Fair play to the Gardai who self mobilised because their colleagues were in bother.
Some texts (many more in article).
>4.18pm: “Folks, another full unit required tonight parade at 6pm due to incident in the city, wud ye mind putting it out to your divisions and see what ye get pls.”
>
>The response is desultory: “What time is stand down expected?” one garda asks.
>
>4.57pm: “Come on lads bodies needed for this. There will be a van leaving (the garda station) at 7pm now too.”
*[Overtime cap lifted around here]*
>5.48pm: “Intel is saying that they are going from O’Connell Street to Leo [Varadkar’s] house.”
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>5.55pm: “Is there still bodies needed lads?” a garda asked.
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>“Negative. We have a full second unit,” the garda coordinator replied.
*[Around this time cars set on fire, full riot breakout]*
>6.39pm: “Put me in coach! Have the gear ready to go!”
>
>6:39pm: “I’ll go in too absolutely. F**k the cap — lads are going to get hurt!”
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>Three minutes later, at 6.42pm, Garda 3 shares a voice message with the group. According to sources, the message to colleagues was this: go to the city, don’t wait for direction from garda management, your colleagues need support now.
*[Huge number of responses around this time indicating mass mobilisations]*
The powers that be are happy at the riots, seems they wanted them as Harris has pussy footed about these protest organisers for well over a year, the riots will also turn the rest of us off protesting about housing etc. Divide left leaning voters over migration. Win win for the establishment.
I’ve been critical of the guards over the years but kudos to the rank and file for what seems like mostly self-organising a response. Higher leadership seems to have been asleep at the wheel.
I would hope that the softly-softly approach was just an attempt to avoid giving them the oxygen of publicity as they’ve been trying to provoke a fight, but it would seem at best naive and hugely over optimistic.
This stuff is going on for months, which included tolerance of them blocking ports and airports causing utter chaos, making vicious threats against politicians from across the entire spectrum of Irish politics.
It’s been remarkably hands off tbh.
Their policy of appeasement was the correct one I believe, until the riots happened.
I don’t think they anticipated the 100s of young men coming in to the city to loot who didn’t give a damn about immigrants.
I think there was about hour where they assembled numbers, got into gear, got a plan in place etc, so the city was completely lawless for that hour
Always been critical of the Gardai . But the video of that lad taking the digs and still not drawing a baton along with these stand up people getting behind their colleagues. The higher ups need to back them up
I no longer have confidence in the Garda.
Fair play to the Gardaí who showed up but as an organization the Garda failed that night.
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Fair play to the Gardai who self mobilised because their colleagues were in bother.
Some texts (many more in article).
>4.18pm: “Folks, another full unit required tonight parade at 6pm due to incident in the city, wud ye mind putting it out to your divisions and see what ye get pls.”
>
>The response is desultory: “What time is stand down expected?” one garda asks.
>
>4.57pm: “Come on lads bodies needed for this. There will be a van leaving (the garda station) at 7pm now too.”
*[Overtime cap lifted around here]*
>5.48pm: “Intel is saying that they are going from O’Connell Street to Leo [Varadkar’s] house.”
>
>5.55pm: “Is there still bodies needed lads?” a garda asked.
>
>“Negative. We have a full second unit,” the garda coordinator replied.
*[Around this time cars set on fire, full riot breakout]*
>6.39pm: “Put me in coach! Have the gear ready to go!”
>
>6:39pm: “I’ll go in too absolutely. F**k the cap — lads are going to get hurt!”
>
>Three minutes later, at 6.42pm, Garda 3 shares a voice message with the group. According to sources, the message to colleagues was this: go to the city, don’t wait for direction from garda management, your colleagues need support now.
*[Huge number of responses around this time indicating mass mobilisations]*
The powers that be are happy at the riots, seems they wanted them as Harris has pussy footed about these protest organisers for well over a year, the riots will also turn the rest of us off protesting about housing etc. Divide left leaning voters over migration. Win win for the establishment.
I’ve been critical of the guards over the years but kudos to the rank and file for what seems like mostly self-organising a response. Higher leadership seems to have been asleep at the wheel.
I would hope that the softly-softly approach was just an attempt to avoid giving them the oxygen of publicity as they’ve been trying to provoke a fight, but it would seem at best naive and hugely over optimistic.
This stuff is going on for months, which included tolerance of them blocking ports and airports causing utter chaos, making vicious threats against politicians from across the entire spectrum of Irish politics.
It’s been remarkably hands off tbh.
Their policy of appeasement was the correct one I believe, until the riots happened.
I don’t think they anticipated the 100s of young men coming in to the city to loot who didn’t give a damn about immigrants.
I think there was about hour where they assembled numbers, got into gear, got a plan in place etc, so the city was completely lawless for that hour
Always been critical of the Gardai . But the video of that lad taking the digs and still not drawing a baton along with these stand up people getting behind their colleagues. The higher ups need to back them up
I no longer have confidence in the Garda.
Fair play to the Gardaí who showed up but as an organization the Garda failed that night.