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Alert over it was just Mick Wallace’s barber
Very good
Makws a change from the usual guillotine you get there.
Makes a change from the usual guillotine you get there.
Nice one…
well played, sir
Was he trying to install a water meter?
lol
Was he looking for the judge who let the bloody bankers off scot free. The law is an Ass in this country.
No they were ordered by some Labour deputies for their next party meeting…et tu brute…..
If he was looking for a judge wouldn’t it make more sense to head down to the courts?
Wow, I thought all the nutters were in there already……….
The nutters are on the otherside that voted them in.
Comment of the week Bobby……
Bobby you mean the majority of the electorate right?
Yes Saul he does mean that. Your powers of deduction are truly amazing
Saul, or is that the majority of those that actually voted ?
He’ll likely get jail for that
Not if he’s a banker
Ming Flanagan taking his nickname too seriously!
A cloak and dagger effort .. he would be at home if he had got in
No, I’m pretty sure if a banker tried to break into Leinster House he would get jail also.
Donaill, bankers own and run leinster house.
They broke in a long time ago and got away Scot free
They have the spare key.
Ten years in jail would sound fair for that common man
Well as long as you’re not pre-judging him or anything.
Is that a bulge in your sock or are you just pleased to stab me?
But yet the politicians are aloud do as they want????????
Listened to a couple of TDs on the radio earlier going on like “why would someone do this I’m just here doing a job?”. They really do not have a clue what is going on in this country. I’m just surprised this hasn’t happened before now.
Agreed,Fine gael are certainly the most distant and out of touch party the people of this country have ever had to endure ! Their leader kenny just won’t come out of that back slapping european bubble he’s in and seems to day dream of his monthly head pat from merkel and co.
This is the start of it and it’s only going to escalate further, the people of this country are about to explode and god help the establishment!!!
Down with this sort of thing
Yep, hopefully! I too smell blood in the air…the fluoride solution seems to be losing it’s grip!
Lost its grip indeed and soon the FG/Labour farce that’s lasted far to long!!!
Looking forward to taking some heads
Had it been the White House he would of had clips emptied into him.
We need better security to protect the government. God forbid anything serious ever happened to our beloved leaders.
He would have got Tasered
Bobby
If an armed man tried to enter the White House and refused to stop I can guarantee you he would be riddled with bullets on the lawn.
only one way to find out.
It was joke Glen, if the guards had tasers he would have got tasered.
We can only live in hope Glen!
Well it wasn’t a very funny joke
I mean jokes are meant to make people laugh. I didn’t laugh. I feel robbed now over this bobby. I think you owe me a laugh.
You’re very handsome, nice cheekbones.
It’s a mask Bobby !!
Look stop trying to butter me up and make with the laugh.
Sure dont they chase women in America Glen and shoot them for ramming the gates. Enough said.
Well I didn’t want to bring it up Karen
But you are correct that happened recently.
I don’t know ins and outs of it. But from what I do know doesn’t look very good for those who shot her. I understand she was dangerous( but didn’t they disable her car?) So no need to shoot her?
Correct me if i am wrong.
I know for one if that young man who is 19 was riddled with bullets(not knowing not what his mental health situation is) I would be questioning those who shot him.
On closer examination he also had an empty brown envelope in his pocket…….it is thought he was just looking for his cut!
was he trying to get shatter ?
Pity he didn’t getin
Trying to behead Enda.
You can’t behead a worm..They regrow overnight
Les
Disgraceful way to speak about our illustrious leader Edna
Would be easier to get in if he joined Sinn Fein.
FG and Ff have killed more than Sinn Feinn.
Ah John, keep trying to be funny it will click one day for ya.
Of course we still don’t know the circumstances of what drove this guy to do it, but if you push people hard enough, some people will fight back.
French revolution comes to mind.
Wanted to get a pint in the bar…..on the slate of course
At least he didn’t have a megaphone. That would be absolute horror.
Well I can’t say I am religious but ,if there is a god ,would he please take,Kenny ,Gilmore rabbit, Hogan .and show them outer space ,see how many property taxes you can collect how many peoples life’s you can and already have ruined.Happy journey.
Sounds like a scene from Zorro, leaps the fence to get the dastardly evil villians
Well they aren’t allowed threaten to dismember people with swords and knives, in the literal sense anyway.
Biffo seen in a hiace van near by
Let’s raid the kitchen drawers and join him cull is called for
Some of you people are just wasted here, given your amazing abilities to perform psychiatric evaluations with nothing more than a news story. You must go now and share your amazing abilities for the betterment of humanity.
How did you know we were drunk?
