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AN POST HAS suspended deliveries to a south Dublin housing estate after a large number of incidents of anti-social behaviour and threatening behaviour.
Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe said he was “deeply concerned” at the news that deliveries to the Mac Uilliam housing estate in Tallaght had stopped following a number of incidents involving staff including threats to their overall safety and security.
Crowe said he has spoken to An Post and gardaí about this development and has called for a meeting with South Dublin County Council, the Gardaí, State Agencies, elected representatives and An Post to find a solution to the problem.
He said a small minority cannot be allowed to disrupt vital services for an entire community.
Crowe said: “I am deeply concerned at the news that An Post has now suspended deliveries to a Tallaght Estate following a number of incidents involving staff including threats to their overall safety and security.
“I am also aware of An Post taking similar decisions following incidents with individual households like a dog attack but this is a first involving an entire estate.
“This is a serious development and requires a proactive garda response. A small minority cannot be allowed to disrupt vital services for an entire community. This suspension will undoubtedly hurt the elderly, the vulnerable and those who have mobility problems.
At the last Joint Policing Forum I raised with senior Garda representatives a highly publicised attack on a Tesco delivery driver and were other incidents of assaults and robbery involving taxis and food delivery drivers and called for an additional response in areas where this was happening. This latest development is a serious escalation and requires a robust response including additional officers in the area.
Crowe said he spoke with An Post this morning about the suspension of services and they told him they have a duty of care to their staff and cannot allow a situation develop where their staff are put at risk. He said An Post informed customers of alternative arrangements and hope to resume deliveries as soon as possible.
A spokesman for An Post said: “An Post have a clear duty of care to our staff and cannot allow a situation where our staff are put at risk in any way.
Accordingly we have suspended mail deliveries and have made arrangements for customers to pick up their mail at An Post’s Dublin 24 Delivery Service Unit (Unit 5, Square Industrial Complex, Dublin 24 D24 W68E).
“This morning we have informed customers in the area of what is happening and why and also provided them with details of the alternatives we have put in place.
“We apologise for any inconvenience caused to our customers and hope to resume deliveries as soon as it is safe to do so.”
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Good call, something might be done about it now.
@Dara O’Brien: Typical southside scruff.
@Peter Hughes: Nope. Don’t live in Dublin at all thankfully – it’s all a kip including the south side , just with different accents.
@Dara O’Brien: all of dublin is not a kip you fool, there are a few places that are kips but its unfair to say its all a kip, bit of a uneducated comment to be fair
@James Molloy: Dara’s comment isn’t uneducated. It’s just a troll comment to get a bit of attention.
@Dara O’Brien: doesn’t sound like your best qualified bud if you don’t live in the capital. Leave this one to us pal and tend to your sheep.
@Paul Lee: You should work for the FBI
@Dara O’Brien: The joys of social housing
Deliveroo guys been targeted in Dublin, people on the buses, Irish rail, fueds in louth and now Longford is on lockdown and not mention shootings on a weekly basis.
Ireland what the fook is going on….. Seriously??
@Marty: no comment
@Marty: all that going on and we have a seriously undermanned underfunded Garda force to help and maintain law and order,, Elections are coming, hammer home with any candidate that comes to your door that this is totally unacceptable to you and changes must be made!!!
@Devilsavocado: It’s not that the gardai are underfunded more like undermined, talked to a mate of mine in tallaght who became a guard, he was sayin he arrested a 16 year old lad for burglary who laughed and said I’ll b out Robbin tonight buddy and he was, he just said it’s beyond a joke and pointless arresting them…how pathetic is that to hear
@Devilsavocado: no point arresting people if we have no space in jail for them. Thats why the good old suspended sentence is so popular.
@Marty: Longford is not on lockdown.
@Devilsavocado: And then they’ll go and vote for the same TD’s that got us into the situation we are in.
@Marty: It’s simple really. A non existent police force and a useless judiciary. Overseen by clueless, incompetent politicians!
Dead right it’s awful for the poor innocent people who need this service but an post have more than likely exhausted all other avenues
@Annette: let them collect the post from a local depot
@Means of escape: …and divide their weekly social welfare payments by seven and they can collect them daily at 6.30am provided they pass a drug and alcohol test.
@Martin Horan: Stupid comment. You conveniently fail to mention the real gangsters that dictate to this government. The Banks.. you know the ones that brought this country to it’s knees. Bailed out by enforced austerity measures by the taxpayers. The Banks will pay NO TAX on their profits for the 20 years , Yet you disparage people on social welfare.
Lived their in the 90’s when buses stopped goin in after 6pm absolute hole, what do u expect when there’s people in tallaght with 300 convictions and still in their 30’s!!!! Justice system here is a joke because it’s too expensive to prison them for €1800 a week?
@Dougal67: you should be breaking rocks in a gulag for attacking postal workers
@Dougal67: You gotta understand that the logo of the so-called justice system here is
Let them out to re offend
That keeps the Euros rolling in!
@John Mc Donagh: Joke, A woman gets sent to prison for not payin her tv license! And Anto is running around tallaght doin burglaries with 300 previous behind him?
This is the result when people with 20+ convictions are still on the streets. They lost the respect for the justice system, and know if they are caught, they will be home for dinner.
