Fair play to him. More people need to have balls and speak up for what they believe. Too many people just apologise and say they regret it to try get off lighter
Legend!
👑
Proud King
I mean, at that age, what’s he really going to do, influence all his peers into choosing drugs?
Let the man goddamn smoke in peace!
How is this in the public interest?
Leave the man alone
>A 78-year-old man – who was admonished by Judge James McNulty for speaking too loudly while Skibbereen District Court was in session – complained about ‘justice delayed’ when it was his turn to speak.
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>David Walton of Kilnaspogh, Skibbereen, has been accused of cannabis possession, and the cultivation of cannabis, on four separate occasions, but Inspector Debra Marsh requested an adjournment to the December 13th sitting of Skibbereen District Court for the service of a book of evidence.
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>The charges before the court relate to the alleged possession and cultivation of cannabis on June 8th and July 19th in 2020, as well as May 9th in 2021 and August 8th in 2022.
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>‘I am two-and-a-half years waiting for this case to come up,’ said the accused, who appeared in his own defence.
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>The accused likened any further adjournment to ‘another suspended sentence’ and he called on the judge to instruct the prosecution to ‘get on with it’.
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>‘This isn’t justice,’ he added. ‘Let me get out of this claustrophobic court.’
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>Although the case was not heard – not even part-heard – the accused spoke freely saying: ‘I have no shame. I smoke cannabis and I am proud of it.’
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>Judge McNulty addressed the accused’s complaints about an alleged delay and reminded him that the case first appeared in the Bantry court list on September 16th last. ‘You haven’t been delayed in this court at all,’ he noted.
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>The accused then referred to what he claimed was a €40,000 valuation of the cannabis.
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>He said word had got out, and now he had people approaching him, asking to buy some. ‘But I don’t do that,’ he added. ‘This is my stuff.’
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>While he was on his feet, addressing the court, David Walton said he didn’t want some young solicitor, with no life experience, representing him.
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>‘I can do my own talking,’ he said. ‘I think I have a right to smoke cannabis at my age.’
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>Judge McNulty told the inspector that the accused is ‘anxious’ to have the case dealt with as soon as possible and he asked her to ensure that the book of evidence will be ready by December 13th.
He is the definition of “contrary”
As usual an utter waste of time and money, McNulty is a terrible judge, staunchly anti drugs and seemingly pro paedophilia. Had the displeasure of serving him in a cafe once and I could barely see his head it was so far up his own ass. I reckon he drinks heavily aswell judging by his skin
High time we legalised personal use and stopped with this nonsense
King!!
It seems like there’s a real tension between most ordinary people and the political, legal and media establishments which are populated by deeply conservatives throwbacks to Catholic Ireland. They represent their interests against ours, they ignore evidence based approaches to things like drug decriminalization and run Ireland as a property only economy with some multinationals sprinkled in, kind of like a backwards gombeen approach to governing a country. Why they’re still hanging around is mystifying but I guess it’s probably something to do with the science of why a fart pollutes the air overstaying its welcome.
The Gardai and the courts need to cop on. This auld lad out in the west cork hills is doing nothing wrong. He’s growing a few plants, just being peaceful in his lifestyle unlike the drug gangs who import hard drugs, kill, launder money, evade taxes, etc. Soft target by soft Gardai who are out of touch with the rest of society who have compassion for the man.
> He said word had got out, and now he had people approaching him, asking to buy some. ‘But I don’t do that,’ he added. ‘This is my stuff.’
He’s keeping it off the streets by smoking it all up.
Any day now he’ll go through the gateway and start shooting up heroin
Revenge for spliffin’ green?
Why do we even allow the prosecution of these people? Shouldn’t it be the right of a human to do what they want if they don’t harm others?
I don’t think there will ever be legalization in Ireland. Drinks company’s have to much sway here.
Let the man live a little ffs
From whatever nosy rat cunt who reported him, to the judge, and every single person in between needs to be ashamed of themselves. Bullying an old man who isn’t causing anyone any harm. The stress on him must be huge. FFFG cronies have robbed this country of billions and never stood before a court.
This man is the only one involved who should be walking out of the court with his head held high.
Proud? 🙄
What in the hell is with the anti-Marijuana sentiment about over in Ireland? Get on board and start slapping up massive grow rooms on every failed farm in sight.
Fair fuckin play to him. It’s an absolute joke that he ended up before a judge because of this
Blame it on coping from the generational trauma of the Famine.
This is Ireland in 2022. What a farce.
And he should be legally entitled to.
Fuckin proud of smoking as if it were some sort of moral virtue. Sure we can be proud of anything these days, no fucking backbone can be found in this country anymore
I still find it wholly interesting that until 1920 cannabis was legal in Ireland and even used in a medical setting but the only reason this changed was because at the time we were still under British rule and adopted many of the UK’s laws, who often followed whatever the US were doing (who were criminalizing it at the time). However, even after the setup of the Irish Free State we still kept many of the UK’s laws and in 1934 basically made a refreshed version of the same law but for the Irish Free State, such law we have barely changed in the last almost 90 years, the only change being the ruling that a small amount of cannabis for personal use should not be punished by imprisonment which was done in 1971.
The law did get replaced in 1977 similar to how it was replaced in 1934 but the sentiment is still there and the only change that happened in 1977 is the creation of the different classes of drugs.
I personally think it’s about time we stop kidding ourselves and stop continuing to have ridiculous classist laws in our system that are only there as a result of colonialism.
