne: they do arrest at least some every day. Seems like a slow news day if this is getting reported. Not sure why 10 is seen as a large number though, I’d have thought there was a lot more shoplifting done.
@Stephen Byrne: They could most likely and should arrest them every day.
But, here’s the problem: They arrest them, file all the paperwork, have to appear in court and they get a joke of sentence.
We know all too well how it works: Difficult upbringing, social deprivation, or whatever.
Same like with the “poor” druggies, feral youth in the city.
I would not blame any guard to look the other the other way instead of wasting the time. Even with the best intentions and motivations for the job, this must be be gone pretty soon for any guard.
I’m pretty sure most of them are doing their job only to get their pay check and I fully understand this attitude by now.
A good flaying, jail
Means nothing to these guys.
@Phillip Smyth: A good flaying? Sounds a tad harsh, but then again, it’s no skin off my nose…
Good to know nanny state Journal deleted my comment about a foreign national security guard potentially working for 70 hours a week for less than minimum wage got deleted. Wouldn’t want to annoy the upper elite there! Any company employing people on slave wages deserves everything they get!
@Dan The Man: you know it was a foreign guy that employed him?
Don’t really like diversity.
Our diversity is our strength
Must be frustrating for the Gardai
catching them, Processing them, going to court knowing it will just be another suspended sentence added to their record.
Lot of lowlife comments on here demonising the working class, sure I get it, however never a cogent, critical thought of “why” these people are shop lifting? These same people will say nothing of things like 360k on bike sheds or millions on Ukraine and housing undocumented migrants.
@Marcus Maher – Triskellion Films:
C’mon Markus – be real.
5 man and 5 woman + two “other”.; not many, if any supermarkets in the area.
It’s not hard to figure out they’re not stealing food or other essentials.
The rest of your comment is just a deflection and nothing to do with with stealing of the accused at all.
They should have the book throw at them.
@James T.Kirk: They can’t read.
@James T.Kirk: yeah a big heavy encyclopedia
@James T.Kirk: there was 43 books thrown at them, they returned none.
Yet BAM at the children’s hospital?
@Michael o connor: Amazingly Not one of them will end up in Court!
No names published,not Irish then?
Bring back public birching
A joke.
Usual suspects facilitated here In our country by our own very own incompetent suspects
Jesus please forgive those that throw stones and utter harsh words. For they, thankfully, don’t know the circumstances that lead people to behave the way they do. We carry your cross with forgiveness.
Surely there must be a canal that needs dredging or a few sewers that needs some FatBergs removed?
Ten of them to lift a shop, was it a big or small shop?
Working class ya say?only work they do is rob!and take working class taxpayers money!!
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