I really hope the Garda walk away from it with no repercussions. There were close to 200 convictions between two of them, so you could argue that the justice system incapabiliy was the main contributing factor.
Burglary stats in Leinster went down significantly in the year after this incident.
It sounds like the charges have nothing to do with the 3 lads dying, it reads like he’s being charged for endangering the members of the public who were driving against him.
Gardaí should be given a parade.
Jury trial? Not a hope they’ll find him guilty.
If these 3 had been apprehended. They almost certainly be at large again now.
The cop drove down the wrong side of the road to pursue them, which is dangerous. But his job is to catch vermin like this, he has to be allowed pursue them with vigour.
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Three beautiful angles
The courts couldn’t lock up three angles with 200 convictions and are now dragging gards who solved the problem through this crap? Shameful.
Is it any wonder the Garda are struggling to recruit and so many are tempted to go abroad….
Why are people not joining the Gardai?
Some waste of time and money.
Whg would anyone want to be a Guard
Well now ya can expect scobies to be facing you on the motorway as they take their chances on getting away from the cops
Disgraceful decision by the DPP. This just proves that the Irish Legal System is now so skewed and warped in favour of the criminal that it is teetering on the edge of completely collapsing. The “Civil Liberties” of criminals increasingly get priority the rights of ordinary law abiding citizens.
And this could well be the issue that pushes the system over the edge. As a Garda they now risk going to jail everytime they set foot outside the station to do their job. Best of luck getting someone to respond the next time you phone to say your house is being raided by a violent gang of thugs.
McEntee needs to be demoted in the reshuffle tomorrow and replaced with someone with some backbone to face down criminals and their lobby groups.
The RTE article reads that he’s being accused of dangerous driving, during the incident. Not that he’s being accused of dangerous driving that caused the deaths of these three.
Is this correct?
Because him almost killing a family coming the other way is obviously a very different thing to holding him accountable for the deaths of people fleeing from him.
Poor truck driver who was going to work when he “stopped” them. Family have a little makeshift memorial on the side of the road where they were cremated. I allay think of the truck driver and the Garda just doing their jobs.
Ffs. Not following procedure should be an internal disciplinary matter only.
Nobody, but the driver decided to drive like a lunatic. Their death was caused by their own ignorance and stupidity. Nobody is at fault other than the moron behind the wheel.
Anyone ever done for the cuntish display at that funeral, racing a hearse at speed through streets, or are they the victims in that too
The three of them deserved what they got. What a waste of time and money.
Just remember a workplace would hardly give you three chances let alone 200 before firing you. Basically criminals can opt out of the social contract with no consequence.
Madness.
Should receive a promotion. 3 less scrotes on the streets
This is akin to the the Garda and the bicycle. “Technically he broke the law by driving the wrong way so he must be punished”.
Absolute joke. “Endangering the public” by trying to stop those rats.
I’ll never forget the funeral – bringing a screwdriver and a torch to the alter – you know the score get on the floor don’t be funny give me the money?
They’re an insult to the daisies they’re pushing up.
Build a statue of him at the scene of their crash
It be hard to find a jury where 10 out of 12 believe the guard is guilty. Most people in the country have their minds made up already.
And that says a lot given the fact that we live in a country where the public would love to see a guard go down if they are actually guilty of criminality.
Saying that, it’s still very unfair to drag him before the courts.
There was a similar incident in the UK where a firearms officer en route to a live terrorist attack crashed, was suspended for 4 years and prosecuted only to be found not guilty. The chief of police spoke out and condemned the fact he was prosecuted. I wonder would drew harris do the same? I wouldn’t hold my breath.
I would hope in any court in the land that a public jury would set this guard free, this is insane. They were violent criminals who did this to themselves.
Besides the chunk of crime that stopped with their deaths, it also gives idiots the idea that when they are fleeing the gards, to drive down the wrong side of the road since they can’t follow. A few people have died or been traumatised by lads doing that trick since this.
I get you have to hold everyone to the same accountability and standard but I do hope these gards don’t get a guilty verdict.
This is a bit like the guard giving the old man a bike that had been lying idle in the station . More lack of common sense
Ridiculous
Garda did his job and he did the country a favour – a fact provable by the drop in burglaries
This kind of stuff will put people of joining the garda in the future.
People need to wait for the facts of this case to come out in court as there is a lot we dont know. If he disobeyed pursuit protocols or didnt have permission from a sergeant to engage in a pursuit or else didnt follow a direct order to call off the pursuit and kept going anyway then things change significantly. Id doubt the DPP are bringing this case unless he broke the Gardais own rules of conduct.
We already had one innocent woman killed in Naas in 2014 during a Garda chase down the M7.
Let’s put the parents on trial for rasing lowlife scum
Absolutely bonkers that the Guard has to go on trial. If for some insanity, he gets done for this, there should genuinely be riots on the streets
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I really hope the Garda walk away from it with no repercussions. There were close to 200 convictions between two of them, so you could argue that the justice system incapabiliy was the main contributing factor.
