Garda assaulted

And are you being deliberately obtuse for the sake of it?

- Legal system needs widespread reform

- A new prison is needed

-The Garda force need bulking up of resources. People, equipment, stations.

Her words mean nothing unless there is meaningful action. As we have seen in the past it will blow over until the next time.

And how would any of that have prevented this horrific crime?

Which country do not have these occasional serious assaults on their police force?

IF you could point where I suggest she didn't?

We operate reverse Darwin in this country. These scamps are provided bread and board and contribute fcuk all to this society except damage.

Welfare should be stopped completely after x convictions.

Couldn't care less what happens to them.

If I was that colleague or a colleague of hers back at the station I’d be raging, she’s watching her mate take an absolute hammering and she’s walking around like a scared 12 year old in a playground looking at it happening..… that’s diabolical…

im actually shocked at that more then the attack….mad. 😬

What really is deafening is the silence from the policing authority when something like this happens. Guards getting hammered is fine but put a spit hood on a hep C positive scrote that is spitting at Gardai and they are shouting from the rafters about it.

Thank the policing authority, council for civil liberties, Paul Murphy or Richard Boyd Barrett or the likes for that. Dpp and management will absolutely hang a guard out to dry for any use of force. You'd want to be one thousand percent sure before you take out a baton nowadays.

The criminal justice system is supposed to be a deterrent. It isn’t. There has been a rapid upsurge in crime post pandemic and assaults and violence are up too.

judges are still a problem, every bit as much as the perpetrators . And the politicians not exactly standing up and protecting law abiding citizens either.

let’s see what sob stories get trotted out in court… ok it’s not going to be a suspended sentence but I won’t think there will be any suitable punishments.

that individual shouldn’t see the outside of a prison for 5 years.

No matter what, an assault on any Garda is an assault on all of us, and an attack on the state just like the ramming of the patrol car a few months ago, and it happens every day in the state.

A national Police service which is overstretched, underfunded and under strength in numbers, add in politicians who consistently fail to properly support the force apart from a few sound bites when this happens, a revolving door criminal system where 100 or 200 previous convictions is seen as a badge of honour, and any number of hard luck stories given to the likes of Judge Nolan means criminals have no fear of receiving any more than a slap on the wrist... And if a Garda restrains someone they risk job loss and criminal charges..

Sending out unarmed officers in family cars dressed in ridiculous uniforms would have worked ok back in the 1970's but we need a Police force suitable for the realities of the 2020's.

There's a strong criminal class in all of our towns and cities funded by a booming Drugs trade and a soft touch social welfare system that breeds every generation of young criminals who've no investment in the state and operate outside normal society.. They're the new Untouchables..

The Countries in purple have unarmed police forces. It’s time we armed out Garda with firearms like most other EU countries. The female Garda could then have used her gun to protect her colleague. In Dublin especially we are way past the time to have armed guards.

Yeah make the more destitute, that'll help crime rates 🤣

Meanwhile, back in 2022, it's still fashionable to blame 'lefties' for all socialital ills.

Baton? The blackthorn, or bota-fada has been long since been replaced by the ASP. More shocking still was the recent introduction of anti-stab vests after the death of a Member in 2015.

Even the most brawny mule of a guard would have his/her job cut out handling a little coked-up scrote with a knife. We're not in the age of 'Lugs' Brannigan anymore. However, the rank-and-file Garda unions are still against the use of tasters by 'regular' Members, so what do you do?