Now it’s just wait for the Left to blame this on “lack of resources” and start calling for more money to be pumped into these “vulnerable” communities…
@Tony Garcia: and Sinn Fein and the left want to build more of these estates with Fianna Fail throwing their hat in the ring the odd time.l
@Tony Garcia: I’m Left so I’ll give it a shot. It is “lack of resources” both in terms of gardaí and community. Maybe community resources are not there, exhausted or not being used properly. It’s not for either of us to saying honestly. It is this lack which can lead to a community become “vunerable” to people with nothing left to do with their time than run amok. I would agree that there are entire families out there with complete disregard for people and the law of the land.
The government does need to draw a line in the sand and say anyone caught in continuous anti social or threatening behaviour will see jail time. But then do we have the space available. What town are you from? Perhaps you wouldn’t mind a prison built there.
@Tony Garcia: If those type of people lived in Foxrock, it’d be a slum in a few weeks
@Keelan O’neill: Nonsense over a billion euro was spent on the Ballymun regeneration and its now the most littered place in Dublin. An absolute fortune was spent there on facilities and they were vandalized in no time.
@John C: At least the rubbish adds a bit of colour to the bleakness.
@Michael Reilly: Well the blueshirts in government only made matters worse. If you are happy with a crumbling health service, homelessness, housing crisis , scandal after scandal than you are in the right place. Do you not find it ironic that the party F.F. that facilitated the gangsterism of the banks and developers and brought this country to it’s knees now keep in power the blueshirts who only added to the mess this country is now in.
The people causing this problem are so called “settled travellers” and nobody is willing to call them out for it as it is not politically correct to do so.
The way the Shinner TD basically blames An Post for this says it all.
@According to Di Marzio: he didn’t
Read hs remarks again.
@According to Di Marzio: Can you read
@According to Di Marzio: We must be reading different articles.
@Brendan Greene: maybe you are right i felt he was getting at something about the dog attacks maybe not
@According to Di Marzio: he didn’t blame an post at all . What did you read?
The teenagers involved should be fined with the parents having any of their children’s fines deducted straight off their social welfare payments. Wouldn’t fully solve it but would go a good way to reducing it.
Slowly losing control of the country.
Rightly so. Identify the ‘small number’ and target them – stop care workers, nurses, doctors, bins et al from going anywhere near these so called ‘small number’. The adults/parents of these animals own this as much. Make them public & if too young make the parents public.
@M Con: care workers?? Easy on there stalin. Some of the old people may have no family to help or fight their corner. You cant just leave them be!!
Things are bad when the postmen/women need a Garda escort.
@Shane Fearon: it has happened before.
Awful kip
I hope the perpetrators families aren’t relying on An Post to deliver their welfare documents and payments
@Marc Murphy: probably relying on them to deliver their compo Cheques if they don’t have a bank account
Lets attack someone was has a job and chooses to work while we do feck all but sponge the state with a free house a few bob and knock up a few birds and play daddy and mammy now and again…..dregs of society should be made clean up the city and earn their €180 PW or whatever it is they take
Its the dysfunctunal parents fault. No disipline and they have reared pups instead of children.
@Irish big fellow: Err … do NOT bring young dogs (puppies) into the argument. They are , by and large, extremely well behaved with their parent having a VERY strong parental control over them.
Why these people choose to live like this is completely beyond me.
Order the Rangers to deliver the post.
@M: whats wrong with the Celtic?
Policing in this state is at braking point. A massive drug problem, Dublin , Dundalk, and a few other places would have done Chicago proud. Talk by government about new legislation, yet a lot of legislation on the books is never acted on. They talk of lack of guards on the beat, yet there was no shortage of them when it came to water protests.
living in tallagh 35years love it things happen all over ireland and never get media coverage;
@☘: Like what?
@Alan Brazil: Lidl being torn down to its foundations and being looted…. oh… wait… that was Tallaght
@Ciaran Whyte: the people who tore b
lidl down were not from tallagh if you care to check it out
@☘: Where were they from?
@Ciaran Whyte: that Lidl was in fortunestown not tallaght
@Ciaran Whyte: And everything being stolen except the work boots and the Father’s Day cards.
@☘: amazing how you’ve lived in tallaght 35 years and still cant spell the f’ing word
@talkingsense: what’s fing word u gob****e
@☘: You can’t spell the name of the place where you live and I’m the gobs****e?. Well done chief
An iron fist needed to deal with this behaviour . Another meeting of the hand wringing won’t do much. Like all these estates , a handful cause hell. Take these out and life improves immeasurably for all others left
Didn’t Tesco do something similar too? Shame for any of the good people in the area. Honestly I’d hope the good ones go out, find the little scrotes and teach them a few lessons.
Garda checkpoints in Saggart for motorists tax and insurance while this lawlessness is allowed happen a couple of miles away. Priorities are all wrong with the Garda
Those who are doing it should be severely fined and taken from source either from them or their parents.
Live across from this estate and it’s a kip hole. A lot of decent hard working people in it like my own estate but there is always filthbags who torment the whole community. Coming home from work angry everyday when you see the wasters in their gardens drinking cans while their scrote kids fly around on scramblers
These Guys are the Sxxm of the Earth..
No sign of that muppet Paul Murphy when theres an actual crisis
@Alan: clown. What do you expect Paul Murphy do, go up and fight all the travs?
What part of Tallaght is it?
if you reading this. I will take you On.
This has happened in various places around tje country and will again. An Post put staff safety top of their lusr.
Rovers dirt bags
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