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GARDAÍ SAY THAT 15 people were socialising in a suspected shebeen near Kildare Town yesterday evening New year’s Eve.
A search warrant was executed on the premises at about 8.30pm yesterday and gardaí discovered the suspected shebeen in a shed at the rear of the house.
Gardaí say that the premises had “all the trappings of a traditional pub” including a pool table, beer taps, a log fire, tables and refrigeration equipment.
Gardaí took details of all persons present within the shed and seized alcohol, drink optics and spirit dispensers.
Investigations are ongoing into the incident and a file is being sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Some set up all the same
@McKeinze: pretty cool alright. He’s even got one of those fruit machines you see in english pubs.
It’s getting to the stage that mandatory 6 month jail sentences should be handed down to such offenders attending these, and more for those organising them. They are not only risking but endangering our public health and elderly relatives.
@LangerDan: Unfortunately (the last time I checked) the legislation isn’t in place to make this kind of prosecution viable. Hopefully I’m wrong. I’d publicly name and shame the people involved, but that might cause more problems than it would solve(?).
@David A. Murray: i don’t know, you can’t cheat the tax man and you can bet the tax man is being cheated if shebeens have money changing hands which of course they do.
@LangerDan: breaking the rules on social distancing is selfish and reckless(imo) but if you think they state has enough room to start locking people up for 6months to a year for attending and owning these places than you haven’t got a clue about the state of our prison service and it’s one in one out policy. Do you even know how much it costs the state to lock up a single person for a year??
@David A. Murray: Then legislate. You’d guillotine it through the Oireachtas in less than a week for future shebeens uncovered.
@Gordon Larney: I suspect if the State got serious and handed down a few sentences for shebeens, shebeens would quickly disappear.
@LangerDan: Absolutely Dan. Attitudes like The Shebeen lot as to why we are in this mess. They’ve no respect whatsoever. Mandatory jail term and whopper fine too needed. Selfish eejits.
@LangerDan: I agree with fining these people especially the owner of the shed but Don’t hold your breath the legal system doesn’t jail proper criminality so will not do anything here
@Glenn Halpin: “which of course they do.” Wow. Can you share next week’s lotto numbers if you are that certain of things. Tw@t.
@LangerDan: As you call yourself ,You Langer
@LangerDan: I would not give them jail. Maybe 6 months helping out in the hospitals and free up the professionals for where they are needed most. Maybe cleaning out bedpans would teach them the error of their ways.
@LangerDan: you know what you call it when you stick yourself with a pin. Well that’s exactly what you are.
@LangerDan:
@LangerDan: your name explains everything………….
@David A. Murray: None of the suspects can be named until they are charged.
@LangerDan: If that happens I hope you get
@LangerDan: Ya jail people for having a house party whatever the circumstances but hardened criminals, drug dealers, robbers, gbh perpetrators walk free every day of the year because of lack of prison space or other stupid excuse. Fair play to you, you actually live up to your handle
@LangerDan: your so right
@LangerDan: jail…..C L O W N
@Gordon Larney: €1900 A WEEK!!! Shocking
Only found one, not looking very hard, they are everywhere,
@Mick Hannigan: Mick I hope you have told the GARDAI where all these Shebeens you know about are located
@JG: the guards know where they are. I live in a small town in rural Ireland and there are 2. One fella has sky sports, full size snooker table, 3 draught beers, optics.
@Mick Hannigan: Yes, but don’t tell them where for god’s sake!
Looks class apart from being full of Kildare town heads
@Rob Gale: kildare heads are the best
@Rob Gale: was thinking that . wouldn’t mind that in my shed
@David Lee: none of the vile attacks on locals shown or referenced on Rte news either. Sanitise your hands, not the real news.
@l: My comment was deleted by the journal even though I didnt specifically mention any group. Guess the media are covering it up?
@David Lee: terrible form.. There was nothing inappropriate about your comment. Denying reality leads to bigger social issues. If it wasn’t for the vids on the Liberal.ie (not a fan) I’d not of seen the carnage. Rte gave zero indication of the trouble there.
This is the issue. If you close pubs, you incentivise people to gather together (in larger numbers than 6) for longer periods of time in an uncontrolled environment. You leave the pubs open, you allow people to gather in a safe, controlled, strictly regulated environment, whereby there is a far greater chance of transmission.
Now I’m not suggesting ‘open the pubs’ like many seem to call for, much the same as the ‘close the pubs’ brigade. But you have to recognise the inherent tradeoff between closing pubs and this occurring. The last 9 months have shown us that people will continually gather Irrespective of what’s happening. It is inevitable.
@Bobby: In a perfect world that would work. We live in a far from perfect world.
Realistically it would work for a while them it would all go wrong as the beer goggles go on.
@Bobby: I agree with you, however there is the inescapable fact that alcohol and social responsibility do not mix. I have great empathy for publicans but I can’t see the traditional Irish pub come back from this.
The Gardai should be in blanchardstown doing some proper policing
@Dannys Dentures: They were when they stopped a dangerous criminal the other day
@Adam J: agreed and now they are just letting kids run riot
If one wanted to know the exact location of this premises where would one look…..
@JR Robinson: If you find out, let me know please.
A friend was just askin’…
How is this news , people are putting together nake shift home bars all over the country
@Jer Gibbons: report them then.
@GrumpyAulFella: last time I checked as long as I don’t charge for beer I can recreate a bar on any property that I own. Prohibitionists everywhere at the moment when there are no true indicators that bars and pubs are the issue.
Funny how they can shut this down but cant do anything about that so call protest in Blanchardstown breaking all social distancing rules etc.
Suspected?
@Cosmos20202020: could be anything! A pub museum, a pub themed ghost house, fight club, anything! Gardai jumpin to conclusions if ya ask me
@Cosmos20202020: it’s always suspected or alleged until found guilty of an offence in court.
