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GARDAÍ IN PEARSE Street, are investigating an alleged assault on a man that took place at a Dublin nightclub over the weekend.
The alleged assault took place at Buck Whaleys, known as ‘Buck’s', on Leeson Street late on Friday night, early Saturday morning.
It is understood that the man thought to be responsible for the assault is an Irish soccer player.
Gardaí said this morning that the matter is currently “under investigation”.
Anyone with information can contact gardaí at Pearse Street on 01 666 9000 or the Garda Confidential Number at 1800 666 111.
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I can’t see a vunerable young person getting beaten up by the gardai so I’d say it lies or else it a little pup that got a kick in the arse. It never did me any harm. We have more serious things to be worrying about in the news.
Would you Like a good slap????
Well said red ed.
You the man to give it iwantjustice!?!
Another poor criminal mishandled by the revolving door, poor fella
More luggs brannigan type policing in areas where the little s**ts have zero respect for anyone. There is a serious problem with people bringing(or lack of) up children by letting them loose on the streets as soon as they can walk….argh also, journal..will you please sort out the iPhone app..as soon as a comment reaches 6 lines you can’t read what you are writing…it’s soooo annoying!!!!
Pitty about them, the little shites
Pointless uninformative article. They are little thugs in this place. The guards are not going around slapping them for no reason. They cost the state a fortune, appreciate nothing, then run away to commit crime before being picked up again by guards. Bit of a generalisation but its my opinion
Can you say a child that has never been shown consistency or taught how to deal positively with fear or frustration is simply a thug? Many of these children have spent there young lives being abused, betrayed and backed into a corner. I’m not sure how my teenage years would have gone had that of been my experience.
so, thay are slapping them. little thugs ,,,think about the word ,,,,,,,,LITTLE.
to many do gooders going about listening far too much!!
Can’t believe it took a government body, time, money and resources to discover that children, if they do something bold, don’t like being sent to their room!!!! As per last paragraph. I think their efforts could be better spent doing almost anything else then listening to brats like those homes in oberstown.
Gardai are overpaid and need pay cuts.
Good man, Mark. This topic has already had more than its fair share of trolling. Why don’t you try the Chris De Burgh article. You might actually succeed in offending people over there.
By comparison to countries of similar size (though with better economic positions than us) they are overpaid. Especially from Sargeant up. Those countries would have more crime than us as well.
This article is not informative, very poor reporting on the journa’s side! Wonder if gardai were not mentioned would it be news wordy? What outcome have any investigation regarding complaints made?..
Sure poor Ould Mark got a similar reception in the Public Sector Allowances thread!! He’s not having much luck tonight bless him!!
@jfinnegan, the countries you mention are similar size to ireland? better economic outlook than ireland? More crime that ireland?
then its very clear that their police are not doing as good a job as ours
The vagueness of it all……
To Author; why is this article titled with ‘Garda Abuse’ when most of the article is actually about the running of Oberstown which Gardai have no participation in. Are ye that stuck that you must sensationalise a story of nothing.
These youths go through several levels of security facilities before they end up in oberstown. The article does not explain why the youths were separated in the facility.
If they are implying independence from An Garda Siochana, wouldn’t it ideally read The Ombudsman for An Garda Siochana? Which would be subjective instead of the the possessive Garda Ombudsman. At least in the UK they have their PR down.
Poor vulnerable young people… but what else can society do for them… there must be something…
After all the scandal of the abuse at Industrial Schools and the Magdalene laundries (and rightly so) the comments here mainly seem to condone Garda abuse of children. The hypocrisy amazes and saddens me. Oberstown houses children under the age of 18 and any violence against children is child abuse. Gardai, like the priests and nuns and ‘care staff’, in the older institutions mentioned are in a position of power and this should never be abused, especially against children, no matter whether they have committed crimes or not.
Sadly, gardai don’t fear the Garda Ombudsman at all. They rarely get more than a rap over the knuckles. The Ombudsman’s Office needs to get itself into gear because there are some shocking gardai about that go around giving the brilliant majority of gardai out there a bad name without getting the punishment that they deserve.
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