Comments on: €700,000 Cocaine seizure: Castletroy View

By: starkie

starkie — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:57:57 +0000

thanks hazel

By: Hazel

Hazel — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:44:48 +0000

good man starkie well said

By: starkie

starkie — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:12:45 +0000

i agree with hoof about this new irish nonsense. very few people lose their identity no matter how long they are living in their new country. although i have strong views on the asylum seekers i think it should be stringently controlled and not have an open dor policy which almost was te case a few years ago.. aside from that i love the diversity of the other nationalitysalthough i would be very suspicious of people coming here from the african countries , particularly nigeria. so the gist of my contribution is that i dont want our immigrants to lose their cultures or their accents. i love to walk through the city and see all these different cultures, most of whom are pleasant and law abiding.

By: starkie

starkie — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:40:50 +0000

tony g.
no i dont agree with you at all. most of these people are not addicted to drugs, the use them mostly at weekends. yes there is a number of addicts in limerick, but it seems they are mostly from the working classes, the people im talking about are the well heeled otherwise respectable people who take drugs, and while these people continue to buy drugs this cancer will not go away. they are equally as guilty as the dealers. thats my final word on this now/

By: Hazel

Hazel — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:28:45 +0000

a non national not a non nation as you describe it is a person not born in this country

By: Hazel

Hazel — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:27:18 +0000

micks mickey if you read the report on the limerick leader it describes them as non nationals i presume then its not limerick people that are involved this time nor irish for that matter ok

By: Hoof

Hoof — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:24:14 +0000

Think Hazel might be confusing two separate events that happened over the past few days. Those being detained in the Castletroy View seizure are local and no strangers to Garda hospitality – all three are connected to a Moyross gang.

William O’Donnell, aged 31 of Ballynanty , 46 years old Timothy O’Grady address at Hospital, Co. Limerick and Patrick Hogan age 26 from the Sandmall.

The incident Hazel may be referring to concerns two east European nationals (P.C. enough Mickey?) who were arrested last night on foot of a European arrest warrant and due before the High Court in Dublin this afternoon for an extradition hearing. Roxboro Gardaí and Dublin NBCI members arrested the two men in the city on Monday night. One other man attempted to escape by jumping from an upstairs window of the house. He was caught and was taken to the Regional hospital under Garda watch. All three were understood to be living in Dooradoyle and Raheen for some time prior to their arrest.

Roxboro Gardaí said they cannot divulge details of their nationality, but it is safe to assume that in this type of operation the men would be non-Irish nationals (still P.C enough?). With European warrants, Interpol would typically liaise with national police forces in securing arrests. btw, radio reports indicate that one Polish and one Romanian are involved (the other not divulged but is also east European)

Either way a criminal is a criminal….no matter where they’re from. So be it Ballynanty or Bosnia , they’re not welcome nor wanted regardless of whichever tag they choose to hide behind.

And as an aside, Mickey, you sound like one of those who like to describe immigrants in that most PC of terms : “The New Irish”…if what I witnessed in a well-known city centre bar serving lunch a few weeks ago is anything to go by, I’d keep that phrase for the meeeja types who seem to have invented it. A customer trying to embrace his multi-cultural credentials, in the course of speaking to the two Polish ladies working behind the counter, decided to refer to them as being “The New Irish”….bad mistake. They practically levelled him and took it as a grave insult, passing more than one comment about some of our less appealing national traits. Reacting in all likelihood as an Irish worker in the UK would have at being termed as “New British” I guess.

Despite the inflated notion of ourselves some hold, the reality is that not everyone wants to be Irish !!!.

By: Mickey's mickey

Mickey's mickey — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:48:16 +0000

Hazel, Come on! non-nations? They all have have are from a nation and its are Ireland.

Did you not get the memo? No one uses the term non-national anymore more because it sounds dumb. Do want to sound dumb?

By: Tony g

Tony g — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:34:42 +0000

Starkie what people dont realize is that drugs are addictive so its kind of pointless blaming the user . You can judge him all you want , but if you think people can stop taking drugs , like stopping wearing cardigans , it cant be done . They dont have much choice in the matter . Im not defending it but people get addicted to these things .

By: starkie

starkie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:04:16 +0000

sorry paka.
but your wasting your time and also putting yourself in danger. you see most of the people in your area are using drugs as in every area. and they are equally guilty in this problem as the barons and pushers. so until they stop taking drugs this will continue . nobody is forcing drugs on these otherwose law abiding people. its a demand and supply situation. the buyers are committing a criminal act by bying drugs and possessing drugs so they are criminals. and they dont even realize it.