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Historian Catherine Corless placing a baby coffin at a shrine for the Tuam babies last year. Brian Farrell

'Those who were denied a voice for too long will continue to fight for justice for the lost children of Tuam'

Family members of the 796 babies who died and survivors of the home held a peaceful protest last month.

‘WHY CAN’T THEY just move on?’

It is a question which sometimes surfaces after the survivors of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home and the families of the 796 Tuam babies who died there come together to call for justice and the truth to emerge about the missing children. 

Some people claim that it would be too costly and too painful to carry out a thorough investigation and exhumation of the bodies at the site to find out how many children are really buried there and to give them dignified burials.

The families and survivors are often told that the pains of the past should be left in the past, and that the children of today should be prioritised, in the midst of what many see as healthcare and homelessness crises.

They heard and read those comments again when they staged a peaceful protest earlier this month.

But can they really move on?

When you talk to the families of the 796, who may or may not be buried in a septic tank, the most important thing of all is that the truth should emerge and that there should be some sort of belated justice for the children and their mothers.

The people who have had their lives turned upside down over the past five years – many by discovering they had siblings they knew nothing about before 2014 – believe they deserve some answers.

Otherwise, for all they really know, they and people like them could have brothers and sisters alive and well in the United States and Canada, completely unaware that they may have been adopted illegally from institutions across Ireland in the 20th century.

This story is not just the story of Tuam. An estimated 10,000 women were locked up in institutions across Ireland until the 1980s and nobody knows the true horrors of their stories and those of their so-called illegitimate children.

Only some of them were single mothers who were taken away from their families to cover up their pregnancy. Others were just locked up for being destitute or too much of a burden on their families in hard times.

Everyone deserves to know where they came from, to find out what happened to their missing siblings and a chance to heal.

Defeated, institutionalised 

Take Peter Mulryan.

He was 70 years old when he received a call from historian Catherine Corless, whose painstaking trawl through the records from the Tuam home showed that he had a little sister among the 796 children.

Her death was recorded, but her body has never been found.

Nobody had ever told him about his younger sister and he still has no proof that she was buried in the vicinity of that infamous septic tank in Tuam.

He had tracked his mother down to the Magdalene Laundry in Galway before he married in 1975, discovering that she had been locked up in institutions for all of her adult life.

Even when he brought her on day trips to the seaside with her grandchildren, the sparkle had gone from her eyes. She was defeated, institutionalised.

Peter’s mother was buried in a common grave with other ‘fallen’ women from the Magdalene Laundry at Bohermore Cemetery in Galway in 1989.

After finding out about his little sister for the first time 25 years after his mother’s death, how could he just shrug and move on?

Now 75, he is hoping that his sister is still alive. Only a full exhumation of the site will tell him whether she is buried among the bodies in Tuam.

When he went to New York and Boston for screenings of a documentary about the Tuam babies last year, he kept hoping an American woman would approach him and solve the mystery.

A tiny part of him clings to the hope that his younger sister is still out there in the US, blissfully unaware of where she came from.

Peter believes passionately that the Irish authorities are stonewalling him, that they see him and other family members as an inconvenience, and that they would prefer to seal up the site and mark it with a memorial stone.

It would certainly be the cheaper option.

He does not want any politician or official to put a price on his efforts to find out the truth about the younger sister he never knew he had.

Another example is Anna Corrigan. Growing up in Dublin as the only child of a Galway woman, Anna had no idea that she had two older brothers, John and William, until after her mother Bridget passed away.

Her mother’s first son died in a horrendous state of neglect, two years after he was born, and her second son was taken from her arms, never to be seen by her again.

Anna’s childhood was a happy one after her mother married a man from Dublin, but she cannot accept that the Irish State will not tell her and the other family members the full truth about the children who lived and died in institutions across Ireland.

She has written to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone to insist that no cover-up takes place at the Tuam site.

papal-visit-to-ireland-2018 Tributes to the Tuam babies at the Stand4Truth march last year. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

Dark secrets of youth

Take Annette McKay, who grew up in the UK.

She considers her late mother one of the “lucky” ones, because she escaped to the UK after being locked up in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.

One of eight children, Margie O’Connor was detained in an institution in Galway City, aged 11, when she was found destitute after her own mother had died. 

Margie became pregnant after being raped by a caretaker when she was 17.

After Tuam, she was moved to another institution in Loughrea, Co Galway. It was there she was told “the child of her sin” was dead.

After moving to England, Annette’s mother never told her family about the dark secrets of her youth. Consumed by grief, perhaps haunted by the memories of her first child, she spent a year in bed after one of her sons drowned in an accident, aged 25.