Not more bloody cutbacks!
What on earth was he planning. What a strange one man thing(and the age of him) Obviously he has issues of some sort.
Weirdest thing I have read in a while.
Hope the Garda who was hurt is ok.
Maybe he did go a bit overboard alright but still they should be pulled out by the scruffs of their knecks. Usless shower of ………… .
I agree completely with you. Cant Irish people sack them? I mean who does it take to make them go GE or sacking right out of dail with no pension. Could a petition set the ball rolling for them to have them sacked? Since Irish people hired them.
Any one of us would be sacked for showing such disregard and disloyalty and blatant bad work as this lot do.
Wonder is there a smell in Leinster house now
There has been a smell in there for a while. Stewies awhile.
There was already judging by the amounts of verbal diarrhoea that is spilt out of the asswholes inside
Poorly executed by this man.
What’s a 19 year old got to be pissed off about…he needs to get his knifey ass off to Oz the muppet
Call that a knife?
Luckily there has not been a minister in kildare street for years
Maybe it was a piece of performance art.
Dailtagnan?
Terrible simply terrible
Well I’ve read all the comments and since no one else has said it. Let’s hope the poor Garda recovers quickly a garda that was only doing his job. No one else seems bothered that this lunatic whatever his motives were actually injured someone. Ye are a pathetic bunch.
The long knives are already out!
OK I think I’ll wait till I hear more about this story. We have had everything from a nut job to Ireland’s last patriot already.
Somebody has been playing too much ‘assassin’s creed’!
An angry chef?
Maybe he was looking for his Dad.
…
Very witty but won’t get quite of the week.
“The sword itself was something you would see in a movie, a typical rapier, if you will. A sidearm of what would be carried by, perhaps a soldier, built into the waist, something that you would take out of a scabbard.”
LOL Sherlock should try his hand at a creature writing.
Phil trying to get someone to literally stab Gilmore in the back maybe??
cant believe this guy had the audacity to wake up the gardai patrolling outside the gates of leinster – the cheek of him. off with his head i say, off with his head .
Silly fellow! He could have borrowed my Kalatchnikov and a dozen clips of ammo…now that would be an effective protest…awful waste of effort!
*Kalashnikov..
What a tool!! Lock the idiot up for 20! And save us all the excuses and that he had a tough upbringing or he’s been trying to get a job for the past two years and was frustrated! nut!
Or that he was a banker
The pen failed …
It’s a pity he didn’t have a mini-gun or a flame-thrower with unlimited ammo :(
Or rest button so he could repeat that level.
*reset*
What an idiot. Well done on running your life.
We don’t know the circumstances, or his mental state. Patience.
It sounds like a very unhappy mentally unstable young man(who has been influenced with possible revolution ideas)
Unless he was going in to rob the place of its art etc…
I wonder if there’s any of that Allah snackbar about it?
Sure they are never there , anyways.
Putin must’ve ran out of AKs when assigning this guy to govt overthrow duty.
Helping with the cutbacks, in the dail and cutting a few sandwiches!
Someone got a bit carried away watching game of thrones yesterday !
The Irish Army should be protecting all political buildings, it would also free up more gardai for the street. But sure hey , that would make to much sense wouldn’t it!
Bit hard to cut defence spending with a gun pointing in the window
@Alan
Why? There is NOBODY worth protecting in political buildings! You could randomly shoot into any political building and it would always hit the right person! Shower of corrupt and inept wasters the whole lot!
A lot of scary things have happened on that plinth,boi
I’m sure it was just a statement. If he wanted to do damage he would have with all the knives he had on him
Just goes to show that sherlock will shite on about anything even if he does’nt have a clue, the rapier was a civilian weapon, not a side arm for a soldier
I believe they were very cut about it!! Still it’s the cut & trust of the job.
He thought he had a job with duffys circus
Count ourselves lucky it didn’t lead to more government cuts
Ugh
I think the young man mistook the dail for the circus
Just another swordid story involving Politicians.
Zorro ….
Someone should have told him that Kings Landing was the other way.
There can be only one, McCloud.
stick a few rashers on for the chap , good feed would kill him bai
this person should be given the freedom of dail eireann a medal of honour and a knighthood[ with the sword he tried to use] next time someone one tell him when there are politicians inside i wonder how much it would take for big bully phil hogans head on a plate
The only issue is arresting this idiot, shot dead on the spot = problem solved
@Dave
No, let him have a go at the politicians first and then shoot him! Only if he got enough of them before being shot you could say problem solved…
This week is full of serous incidents that have happened, young men with knives, out to kill or inflict
serous injury, is our mental health care failing us?
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