An Garda Síochána - COVID19

PhilOssophy · 10-01-2021 4:52pm

Yeah, I'd also ask how long it took them to get those 17.....and if indeed they are for 5km breaches.
If they really want to be serious about the 5km, they need to either start using ANPR (if it is capable of telling them) or require ID and proof of address.

10-01-2021 4:57pm

vickers209 wrote: »

See attached from wicklow garda

They don't have anything to do with covid restrictions

FishOnABike · 10-01-2021 5:04pm

PhilOssophy wrote: »

Yeah, I'd also ask how long it took them to get those 17.....and if indeed they are for 5km breaches.
If they really want to be serious about the 5km, they need to either start using ANPR (if it is capable of telling them) or require ID and proof of address.

There'd be very few houses within 5km of Luggala alright.

SwordofLight · 10-01-2021 5:07pm

My two cents, pulled up to a checkpoint during the first lockdown, Garda sticks his head in the window no mask, asked him if he would mind moving back a bit. Concerned with the apparent ignorance and audacity, I asked him if they were going to give them masks. The conversation went from being friendly to me being asked if I was being cheeky and told to drive on.

I recall a video news story of a lady who couldn't take her very vulnerable daughter to a park in Dublin because nobody was adhering to the allocated times for elderly and vulnerable, nobody was distancing, it was mayhem and the guards looking on. Low and behold possibly due to the publicising of it, a few days after there was an update of three guards escorting the lady and her daughter to the park and around the park. Of course none of them were distancing from the lady and her daughter, and no guard wore a mask despite the lady and her daughter both wearing them. I think that probably sums up the guards response to covid for me.

10-01-2021 5:16pm

SwordofLight wrote: »

My two cents, pulled up to a checkpoint during the first lockdown, Garda sticks his head in the window no mask, asked him if he would mind moving back a bit. Concerned with the apparent ignorance and audacity, I asked him if they were going to give them masks. The conversation went from being friendly to me being asked if I was being cheeky and told to drive on.

I recall a video news story of a lady who couldn't take her very vulnerable daughter to a park in Dublin because nobody was adhering to the allocated times for elderly and vulnerable, nobody was distancing, it was mayhem and the guards looking on. Low and behold possibly due to the publicising of it, a few days after there was an update of three guards escorting the lady and her daughter to the park and around the park. Of course none of them were distancing from the lady and her daughter, and no guard wore a mask despite the lady and her daughter both wearing them. I think that probably sums up the guards response to covid for me.

Just an FYI , gardai were not permitted to wear masks during the first lockdown.
So, they didn't have any choice

whisky_galore · 10-01-2021 5:24pm

PhilOssophy wrote: »

Another question - are the Gardai in the Garda Band full-time band members? Do they not do actual Garda work? I have always presumed they were Gardai who happened to be able to play an instrument in their spare time?

Saw something that they were being redeployed to frontline roles. Not a lot of gigs for them these days.

Wesekn. · 10-01-2021 5:26pm

Discodog wrote: »

Same here last lockdown. I think they like having local blitzes. They are also trying to move away from fixed checkpoints maybe because they are so easy to spot on Google maps.

What do you mean Google maps?

ED E · 10-01-2021 5:27pm

Wesekn. wrote: »

What do you mean Google maps?

They create a traffic jam, traffic shows on google maps.

whisky_galore · 10-01-2021 5:33pm

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/garda%25C3%25AD-turn-away-snow-tourists-and-tow-cars-in-wicklow-uplands-amid-5km-rule-1.4454481%3fmode=amp

"Snow tourists"

What is it about a dusting of snow in this country that turns grown adults into children?

If there wasn't a pandemic, they'd be getting stuck up there in their Tonka Toy 4wds.

All that fandango · 10-01-2021 5:38pm

For the times when we are allowed to travel within our own county, a guard stops asks where are you going. If you are going from one town to another within your own county, why would they then ask what the purpose is? Surely if youre keeping within your county they dont need to know any further than that?

10-01-2021 5:40pm

All that fandango wrote: »

For the times when we are allowed to travel within our own county, a guard stops asks where are you going. If you are going from one town to another within your own county, why would they then ask what the purpose is? Surely if youre keeping within your county they dont need to know any further than that?

Did that happen?

Acosta · 10-01-2021 5:41pm

Two of the three checkpoints I came across on my daily commute during the first couple of lockdowns seem to have gone this time around. With the current high numbers I thought there would be more, not less. Then again It might have something to do with staff shortages due to covid.
I also don't understand why they don't move checkpoints around more as it's easy to avoid them when everyone knows they're always in the same spot.

All that fandango · 10-01-2021 5:42pm

bubblypop wrote: »

Did that happen?

Yes.

10-01-2021 5:44pm

All that fandango wrote: »

Yes.

Well I guess we were only supposed to be making essential journeys, so makes sense!

prunudo · 10-01-2021 5:45pm

All that fandango wrote: »

For the times when we are allowed to travel within our own county, a guard stops asks where are you going. If you are going from one town to another within your own county, why would they then ask what the purpose is? Surely if youre keeping within your county they dont need to know any further than that?