Although she went on to have six children in England, Margie only spoke once – on the day her first great-grandchild was born – about the child she lost in Tuam. Until then, Annette always thought she was the oldest sibling in the family.

Annette, an elected member of Bury Council near Manchester, travelled to Tuam last month to be with other family members and survivors.

She wanted to mark the first anniversary of the visit of Pope Francis to Ireland and to highlight how little has been done for the families of the 796.

She has accused the Irish State, the Catholic Church and the religious orders of abdicating their responsibilities to Irish citizens by refusing to face up to the human rights abuses in institutions all across Ireland, not just in Tuam.

She believes that the women provided slave labour in the Magdalene Laundries and the mother and baby homes, that the institutions were run like concentration camps and that the site of the Tuam home should be preserved as a crime scene.

Annette says the children who were branded as illegitimate used to walk around like ghosts in their own country and were never expected to have the confidence to speak up for themselves.

For Peter, Anna, Annette, and the other family members, there is too much truth to be uncovered for them to forget about the past and simply move on.

Only a full exhumation of the site and dignified burials for their siblings, if they are actually buried in those unmarked graves in Tuam at all, will allow them to let go of the past and start some much-needed healing.

Until then, those who were denied a voice for too long will continue to fight for justice for the lost children of Tuam.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 8:40 AM

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:03 AM

    @Honeybee: Maybe there isn’t any…..it’s breaking news……

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:04 AM

    @Honeybee: He’s the man with the gun; seeing as this isn’t America, anyone walking around with a gun is going to stand out.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:04 AM

    @Honeybee: And if you read the article

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:07 AM

    @Paul Furey: If he’s been involved in a number of incidents then they must have some information and Tallaght is vast in size, so some indication of where the incidents occurred would assist people to be on the lookout otherwise Do the Bort Mans description below is as good as it gets.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:14 AM

    @Joe Bloggs: If he was waving the gun around, I think there would be no need to issue an appeal, he would already have been located, they said a gun not a larger weapon, guns can be hidden in clothing.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:16 AM

    @Joe Bloggs: in Tallaght, so not really.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:26 AM

    @Nick Allen: Thanks Nick…….umm is Thursday your day for doing business as well……

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    I do all mine online

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:03 AM

    @Nick Allen: Reminds me of a story I once read, two poorly educated guys robbed a bank in America, they rushed home with the sacks of money, you grab a sack and start counting says one, nah, grab two cans, we’ll watch the news later on, they’ll tell us how much we stole says the other.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:07 AM

    @Honeybee: Funnily enough, most people who commit crimes don’t tend to hang around to be caught. If the Gardaí give a description then every crank, nutter & a$$hole will ring in with false reports; it happens every time. Better to keep it vague, look for any suspicious activity & filter out the rubbish.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 11:00 AM

    @Paul Furey: relax it’s grand – we have a local councilor on the case

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 12:52 PM

    @Dave Hammond: OK standing down :)

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    @Honeybee: Well done to gardai on the arrest, good news to have this man off the streets.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 5:09 PM

    @Paul Furey: theres a vid of him being arrested on fb

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 6:12 PM

    @Honeybee: Why not just thank the brave Gardai ?

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 8:58 AM

    SUSPECT IS HATLESS. REPEAT HATLESS.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:51 AM

    @Do the Bort man: Luas must be off

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 12:35 PM

    @john g mcgrath: madman on the Luas

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 4:27 PM

    @Do the Bort man: I hope they throw his hatless butt in jail.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 8:37 AM

    I have arms and I’m in Tallaght. Perhaps I should turn myself in

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:27 AM

    An armed man on the loose in Tallaght – I heard that he’s a member of the Tallaban.

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    Oct 24th 2017, 3:49 AM

    @Ciarán Masterson: And they are asking people to become the AyesATallaght

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:29 AM

    Tallaght-the new Johannesburg.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:34 AM

    @Kieran Conroy: why is it the ones with no faces are the ones with the most idiotic statements?

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:01 AM

    @alan scott: Also,Jo’burg is famous for car-jacking.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:02 AM

    @Kieran Conroy: yes but no one laughing wNkstsain.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:07 PM

    @Mrs. Nugent: I laughed a little bit..

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 8:46 AM

    If they do a proper search I suspect they may find more than one

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:16 PM

    I’ve long said these people should be prevented from breeding. Then in a generation we’d have completely bred out the criminal element, reduced the prison population and solved the housing crisis not to mention reducing the dole queue

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 8:37 PM

    @Kevin Slater: absolutely agree. Waste of oxygen. And fair play to the guards today, a very professional and prompt response.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 11:57 PM

    @Fake Avast: Its mostly Bono’s fault to be fair.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:12 AM

    whenever i read a story like this, i feel for the lives of our gardai. All of them must be given firearms.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:15 AM

    @Annette:

    Why stop there. Give every man, woman and child in the country and we could get rid of the Gardai, save a fortune in tax revenue and simply self regulate

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:52 AM

    @Annette: Really? Let’s arm all the police?

