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GARDAÍ HAD TO be called to Oberstown Children Detention Campus over an incident involving a number of residents on Thursday.
Another incident had occurred the day previously, but gardaí were not called.
A statement from the centre said that Pat Bergin, director of Oberstown, can confirm that two incidents took place this week, which caused disturbance on the campus.
“Procedures were initiated to address the situations which were managed well by staff,” said the statement.
Due to the perceived level of risk on one occasion, the assistance of the gardaí was requested by the director.
Both incidents were resolved successfully and the director extends his appreciation to staff and the gardaí for the safe and cooperative manner in which the situations were concluded.
These incidents are the subject of a garda investigation, concluded the statement.
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The poor children, locked up in this weather, missing out on a ice-cream and burgling our elderly.
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: poor kids? Have you met those beating up staff?
@The Girl: Have you ever heard of sarcasm?
@The Girl: Egg meets face.
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: sterilisation for the lot of the scobies one generation is enough
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: https://youtu.be/ujd0Obn-cZk
@The Girl: the comment was dripping with sarcasm and yet 47 people still didn’t get it
Well the do gooders said children or 6ft criminally minded ,drug fueled , violent offenders , what ever you want to call them , should not be in a prison environment and they shut St Patricks as a result.
Well they were warned . So deal with it . Totally dept of Justice , and governments fault this is happening .
@Ivan Enoughofit: can’t agree enough. Said it all along. Softly softly approach towards crime never works.
Why is it every time there is a disturbance there the Garda are called. Are the people there not able to manage these children ? Is it not time to hand these brats back to prison officers . We don’t here Garda going into Mountjoy after every disturbance.
@John Scott: Because they are staffed with hug a thug social workers instead of trained prison officers. If the social workers can’t strip them of every last sense of responsibility and convince them that it’s all society’s fault they keep throwing Playstations at them until they hug back. Failing the Playstation Method, they call the guards and then file a complaint when the guards do their job.
@Jimmy Ireland: pretty accurate but the staff were never intended to deal with the type of lowlifes that are there. It was blind, naive fools closing at pat’s that are to blame
The staff in there are top class and do everything in their power to help and grow these kids. Unfortunately the new breed of kid at 16 is 6 foot and has no remorse in himself at all add the level of violence they tend to use it’s a no win situation fir the staff
@John Paul Mooney: if they don’t behave send them to normal prison. Keep only the ones who really want to change their lives!
Zero tolerance for violent behaviour is the way to go!
@John Paul Mooney: Not trained to deal with those sort of inmates . Force and restraint are required to handle these individuals ,not words and cooperation .
And we think we are prepared to Deal with terrorists.
It was actually an EU ruling that closed StPatricks
@Liam Mclaughlin: No it wasn’t . Judge Reilly and the government did . Funny how they still have juvenile detention centers in France Holland ,UK etc .
@Liam Mclaughlin: which one? Most EU countries have prisons for under 18s
Put the lot of them back in Mount Joy where they belong not kindergarten
Residents
It’s hard labour these parasites should see along with their folks. Pampered holy boys!
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