What a country. You would think after the uproar over the soldier avoiding prison that this would have been avoided.
Judges in this country think they are above reproach.
Fine Gael – The party of law and order.
Did he essentially pay a bribe to make sure he didn’t get a criminal record? Why should having money get you off the hook? If I had the offer I don’t think I’d accept €1000 to be punched around a street by a notorious scumbag Dublin footballer to be honest. Hopefully they pursue him for more compensation in civil courts because that judge obviously wasn’t treating it seriously.
Ah sure didn’t he play county.
Sometimes I think the Irish judicial system is a skit from the two jonnies.
Doesn’t he have form for committing assault, it’s like they wait for someone to get seriously injured before they give a conviction.
No doubt this won’t be the last of it for him.
How do you not get a conviction for something you plead guilty to, not even talking about jail time, just the very nature of not being convicted for something that was a guilty plea makes no logical sense.
He was spared a conviction for a similar assault a decade ago too where he plead guilty, so essentially he has plead guilty to two separate assault cases with nothing on his criminal record…
Wait- he didn’t even get a suspended sentence? This was an unprovoked attack on two individuals, just walking on the street.
Also- the Judge was lenient because the victims left when they found out he was guilty and didn’t give victim impact statements?
Unbelievable sham.
Simon Harris is going to need more lists.
Violent assaults should carry minimum sentences. You’d feel sorry for the victims here, but also the Gardai who have worked on this case.
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That “Make Crime Illegal” slogan comes to mind
“Make crime illegal”
The Guards must be sick of investigating, gathering witness statements, cctv, evidence etc only to have their time wasted by incompetent judges who are so far removed from reality they can’t comprehend the outrage of the general public or the impact to victims of crime.
I guess this is what happens when you give somebody a job for life and say “off you go, you can do what you like and you won’t be supervised or questioned”!
Judges need to be held accountable for their decisions.
He was given the benefit of the probation act which means he won’t even have a criminal record.
It’s fucking farce tbh. Same thing happened to the man who assaulted me and it felt like a kick in the guy to know he didn’t even get a slap on the wrist despite denying the allegations, proveably lying to the guards, not turning up to court, and the judge calling it a brutal assault.
Nah 2000 quid and probation act.
Man who kicks a ball deemed too important to be held accountable
Weasel
You can get away with anything in this counter if you played GAA
“The judge said she was taking into consideration the fact that he had pleaded guilty and that the two injured parties in the case had left court on the last day when they heard Mr Connolly was pleading guilty and did not wish to submit victim impact statements”
Is she implying that she would have imposed a sentence had the victims not left?
I assume they left because they took a guilty plea to mean he would receive a conviction.
You can protest the prick by boycotting his shitty dog accessory company, it’s a shit overpriced company anyway, but this is just another reason to avoid it.
The narrative that the court system fails women didn’t even last a week. Great equal treatment shown by the judicial system /s
He’s been handing out hidings to people for years . Mostly folk that are smaller than him . But hey, try rip off an insurance company and you get two years. Don’t fuck with corporate
Disappointed in Judge Michele Finan, when this case was adjourned a month or so ago it looked like she was up for none of his nonsense.
Unprovoked attack. Ludicrous that he avoids a conviction here.
2k for 2 assaults?
That is a tempting offer.
so do we all just stop following the law now or what?
surely it either applies to everyone equally or it applies to noone. why should people get to do whatever they want because they have a bit of a fame or money.
I guarantee if I go down the town now and smash a fella out of it I’ll do time for it. and if you were to call the judge out on it you’d be done for contempt. only contempt I see in our courts it the judges absolute contempt for the general public
Will there be marches & protests for this also? Likewise Kyle Hayes getting away with a horrendous attacked down in Limerick. These are horrible evil people to behave like this and we keep seeing them being let off. Who is this judge? Did she not see his history, he has done this before.
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Another clanger for the courts system
What a country. You would think after the uproar over the soldier avoiding prison that this would have been avoided.
Judges in this country think they are above reproach.
Fine Gael – The party of law and order.
