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A CORK COUNCILLOR says he was “belittled” by gardaí after he was arrested for painting over street signs in Cork city.
Diarmaid Ó Cadhla of the Cork Street Names Campaign objects to the continued use of street names that stem from British colonialism.
As part of the campaign, the group painted over the word ‘Victoria’ on the street sign for Victoria Road in Cork city.
Ó Cadhla admits his part in the action and says he agreed to a request from gardaí to speak to them at Bridewell Garda Station in the city on Monday.
On attending the garda station, Ó Cadhla says he was arrested and held. An action he says was “way over the top”.
“The gardai are of course entitled to and of course should investigate,” he told The Neil Prendeville Show on Cork’s Red FM
I went and I admitted fully what was in question but to then have my liberty deprived of me for over three-and-a-half hours and subjected to intensive questioning and quite belittled.
“I was verbally abused and made to feel little for my role. Should the role of the gardaí not be to dispassionately investigate and make a recommendation to the DPP?”, Ó Cadhla said.
Asked about the nature of the alleged verbal abuse, Ó Cadhla said he was called a “stupid eejit”.
“I was taken outside the front door, thinking we’re going to have a quiet chat there and then told I’m to be placed under arrest. I was brought back in, shirt, tie, all the bits removed. Pockets emptied. Photographs taken, fingerprinted, would you believe they even took DNA samples from me? ”
Genocide
The Cork Street Names Campaign have said that the only reason they engaged in the act of “civil disobedience” was because they were denied their chance to present proposals at a meeting of Cork City Council.
Spokesperson Tony Walsh said Cork street names should reflect people from “our history and culture” from the fields of “science, medicine and sport as well as our patriotic tradition.”
“It does not reflect well on the people that we honour criminals and those who committed genocide against our forefathers,” Walsh said.
Gardai have confirmed that an individual in his 50s was arrested on Monday in connection with an incident of alleged criminal damage on Victoria Road on 2 February.
A spokesperson said the individual was released without charge and a file is being prepared for the DPP.
Gardaí have also been asked to comment on allegations by Ó Cadhla that he was verbally abused whilst in custody.
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‘You’ll be at their graveside with your hand out’ ne’er a truer word spoken, but what joe forgot to mention is that the system is also pushing some of them into their graves. Sad, desolate times.
Bank shares are up this week. Just about says it all…
Pure pantomime.
Peter Mathews “rant” was great. He’s one of the few who are sticking it to these bastards. And fu#k the chairman for his snide remark, it simply shows his ignorance. Mathews simplified much of this crisis in that statement and people should hear that.
I’d like to grill a few bankers, face down in a fire pit!
Not those nice staff who do their best at work every day like you or I but these high 5 slapping gangsta rudeboys in disguise as bob dobolinas! Hardest part would be waiting for the coals to turn fully white before dunking them d!cks.
This “we sent letters out” child like answer to meeting targets should be rubbished by noonan next week and they should be back in next month to answer again about what real work they have done. No ?
The real truth here is they won’t write debts down because they are waiting for the market to rebound a bit. No chief exec wants to accept that debt on his shift. It will affect his job, his bonus, and as important the shares they privately own which are up since the collapse.
Sadly the fact that these banks are state owned would appear to mean sweet f**k all….,
So after the “grilling” what happens? Do the committee make any recommendations on maybe those in the banking sector not performing loosing their jobs or is that the end of the pantomime until next time they are called? Otherwise it is a waste of time and money.
What? No Little Stevie Donnelly? The master of populist rhetoric must be losing his touch. The Fan Club will be very disappointed.
I don’t agree with that comment about Steven Donnelly. He’s not my local Td but anytime I hear him speak he comes accross as a decent hardworking Td with good morals and values. If half of the people in government were like him we might not be in this mess.
Yup, Little Stevie is on the radio now using his favourite words “horrendous” and “horrific” and saying things like “There’s something wrong with the country …….”, then he pauses like he’s waiting for applause.
But he has no solutions. He’s just a waffler.
Surely the soloution is everyone that bought a house between 2003-2008 gets there mortgage reduced by 20% Thus making people’s mortgages affordable again and for those who are paying there mortgage they will have money to put into the local and national economy.
Boucher and Co will continue to treat law makers with disdain and arrogance as long as law makers continue to permit these bankers to receive salaries that are multiples of the salary of the highest ranked law maker in the state. These bankers must, understandably, feel superior and invincible and it must be undignifying for them to have to be accountable to a committee, where the aggregate salaries of any 7 or 8 members would only approximate to that of the highest paid banker. Cut their salaries to sensible levels and observe how cooperative they will suddenly become. Not a problem if they don’t want to work for less, others can be hired.
Political hypocrisy! This state, yet again, faces an existential crisis and the politicians expect bankers (no less) to get them off the hook and to make the decisions that they themselves will not. Bankers will do their job, which in this case is to get as much of the money they imprudently lent out back. To expect otherwise is extremely naive. Politicians are once again ducking the hard decisions. Why? Because to fix this problem we need money and that is already being shipped back to Frankfurt by the tonne. If politicians want the mortgage issue fixed then they need to fix it, not hope for others to fix it for them.
This was a show for the proles. The TDs knew it, the bankers knew it and the proles knew it.
Grilling,hardly
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