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Extinction Rebellion protesters outside the Dáil earlier this year. Rollingnews.ie

Opinion Irish people must reduce meat and dairy consumption and production to tackle emissions

Ireland is the third worst country in the EU for tackling climate change.

THE CLIMATE CHANGE Performance Index 2019 might yet prove to be a watershed moment in the campaign to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius. 

Its publication, along with the civil protest movement led by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, has caught the attention of the public, many of whom responded by voting for green parties in the recent European Elections.

The green wave that surged across Europe has left established political parties scrambling to highlight their environmental credentials.

After the election, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar spoke about how the public wanted the government to “act faster” on tackling climate change amid speculation that the Green Party could potentially hold the balance of power after the next general election. 

However, behind the rhetoric and political manoeuvering lies a monumental task, the scale of which has been heightened by the limited action that has been undertaken thus far. 

Already ranked as the worst country in the European Union on climate action, Ireland has little chance of meeting its 2020 or even 2030 emissions targets.

Ireland had the third highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per capita in the EU in 2017. This position has been compounded by the country’s inefficient consumption and production behaviours, which were ranked the lowest in the EU during 2017.

If Ireland is to stand any chance of substantially reducing emissions, a complete change in consumption and production behaviour will be required. Working toward responsible consumption and production (goal 12 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals), will be central to that shift. 

However, with a Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG12) score that ranks among the bottom five EU nations, this is another area where Ireland lags behind other countries.

Consequently, if we are to meet our internationally agreed obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet SDG12, we will need to completely alter how we both produce and consume food.

Customers driving demand

To date, much of the discourse around this issue has centred on the production side of the debate.

Time and again, we have heard how the agricultural industry accounts for one-third of Ireland’s GHG emissions, without much consideration for the consumer’s indirect contribution to those figures.

The agricultural industry has found itself under scrutiny, but consumers have been very slow to change their behaviour.

Although there has been an upsurge in the number of people embracing vegetarian or vegan options, at least on a limited basis through campaigns such as meat free Mondays, global demand for meat and dairy products is expected to rise by 76% by 2050. 

We are already seeing the consequences of this in Brazil, where president Jair Bolsonaro has loosened environmental regulations to allow farmers to engage in deforestation in order to increase agricultural production.

Consumers are driving much of this demand and a lot of the product is going to waste. 

Between 25-30% of all food produced globally is either lost or wasted, according to the most recent Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change report.

This comes at a time when two billion adults are classified as being obese or overweight, and 820 million people go to bed hungry.

Our insatiable appetite for meat has created a situation where a third of the world’s agricultural land is used to grow feed for livestock – not humans.

In other words, we are destroying forests and ecosystems that can capture carbon and replacing them with crops used exclusively to support a meat industry that produces carbon.

This juxtaposition has created a situation where the world’s top three meat companies, JBS, Cargill and Tyson, emitted more greenhouse gases than all of France, and nearly as much as some of the biggest oil companies like Exxon, BP and Shell.

When it comes to agricultural emissions, we are effectively burning the candle at both ends.

For some, the solution lies in producing lab cultured so-called clean meat to curb the impact of the industry’s Co2 emissions and to meet the demand of the globe’s growing population.

However, such solutions ignore the lessons learned from the green revolution that gave birth to genetically modified organisms in the 1970s. Even today, people are hesitant to knowingly purchase or engage with genetically modified foods due to the lack of research on their long-term impacts.

Although there is a great deal of promising research being undertaken that could potentially lower the amount of methane produced by farm animals, either by adapting their diets or genetic make-up, it is not yet clear how much of an impact those projects would have in arresting agricultural GHG emissions. 

In any event, even if the agricultural industry became carbon neutral, we would still be left with the issue of over production and waste, which is hardly ethical.

Global meat companies would continue behaving the same way, prioritising production over all other considerations.

This is the case in Ireland, where programmes like Food Wise 2025 were developed to assist the agricultural sector in increasing its primary production by 65%.

Such growth strategies are completely incompatible with the ambitious carbon reduction targets laid out in the government’s own Climate Action Plan.

As tempting as it might be for us to exclusively denigrate climate strategies and multinational meat producers, doing so ignores the fact that we in Ireland waste one third of the food we purchase.

If we are serious about cutting emissions, we must consider the environmental impact of the food we purchase. We must realise that everything has a carbon cost, particularly if the land used to produce our food was cleared to make way for agriculture.

We need to stop treating production and consumption in isolation, but rather see them as having a symbiotic relationship which we can influence as individuals.

Our collective future lies in sustainable production and consumption: treating them in isolation will, in part, hasten the effects of climate change.

Disrupting the current patterns of production without dealing with problems associated with our rates of consumption, is like projecting two parallel lines that will never meet on a graph.

There needs to be a deliberate focus on changing the norms, attitudes, cultures and values surrounding our consumption pattern, which, in turn, will lead to sustainable production and consumption.

Dr Stephen Onakuse is a member of the faculty at Cork University Business School. He is currently working on a project designed to understand the social norms or behavioural characteristics toward responsible production and consumption in Ireland. 

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    Oct 23rd 2017, 8:40 AM

    It would be helpful if there was more detail as to location and description of individual .

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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

    “No description of the man is available at present.”

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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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    Oct 23rd 2017, 9:49 AM

    @Honeybee:

    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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    Oct 23rd 2017, 2:43 PM

    @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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    Oct 23rd 2017, 10:08 AM

    @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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