@Rob Gale: you do not talk about fight club.
@Ross O’Donnell: YOU don’t talk about fight club!
@EillieEs: that applies to people not things….you find a knife it’s a knife not a suspected knife…if no liquor licence then this is a shebeen…now whether any person is guilty of running the shebeen is a matter for a court.
@Rob Gale: Ha Haa! good one that.
Heh Heh Heh!!!!
@Cosmos20202020: you can distribute as much alcohol as you want, provided you don’t charge for it.
The Covid-19 rules are a different story.
They are just pure nonsense
They should have made a donation to the Garda’s benevolent fund ;)
@Alan Kelly: Or invited a few ministers
@Matt Anson: you need a golf course for that
@Matt Anson: No need to invite ministers as they have the shebeen in the Dáil
They’d be better off opening the pubs at least there would be some control…shutting everything down encourages this sort of happening…and no I don’t own a pub, and I very very rarely go to one.
Just say it was an error of judgement lads, be graaaaand. Sure it worked for RTE and Golfgate!
@Kiern Mcx: or mental health issues, sure that’s the excuse for everything.
Are these being raised for people gathering/covid or because of the drink? Are they charging for pints or what?
@Euro McPúnty: raided
@Euro McPúnty: I’d say both, and I’m pretty sure the owner isn’t dishing out free drink to his pals, so definitely charging, probably a bit more than cost price just to cover overheads.
@Gordon Larney: |If you are so sure that charging for drink was on these premises you should report your complaint to the police.
@Michael Maher: Ha ha ha, are you alright Mick? You seem a little salty, did your favourite little sheeben get closed down? Look Pal, I couldn’t give a monkeys if these places are charging or not, but I do think that confined spaces with people consuming alcohol have the potential to spread the virus more freely, so until we get the vaccine sorted should be avoided. Not everyone is going to agree with that, but that’s fine.
@Gordon Larney: I was once a heavy drinker with a tough past. people like you got out of my way. Gave it up and found peace and redemption. Only a wally would think that all the young people in this country were at home locked up on new years eve.
A fire hazard at the very least.
Thought the garda would be too busy patrolling the border than looking for shebeans in kildare
@liam ward60: What do you mean ? What has the border got to do with it and why should it be patrolled??
@liam ward60: Do you think the Gardai can only operate on one thing at a time? So if there’s gardai doing speed checks in Navan there wont be anyone to attend a call out in west cork?
@JC: where in navan just asking for a friend on the way to a sheeben..
@JC: What!! You mean that there is more than one Garda? Oh! FFS..
That’s it, game over.
Happy New Year
Not a round towers or kildare flag in sight
@David Lee: Wouldn’t think so. I’d say Kildare Gardai deal with stuff going on in Kildare. Why don’t you give Blanch Garda station a buzz ? They’ll probably want a statement from you if you were a witness to all the above.
@Tommy Roche: Well with the way the garda cars were being attacked on video yesterday I’d say they could have done with all back up from surrounding counties.. are you suggesting just because I seen video footage it didn’t happen? I didnt witness 9/11 either but I know it happened
All depends whether they were charging for alcohol or just a man cave set up.
My Grandfather built a Huge games room, full size snooker table, Darts , Skittles and other pub games along with homemade Cider, sherry , country wines, huge bar counter and optics.
He never sold anything, was just his retirement present that he built himself .
Unless there’s evidence of sales what on earth is wrong with it?
I don’t drink alcohol, but wouldn’t mind having a set up like that.
Simple response, impound everything large fine and probation for the owner and demolish the building it is in.
Hit them where it hurts
Very nice set-up there.
@Jim Lingk: I need a bigger shed!
If no money changing hands is it illegal??
@Tony Mcgrath: I don’t think so if a few lads buy a keg between them and a few dozen cans and set up a shed I can’t see how that is breaking the law it’s the crowd that makes it illegal under the present lockdown
Thousands of houses have their own bar.
Looks just like your typical friendly neighbourhood pet store. What’s the issue?
@Danny Sherrard: full of rambunctious yahoos at 2 in the morning
Looks better kitted out than my local pub
That’s fairly impressive.
And I thought the three-seater we put together in the shed was fancy.
There’s more than one lads!!
Should the people found there not be quarentined for 14 days?
Great idea.
I just hope the cops drink
Responsibly
All 15 were from the same family
Of no money changed hands its not a shebeen
‘Suspected’ It has a fruity machine for fecks sake! Nothing suspect about it!
and not a Lillywhite flag to be seen
@Noel Martin: Probably Celbridge – not many Kildare people there
Thats a lovely stove fire
Let’s hope they go after the mass gatherings in Dublin today with the same vigor
FFS
I love the use of the word ‘suspected’ in that headline. A dog with a mallet up his hole would tell you that a bona fide sheebeen!!
wE11 As 1 vvEnt h0me 0n A THurzdaY n1GhT………
I met your ma at the auld shebeen
We had some laughs as we drank our beer
By 3am full of G&T’s I fell in love
I rode your ma, yea I rode your ma.
Just wondering where its located asking for a friend
well the pipe on the stove is a fire hazard hahahaha
Nobody’s business what goes on in somebody s own home r shed
@David Lee: Did you complain to the Gardai?
Crime of the century solved ffs
Gizza pint please
Massive fines double for the owner and less for for everyone in them
I’m going for a pint honey. We’ll see about that.
I’m going for a pint honey.
We’ll see about that.
2 week quarantine at their own expense in a hotel under army watch would solve that, they can even get a few pints delivered to their room every night. I don’t know why they don’t take the people who can cause spread out of circulation and in the meantime keep the hotel industry tired over
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