Because they can't help but being nosey, also your answer will then let them decide whether you're being shifty and what they deem is the next course of action, its the Templemore way.

All that fandango · 10-01-2021 5:51pm

bubblypop wrote: »

Well I guess we were only supposed to be making essential journeys, so makes sense!

Seriously? Ever hear of a thing called work?

All that fandango · 10-01-2021 5:53pm

prunudo wrote: »

Because they can't help but being nosey, also your answer will then let them decide whether you're being shifty and what they deem is the next course of action, its the Templemore way.

Fair enough I suppose. Decent answer compared to the absolute gobdaw above me posted.

10-01-2021 5:56pm

All that fandango wrote: »

Fair enough I suppose. Decent answer compared to the absolute gobdaw above me posted.

Which gobdaw is that now?
Not my fault you can't understand simple directions

All that fandango · 10-01-2021 6:04pm

bubblypop wrote: »

Which gobdaw is that now?
Not my fault you can't understand simple directions

What are you even going on about now about directions? You want me so badly to say I was going off on a jolly in my car is that it? I literally said it was to go to work. Stop looking for an issue where there is none.

10-01-2021 6:24pm

All that fandango wrote: »

For the times when we are allowed to travel within our own county, a guard stops asks where are you going. If you are going from one town to another within your own county, why would they then ask what the purpose is? Surely if youre keeping within your county they dont need to know any further than that?

This is what you posted, doesn't say anything about work.
Also, how does the guard know you're going to work if he doesn't ask?

All that fandango · 10-01-2021 6:31pm

bubblypop wrote: »

This is what you posted, doesn't say anything about work.
Also, how does the guard know you're going to work if he doesn't ask?

Jesus you are getting desperate now its embarrassing! Oh Im so sorry, I forgot I must put every detail in a post in order to make you happy. You'd probably look for an issue with that too. My question was literally why would a guard ask our purpose for travelling if we are free (pro lockdowners like you dont like that word but there you go) to go anywhere in our county (for example before christmas).

10-01-2021 6:41pm

All that fandango wrote: »

Jesus you are getting desperate now its embarrassing! Oh Im so sorry, I forgot I must put every detail in a post in order to make you happy. You'd probably look for an issue with that too. My question was literally why would a guard ask our purpose for travelling if we are free (pro lockdowners like you dont like that word but there you go) to go anywhere in our county (for example before christmas).

Who are you calling a pro lockdowner?
Given your attitude on here on surprised the guard didn't give you more of a hard time.
You asked a question, I answered that question for you.
You need to calm down & stop abusing posters because you don't like their answer.

Necro · 10-01-2021 6:45pm

Mod:

bubblypop and All that fandango, calm it down a bit please. Thanks

Discodog · 10-01-2021 8:31pm

bubblypop wrote: »

Did that happen?

Yes numerous times around Galway - once three times in one journey.

cadaliac · 10-01-2021 10:05pm

Acosta wrote: »

Two of the three checkpoints I came across on my daily commute during the first couple of lockdowns seem to have gone this time around. With the current high numbers I thought there would be more, not less. Then again It might have something to do with staff shortages due to covid.
I also don't understand why they don't move checkpoints around more as it's easy to avoid them when everyone knows they're always in the same spot.

Yea, found this too, yesterday when shopping for my mother.
I also found that each time I was stopped they asked where I was going and didn't just wave me on like the last time there were checkpoints.
Can't help thinking that you could say whatever you liked (within reason) who are they to argue?

Thinkingaboutit · 10-01-2021 11:27pm

The checkpoint nearest me is possibly chosen because of the wide entranceway to the Mt Argus, but honestly I think it's also because the Passionists brew them some tea (St Paul's church and the Passionist Retreat have long Garda association). I don't think they ever stopped me.

SouthWesterly · 11-01-2021 12:25am

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

One word gets you waved on. Shopping.

They never asked me a question beyond "what is the purpose of your journey?"

Was stopped twice in 1 day in the first lockdown by the same guard who remembered me from earlier.

That was an interesting conversation

Speakerboxx · 11-01-2021 9:22am

If the gardai stop you at a checkpoint. Can you put on a mask after you stop the car but before you open window to talk to the gardai?Something i would do for my own safety but is their any law that you would have to remove your mask if garda asked you at a checkpoint?

Killinator · 11-01-2021 5:30pm

Speakerboxx wrote: »

If the gardai stop you at a checkpoint. Can you put on a mask after you stop the car but before you open window to talk to the gardai?Something i would do for my own safety but is their any law that you would have to remove your mask if garda asked you at a checkpoint?

No, there's no issue with people stopping and putting on masks, happens all the time.

AidoEirE · 11-01-2021 5:39pm

Discodog wrote: »

Yes numerous times around Galway - once three times in one journey.

Any chance that was between headford and ballindooley on the curraghline. If so they needed 3 checkpoints on that road. I past it twice a day for work. Guards were fairly sound and asked where I was off to. Found it a non issue

An Garda Síochána - COVID19

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