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'Awful, really frightening': Woman purposefully coughed and spat on by two youths while out walking

Fianna Fáil’s James Lawless is calling for a serious conviction for those found guilty of deliberating trying to spread Covid-19.

A DUBLIN WOMAN has said she was purposefully coughed and spat on by two young boys while out walking in Dún Laoghaire yesterday evening. 

Similar incidents have been reported around the country, thought to have spawned from the so-called ‘Corona Challenge’ on social media in which young people video themselves coughing into people’s faces.

Yesterday, Health Minister Simon Harris said two people approached him in public and purposefully coughed in his face before walking away laughing.

Speaking to the Ryan Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio, Linda Cullen described the incident that left her terribly upset. 

Cullen said she was on her usual walk along Dún Laoghaire harbour’s west pier when she noticed two young boys walking toward her. 

“I was on the phone to my aunt at the time, and I looked behind me for no cars coming so I stepped around them onto the road. I don’t know whether they took umbrage at me stepping out or what, I have no idea. 

“There were really quite young, one was barely older than my own children, about 10 years old. The older one was about 14 or 13. 

“The older one just turned and coughed at me, coughed or spit or sneezed. I don’t know which but he did that thing.”  

Cullen said she was in shock but had heard about other, similar incidents mentioned on the radio, so she wanted to call them out.  

I said: ‘Lads you can’t be doing that. You might think it’s funny. It’s not funny. It’s really frightening and it’s really dangerous at the moment’.

After this, she says the younger of the two ran toward her coughing and spitting.

“In some ways, I felt very unthreatened because they were young, but I felt more threatened than I possibly ever have in my life at the same time, because of what coughing and spitting can do at the moment.”

Cullen said the boys continued to follow her even after she called gardaí. It wasn’t until she took out her phone to take a picture of the pair that they finally left her alone. 

“I kind of had held together at that point, but I have to say I disintegrated after. I was just so upset.”

Cullen said her aunt and uncle drove down to the pier and gave her bleach wipes they had in their car. 

“I literally was wiping myself off with bleach and I was crying. I was bawling crying. So these two little kids were able to scare the living daylights out of middle-aged woman. 

‘The will not get away with it’ 

Fianna Fáil’s James Lawless is calling for a serious conviction for those found guilty of deliberate coughing and spitting with intent to spread Covid-19. 

The Kildare North TD has submitted an amendment to be considered during today’s Dáil sitting.

“As it stands under section six of the Non-fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 it is an offence to spray, pour or put onto a person blood or any fluid or substance resembling blood, leading a person to believe that they have become infected with disease as a result,” Lawless explained. 

“The amendment I have submitted broadens this definition so that it is not only fluids or substances resembling blood which are covered by the Act.

We have to get very tough on this. We have already heard of one instance of a person who tested positive for COVID-19 deliberately coughing at a frontline health worker – there can be zero tolerance for this.

Lawless said it is “deeply frustrating” that a tiny minority are not following public health guidelines but warned: “let there be no doubt, they will not get away with it”.

Separately, Police in Northern Ireland have charged a 39-year-old man with common assault and two counts of attempting to commit grievous bodily harm. 

The charge of common assault relates to a domestic incident at a house in north Belfast yesterday, 25 March.  Following the arrest, the 39-year-old claimed to have Covid-19 and purposefully coughed on two police officers.

He is expected to appear at Belfast Magistrates’ Court today.

On Monday, gardaí arrested a male in his late teens for a Public Order Offence in Dungarvan in Waterford after allegedly coughing at people.

Gardaí confirmed today that they are in the process of ordering thousands of so-called “spit hoods” which will be used to protect members of the force from potentially contracting Covid-19.

The devices cover the faces of individuals who have been arrested in order to prevent them from spitting at or coughing on police.

They will be temporarily deployed to help prevent individual gardaí from contracting the coronavirus, which can spread through small droplets emitted through coughing or by spitting. 

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    Mute Kate Mchugh
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:24 PM

    Lads maybe it’s time to bring a hurling stick or bat with us and do what their parents should have done.

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    Mute Marc Power
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:26 PM

    @Kate Mchugh: I’m carrying defence these days. Never did before but police are useless

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    Mute Mary Fitzsimons
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:42 PM

    @Kate Mchugh:squirt them with hand sanitiser in the eyes

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    Mute Tim O'Brien
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:54 PM

    @Marc Power: same here, every man for himself at the moment, kill or be killed.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:16 PM

    @Mary Fitzsimons: Oven cleaner will teach them a harder lesson.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:18 PM

    @Róisín Ni Loirgneáin: I’ve heard a vicks spray is very effective, it’s kinda like the same as a pepper spray!

