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Garda Checks

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    #872
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,836 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Juicee wrote: »
    "The pictures also shocked Consumers’ Association of Ireland chief Dermott Jewell, who said: ‘This is, to all intents and purposes, a violation of privacy.’"

    The Irish Council for Civil Liberties had no problems with it at all.
    You seem to cherry pick what suits you even from the articles you produce yourself.
    You clearly have an agenda.


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    #873
    Tokyo
    Registered Users Posts: 22,655 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Mod: @Juicee - don't post in the thread again, thanks.


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    #874
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,369 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Juicee wrote: »
    "The pictures also shocked Consumers’ Association of Ireland chief Dermott Jewell, who said: ‘This is, to all intents and purposes, a violation of privacy.’"

    It looks far more like casual conversation to me between two adults who don't have a need to constantly claim oppression


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    #875
    s8n
    Registered Users Posts: 3,837 ✭✭✭s8n


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I just knew that communism would sneak in somehow. There I was out for a stroll, and a Garda on his bicycle uttered "good morning" in passing. The breathtaking audacity, I felt my throat involuntarily tighten as my liberty ebbed away. The founding fathers of 1776 would be up in arms...oops wrong country. I knew you was pinko when I saw you spoke the ten gallon stetson to John Wayne, virtual-signalling libtards wanna trample all over my freedom. Heck, I ain't even registered another account to agree with me yet. You don't go tellin' no one, hear?

    I dont get it ??


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    #876
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,369 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Why are the guards faces pixelated? Also, looks like hey aren't wearing facemasks...

    Not allowed unless dealing with a suspected case. Apparently it would cause alarm amongst the public


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    #877
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,369 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Pa ElGrande wrote: »
    If this was a communist regime, the state police would confiscate your shopping for having "contraband" unless you paid them a bribe (usually cigarettes) to look the other way. We have not reached that level yet! We might when the tax revenue collapses.

    If you want to look for the communists though look no further than Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the EU and Commissioner for Competition who has stated that EU states should now nationalize companies in the fight against China, which is a country governed by the Chinese Communist party (CCP).


    European countries need to protect their companies from Chinese takeovers, says EU Commissioner




    The banks in this country have been government sponsored enterprises since the last economic crash. How would people feel about the government nationalising Ryanair?

    Why do people always say all the banks? Only 6 were bailed out.


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    #878
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users Posts: 18,724 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    mike_ie wrote: »
    Mod: @Juicee - don't post in the thread again, thanks.

    I suppose he/she thinks the mods are communist as well now :D

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #879
    Paddygreen
    Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Paddygreen


    Bill Gates said something about tracking peoples movements with a biometric chip and tattoo combination. We should leave these decisions to altruistic experts like Mr Gates who are far more clued in and knowledgeable. People should just stop asking questions and do whatever the authorities and experts say.


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    #880
    neckedit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭neckedit


    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    Why do people always say all the banks? Only 6 were bailed out.

    How many banks are there?


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    #881
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Paddygreen wrote: »
    Bill Gates said something about tracking peoples movements with a biometric chip and tattoo combination.

    No, he didn't. Last year he sought solutions to the dilemma of knowing who has received immunisations in parts of the world where record keeping is chaotic or impossible. One proposal, of many, that a team from MIT came back with was an invisible dye that stayed under the skin and was administered with the vaccination. No barcodes, not about tracking people's movement at all, and no biomtric chips.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/invisible-ink-could-reveal-whether-kids-have-been-vaccinated/


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    #882
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    neckedit wrote: »
    How many banks are there?

    There are 62 "Credit Institutions" regulated by the Central Bank Of Ireland. This does not include Credit Unions.

    https://www.centralbank.ie/docs/default-source/statistics/data-and-analysis/credit-and-banking-statistics/bank-balance-sheets/credit-institutions-resident-in-the-republic-of-ireland.pdf?sfvrsn=9


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    #883
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,369 ✭ [Deleted User]


    neckedit wrote: »
    How many banks are there?

    62 at the moment. Not sure if the number is up or down since 2008


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    #884
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,141 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    Why do people always say all the banks? Only 6 were bailed out.
    neckedit wrote: »
    How many banks are there?
    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    There are 62 "Credit Institutions" regulated by the Central Bank Of Ireland. This does not include Credit Unions.

    https://www.centralbank.ie/docs/default-source/statistics/data-and-analysis/credit-and-banking-statistics/bank-balance-sheets/credit-institutions-resident-in-the-republic-of-ireland.pdf?sfvrsn=9
    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    62 at the moment. Not sure if the number is up or down since 2008
    Please read the thread title - it says Garda checks, not Garda cheques, so drop all the banking talk

    Thanks


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    #885
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    What's stopping someone writing a fake cheque and say you're going to the bank?

    I completely forgot I'm sitting on a cheque. I need to drive 15km away to the bank to lodge it. I never thought of it because it isn't necessarily essential to me.


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    #886
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    DaveyDave wrote: »
    What's stopping someone writing a fake cheque and say you're going to the bank?

    I completely forgot I'm sitting on a cheque. I need to drive 15km away to the bank to lodge it. I never thought of it because it isn't necessarily essential. Banking counts as essential and the person who gave it to me would like it out of their account.

