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A LANDSCAPE GARDENER who attacked a stranger with a glass around the time of the Easter 1916 Commemorations after insulting the man about being from Northern Ireland has been jailed.
Jason Wall (31) of St Patrick’s Close, Monkstown, Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting Kieran Nelson causing him harm in Blackrock, Dublin on 27 April, 2016.
He has 14 previous convictions which were all dealt with in the District Court.
Judge Karen O’Connor said it had been a “violent and gratuitous attack” which left the injured party embarrassed by his appearance. She said Wall started being quite offensive in respect of the victim being from Northern Ireland.
She noted €1,000 gathered by Wall by way of redress and his letter of apology. She accepted he had an impressive work record and had not come to any further garda attention.
Judge O’Connor imposed a sentence of two years imprisonment and suspended the final year.
Garda Ciaran Ronan told Martina Baxter BL, prosecuting, that Nelson was bleeding heavily from his head when he arrived at the scene. He claimed he had been attacked by a man with a glass and was taken to hospital for treatment.
He later told gardaí that he had gone out for a pint after work and went to get chips afterwards when he met Wall. Wall said to him “youse in the North are cowards”.
Nelson replied “don’t be silly” in an attempt to diffuse the situation but he described Wall as being “very aggressive”.
They all left the shop at the same time and Wall continued to talk to him in the same manner. The victim got nervous and crossed the road to head to a nearby garda station.
Garda Ronan said Nelson eventually turned around and asked Wall “Is there going to be problem here?” before he was hit in the head with a glass.
Nelson needed stitches for cuts to his forehead and his lip. He was discharged from hospital the next day.
CCTV footage
Garda Ronan said Wall was arrested after he was identified through CCTV footage. He made no admissions during a subsequent garda interview.
A victim impact report stated that Nelson has been left with an obvious scar on his forehead. He also was out of work for a short time. He suffered embarrassment as result of the scar and an economic loss of €900.
Garda Ronan agreed with Lily Buckley BL, defending that Nelson was happy to receive €1,000 which Wall had in court as a token of his remorse.
He accepted that Wall had written a letter of apology and had demonstrated “true sorrow for the incident”.
Garda Ronan further accepted that the assault occurred around the time of the Easter 1916 commemorations and there had been conversation within the group at the chipper “surrounding historical and political lines”.
Buckley told the court that her client doesn’t have any previous convictions for violent behaviour and has not come to garda attention since.
She said Wall was the father of an eight-year-old boy and had significant “personal issues at the time”.
He had been drinking heavily but no longer abuses alcohol. She said he earned “a modest wage” as a landscape gardener.
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Nasty cult – should be banned in this country. Their only true belief is in hard cash at terrible cost to their followers.
@Setrakian: sounds like another church I know
@Setrakian: sounds like the Catholic Church too.
@Tom Finnerty: i can see your anti catholic bait a mile away
@gamescentrel: Anytime anyone points out the things the Roman Catholic Church do people like you say they are “anti-catholic”, if people didn’t stand up and question them they would still be getting away with both committing their heinous crimes and also covering them up, thankfully no religion is above question or ridicule.
@Brian Fal: This is not an article about The Catholic Church. They have many faults but people are allowed to come and go as they will unlike the cult above.
@Wolf Pack: Correct, it’s not about the Catholic Church, I was responding to a comment. And also I’m not sure you are aware but like Scientology it is currently pretty much impossible to leave the Catholic Church, believe me I’ve tried.
@Brian Fal: Catholics know less about their own religion than non-Catholics, if they knew what we know they’d leave in their droves.
@Grainne Abdulaziz: nearly impossible to leave the Catholic Church
@gamescentrel: nothing wrong with arguing with the Catholic theory IF you are already Catholic. At least you can have a perfectly honest argument, and come to some solution or agreement. But if you are scientologist you have no rights..none..women in labour are told to be quiet and not express pain..a most antique religion..and not one that supposedly expresses their “alien” forward godfathers thoughts.
@jenni: Eh I don’t think the women of the Magdalene laundries had many rights either, not to mention what happened in Tuam etc. etc.
@Brian Fal: You can; I have my letter from the Bishop of Meath confirming so. Even if you experience trouble in leaving the catholic church, they won’t persecute you, unlike the scientology cult of which I am also a former member.
@John McGhee: can I ask how did you get that letter? I know the church shut down the ability to leave about 4 or 5 years ago, It should be a lot easier to leave any religion. I don’t consider myself catholic but it’d be nice to have it on paper that they don’t consider me one either.
@John McGhee: sounds like you jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire btw!
@Brian Fal: that my man is no comparison..anyone can leave the Catholic faith, most leave to go all out Christian, athiest or agnostic. With no bearance on your family or friends.