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:45 PM

    @Mary Fitzsimons: that’s a waste of sanitizer, mix chilli flakes in water and put it in a sprayer. Aim for the eyes.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:02 PM

    @Róisín Ni Loirgneáin: spray oven cleaner wait for them to drop then shave an eyebrow

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    Mute Billy McNamara
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:33 PM

    @Róisín Ni Loirgneáin: Ha,ha.First laugh I’ve had today.Good one Roisin.

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    Mute Jess Kelly
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    Mar 26th 2020, 5:19 PM

    @Kate Mchugh: absolute s<_mbags. Their parents need a smack of it too!

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    Mute Jess Kelly
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    Mar 26th 2020, 5:21 PM

    @Kevin Barry: in their mouths preferably

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    Mar 26th 2020, 7:52 PM

    @Marc Power: Explain … why are the police useless ????

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    Mar 26th 2020, 8:39 PM

    @Kate Mchugh:
    If I were a man who could guess very well, I would guess the following:
    The Guards know them very well
    Other things that happened before at this location might be them, their parents would support all their actions, they live in a dwelling paid by us, really close to the pier, reckon I seen them today going into dealze to rob, and the last bit which explains all is they are an untouchable group

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    Mute Mary Mc Carthy
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:23 PM

    They should get a €1000 fine and a few nights in a cell .

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:48 PM

    @Mary Mc Carthy: put it out on social media than anyone caught doing this will have their phones removed and “recycled”

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    Mute Logan Shepherd
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:45 PM

    @Mary Mc Carthy: Twit in Belfast charged with assault for doing the same. We just need to start charging them with assault here as well.

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    Mute Pat Corrigan
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:26 PM

    I challenge any of these wasters to cough on me, their age won’t stop me, 9, 10 16… won’t matter

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    Mute Braonain Proinseas
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:39 PM

    @Pat Corrigan: them little shits would be to cowardly to come near you they look for vulnerable people

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:41 PM

    @Pat Corrigan: Maybe yourself, myself and a few more like minded people should set that up as a facebook challenge. They seem to love those.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:31 PM

    @Pat Corrigan: very true, kick in the nadds followed by a swift right, don’t care what age they are

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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:09 PM

    @Logan Shepherd: I’m on board. Normal decent people need to get together to do what the cops won’t do

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    Mar 26th 2020, 5:26 PM

    @Marc Power: I’m pretty sure the cops won’t tolerate this either Marc. If these louts had a fear that Joe Public would always intervene, it might quieten a few of them at least.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 5:42 PM

    @Marc Power: now now mark, remember, social dist,,,,,,,,,,

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    Mar 26th 2020, 6:13 PM

    @Logan Shepherd: I’m in!

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:31 PM

    Publish their names and pictures and prosecute these low-lifes. This kind of thing is not just occuring in Ireland…other countries have their share of the same species.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:27 PM

    Parents have to get a rap for this as being youths nothing will happen and they will do it again and again as long as its a ‘thing’

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:05 PM

    @Sharp Elsi Mate: I’m glad someone mentioned it. Parents should be fined! Kids put in a young offenders institute for a month in total isolation. Different story if they do it to me or someone I’m with, I’ll end up in prison.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:23 PM

    What is wrong with these people!

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:38 PM

    @John Devaney:

    No.

    1. Religion is still in schools.
    2. You can teach morals without religion.

    What these little scripted (& their parents) need is a tougher punishment.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:38 PM

    @John Devaney: oh please.. If we are going to go with that, can we assume that the church taught priests to abuse?

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:39 PM

    @John Devaney: Absolutely nithing to do with religion. The difference between right and wrong is taught and demonstrated by parents. Nowadays parents want to be their childrens “friend” instead of their firm guiding hand and moral compass when they should be instilling the concepts of civic duty, being a good and contributive citizen and understanding the consequences of your actions. Anyone who did this to me would very quickly get a lesson in the consequences of their actions, and a large dental bill.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:39 PM

    @John Devaney: Yeah, let’s go back to the good old days of non-secular Ireland where you could happily rape and beat kids with abandon

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:43 PM

    @John Devaney: Why do you expect the schools or the clergy to teach basic manners, right from wrong, society norms and civics? Parenting 101, mate.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:45 PM

    @John Devaney: that reflects on their upbringings by their parents. They won’t stop until they get harsh punishments.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:45 PM

    @John Devaney:
    Absolute drivel, return to the dark ages from whence you came, morals are formed from learning decency and integrity, not from adhering to ludicrous delusion.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:46 PM

    @John Devaney: So being scared of God is the only thing stopping you from being an immoral person? That makes you a bad person, not someone in a position to lecture others.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:46 PM

    @John Devaney: It’s nothing to do with being a secular society. Morality and the ability to know right from wrong does not come solely from religion.