    My sister on Easter Sunday travelled to Galway from Westmeath to visit my 80 year old father who lives alone. She got stopped by guards, explained what she was doing and was allowed go. Perfectly reasonable reason to travel said the guard.

    Some of the comments on this thread you would swear the Gestapo were roaming the streets. If you need to go into town, go. If asked, say why. Use the cheque story if you want, but being honest I think is a better policy.

    I went to tesco yesterday and bought a bottle of bourbon, crisps and some fish. I didn't "need" any of those items, but I'd have no problem showing the contents of my bag if asked, or my recipt. I might get judged by the guard for being a wino but pfft, I'd don't care.


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    #887
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,369 ✭ [Deleted User]


    DaveyDave wrote: »
    What's stopping someone writing a fake cheque and say you're going to the bank?

    I completely forgot I'm sitting on a cheque. I need to drive 15km away to the bank to lodge it. I never thought of it because it isn't necessarily essential to me.

    Use an automatic system,
    Get it reissued


    It's not essential or you wouldn't have forgotten


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    #888
    greasepalm
    Registered Users Posts: 5,320 ✭✭✭greasepalm


    I also found a cheque but its a business one which is near where i work and need to drop in there to pick up all mail and shop on my way home,social distance gloves ,mask and sanitizer to hand.


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    #889
    Discodog
    Registered Users Posts: 15,882 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    tayto lover wrote: »
    The Irish Council for Civil Liberties had no problems with it at all.
    You seem to cherry pick what suits you even from the articles you produce yourself.
    You clearly have an agenda.

    Can you provide a link as you are quoting an organisation ?


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    #890
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Discodog wrote: »
    Can you provide a link as you are quoting an organisation ?

    Here's the Irish Council for Civil Liberties' page on the matter. Sensible and pragmatic.

    https://www.iccl.ie/human-rights/covid-19-emergency-legislation-everything-you-need-to-know/


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    #891
    Discodog
    Registered Users Posts: 15,882 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Here's the Irish Council for Civil Liberties' page on the matter. Sensible and pragmatic.

    https://www.iccl.ie/human-rights/covid-19-emergency-legislation-everything-you-need-to-know/

    But making no reference to the powers or use of discretion by Gardai during vehicle checks.


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    #892
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Discodog wrote: »
    But making no reference to the powers or use of discretion by Gardai during vehicle checks.

    Oh, that's in the article being discussed. The link was already provided in the post that started this. It was originally its own thread, but got merged with this one.
    Irish Council for Civil Liberties executive director Liam Herrick said: ‘Where someone asserts that they are moving about to purchase goods from an essential retail outlet, it is reasonable for gardaí to ask him or her to support this assertion – e.g. to show shopping bags or say which outlet they are going to or from.
    ‘We have had no reports of gardai making any distinction as to purchased goods being essential or non-essential.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/coronavirus/photographs-emerge-of-gardai-inspecting-shopping/ar-BB12HDET?ocid=spartanntp


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    #893
    Acey10
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭Acey10


    sorry if this was already posted https://www.rte.ie/amp/1131964/ but what's your opinion on this??


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    #894
    Witcher
    Registered Users Posts: 14,808 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Acey10 wrote: »
    sorry if this was already posted https://www.rte.ie/amp/1131964/ but what's your opinion on this??

    Took off from a checkpont...what a clown


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    #895
    thelad95
    Registered Users Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Acey10 wrote: »
    sorry if this was already posted https://www.rte.ie/amp/1131964/ but what's your opinion on this??

    Absolute muppet, given a fair chance by Gardaí to return home and decided to speed away.


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    #896
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,269 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Acey10 wrote: »
    sorry if this was already posted https://www.rte.ie/amp/1131964/ but what's your opinion on this??

    Those pups probably had a lucky escape


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    #897
    Oops!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Oops!


    A special kind of stupid....


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    #898
    Juicee
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Juicee


    I haven't seen any gards get as bad as some of their uk counterparts thankfully (at least not yet)



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    #899
    RicketyCricket
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭RicketyCricket


    Juicee wrote: »
    I haven't seen any gards get as bad as some of their uk counterparts thankfully (at least not yet)



    Haha "you can't yell at journalists". Things are a lot more serious in the UK than here, I don't see a lot wrong with the police telling this knob to **** off home. He was looking for a reaction.


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    #900
    Juicee
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Juicee


    RicketyCricket wrote: »
    Haha "you can't yell at journalists". Things are a lot more serious in the UK than here, I don't see a lot wrong with the police telling this knob to **** off home. He was looking for a reaction.

    That's absolutely false. don't know how you arrived at that. 2min video so people can check for themselves


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    #901
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,369 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Juicee wrote: »
    That's absolutely false. don't know how you arrived at that. 2min video so people can check for themselves

    A, the clip didn't start where we see it starting. Why edited?

    B, he is Clearly trying to provoke a reaction. Would he know the lady being arrested by any chance?

    C, his job is irrelevant. Exercise or go home. Standing recording someone is not exercise

    D, is the arrested person not entitled to some privacy instead of being recorded and uploaded to the net?

    E, journalist? It's level Earth on YouTube. A nutjob channel.


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