    Do the officers get a say?

    One of my best friends is a police officer, I asked if they’d any interest in the armed response unit and their answer was “you have to be prepared to kill someone and I don’t want to be in that position”.

    So, before you unilaterally decide you want to give all police guns maybe ask yourself do the actual police all want to be armed? Not to mention, if you make it a fully armed force, the people that don’t want to kill people would never sign up. I’m not okay with that.

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    @Nick Allen: Brendan Grace I hear is looking for new ways to make people laugh I will pass on this comment as the joke of the day.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:16 AM

    @Alan Scott:

    It was intended as a joke, I think arming all of the Gardai is a really stupid suggestion

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:41 AM

    @Annette: they’re bad enough already with biros and calculators.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:42 AM

    @Nick Allen: you think 175 countries are stupid arming their police force and you are only one genius left on the planet?

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:58 AM

    @Annette:

    Are you really that limited in your thinking. It’s not exactly a black or white question and because I suggest your recommendation is stupid you assume I am saying I am a genius. Try opening your mind a little more and try to understand why a country would need to arm their entire police force or not and also what the implications would be.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 11:29 AM

    @Nick Allen: I don’t want Irish Gardai armed. I say this as a Garda and I have been armed (though am not presently). We manage very well with the resources we have (in this regard). There are plenty of armed Gardai around from ERU, RSU, detectives, drugs units and so on. We aren’t stuck for guns. There is a lesser chance of getting shot on the nod if unarmed as has been shown time and again. And in the last few Garda killings only Tony Golden MAY have been saved by being armed. No we’re far better with the model we have, correctly used. It’s not like the movies when you walk into an incident. Everyone thinks they know it all when you’re actually relying on training and instinct. Irish people in the vast majority are decent and wouldn’t dream of shooting a Garda. Well up until recently lol

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 11:41 AM

    @Mick Murphy:

    Thanks for sharing a first hand opinion. I am absolutely in agreement that we do not need all of the Gardai armed.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 4:18 PM

    @Mick Murphy: ok you don’t need a essay we get your point

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 4:49 PM

    @alan scott: am I supposed to edit my posts down for your convenience now Alan? Or am I as entitled to write what and as i choose like everyone else? If you’ve a chip on your shoulder take it to someone who gives a f$#k…

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 7:16 PM

    @Mick Murphy: Can’t be trusted with breathalysers. No way could the entire force be trusted with guns.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 7:48 PM

    @Mick Murphy: Mick, i respect your opinion as garda but i am sure there is another garda who wants gardai to be armed , it is your personal opinion and not of the masses. You opined that so far gardai were good without having firearms that does not necessarily mean that they would have been worse ‘having’ firearms. May be Tony would have been amongst us today without anything changing.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 8:30 PM

    @Mick Murphy: when will you lot stop taking things personally.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:14 PM

    @Ronan Gallagher: lol Ronan….true that

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:17 PM

    @Annette: Annette…absolutely. it is only my opinion (and most guards I know). Going into a row is harder because you could be disarmed etc. But you’re right… maybe it is the future. And I would gladly take up arms to have Tony back.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:41 AM

    @Maire: Seriously Maire.
    Some unfortunate ppl in Tallaght suffer with poverty and MH issues, like most places also lots of brilliant hard working people just living their life’s.

    I bet your a judgement passing biddy. Bless You in ur glass house throwing stones.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 11:04 AM

    @Eyesplat Jon Franjewel: have to agree with you, coming from another area with a bad name myself, so many nice people living there as well as the feral ones. It’s a shame all people have to be lumped in together, both anecdotally and physically!

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 12:54 PM

    I. Love the comments section so much I often skip the news part. great sense of humour well done everyone thanks.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 8:40 AM

    Wonder if he has legs too

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 12:15 PM

    Is it mild enough for shorts??

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:18 PM

    @paul kelly: does he sound sane enough to care?!

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:34 AM

    Not known as the ‘Wild West’ (of Dublin) for nothing!

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:46 AM

    @Maire: ? Look at your own back yard before you make idiot comment

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:56 AM

    @Maire: you are right it is not known as the Wild West .

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:21 PM

    @Maire: Something like that can happen everywhere @Maile – in Dalkey, in Donnybrook, even in Foxrock. Tallaght is lovely and peaceful area and decent people live there.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:46 PM

    @Alan Scott: i checked hes not there

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 2:27 PM

    @Maire: You don’t know where he’s from. Anyone notice that he threatened the owner to get the car keys? I thought thieves knew how to hot wire cars, is that out of date now?