    There always has been, and probably always will be, little sh*ts around.
    And they usually learn that near home.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:49 PM

    @John Devaney: What utter tripe!

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:49 PM

    @Dell: A tiny minority of priests were involved in those heinous crimes. Generations of honest, decent Irish men and women emerged from the religious schools. And no we don’t still have religion in the schools, a half hour a week? It’s not enough when they are being indoctrinated by atheist propaganda for the rest of the week!

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:52 PM

    @John Devaney: More rubbish! Are you getting your information from some right-wing Trumpesque website?

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:53 PM

    @John Devaney: you’re on a roll today John. How about leaving your religion at the door. You don’t see the rest of us trying to force out beliefs on you

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:54 PM

    @John Devaney: Newbie account with stock photo shock!

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:02 PM

    @Kem Trayle: It’s not just fear of God that forms my morals. It is also love of my fellow man. Secularists have forgotten how to love so how on earth can they instill morality in their children. I am not lecturing anyone just expressing my beliefs.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:02 PM

    @John Devaney: What’s troubling John, is the only thing preventing you from being a really bad person is a book.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:08 PM

    @Richard Reynolds: I’m no fan of Trump Richard. Why must you try to sully me by association instead of addressing my points?

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:13 PM

    @John Devaney: “Secularists have forgotten how to love so how on earth can they instill morality in their children.” Secularists. All of them. You’re not aware of a single non-religious human who shows love for their fellow man.

    Delusion: #100

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:18 PM

    @John Devaney: All we need, a Jesus bot.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:19 PM

    @John Devaney: Secularists (a term I don’t like) have not forgotten how to love! I’m a parent and a grandparent, and my daughter and grand daughters have morals that are instilled/taught directly from their family, not from a book. They don’t need to be browbeaten by religious nuts who believe that they have a divine right to claim the moral upper ground. And that does not just mean Christianity… You could include the fundamentalists from any religion in that crazy bucket. The problem with these teenagers is the lack of parenting

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:24 PM

    @John Devaney: I’d imagine most of these scrotes are members of an organised religion, with the mythology delivered through the schools.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:38 PM

    @John Devaney: you are so right Their parents could not care less about them .I have 5 brothers and myself not once did we ever get into trouble even when our parents brought us out .To teach children you have to start from birth .

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:55 PM

    @John Devaney:
    Keep them to yourself or better still take a half hour (all that’s needed) basic education in cosmology and evolution.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:02 PM

    Anyone else feel like the law that stops parents from giving their children a smack (proportionate smack I mean) has a lot to answer for?

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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:32 PM

    @John Devaney: Biggest cult in the world. Although it is despicable what this vermin are doing its nothing compared to what religion has done, especially the catholic church. Don’t see the Vatican donating much to the cause at the moment. Oh yeah collection baskets are empty. Must be down to their last few trillion at this stage

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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:50 PM

    @John Devaney: a lot of them abused and even more covered it up. You are entitled to practice your faith anyway and anytime you want, you should not get to inflict it on others, especially children, through an education system. If the only thing that stops you from doing wrong is the Bible, then that’s just you. The rest of us know right from wrong without it.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:55 PM

    @John Devaney: So I guess tribes in the middle of the Amazon without contact from the modern world have no morals then? We all know that is nonsense. Morality doesn’t come from religion but from altruism.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 5:25 PM

    @Kevin Barry: Better than an FFG Bot! Lmao

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    Mar 26th 2020, 5:59 PM

    @ObsidianShine: yeah 100% if you done that to someone as a kid in the 80′s or early 90′s the person they coughed on would Ave hit em a belt and when the went home crying they’d Ave got the same and more at home, nobody should ever beat a child but a good kick in the hole never done any harm

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    Mar 26th 2020, 6:42 PM

    @John Devaney: idiot.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 7:14 PM

    @John Devaney: you can be taught morality outside religion.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:41 PM