You cannot leave scientology without complete abuse on the person, their families and friends. There’s private detectives..forensic accountants.. and family infiltrators ..all involved if you want to leave scientology. Jees..it’s probably the reason Tom Cruise can’t leave at this stage..his kids would be destroyed..and he would never want that
@jenni: I agree with you wholeheartedly about Scientology and thankfully they still have small numbers in this country but my point is that it has been almost impossible for the last few years to leave the Catholic Church, admittedly they won’t spy on you but it should be easier to leave. Apologies for going off topic but they are the biggest religion in this country.
@jenni: not only that but you can turn your back on the Catholic Church without any real repercussion. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of scientologists have left or tried to leave and their spouses and kids have been torn away from them forever. The very fact of their accounts (shareholders etc) just go to show it’s a pure business without any real spirituality behind it
@Paul Devlin: I would think this is all a marketeering event, just to let newcomers see they are correct and profitable. When in fact they are losing money hand over fist. They offer nothing to anybody , that is different to any other way, but they charge you for these so called ‘sessions’..
@Setrakian:
Yep instead of talk of aliens and souls being trapped in volanco the most popular and widely acceptable cult in this country tells tales of a talking snake, a forbidden tree, an angry vengeful god who wiped put most of his creations, rape, torture, murder, incest, zombies, wizards, more talking animals…….
@Brian Fal: I don’t really understand your issue. If you want to leave the RC church, there is no argument or grief. Just go. What’s your issue?
@Fintin Stack: you are just being facetious now..and there’s no need for that.
@jenni: leave how?
@Brian Fal:
And were abandoned by the men who impregnated them.
@Brian Fal: ah okay, I received the episcopal letter confirming my renunciation in 2011so it seems to have preceeded the timeframe of which you speak, sorry. Though as you asked, I wrote a letter stating my stance and beliefs, or lack thereof; they were very nice about it and set the wheels in motion; within three months I was told I was no longer a member. I had no hangup with the church; just felt that it was the proper thing to do.
@jenni: You can’t leave the RCC, jenni. You could go to Rome, drag the Pope out into the middle of St Peter’s Square, execute him and desecrate his corpse in front of millions. You know what would happen? You’d be locked away for life. But you would still be a member of the RCC. The Church considers those they excommunicate as members of the Church too. Just that they can’t receive any sacrament until they repent. Up until a few years ago you could leave the Church. Now you can’t. All you can do now is avoid the Church and pretend you’re not a member.
@Brian Fal: I certainly did, Brian, and I put my hand up for that, but I am all bettet now
@Mark Byrne: well seeing as there is no official ‘leaving’ documents to fill out…you just go. If you do not want to be RC anymore..you are not. End of. What is so hard about that?
@Brian Fal: I certainly did, Brian, and I put my hand up for that, but I am all bettet now
@jenni: It’s the fact that the Roman Catholic Church uses its own membership numbers to justify its position in society and use that to intrude itself into our healthcare, education, morality and societal makeup that’s the problem. They use my membership of the Church (even though I wish I wasn’t a member), and many more like me, to justify them telling everyone else how to live and they do so with a level of authority akin to that of the state.
@John McGhee: you are talking sh!!te. You never got such a communication..not from the Vatican anyway. They don’t do that kind of stuff
@jenni: give me a contact for yourself and I’ll show you, please? One thing about me is that I don’t talk “sh!!te”. Furthermore, I never said i received anything from the vatican.
@Wolf Pack: really? So how do I leave? My parents baptised me without my consent and the church tells me I can’t leave now. So again i ask how can I leave as you say I can?
I’m all for religious freedom to a point, but having heard the horror stories and watched the documentaries I firmly believe that the ‘church’ of scientology should be banned in this state.
@The Risen: sounds like another church I know
@The Risen: What makes them so much more unpalatable than the other religions we have here?
@Tom Finnerty: Whataboutary. The story is about this particular cult. No other was mentioned. Try and stay on track.
@The Risen:
Could do with banning a few more churches while we are at it!
@Ricky Spanish: because they charge a charge for everything. And they want/need to know your entire salary history. And they want to know your current revenue ..just to see are you entitled to tax credits ( as some of their group is classified as a charity) ..they are like a leech..and should be avoided like the plague
If you do some researching online you will see they do not operate like other religions , they are all about getting members to pay money to go thru the various levels and then they harass and litigate more than any other religion to keep their secret b s system alive and well , I’d recommend the documentary called GOING CLEAR If you are interested in how bad things can get and how families get pulled apart , they will not allow families who stay inside communicate with those who leave , the original founder L RON HUBBAD was a prolific sci fiction writer before making up the religion / cult of Scientology which made him millions – as he predicted forming a religion would – especially in America
It mustn’t be hard to turn a profit in a ‘business’ like that that
Not as easy as it used to be now that they’ve been publicly exposed as a scam. Something most people could see for themselves but unfortunately there’s always the gullible few.
