Comments on: Broken News: Sindo story “wild speculation” – Garda chief

By: biggie

biggie — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:48:27 +0000

we sure have a great site going here. i have to commend squid for such work it must take up so much of his timeand patience.. lively debate is a great thing. but to the few people who get personal with others who have a different opinion let me tell you that when you do you lose the debate. attack the issue but never the person. thats the secret of debate. its good to see so many people interested in their city and what goes on. i often sit here wondering who you are but its better that people dont know one another. if you know other bloggers its impossible to separate the blogger from the blog. so squid i salute you. to all you bloggers keep it going. your great.

By: mel

mel — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:29:16 +0000

Roisin you are right i understand what you are saying. its just that there are so many antisocial families it draggs the normal hard working people down, espically the ones living right next door to it or in the same estates.And i am not the perfect parent, but every one from the age of 2 knows right from wrong. And how many chances are we supposed to give.

By: Roisin

Roisin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:50:55 +0000

But Mel, how is the cycle going to be broken? How can someone come out of such an upbringing and suddenly be a good parent by our standards. ? Probably, within their own damaged set of rules, some are doing the best they can but the chips are stacked too high. Even if they get new houses etc., the mind set (and brain chemical set-up) is now set to this atmosphere of anxiety and confrontation. It would take a massive influx of very experienced social and community workers with excellent track records (get help from outside the country if necessary) to give time to individual families to help change the patterns. And possibly for the their new neighbours to be willing to give them umpteen chances and have a level of goodwill.

By: mel

mel — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:13:03 +0000

There was a debate on the new laws on limericks live 95fm today the majority of people said it wont make a difference cutting back on opening times, or making it less available in the small shops. It all comes back to parenting monkey does what monkey sees, and if monkey sees mammy and daddy drinking at home 7 nights a week well its ok for them even if it is outside in the garden, they then move over to the wall by the field, or up around the corner. Mammy and Daddy are to pissed to care where they are knowing their drinking on the streets, and whats worse they probably bought it for them. There was a girl i knew, her drink was “Buckfast” she would get absoutly plastered, then she moved on to drugs, would fight with her mother beat her up wreck the house, break the windows the guards would be called but really there was nothing could be done,and then she would go to work after causing so much destruction as though butter wouldn,t melt. Whats my point? well if the so called parents were sober and parented properly giving a better example it wouldn,t be happening the kids would have respect for the parents………

By: gobbledegooksquid

gobbledegooksquid — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:42:31 +0000

removed by : squid

reason : I cannot moderate what I cannot read.

By: biggie

biggie — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:00:54 +0000

the latest laugh is te new laws being brought in about alcohol. under 18s drinking in public. a guard can now take the cans off the youth. laugh. a guard had always the power to do that, closing off licenses at 10 oc. well the young drinkers will will just get drunk earlier. stopping sales of alcohol in night clubs after 12. 30. well some sense in that one i must admit.

By: shan

shan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:57:49 +0000

There is defineatley a ‘play down’ by the Gardai and politicians. Everything that happens is tagged as ‘feud related’ and a lot is deviant criminal activity. The hope is that it dies down and gets relegated to ‘yesterdays news’ and the root cause will never be dealt with.

By: Trinity

Trinity — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:35:31 +0000

I heard, from a reliable source that the Gardai are trying to ‘play down’ the whole Limerick gang/fued shenanigans. As skyguy said above, just because Willie said it’s not true, doesn’t mean something didn’t happen. Wouldn’t be the first time. It would be interesting to see where the Indo got their info from!

By: skyguy

skyguy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:52:55 +0000

how do we actually know its NOT true, just because Supt Willie Keane says its not, sure the guards dont have their hands on the pulse in Limerick at all, maybe it is true and the Guards are playing it down, Maybe its not true, I dont know, but Im willing to let the editor of the Independant reply before I judge him, Biggie your dead right, the decent People in Limerick are living in fear, if the guards got off their donut ass’s and done their job Limerick would be a safer place, the asbo’s are out a year now, they were going to solve all our problems of antisocial behavour, how many have being givening out in Limerick, not one, yes NOT ONE, you are all complaining about a story that did happen, it didnt happen, who cares if it did or didnt happen, it could WELL happen, its not pass these scum, are you all worried that that story is going to damage our city, let me tell you, our city is well in the gutter and has been for a while.

By: Squid

Squid — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:39:30 +0000

I notice Willie Keanes response was reported in the Examiner this morning but can’t find it anywhere on the Indo website. I doubt it is in the paper, haven’t had a chance to pick it up yet.