    The caution after the acid attack in Waterford didn’t help this situation either.
    Adequate punishment for assaults would make a difference.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:26 PM

    Whether the scrote doing the coughing, or spitting, has the disease or not, it should be an actual, tough, sentence. Making someone think they’re infected when they’re not is still horrific

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:24 PM

    Not just trying to spread it. Pretending to try to spread it (if you’re not infected) is every bit as horrific

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:28 PM

    @JusticeForJoe: Feckin’ app told me this didn’t post and now I’ve essentially repeated myself below. Harrumph.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:50 PM

    If anyone sees someone does this to another person, step in and give them a good hiding.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:30 PM

    If they did it me or mine…. they would need to be very good swimmers

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:29 PM

    Pass legislation making it legal to slap the s€£t out of them.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:42 PM

    @Adrian Moore: Everyone is entitled to defend themselves. Spitting at someone in the current climate is a serious assault and you’re entitled to defend yourself in a proportionate manner

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:48 PM

    @Alan Dillon:oh… I like it!

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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:28 PM

    @Alan Dillon: Yes but would you want to grapple with someone that might have virus..

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    Mar 26th 2020, 5:36 PM

    @Adrian Moore: Legal or not anyone that did that to me would be lights out fairly quickly.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:22 PM

    Here in the Netherlands someone coughed in a police mans face when they were trying to break up a larger group (2 weeks ago) and he was sentenced to 10 weeks prison.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:28 PM

    @Eva: you only get ten weeks prison for murder in Ireland. Anything else, a slap on the wrist is considered enough. Unless you have 87 previous convictions of course.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:30 PM

    In Japan families that partake in anti-social behaviour are rounded up and put in an interment camp. In the camp they must attend civics and social responsibility courses and are not allowed home until the assessors are convinced that they will not reoffend.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 9:36 PM

    @Kevin Barry: Yip, they don’t fap about over there or treat their prison population with kid gloves.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:25 PM

    These little sçumbags need battered! If that spat at me, the next thing they would be spitting is their teeth.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:35 PM

    Charge them with attempted murder as that is what the are potentially doing to some one!

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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:32 PM

    They should be beaten back into there homes and there parents given the 1000 euro fines and nights in jail so they can bear them too.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:10 PM

    A swift smack in the mouth then handed over to the gardai might cure this blight. A lot was gathering to spit at me down town today. I asked if he wanted to lose his teeth and he walked off. I am 71 and could have come off worst of an encounter, but that is all they seem to understand.

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:58 PM

    @Richard Starling: you sir,
    are a hero as far as I’m concerned

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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:11 PM

    If we aren’t going to be in lockdown, I feel there needs to be a curfew put in place for these teens and where applicable, fine the parents. Nothing seems to phase them these days!

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    Mute Charles McCarthy
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    Mar 26th 2020, 6:10 PM

    @Barbara Allen:
    A curfew should have been implemented immediately on “unaccompanied” children as a minimum. They are the least affected yet the most likely to spread the virus within the community.
    Again no one wants to address the issue.
    If the parent can’t or won’t cooperate then the law needs to intervene in the interests of our vulnerable citizens.
    It is scandalous that we allow a small minority to flout the law and jeopardize peoples health.

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    Mute Davy Boy
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:26 PM

    World gone mad let’s have a social media challenge respect each other see how that’s goes

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    Mute Paula Comiskey
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:38 PM

    GBH end of

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    Mute John P Murphy
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:35 PM

    Why not charge them with attempted murder as that is what the are potentially doing to some one!

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    Mute sean de paore
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:28 PM

    What kind of parasites have we amongst us in this country? Wishing these gurriers lots of difficulties in the weeks, months and years ahead,

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    Mute paul mc donough
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:44 PM

    These people should be fined €10,000 each and locked up for a long time

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    Mute Logan Shepherd
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:39 PM

    I wonder if I keep posting “snipers” as the solution, will it make it so?

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    Mute Marc Power
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:26 PM

    This is becoming a problem as many youths in their brave gangs now think it’s ok to go around the city on their bikes harassing people and participating in this dumb sheep like corona challenge. This is going to get worse unless these idiots are made to understand that their actions have consequences

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    Mute Lynn
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:25 PM

    Surely the children doing this can be identified through the videos. Fined and banned from the relevant social media they post it on. Also I think media needs to stop drawing more attention to it.

