Another random person hospitalized after unprovoked attack in Dublin city center

It’s not just in the Gardai it’s everywhere, you can’t get good workers. They’ll do a bare minimum and expect the absolute maximum, and you see it in every workforce the work ethic is just not there, and it’s not just an Irish phenomenon either. I don’t think there is a fixing it tbh. So, what’s easiest are the tasks done and overdone but anything more difficult, more strenuous or more dangerous, that’s above their pay grade. I’ve heard it all. i will say it’s not everyone, but there’s a culture out there, and it’s even in the government, playing to the woke gallery and not doing the tough stuff, and I rest my case with that.

That was easy. The usual law abiding citizens were the ones doing these dangerous activities plus shopping or exercising within 2/5km/within their county, checking that people were isolating post trips abroad etc. Dealing with self entitled and dangerous thugs is a different matter and they are doing this without resources and a court system which can be way too lenient against serial offenders.

I am not convinced that Gardai should be armed but at least give them the tools to do their jobs better e.g. stun guns, and probably not a good look for the State to prosecute a Garda for pursuing criminals down a motorway - they should have received medals.

Scandalous that Garda has been charged.

The issue is clearly the resources and legal quandaries of delivering justice when a swift baton to the face and a broken nose is a far cheaper and effective deterrent but we couldn't allow that for fear 5% of the broken noses would be unjust.

The age of criminal responsibility is 12.

What is "conventional Dublin culture" when it's at home, and how did she clearly advocate for it, out of interest?

We got attacked in the Dart station in Kilbarrack after a football match last weekend. Thankfully no one injured...I don't miss living in Dublin!!

Reading this thread I wouldn't go near Dublin City centre. As a disabled person who can't run I wouldn't fancy my chances of avoiding being assaulted and mugged

‘Boards.com’

Sorry, what does this mean? You'll need to spell it out for us, please, that's twice now you've been deliberately vague and obtuse, on purpose I suspect.

Are you implying that "conventional Dublin culture" is blaming everyone else for Dublin's problems? Cos that's fcukin stupid, if that's what you're actually trying to say.

Not being brought in on overtime as they were during COVID by the government

I disagree with this characterization, these events you allude to all inspired uproars. There have been plenty of uproars, about prisons, judges, sentences, teenage scrotes, suspended sentences, etc. etc.

I don't particularly feel like this attack (esp. one in the OP, a physical brawl in a brawl that ends in a hospital visit) inspires any more special a tier of uproar as previous uproars, I think Fox News will make fodder of it maybe, but then they will move on. And if you're worried about how the States view it, I doubt it will register as much of a blip compared to our sensitivities, and sensory overload from our own gun crisis (numerous examples to choose). Even just on random attacks that's happened in US cities too in the last year or so, just seemingly nonsense, **** you in particular, assaults on complete strangers: https://nypost.com/2023/06/23/straphanger-sucker-punch-in-random-brooklyn-station-attack/

Am I wrong in my mere and slitted observation that Ireland has a lot of eg. protests about immigrants, but **** all protests about police/judicial/prison reforms? Reportedly the police you have don't even have body cameras. Most prosecutions lead to typically less than meted justice, and the antisocial behavior isn't deterred and the dichotomy gets worse as criminal types get bolder. That sort of thing might be a deterrent for retention and recruitment. Ireland has 1 juvenile delinquency center and it has a capacity of 54, which about is the same number of charges on some peoples rap sheets walking around, because they 'had a troubled life' and there is nowhere else to put them to get a due rehabilitation during/and incarceration.

They are useless.

Do you pushed onto the tracks?

From todays Irish Times "The accused, who cannot be identified because he is a minor, was arrested at the weekend and granted bail with conditions following a special court sitting on Sunday".

It is so frustrating that he is old enough to beat a man within an inch of his life, but the law says he is not old enough to be named and shamed. His name and picture should be plastered on billboards across Dublin1 to warn the public of who this scumbag is.

Humphries did a stint as Justice Minister when McEntee first went on maternity leave and the Harris did the second stint. If they were changing Justice Minister then I couldn't see FG giving it to someone in another party unless it is to try and disassociate itself from the stink of it like they did with Health and Housing.

You are correct to say that he is responsible for the day to day running but FG are responsible for the lack of garda. It was FG led governments that reduced garda numbers, stopped Garda recruitment and closed garda stations. They cannot nor should not be absolved of responsibility for this mess.