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On the Boat from Liverpool

  • 11-07-2007 5:54pm
    #1
    mountainyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,268 ✭✭✭


    MountainyMan is on a bus from Liverpool to Dublin. The boat docks at Dublin and the passengers an assortment of phobics, the very poor and the chronically disorganised board the bus.

    A garda boards with them and asks to see passports.

    MountainyMan stands up and 'informs' the whole bus that they don't have to show the garda their passports.

    1 Is he right?
    2 What penalty is he now liable to?
    3 Presumably he won't show his own passport. Can he now be refused entry to Ireland?

    MM


Comments

  • #2
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    1. No
    2. Obstruction of a Garda in the course of his duties.
    3. Yes. He can be refused entry.


  • #3
    gonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭gonk


    Bond-007 wrote:
    3. Yes. He can be refused entry.

    Why? Not on the basis of failing to produce a passport anyway. None is needed for travel between Britain and Ireland.


  • #4
    jhegarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,441 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    To the op :
    1. Morally or legally ?

    To Bond:
    2. Is informing people of their rights (correctly or wrongly) obstruction ?
    3. On what grounds, given the common travel area ?


  • #5
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Personally I see the CTA as a defunct concept. Mountainyman will need to prove he is either a UK or IRL citizen in order to avail of the CTA.

    Also other persons on the bus may not be UK/IRL citizens and are not allowed to avail of the CTA and must show a passport.

    I would still see his actions as obstruction.


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