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    Mute Seán Dillon
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:00 PM

    Make them sweep and clean the streets wash windows with a jumpsuit to show that they are idiots. Pay a heavy fine and if minors take from source from their parents. €5000 fine and parents are made do parenting and civic responsibility classes. If they don’t jail them and cut off any social welfare payments (if getting them) until the comply.

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    Mute marianne ryan
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:29 PM

    Sadly these kids will get worse if anti social behaviour is not stopped. Gardai have let alot of young offenders off in the past that should have been prosecuted and now they think they can’t be touched. There were gangs of teens attacking delivery drivers and gay people recently too. Hope gardai will not be spat at too, stay safe

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    Mute Kieran Bourke
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:26 PM

    Brave men, aren’t they…….. Cowards

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    Mute Denis White
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:31 PM

    Can government pass a law to beat the S*** out of them

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    Mute John Mulligan
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:23 PM

    Lets hope she posts the pictures so these scrotes can be named and shamed

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    Mute EvieXVI
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:24 PM

    If this happens, and you take a photo, please post it. Name and shame.

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    Mute Paula Varley Redmond
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:25 PM

    I’d have leathered the little sh&ts!!

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    Mute Ste Murray
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:50 PM

    As I said earlier, these little degenerated a proper hiding with a baton. I’d clatter the head of them. Toxic vermin is all they are.

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    Mute Eug J Cummins
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:31 PM

    Govt should shut TicTac down and let them sort their mess .

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    Mute Joe Kennedy
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:50 PM

    @Eug J Cummins: harsh on the people who just want minty fresh breath Eug?!

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    Mute Adam Rush
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:56 PM

    @Joe Kennedy: arse hole

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    Mute eddie horgan
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:31 PM

    @Adam Rush: Bit much

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    Mute Joe Kennedy
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    Mar 26th 2020, 7:13 PM

    @eddie horgan: think he didn’t get it Eddie maybe!

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    Mute Úna O Connor Barrett
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:04 PM

    If the parents are getting the new sw payment,stop it.Make them feel the pain they wont be long about putting manners on their cotton wool kids.

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    Mute mark walsh
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:28 PM

    Decades of stripping the health and justice systems and this is where you end up

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    Mute Eileen O'Sullivan
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:00 PM

    I carry spray bottle of bleach and water with me everywhere for general cleaning of things I have to touch.

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    Mute Michael Hanley
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:33 PM

    If anyone is prosecuted for beating these low life’s in defence of being spat or sneezed on we should all take to the streets in a massive protest. More people power is needed to combat these mindless thugs.

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    Mute Henry Toye
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:38 PM

    These people are attempting to give certain members of society a death sentence. Give them a death sentence.
    I’m sure if one or two of them are beaten to death – they won’t be so quick to do their challenge.

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    Mute Angela Godfrey Maher
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:34 PM

    They need Marshal law to be brought in after last night’s crimes and yesterday Those thugs will be left with a good battering and also all of you bring sprays with you in case of being spat I’m bringing a can of spray paint Sparkle Silver .

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    Mute Eoin Doe
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:43 PM

    12 Gauge lead injection should cure that type of cough

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    Mute monika
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:49 PM

    I know aggression creates more aggression; but in this case these brainless “children” wouldn’t just walk away laughing if they done this to me.

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    Mute Jimmy Mac
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:28 PM

    Jail them, or take them into a hospital we staff are working to save lives, but if your of this mentality nothing will work only a heavy handed approach.

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    Mute Bennett blaster
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:39 PM

    Publicly flog the parents while the kids watch, that will end this game pretty quickly

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    Mute Eileen O'Sullivan
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    Mar 26th 2020, 3:58 PM

    To be honest internment for six months.airdrop them food in a NATO wire compound They can organise an enclosed society amongst them selves. No societal intervention on the inside. You go there based on your choices.

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    Mute Brian McHale-Boyle
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:30 PM

    Eh, no, this is not happening any more than religious statues are moving and men in white vans are attempting to kidnap children in housing estates.

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    Mute Alan Dillon
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:43 PM

    @Brian McHale-Boyle: its not ? 3 arrests countrywide would say different

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    Mute Brian McHale-Boyle
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:47 PM

    @Alan Dillon: Show me three convictions and we can discuss.

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    Mute Brian McHale-Boyle
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:38 PM

    I’ll take “Things that never happened” for $500, Alex.

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    Mute Alan Wright
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:11 PM

    @Brian McHale-Boyle: This is proof of concept https://www.thejournal.ie/man-charged-coughing-covid-19-psni-5058563-Mar2020/ But judging by your comments, you’ll disbelieve this too. You’re some fool.

