Gardai confronts man who allegedly hit a woman on Dame Street in Dublin

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1. Real ~~men~~ Guards ride ~~women~~ bikes

2. Reminds me of Jerry Lynch

3. Is that the garda shouting at the start 😂 that’ll scare him straight?

4. This sub won’t know what to make of this haha

5. Them’s GAA rules.

6. G’wan the Garda!

7. If it was unprovoked and the Gard knows that for a fact, he’s spot on. If the woman hit your man first and he just hit her back and the Gard is going on like that without knowing that, he’s a gobshite

   Does anyone actually know the full backstory yet

8. Fuck that lad also fuck that guard cop on and be professional

9. And the Garda went home and listened to Clannad. The man never hit a woman again and they all lived happily ever after.

10. White Knight with insecurity issues right there. Even if the lad did it he should have the cop on to be professional about it

11. To be honest. A few more garda like him might be just the ticket. Just kinda walking around beating the shite out of anyone in a tracksuit.

12. Best thing I have ever seen a gaurd say or do.

    “Real men dont hit women, PUSSIES do”

    Ledge

13. Respect📈

14. Can I send a pint to his local station?

15. I saw that garda do something similar recently in the city centre. It was the size of him and his accent along with the raised voice which I now am reminded of.

16. Not a lot of context here.

    I’m guessing from the guys demeanour that he’s guilty since he pretty much admits it and offers no defence. I know that if a woman hit me and a gard was in my face like that I’d be arguing my case but he seems to just accept his status of scumbag so it’s probably fair to assume he started it.

    What’s curious is they seem to know there’s been an assault and maybe the woman didn’t press charges and again we don’t know the full context, but it’s strange to see a gard get so heated, accuse the guy of committing a crime, the chap admit to it and then no arrest be made.

    Although it’s a really short video so who knows how it ended. Would like to see a longer version.

17. The majority will disagree with me and just applaud the Garda sending the right message and showing emotion etc, but it doesn’t sit right with me.

    It’s not professional, end of. This sort of selectivity about what they get emotional about should be concerning to citizens? Again – even though he’s totally right.

    I would prefer the Garda to be more by the book and just execute the law without their own personal feelings coming in to the equation, regardless of how morally correct it may be.

18. Funnily enough, back when my neighbour was still a Gardai, that’s exactly the tone of voice he’d take with his wife and daughter when he was beating them.

19. He should be more professional, but if this was unprovoked he deserved that bollocking.

    Guards are human beings too, maybe it was a long night and with the shite they have to deal with I wouldn’t be surprised.

20. I’m surprised. Gardaí rarely lose their temper. They are trained not to. I don’t know how they don’t most of them time, mind. Some restraint they can have.

21. Dame street garda are rats don’t be fooled.

22. Gard; “You call yourself a man, do ya?”

    Man; “No I don’t”

    Wait, what exactly are you then?

23. This. Exactly. If any man here has ever laid their hands on a woman you’re a piece of shit.

24. Lugs Brannigan klaxon

25. “You *insert action* do ya?” is as Irish as it gets.

26. Disrespectful by the gard for assuming his gender

27. Great. Finally a Garda with gumption

28. Equal rights, equal fights /s

29. I’m not Irish. But I love this post as a woman, especially because I live in the United States and if this was posted in any of our U.S. subs there would be 1,000 men screaming that a woman deserves to be hit if she does something to deserve it. It’s very terrible but a real problem here.

30. Hard fella acting like the big man with plenty of others around him. Would be interesting to see how tough he’d act on his own especially without the badge. Irrespective of what happened, it’s a completely unprofessional & idiotic way for any gard to act. Trying to come Across as a white knight. Clown

31. The Irish Wendell ‘Bud’ White

32. People shouldn’t hit each other period, let’s not bring gender into it, the guard was reinforcing a bunch of toxic ideas that cause people to act out violently. The idea that masculinity is earned by not being “a pussy” is damaging to men and causes them to not be able to deal with their emotions and behave violently, it’s the same toxic belief system that likely led to the violent behavior enacted by the man he’s scolding.

33. The comments on this thread show how bipolar r/Ireland actually is.

34. Lots of people in the thread defending a wife beater, interesting. I wonder why that is.

    Teenage scrote = get em hanged

    Wife beater = hold on a second. Let’s talk about this

    Almost like yous envisage yourselves as one but not the other. Interesting