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Police/Garda

stoneill · 2010-09-11 03:58:30

a hypothetical question - Just say you started a business, delivering oranges or dry cleaning or what ever and you decided to call your company "Police" Could you then drive about the streets of Dublin in a car with Police in big letters emblazoned all over it?

11-09-2010 4:58am

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a hypothetical question -

Just say you started a business, delivering oranges or dry cleaning or what ever and you decided to call your company "Police"

Could you then drive about the streets of Dublin in a car with Police in big letters emblazoned all over it?

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#2 11-09-2010 10:16am

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NO

If you were setting up the business properly you'd never be permitted to use the name "Police" as a business name

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#3 11-09-2010 10:26am

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What about ' Carabinieri ' ?

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#4 11-09-2010 4:35pm

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i could think of a million different names except those above!

although in new york city i seen a money transfer van with garda written along the side. it was the same sort of van as brinks etc

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#5 11-09-2010 4:42pm

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If you were a mild-mannered burglar, you could have 'Gadaí Síochánta' on the side of your van.

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RayM wrote: »

If you were a mild-mannered burglar, you could have 'Gadaí Síochánta' on the side of your van.

Or a burglar who can't spell.

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#7 11-09-2010 10:29pm

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RayM wrote: »

If you were a mild-mannered burglar, you could have 'Gadaí Síochánta' on the side of your van.

What fool would do that, several here

From this thread

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055544868

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#8 11-09-2010 10:56pm

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foreign wrote: »

Or a burglar who can't spell.

Ahem.... from http://www.irishdictionary.ie/home

gadaí = thief

síochánta = amicable
síochánta = passive
síochánta = peaceful

Not your ornery onager

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#9 13-09-2010 3:28am

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But what about this company's delivery vans? :pac:

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