[Gavin Reilly] NEW diplomatic row: the Russian Embassy in Dublin says the truck which rammed its gate today did so “in the presence of Garda officers, who stood idle” – and accuses Ireland of breaching the Vienna Convention by not protecting the premises from any damage.

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1. These fuckers have some brass neck quoting the Vienna Convention.

2. Honestly it is a bad look, but fuck’em

3. They can fuck right off, the cunts.

4. Forgetting about the Not Being A Cunt Convention.

5. I’m not sure what an unarmed Garda is going to do to stop a moving vehicle, let alone a truck.

6. Absolute cheek of the guards not throwing themselves under the truck.

7. If it wasn’t for such outrageous and condemable behaviour that brought it on, an embassy getting its gates breached like this would be a huge international incident. There’s too much on that it may slide in this case.

   I understand the embassy staff had already left the premises at this point?

8. While I agree either all the “fuck them” posts, we do have a legal obligation to protect embassies and it puts Irish diplomats at risk by not adhering to well established rules regarding the protection of other countries diplomats.

9. They quite literally blew up the Slovenian embassy in Ukraine earlier in the week.

10. “Sir, the Russian ambassador is on the phone. He’s very angry. He says Ireland has breached the Vienna convention. What will I tell him?”

    “Tell him to feck off”.

11. It appears that would be an ecumenical matter

12. Jesus Russian embassy,calm down. It’s a broken gate,it’s not like he committed a war crime

13. “Russian embassy, go fuck yourself!”

14. It was just a “special delivery operation”, nothing to see here

15. Gardai standing idle is their default action in fairness

16. They ought to see what happened to the British Embassy if they’re getting upset over a gate…

17. Oh all of a sudden Russia cares about conventions.

18. Quoting conventions after what’s happening in Ukraine hahaha fuck off

19. Bunch of whiny soft little bitches. A truck crashes their gates, boo fucking *hoo*. They drive a shitload of armoured vehicles and nearly a 100,000 troops into Ukraine and shell and bomb the daylights out of the place, killing fuck knows how many people, but can’t hack a little (well fucking deserved) vandalism. Cunts. Fuck their diplomatic immunity…

    I am fucking raging, in case nobody has guessed.

    EDIT; But first call our embassy staff home, to circumvent retribution, of course.

20. It’s a special parking operation, nothing to see here

21. Okay between the communion wafer truck and the priest before, Francis is definitely orchestrating this.

22. Have dealt with some of Russian embassy staff. Absolute crowd of entitled wankers in there.
    The fact that they have their knickers in that much of a twist brings me great joy

23. Imagine it was one of the boom boom boys driving it. We’d probably be cheering them on I suppose.

24. So Russia cares about international law all of a sudden?

25. I have it on good authority that they didn’t stand idle. One Garda was heard to say *”Ah here, cop on.”*

    Did their job in my book.

26. Fuck the Russians and the embassy, I just saw that video of the family getting wiped out by shelling. It’s a fucking gate you cunts, your country is committing war crimes.

27. Imagine that… someone coming into your home, unannounced & unwelcome.

28. Ah this is stupid tbh. If you give a fuck about Ukraine then go over and fight or donate money to the red Cross. This venture signalling shite is only a negative for Ireland.

29. Are we talking broken treaties and agreements now? I wanna say Minsk!

30. Russian hysteria grips the west

31. Garda standing idle for anything is pretty much the normal behavior

32. They’ve some neck

33. Not sure we should be celebrating this type of thing. Our own embassies are where our own people seek refuge overseas when things go desperately wrong. Whats to say that some fuckwit dictator overseas doesn’t use this as an excuse to do the same to us? Embassies should be sacred for very good reason. A lot of Irish people in the past have relied on the fact that embassies are internationally recognised as inviolate. Even the Brits didn’t dare interfere with Assange in the Ecador embassy for that reason. And we’re just standing by and laughing at this? Let’s not thrown the baby out with the bathwater.

34. Sure now yer man just had a pint too many at lunch. There’s no relation between this event and what’s happening in Ukraine.