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A GARDA HAS been arrested this morning in connection with the leaking of information to the media in a high profile case involving children.
Two years ago two blonde Roma children, aged 2 and 7, were removed from their families over fears that they had been abducted.
The Ombudsman for Children Emily Logan issued a damning report on the case last July.
Following the report a Chief Superintendent was appointed to investigate issues raised relating to personal and sensitive information appearing in the public domain.
RTÉ is reporting that the garda arrested is the most senior officer ever to have been arrested as part of a criminal investigation.
The gardaí have confirmed that an investigation is on-going.
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A Chef Superintendent eh?
He’s in hot soup
He’s currently in custardy.
Super Nintendo
The article does not state a Chief Superintendent has been arrested, it states RTE reports that it’s the most senior officer ever arrested! Hell of a difference.
He’s tummy is under a vest
can’t belie he would leek such information
And then i have a spelling meltdown
*can’t believe he would leek such information
*leak
Leak lol
Fair enough, if I worked in a bank and leaked customers information to people I would expect to be repremanded. Or if i worked in a pub and left all the beer taps running leaking delicious beer all over the floor
Maybe just maybe the gardai are turning the corner in regards to corruption. Long over due. They must be given the right tools to do the job the public ask of them. It’s a terrible state of affairs when a guard catches a criminal and then the judge lets the criminal off because his mother smoked a joint back in the 80s. You know what I mean. Things have to change right true the system.
They’ve been doing it for years through Paul Whatsisname
So why is it that it is not ok to have leaked info about this case but it is ok to leak it about every other case, names and all. #double standards #pot kettle. and #feckin hypocrites
Because cases involving children are different they have a right to anonymity as they are not adults and too young for their information to be in the public domain
It dosent matter what rank the uniform is worn at.. obviously!
Did you not read the Guirin report Michele Kealy
Dirty, rotten, and corrupt! the most corrupt and useless police in all of europe. should be disbanded. every one of them sacked and job taken over by the army while a whole new police force are trained!!
So you don’t like the gardai. Me too
You’re an idiot !!! Plain and simple.
Dumb even.
Ken Foy won’t like this development. He would have no job if his sources dried up
Money talks…they have to recoup their pay cuts some how?
Guards don’t go to jail no matter what lads. It was confirmed in a cork court a few years back
How many have lost their pensions either??
What case in Cork are you talking about? What about the Gardai in Waterford a couple of years ago? A minor assault case where they got jailed because they were Gardai?
The Judge basically issued the sentence to highlight that there is a convention in the courts that gardai will always have custodial sentences suspended
That case you referred to related to an off duty Garda. He was convicted of assault causing harm and there is no way in the world that he would have gotten a custodial sentence if he wasnt a Garda – it is unheard of for a person to be jailed with a previously clean record for such an assault. This was another case where the judge deliberately chose to jail someone because he was a Garda, but thought better of it. This Garda also lost his job as a result of this conviction, which us automatic – unlike a builder, a truck driver or a factory worker so that Garda was actually punished MORE than a civilian in a comparable case. Check out the irish sentencing guidelines which, if applied fairly and consistently in the Waterford case would have resulted in non custodial cases there too – but the newly appointed judge there (Albert Reynolds daughter appointed in the dying days of Fianna Fail government) decided to make a name for herself and went totally contrary to the established precedent. There are people convicted of far more serious or repeated assaults in the courts all over Ireland every day who are given suspended sentences – so its plain to see that Gardai actually have much greater chances of being jailed than regular people.
Actually John, to be the same you would need to then go tell an AA meeting that there is free beer flowing at whichever pub it was…
Why don’t we get to know the names of the corrupt gardai? That would be too helpful wouldn’t it?
Pretty sure once he’s charged you’ll get his name.
Because they haven’t been charged with any offence yet they have only been arrested. Until that happens they don’t name them. It’s common in most criminal investigations
Now, Garda Officer, XXXX For the record,admit that you did the leaking. We have the evidence. [wink/wink]
Answer: No, I did no leaking. I would never do that.
Question: Now, are you sure about that?
Answer: I’m sure. I’d stake my reputation as an honourable Garda Office on it.
Question: Sure, you can say fairer than that, can you?
Answer: No
Question: Listen, are you joining us for golf next month?
Answer : Sure.
Question: Excellent. Let’s not keep you any longer.
Answer: Yeah right. The tea is this Station is awful. I would not serve it to a water protestor!
Question: By god, you are so right!
Oh so you were there Anthony?
Any one ring Paddy Power to see what the odds are that he will get charged Jane Dwyer
The fact is that the media depend on the guards for stories and they are paid for juicy stories, goes on all the time, has done so for years.
If you give your name to any Garda they can find out anything about you if your on their system…and people in the dole office have similar systems.
This county has gone nuts. Man’s career destroyed for doing what was right. Blonde blue eyed child among people of Indian origin. Reasonable grounds?
That organisation is currently in a pure mess. Calling a spade a spade you would be delusional to believe otherwise.
If it’s a stunt to scare other members about fostering ties with the media then it’s another step backwards for an already old fashioned and out of touch 21st century policing organisation.
What stops any gardai from leaking any information to anyone then?
What rank leaked this arrest to the media this morning
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