St Peter & Paul's School Balbriggan

BalbrigganGirl

I am sure I wasn't dreaming when I was listening to RTE Radio news inthe car this morning when they said there were armed Gardai outside the school due to recent serious assaults ?

Has anyone else heard this or substantiate that I am not going mad !

I cannot find anything relating to it on online news ......

RelySarah

Yes it is true - you can read it in the Independent. Two local families fueding over an unpaid drug debt!

A.Partridge

<Sherlock snip - full article quoted & no link to source>

tHB

BalbrigganGirl

thanks folks

poxman

How come the usual mouth pieces from pavee point are not condemning this activity . You can not shut them up when there is some perceived injustice done to their "minority" community but when they are reconstructing Grand Theft Auto outside a school they are nowhere to be seen.

BMJD

Isolated incident, few bad apples, settled community has its problems too, etc etc

wow sierra

poxman wrote: »

How come the usual mouth pieces from pavee point are not condemning this activity . You can not shut them up when there is some perceived injustice done to their "minority" community but when they are reconstructing Grand Theft Auto outside a school they are nowhere to be seen.

This is scumbag drug dealer behaviour. There are scumbag drug dealers who are settled Irish, Irish travellers and new Irish/Immigrants.

The issue Pavee point have is that you shouldn't label the whole Traveller community because of what the scumbag element do. The same as you shouldn't label the whole Immigrant/new Irish because of some scumbags. I wouldn't expect people to think this is typical Balbriggan behaviour for example - and I wouldn't feel that I should, as a Balbriggan person have to condemn it publicly, just because I live here. Neither should Pavee Point.

cathy01

My friend said a car very very nearly hit a child outside the school.it was driving up on the path.when I heard about armed Garda I just thought about what's going in America and felt sick .oh God not here.thank god it wasn't.
Poor innocent children having to watch that.

Hootanany

wow sierra wrote: »

This is scumbag drug dealer behaviour. There are scumbag drug dealers who are settled Irish, Irish travellers and new Irish/Immigrants.

The issue Pavee point have is that you shouldn't label the whole Traveller community because of what the scumbag element do. The same as you shouldn't label the whole Immigrant/new Irish because of some scumbags. I wouldn't expect people to think this is typical Balbriggan behaviour for example - and I wouldn't feel that I should, as a Balbriggan person have to condemn it publicly, just because I live here. Neither should Pavee Point.

But no one come out to defend Irish scumbags do they?

The Hill Billy

Let's not drag this off-topic. I'll also add that there should be no speculation as to the identities of those involved while this is subject to a Garda investigation.

tHB

NorthDub

Irrelevant of who the parties are that are involved in this dispute, it is terrible that all this occured in front of a school and innocent people got caught up in the crossfire,

Doesnt matter who they are or where they are from, it is absolutely dreadful carry on