I hope at least they pay taxes in ireland.
Who are the people giving money to this crowd of loonies? I mean this in the nicest possible way, but they need help. They prey on the weak, drug addicts and those with mental health problems, so if the government invested more in these areas we might be able to get one cult out of this country.
@David Duffy:
Actually Scientologists have been at the forefront of the campaign for rights of psychiatric patients and one of the strongest voices against the forced use of electric shock therapy in psychiatric institutions. Not many groups brave enough to take on the psychiatric profession but Scientology took them on.
I think Scientology is responsible for a lot of mental health problems for their members and those who tried to leave!
@Sinéad Ní Mhuircheartaigh:
Atheists also suffer from mental health problems.
Actually people with a religious belief recover more quickly from mental health issues.
@Jack Cassady:
Where is the evidence that religious people recover from mental illness quicker ?
@Jack Cassady: scientology doesn’t believe in anything psychiatrists do… Please anyone who reads this, don’t take Jack Cassadys word and Google it.
@David Duffy: also here is a list of their status worldwide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_status_by_country
The main reason they attack professional psychiatric profession is that the founder had mental health issues and wrote it into the religion that they were an enemy of their church , there is more than enough evidence that they are only interested in the profits from their drug treatment business narcanon / you should familiarise yourself with the facts before trying to make up bs as if they are some kind of force of good – they are anything but
Scientoligy and its front group CCHR only oppose psychiatry because it is a rival to scientolgy’s own version of psycotherapy. It is as simple as that. Scientology mental health therapy is at best unproven quackery and at worst mind control and thought reform on a sinister level. What is worse is that this fraud is sold under the guise of relgion and thus subject to no regulation.
Scientology opposes psychiatry fir one reason – money. CCHR is a scientology front group seeking to demonise any mental health therapy other than scientologys quack brand of psycotherapy. Little wonder scientology seeks to monopolise mental health treatment. The price of their ‘therapy’ is crippling- financially and emotionally.
All this talk of profit and trading surely lifts it out of the religion bracket.
@Dave Thomas: I think it’s just because they have to disclose their financial records here. Not in America though where cult is big business. They have tried and failed to get religious status here btw.
@David Duffy: didn’t know that. Thought the had religious status in Ireland too.
@Dave Thomas: The Catholic Church is essentially a multi-billion dollar corporation with one of the largest investmest portfolios in the world, it’s always been about money.
@Grainne Abdulaziz: since when did we start charging aliens income tax , position, use, and vat?
This twisted cult has now opened up yet another office in Dublin. This time, their “National Affairs Office” means in reality, a recognised “spying operation”. Don’t take my word for it – google the matter. Before you do, read here to get you started: http://www.unitedpeople.ie/for-health-reasons-alone-irish-cult-must-be-stopped/
@Unitedpeople: you nailed it. The Merrion Sq office has at its helm several OSA (office of special affairs) operatives, which is the cult’s spying/intimidation wing. Two of which are Margaret McNair and Frank Laidlaw.
Frank has been seconded from HAPI in Edinburgh where he was the slimey OSA operative. Their numbers are so small that they have to share meat bodies across countries to keep the Real Estate open. Frank was no doubt hoping to be head honcho at the hoped for Ideal Org building in Edinburgh. The city council wisely deemed scientlogists unsuitable tenants for a beautiful civic building and awarded the tenancy to the French Embassy. So now Dublin has an OSA Scientology Scottish reject squatting in Merrion Square. Pathetic.
All cults, be it scientology, catholicism, Islam, etc are massively profitable for the people at the top.
A very dangerous cult. At least Ireland has not recognised Scientology as a religion like alot of other countries have. Vast majority of their wealth is held in real estate across the world, their new office merrion square for example. Investing in property also gives the impression that the organisation is expanding geographicaly and growing in popularity. The truth is they had to fly people in for the opening event of the new office in merrion square to give the perception that scientology is popular here. Photos from the event up on scientology website , propaganda for followers of the church. They should be kicked out of this country for good.
Their current plan in Dublin is to legitimise themselves with business and civic groups. Their main front groups are CCHR, Narconon, Youth For Human Rights and Drug Free World. They cynicallt and covertly dissseminate scientology in the guise of helping. I think they should be forced to reveal these front groups as scientology and publish the total financial cost of their Bridge To Freedom. Oh and made to refund those they have duped. Shiny Real Estate is their god and profit their prophet.
”Best way to make money – start a new religion” L Ron Hubbard.