Did he essentially pay a bribe to make sure he didn’t get a criminal record? Why should having money get you off the hook? If I had the offer I don’t think I’d accept €1000 to be punched around a street by a notorious scumbag Dublin footballer to be honest. Hopefully they pursue him for more compensation in civil courts because that judge obviously wasn’t treating it seriously.
Ah sure didn’t he play county.
Sometimes I think the Irish judicial system is a skit from the two jonnies.
Doesn’t he have form for committing assault, it’s like they wait for someone to get seriously injured before they give a conviction.
No doubt this won’t be the last of it for him.
How do you not get a conviction for something you plead guilty to, not even talking about jail time, just the very nature of not being convicted for something that was a guilty plea makes no logical sense.
He was spared a conviction for a similar assault a decade ago too where he plead guilty, so essentially he has plead guilty to two separate assault cases with nothing on his criminal record…
[https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/dubs-star-connolly-escapes-jail-term-over-pub-assault/30701157.html](https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/dubs-star-connolly-escapes-jail-term-over-pub-assault/30701157.html)
Wait- he didn’t even get a suspended sentence? This was an unprovoked attack on two individuals, just walking on the street.
Also- the Judge was lenient because the victims left when they found out he was guilty and didn’t give victim impact statements?
Unbelievable sham.
Simon Harris is going to need more lists.
Violent assaults should carry minimum sentences. You’d feel sorry for the victims here, but also the Gardai who have worked on this case.
Protected by the GAA
That “Make Crime Illegal” slogan comes to mind
“Make crime illegal”
The Guards must be sick of investigating, gathering witness statements, cctv, evidence etc only to have their time wasted by incompetent judges who are so far removed from reality they can’t comprehend the outrage of the general public or the impact to victims of crime.
I guess this is what happens when you give somebody a job for life and say “off you go, you can do what you like and you won’t be supervised or questioned”!
Judges need to be held accountable for their decisions.
He was given the benefit of the probation act which means he won’t even have a criminal record.
It’s fucking farce tbh. Same thing happened to the man who assaulted me and it felt like a kick in the guy to know he didn’t even get a slap on the wrist despite denying the allegations, proveably lying to the guards, not turning up to court, and the judge calling it a brutal assault.
Nah 2000 quid and probation act.
Man who kicks a ball deemed too important to be held accountable
Weasel
You can get away with anything in this counter if you played GAA
“The judge said she was taking into consideration the fact that he had pleaded guilty and that the two injured parties in the case had left court on the last day when they heard Mr Connolly was pleading guilty and did not wish to submit victim impact statements”
Is she implying that she would have imposed a sentence had the victims not left?
I assume they left because they took a guilty plea to mean he would receive a conviction.
You can protest the prick by boycotting his shitty dog accessory company, it’s a shit overpriced company anyway, but this is just another reason to avoid it.
The narrative that the court system fails women didn’t even last a week. Great equal treatment shown by the judicial system /s
He’s been handing out hidings to people for years . Mostly folk that are smaller than him . But hey, try rip off an insurance company and you get two years. Don’t fuck with corporate
Scumbag
https://www.thejournal.ie/diarmuid-connolly-civil-court-case-3678487-Nov2017/
A banana republic which can’t even grow bananas.
Disappointed in Judge Michele Finan, when this case was adjourned a month or so ago it looked like she was up for none of his nonsense.
Unprovoked attack. Ludicrous that he avoids a conviction here.
2k for 2 assaults?
That is a tempting offer.
so do we all just stop following the law now or what?
surely it either applies to everyone equally or it applies to noone. why should people get to do whatever they want because they have a bit of a fame or money.
I guarantee if I go down the town now and smash a fella out of it I’ll do time for it. and if you were to call the judge out on it you’d be done for contempt. only contempt I see in our courts it the judges absolute contempt for the general public
Will there be marches & protests for this also? Likewise Kyle Hayes getting away with a horrendous attacked down in Limerick. These are horrible evil people to behave like this and we keep seeing them being let off. Who is this judge? Did she not see his history, he has done this before.
Dublin jerseys are now banned at pride festivals