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Here's Martin Callinan's 10 March letter to Alan Shatter....

The Dept of Justice has released the letter sent by the former Garda Commissioner on the issue of taped calls in garda stations.

THE TEXT OF of former Garda Commissioner Marin Callinan’s letter to Alan Shatter has just been released by the Government, ahead of a debate on a motion of No Confidence in the Justice Minister.

Here’s it is…

Having trouble reading the text? Here’s the document in full.

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    Mute IrishGravyTrain
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    Sep 5th 2015, 7:07 PM

    Hasn’t this been kept alive all these years through a certain culture.

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    Mute Magoo Maguire
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    Sep 5th 2015, 7:10 PM

    no they use slash hooks

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Sep 5th 2015, 8:18 PM

    Where’s Jon Snow when we need an expert opinion from someone who knows nothing?

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    Mute Ciarán
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    Sep 5th 2015, 7:18 PM

    Amusingly its less barbaric than mma as well

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    Mute Enforcer
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    Sep 5th 2015, 7:12 PM

    kinda nerdy don’t you think?

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    Mute Vote Left Ireland
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    Sep 5th 2015, 7:41 PM

    True it’s hard enough to pull off a rear naked choke when you can’t get your hands around the armour let alone squeeze it.

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    Mute The whistler
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    Sep 5th 2015, 9:01 PM

    Rear naked? you can try grab the base of the torso armour and shove it up so the collar bites into the neck I guess

    tbh this looks like nonsense, its like two panzer tanks armed with pea shooters firing at each other

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    Mute Armoured Combat
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    Sep 5th 2015, 10:00 PM

    You are welcome to try it out, trust me it’s a lot harder than it looks! The hits in the 1v1 fights aren’t as hard as in the groups, you want to hit hard enough to score a point but not so hard that you wear yourself out early. Even with that I was hit hard enough in a 1v1 to have my helmet broken with me inside it.
    This might impress you a bit more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKKSI1OPGa4
    But to experience it at it’s best come see us in action and then decide what you make of us.

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    Sep 6th 2015, 1:31 AM

    Thanks matey but I’ll stick to doing weapons sparring with minimal armour, I kind of like footwork, combinations, defense and all that skill based stuff instead of standing toe to toe and just swinging like lumberjacks.

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