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    Mute Brian McHale-Boyle
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:36 PM

    @Alan Wright: LOL The high-art of name calling. You truly are an intellectual.

    Proof of concept indeed! A charge in a different legal jurisdiction. Wow.

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    Mute Alan Wright
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    Mar 26th 2020, 5:50 PM

    @Brian McHale-Boyle: You said up above “show you 3 convictions”. Does someone have to be convicted before you believe? Interesting, if someone breaks into a house, steals everything but never get caught. By your logic, it never happened. My previous statement about you still stands true. Clearly you’re a troll.

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    Mute Eileen O'Sullivan
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:03 PM

    I lean out to clean the pedestrian light buttons outside my gate on my cleaning rounds of my gate and fence.

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    Mute Charles McCarthy
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    Mar 26th 2020, 6:00 PM

    The question is one of responsibility.
    Who do we as a society think should be responsible for our youth?.
    Is it the parents or the governments responsibility or both?
    The age group we are talking about here are too young for prison (no room anyway) and too young to really comprehend whats going on. (lack of proper parenting)
    So again, who is ultimately responsible and what does that look like from a legal standpoint.
    I have no idea why this conversation is avoided like the plague and until it is addressed then we will continue to see this this of behaviour.

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    Mute Paul Cunningham
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    Mar 26th 2020, 5:48 PM

    I am half a world away and would still pull no punches if they ever did that to me in Dun Laoghaire, they deserve so much more than a strike on their heads

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    Mute Over the top
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    Mar 26th 2020, 6:53 PM

    If one was to throw a spitter off the pier… it’d be quite tough for them to follow you and call law enforcement… just thinking out loud

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    Mute Paul Dolan
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    Mar 26th 2020, 6:59 PM

    Dear Commissioner Drew,

    You have my full support to advise your force to thump the crap out of anyone that decides to cough in the face of our Gardai or anyone else on the frontline. Its just not acceptable.

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    Mute Niall Sheridan
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:03 PM

    I have only ever hit three people in my 65 years and regretted every one. (Ok! I have a list of three that still need a good slap!) If any damn fool did this he wouldn’t walk away unscathed!! Grrrr!

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    Mute Paula Mackie Senior
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    Mar 26th 2020, 6:40 PM

    Attempted murder is what they should be charged with and throw the book at them. Dreadful specimens of humanity.

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    Mute Pád
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    Mar 26th 2020, 5:23 PM

    Look there is no twos ways about this, they deserve a good k**king for this type of offence.
    Little sc***ags like this don’t know any better.

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    Mute Noname !
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    Mar 26th 2020, 5:32 PM

    Such Scxmbag that would do that

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    Mute Rochey77
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    Mar 26th 2020, 7:54 PM

    If this was done to a loved one of mine or I saw it being done to a someone on their own on the street, I’d be narrowing the social distance between my fist and their teeth.

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    Mute Peter Leonard
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    Mar 26th 2020, 8:31 PM

    I’ll be taking the law into my own hands if any little fkrs come near me doing that

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    Mute marian
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:40 PM

    There are cctvs! Let’s have a look at them and find those idiots!

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    Mute Paula Mackie Senior
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    Mar 26th 2020, 6:51 PM

    Spit hoods made out of plastic with a good seal. That would solve these horrible actions.

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    Mute Lets be real
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:22 PM

    Idiots

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    Mute Billy McNamara
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    Mar 26th 2020, 2:26 PM

    @Lets be real: Brats.A hard boot up the backside is what they want.

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    Mute SFAnkleTapper
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    Mar 26th 2020, 6:13 PM

    @Billy McNamara: alot more than that…if they did it to me they’d be picking their teeth of the ground with their broken fingers.

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    Mute Richard Starling
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    Mar 26th 2020, 4:58 PM

    Adam Rush. Thank you but l am still shaking.

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    Mute Liza
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    Mar 27th 2020, 3:11 AM

    Around 6pm last night 2 adult males went into our local convenience store and proceeded to deliberately cough directly at customers & staff. They then verbally abused the staff, security & other customers who objected to their behaviour and threatened one staff member as they left.
    These were grown adult men. Not kids.
    Now a Garda matter – but what a waste of scarce resources.

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    Mute Pauline Gallagher
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    Mar 26th 2020, 7:52 PM

    Little s**ts thinking they’re big men.

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    Mute Eoin Lynch
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    Mar 26th 2020, 9:15 PM

    Lads you cant be doing that

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