Strong policing on the streets of Dublin tonight (24/11) - **Read OP before posting**

Yes been like that all day today. Good.

There does appear to be a bit of trouble outside what looks like Store Street Garda Station according to some videos doing the rounds.

The usual over the top costly response to a few hours of a bunch of useless losers causing havoc.

It gives the.imoresdion that the gardai and govt care..they don't.

It just gives them an excuse for meaningless soundbites and .

Looking at the names and addresses and job positions🥴😁 of some who appeared in court came as no surprise.

I’d support a bus load of mobile Gendarmerie style public order heavyweights being permanently on call in the city centre. Think Spain’s Guardia Civil, or Italy’s Carabinieri. Paramilitary, equipped for cracking skulls, and an adjunct to the regular Gardaí, offering a ‘fcuk around and find out’ style.

Annual Lugs Brannigan Medal and substantial annual bonus to the member with the highest skull crackin’ score.

Hopefully it lasts more than just a couple of nights.

Pat Kenny asked this morning why was the Garda Mounted Unit not deployed last night, which made me realise, I've never seen them in the city, except on St Patricks day.

They're regularly out and about, I've often seen them in town.

This weekend, and last night particularly, would be a great opportunity to go on a burglary spree in Dublin's neighbouring counties - I'd say there's not a guard stationed between here and a 50km radius that's not in Dublin city centre this weekend.

If that level of policing lasts a week, though, I'll eat my hat.

"The local scallys know they mean business so the fear factor is high"

There's zero fear of the garda, another court appearance is just a day out.

Who said anything is grand? It's most certainly not grand.

I was just responding to the poster who said he'd never seen the mounted unit in town other than on St Patrick's Day.

I travelled through the city centre every day for 4 years for work, and never saw the mounted unit and very rarely saw a guard.

The poor craturs just trying to get some Nike's for the starving childers.

Shouldn't there be strong policing on the streets of Dublin every night. What exactly is the negative effect to the city for having a strong police presence on the streets.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to recruit more Gardai in general, better to have too many Gardai than the current situation of having too few.

What would be the negative effect? I'll tell you. There isn't one.

The city has been desperately neglected since the Corona Virus pandemic. I've been campaigning my city representatives & I've been pretty vocal on boards.ie about the need for a dedicated metropolitan & public transport Garda force.

The city is the main economic drive for the whole country. It's time to put some of that money back in to where it all comes from.

Absolutely.

After last night's events the in your face presence is understandable but it doesn't need to be like that all the time.

In other cities the back up is held in reserve, often waiting down a side street.

The minute something kicks off they are there ready for action.

There is no negative side effect because you only see them when they are needed.

They were deployed eventually.

I still don't understand why the powers that be let it happen.

The media and some politicians are saying it's a soft, appeasement approach.

They’ll be a lot of Childers going around with odd shoes for Christmas! I’m sure Foot Locker and the likes only keep 1 shoe on display with the others locked in the back rooms!!!

One reason Gardai are slow to use their batons is GSOC, a Garda pal of mine reckons the last time they had free reign to use them was at the Lansdowne Rd riot in 1995, nowadays every thing they do is recorded on phones and they have to watch every move they make.

If true, the Minister of Justice could change that with a stoke of a pen.

So, again, why the inaction?

The amount of vermin in this city is something else... needs to be much larger police presence in Dublin 1 going forward...

Guilty as charged!!!! But you're 100% right about the capital being the cultural epicentre of the country (as well as the economic driver). It's great that you recognise this and I love your adopted Dublinese "ah here" and how it's catching. I see from your post history you're very interested in your capital and frequently talk about Dublin.

If you read back on my posts you'll see that I've advocated & supported more of Dublin money to be spent in Dublin as well as Galway and Cork. I've posted here about the need for a metro police force and a transport police. I'm sure you agree with my sentiments.

And the fear of prosecution for just doing their job.