Burglary stats in Leinster went down significantly in the year after this incident.
The Guard should be awarded a medal of honour.
This is a joke.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/number-of-burglaries-in-leinster-plummets-after-deaths-of-three-criminals-in-n7-crash/40859415.html
It sounds like the charges have nothing to do with the 3 lads dying, it reads like he’s being charged for endangering the members of the public who were driving against him.
Gardaí should be given a parade.
Jury trial? Not a hope they’ll find him guilty.
If these 3 had been apprehended. They almost certainly be at large again now.
The cop drove down the wrong side of the road to pursue them, which is dangerous. But his job is to catch vermin like this, he has to be allowed pursue them with vigour.
.
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Three beautiful angles
The courts couldn’t lock up three angles with 200 convictions and are now dragging gards who solved the problem through this crap? Shameful.
Is it any wonder the Garda are struggling to recruit and so many are tempted to go abroad….
Why are people not joining the Gardai?
Some waste of time and money.
Whg would anyone want to be a Guard
Well now ya can expect scobies to be facing you on the motorway as they take their chances on getting away from the cops
Disgraceful decision by the DPP. This just proves that the Irish Legal System is now so skewed and warped in favour of the criminal that it is teetering on the edge of completely collapsing. The “Civil Liberties” of criminals increasingly get priority the rights of ordinary law abiding citizens.
And this could well be the issue that pushes the system over the edge. As a Garda they now risk going to jail everytime they set foot outside the station to do their job. Best of luck getting someone to respond the next time you phone to say your house is being raided by a violent gang of thugs.
McEntee needs to be demoted in the reshuffle tomorrow and replaced with someone with some backbone to face down criminals and their lobby groups.
The RTE article reads that he’s being accused of dangerous driving, during the incident. Not that he’s being accused of dangerous driving that caused the deaths of these three.
Is this correct?
Because him almost killing a family coming the other way is obviously a very different thing to holding him accountable for the deaths of people fleeing from him.
Poor truck driver who was going to work when he “stopped” them. Family have a little makeshift memorial on the side of the road where they were cremated. I allay think of the truck driver and the Garda just doing their jobs.
Ffs. Not following procedure should be an internal disciplinary matter only.
Nobody, but the driver decided to drive like a lunatic. Their death was caused by their own ignorance and stupidity. Nobody is at fault other than the moron behind the wheel.
Anyone ever done for the cuntish display at that funeral, racing a hearse at speed through streets, or are they the victims in that too
The three of them deserved what they got. What a waste of time and money.
Just remember a workplace would hardly give you three chances let alone 200 before firing you. Basically criminals can opt out of the social contract with no consequence.
Madness.
Should receive a promotion. 3 less scrotes on the streets
This is akin to the the Garda and the bicycle. “Technically he broke the law by driving the wrong way so he must be punished”.
Absolute joke. “Endangering the public” by trying to stop those rats.
I’ll never forget the funeral – bringing a screwdriver and a torch to the alter – you know the score get on the floor don’t be funny give me the money?
They’re an insult to the daisies they’re pushing up.
Build a statue of him at the scene of their crash
It be hard to find a jury where 10 out of 12 believe the guard is guilty. Most people in the country have their minds made up already.
And that says a lot given the fact that we live in a country where the public would love to see a guard go down if they are actually guilty of criminality.
Saying that, it’s still very unfair to drag him before the courts.
There was a similar incident in the UK where a firearms officer en route to a live terrorist attack crashed, was suspended for 4 years and prosecuted only to be found not guilty. The chief of police spoke out and condemned the fact he was prosecuted. I wonder would drew harris do the same? I wouldn’t hold my breath.
I would hope in any court in the land that a public jury would set this guard free, this is insane. They were violent criminals who did this to themselves.
Besides the chunk of crime that stopped with their deaths, it also gives idiots the idea that when they are fleeing the gards, to drive down the wrong side of the road since they can’t follow. A few people have died or been traumatised by lads doing that trick since this.
I get you have to hold everyone to the same accountability and standard but I do hope these gards don’t get a guilty verdict.
This is a bit like the guard giving the old man a bike that had been lying idle in the station . More lack of common sense
Ridiculous
Garda did his job and he did the country a favour – a fact provable by the drop in burglaries
This kind of stuff will put people of joining the garda in the future.
People need to wait for the facts of this case to come out in court as there is a lot we dont know. If he disobeyed pursuit protocols or didnt have permission from a sergeant to engage in a pursuit or else didnt follow a direct order to call off the pursuit and kept going anyway then things change significantly. Id doubt the DPP are bringing this case unless he broke the Gardais own rules of conduct.
We already had one innocent woman killed in Naas in 2014 during a Garda chase down the M7.
Let’s put the parents on trial for rasing lowlife scum
Absolutely bonkers that the Guard has to go on trial. If for some insanity, he gets done for this, there should genuinely be riots on the streets