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 3:19 PM

    @Maire: Cant say i have heard it called that , maybe that’s an in joke among superior people like youself ,God love ye .

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 7:52 PM

    @Alan Scott: Actually, it is in my own back yard! And, I’v been victim to being burgled by Locals, twice!, Oh sorry, three times!

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:10 AM

    Well they still haven’t got him, The police helicopter is still over The Area!

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 4:04 PM

    That’s some domestic row! A machine gun?

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 5:42 PM

    He started off rampaging in jobstown, so he will get off, Paul clown Murphy will ensure it, he has rights. Bail probation etc.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:09 AM

    One man with a gun three hijacking lucky he not shooting people god help us if was

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:17 PM

    @Noel: does he sound sane enough to care?!!

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:18 PM

    @Noel: sorry my comment wasn’t aimed at yours it ended up in response by accident!

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 12:50 PM

    He is known to gardai so why can they not give a better description or release a photo of him. The papers troll through peoples Facebook pages to get photos of them especially when whey just died

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:29 AM

    No Idiots breaking the reds this am because there’s a Garda Q7 parked on the road no doubt waiting for this gunman I would love to see the Gardai here every day to put manners on some of these drivers who think they have a Devine right to break the reds.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:13 AM

    @Alan Scott: I know….and the ones hooring up the Bus lane till they realise there’s a garda car 200m in front and indicating back in and looking sheepishly at you to let them back in….

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:24 AM

    @A H: Never, ever, ever, ever, ever let these people back in to the traffic.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:27 AM

    @A H: Its great to watch them sweat for someone to let them out

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:16 AM

    Well that’s like looking for a haystack in a needle
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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:18 PM

    No they have no human rights once they’ve impinged in someone else’s rights

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 2:15 PM

    Garda car and helicopter chase currently underway in Citywest.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 2:34 PM

    @Michelle Cronin: It has come to an end, thankfully the gardai have him in custody.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 12:47 PM

    Careful!The easily offended Journal are deleting big-time on this.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 5:47 PM

    Took over 7 hours to find an armed man on a rampage in a major European city?
    Where are all the fluffy liberals singing the completely inept Gardai’s praises now?

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 5:54 PM

    @ I dunno. Fu(k off troll.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 6:01 PM

    Oh look, somebody on the internet with a fake profile called me a troll and told me to f’ off, seriously?? poor likkle snowflake, did my comment upset you chuck? Go to your safe space for an hour, you’ll be fine.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 6:25 PM

    @I dunno The person with two tweets on their blank profile is calling me out. Go away you absolute misfortune. Your carers will be looking for you by now.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 6:52 PM

    @FlyB: Does your Mommy know you’re online?

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 12:22 PM

    a bloody Renault kadjar wow he feels the need for speed

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:17 PM

    Brookview is nowhere near the centre of Tallaght, just saying.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 12:34 PM

    It is good that we don’t have alarmism in Ireland over such incidents that they are Jihadist terrorist related. Now we routinely see on other stories the reassurance that it was not terrorist related.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:20 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: I think you know when you know….don’t you?

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:24 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: We know it’s not a Muslim terrorist because his not actually killing people.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:00 PM

    Only in America? Well holy God.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:13 PM

    Love the comments section. Very difficult to register though

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 2:36 PM

    Can’t blame a man out walking his dog on this one.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 2:13 PM

    Relax he here in Killarney clay pidgeon shooting he just had a bad morning ..

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 2:00 PM

    He is here clay pigeon shooting in Killarney seems to be in a calm state so everyone relax he had a bad morning

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 3:16 PM

    And he’s not even Muslim what are all the racist bigots going to talk about now ?

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 3:27 PM

    @Chris Turner: Well its wide open for the Tallaphobes , Journal must be deleting most of them though, poor gits ,

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 8:07 PM

    Is this real life or a ‘Grand theft Auto’ mission on the PlayStation? Hard to tell.

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 11:46 AM

    Hope they shoot the fool!

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 1:33 PM

    Heil Kevin !

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    Oct 24th 2017, 1:22 AM

    ‘It’s believed the series of events may have begun as a domestic row.’ When will the media stop peddling the belief that male violence is caused by, and is a valid response to, ‘domestic’ arguments?

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    Oct 24th 2017, 2:28 AM

    When you are playing grand theft auto on acid and suddenly sheet gets real

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    Oct 24th 2017, 12:05 AM

    F*ckin hell, Robo-scober

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 7:48 PM

    Up the dubs

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 11:35 PM

    Ah here leave it out. Oh mammy.

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