@John O’Driscoll: As well as UFO sightings too?
So any tax on that profit then??
I mean if they are regarding this cult as a business or “company” then they should of course they should be taxed on their profits right?
@Gazza Lazza: they are taxed because despite the name they failed to gain religious status. Here is a list of their status worldwide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_status_by_country
The Irish branch of the Church of Scientology obviously haven’t read the Vatican’s missive on the subject: “How to Make Billions in The Name of Jesus”…….
All churches are cults , but Jesus lads scienctology or whatever it’s called is mental ,
Let’s remember that this ‘Church’ brought the US Internal Revenue Service to its knees and forced Uncle Sam to declare them not liable to taxes. When you can do that you have a State within a State. Are they opening an embassy here? Will they be doing the same thing to the lads below in Nenagh?
A Profitable Dublin Mission!
Impossible, given the level of competition!
Cruise can’t handle the truth.
Is there two i’s in the name Siobhan/Siobhain? Thought it was just spelt Siobhan. Only thing interesting about this whole article.
Brilliant tell tom Cruise
@Phil Keenan: We don’t have to as he’s already read our minds.
Currently following the leah remini show…cant believe irish people would fall for this shite..but i guess by their numbers they dont really thank god! Enough crap in this world
@Lynn Mac Amhalghaidh: fools in every country, sure up to the 80s and beyond the Catholic Church ruled the roost , madness
Great news.
Religion is the last great bastion of freedom of thought from the heaving all consuming homogeneous mass of secularist conformity.
Do women still obsess about Tom Cruise? How much more of his foolish beliefs do we have to hear about before they boycott him & discredit him as the BRAINWASHED & worse BRAINWASHING he cult does
@Jack Cassady: so, “Jack Cassady”, which member of Ireland’s scibot parish are you? As there is nobody by the name of Jack Cassady, or even Cassidy, within the Irish scientology community; I can name every one. Again, $cientology at its finest; deception and hiding. Your 1 like says it all.
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady: I am guessing that you are possibly Dermot Ryan and are frenetically calling your Ron-bot cohorts to like on your post, as I see that you now have 2 likes, as opposed from the 1 you had probably given to yourself
@Jack Cassady:
I can only assume that you don’t really believe what you are saying and are looking for people to take the bait.
Religion is predicated on the requirement to hold a blind and unweavering faith in religious doctrine. It forces people to override critical thought faculties and ingore the substantive body of knowledge of how the world works. Furthermore, it is based on scripture that is often self contradictory and which documents stories that were written 100s of years after the purported events.
If anything religion is nothing but a barrier to freedom of thought, expression and the advancement of knowledge.
@John McGhee:
I am guessing that you are possibly John McGhee and you are a robot.
@Jack Cassady: a scientology advocate/apologist calling somebody else a robot? PMSL oh you are too cute
@John McGhee: alright alright we hear you, jaysus!
@Scundered: yes, apologies for that; there was a gremlin in the machine, or was it one scientology’s “Body Thetans”
This shows that:
A.) It isn’t a church
B.) They are brainwashing more Irish residents
Watch out around Dublin for the public information pamphlets titled “the truth about drugs”. Theyre printed and funded by a scientology-linked group. All thr contact details on these leaflets link to london and LA, and back to the church. Theyre in restaurants and cafes all ovrr the place, the establishments generally have no idea theyre handing out scientology literature
Tom cruise is very good though in the filums. Jaysus tis like the real thing, I love his filums.
Church of Signhereology
Nice one
Perhaps we should mention the financial position of Church Of Scientology after they paid damages to Mary Johnston for their abusive practices. Hard to believe they still have a presence in Dublin after that. As for the current financial status, it goes to show that even with them being propped by US dollars from the organisations central coffers they have little to show for it. Orgs in the UK and Ireland are kept open for publicity reasons only so scientology can fleece existing members and wrest more cash from them. The new Merrion Square office exists as a base for overseas OSA staff and from it they seek to cynically curry favour with business and civic groups in Ireland in the guise of help. Don’t ever be deluded-scientology has one prophet – profit.
I thought they were supposed to be a religious organisation so what is all this about profits ? Surely they have only one prophet – L Ron Hubbard ? If they are in the black again in Ireland after the huge legal fees they had to shell out for for their abuses then I hope they are getting taxed. Scientology hides behind it’s religious cloaking to avoid taxation and to perpetrate it abuses with impunity. The new office at Merrion Square is a hub for their covert dissemination and has been funded by the coffers in the US. The building itself is a tax evasion scam – Church of Scientology buys up real estate all the time and shoves a few staff in it . They then take glossy photos of their ‘ expansion’ to legitimise their organisation and extract more money from members. Corrupt to the core.
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