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Fair play to him. More people need to have balls and speak up for what they believe. Too many people just apologise and say they regret it to try get off lighter
Legend!
👑
Proud King
I mean, at that age, what’s he really going to do, influence all his peers into choosing drugs?
Let the man goddamn smoke in peace!
How is this in the public interest?
Leave the man alone
>A 78-year-old man – who was admonished by Judge James McNulty for speaking too loudly while Skibbereen District Court was in session – complained about ‘justice delayed’ when it was his turn to speak.
>
>David Walton of Kilnaspogh, Skibbereen, has been accused of cannabis possession, and the cultivation of cannabis, on four separate occasions, but Inspector Debra Marsh requested an adjournment to the December 13th sitting of Skibbereen District Court for the service of a book of evidence.
>
>The charges before the court relate to the alleged possession and cultivation of cannabis on June 8th and July 19th in 2020, as well as May 9th in 2021 and August 8th in 2022.
>
>‘I am two-and-a-half years waiting for this case to come up,’ said the accused, who appeared in his own defence.
>
>The accused likened any further adjournment to ‘another suspended sentence’ and he called on the judge to instruct the prosecution to ‘get on with it’.
>
>‘This isn’t justice,’ he added. ‘Let me get out of this claustrophobic court.’
>
>Although the case was not heard – not even part-heard – the accused spoke freely saying: ‘I have no shame. I smoke cannabis and I am proud of it.’
>
>Judge McNulty addressed the accused’s complaints about an alleged delay and reminded him that the case first appeared in the Bantry court list on September 16th last. ‘You haven’t been delayed in this court at all,’ he noted.
>
>The accused then referred to what he claimed was a €40,000 valuation of the cannabis.
>
>He said word had got out, and now he had people approaching him, asking to buy some. ‘But I don’t do that,’ he added. ‘This is my stuff.’
>
>While he was on his feet, addressing the court, David Walton said he didn’t want some young solicitor, with no life experience, representing him.
>
>‘I can do my own talking,’ he said. ‘I think I have a right to smoke cannabis at my age.’
>
>Judge McNulty told the inspector that the accused is ‘anxious’ to have the case dealt with as soon as possible and he asked her to ensure that the book of evidence will be ready by December 13th.
He is the definition of “contrary”
As usual an utter waste of time and money, McNulty is a terrible judge, staunchly anti drugs and seemingly pro paedophilia. Had the displeasure of serving him in a cafe once and I could barely see his head it was so far up his own ass. I reckon he drinks heavily aswell judging by his skin
High time we legalised personal use and stopped with this nonsense
King!!
It seems like there’s a real tension between most ordinary people and the political, legal and media establishments which are populated by deeply conservatives throwbacks to Catholic Ireland. They represent their interests against ours, they ignore evidence based approaches to things like drug decriminalization and run Ireland as a property only economy with some multinationals sprinkled in, kind of like a backwards gombeen approach to governing a country. Why they’re still hanging around is mystifying but I guess it’s probably something to do with the science of why a fart pollutes the air overstaying its welcome.
The Gardai and the courts need to cop on. This auld lad out in the west cork hills is doing nothing wrong. He’s growing a few plants, just being peaceful in his lifestyle unlike the drug gangs who import hard drugs, kill, launder money, evade taxes, etc. Soft target by soft Gardai who are out of touch with the rest of society who have compassion for the man.
> He said word had got out, and now he had people approaching him, asking to buy some. ‘But I don’t do that,’ he added. ‘This is my stuff.’
He’s keeping it off the streets by smoking it all up.
Any day now he’ll go through the gateway and start shooting up heroin
Revenge for spliffin’ green?
Why do we even allow the prosecution of these people? Shouldn’t it be the right of a human to do what they want if they don’t harm others?
I don’t think there will ever be legalization in Ireland. Drinks company’s have to much sway here.
Let the man live a little ffs
From whatever nosy rat cunt who reported him, to the judge, and every single person in between needs to be ashamed of themselves. Bullying an old man who isn’t causing anyone any harm. The stress on him must be huge. FFFG cronies have robbed this country of billions and never stood before a court.
This man is the only one involved who should be walking out of the court with his head held high.
Proud? 🙄
What in the hell is with the anti-Marijuana sentiment about over in Ireland? Get on board and start slapping up massive grow rooms on every failed farm in sight.
Fair fuckin play to him. It’s an absolute joke that he ended up before a judge because of this
Blame it on coping from the generational trauma of the Famine.
This is Ireland in 2022. What a farce.
And he should be legally entitled to.
Fuckin proud of smoking as if it were some sort of moral virtue. Sure we can be proud of anything these days, no fucking backbone can be found in this country anymore
I still find it wholly interesting that until 1920 cannabis was legal in Ireland and even used in a medical setting but the only reason this changed was because at the time we were still under British rule and adopted many of the UK’s laws, who often followed whatever the US were doing (who were criminalizing it at the time). However, even after the setup of the Irish Free State we still kept many of the UK’s laws and in 1934 basically made a refreshed version of the same law but for the Irish Free State, such law we have barely changed in the last almost 90 years, the only change being the ruling that a small amount of cannabis for personal use should not be punished by imprisonment which was done in 1971.
The law did get replaced in 1977 similar to how it was replaced in 1934 but the sentiment is still there and the only change that happened in 1977 is the creation of the different classes of drugs.
I personally think it’s about time we stop kidding ourselves and stop continuing to have ridiculous classist laws in our system that are only there as a result of colonialism.