This is going to be portrayed as a victory over " the man " & allied to their success in dismantling water charges is likely to attract many more disenchanted voters.
They will now move onto the next battle - the new bin charges plan & who's to say that they won't have further success in that area now that they have been emboldened by this not guilty decision.
Can we now look forward to more overly enthusiastic protests ?
They will now move onto the next battle - the new bin charges plan & who's to say that they won't have further success in that area now that they have been emboldened by this not guilty decision.
What's Joan got to do with it?Thanks Joan for yet another expensive bill for the Irish taxpayer. It was never going to end any other way.
Firstly, there seems little doubt the Gardaí made a complete and utter horses rear-end of this, both the protest ...
I can't understand this comment.Thanks Joan for yet another expensive bill for the Irish taxpayer. It was never going to end any other way.
Thanks Joan for yet another expensive bill for the Irish taxpayer. It was never going to end any other way.
Gardai are too light. In any other country, if a minister of the state was being attacked like that, those causing the trouble would have been dealt with properly.
I think we are facing the apalling vista that neither the DPP nor the Garda Commissioner are fit for purpose, not to mention the former MOJ. All women, just sayingIt was never false imprisonment. The Garda evidence was spectacularly unconvincing... contradicted by actual video evidence.
The jury made the right decision, it would have been a gross travesty of justice to convict.
The scary thing is that if the video evidence hadn't been available - and remember AGS had to be compelled by the defence legal team to hand over some video evidence that was beneficial to the defence even though they have a legal duty to do so - a travesty of justice would have occurred.
There were lots of charges that could have been brought which were applicable to what happened on that day.
If anyone assaulted a Garda on that day or threatened Jaon Burton they should be convicted of that specific offence.
Just because you dislike Paul Murphy, and just because he may have committed other offences on that day does not make him guilty of the serious crime of false imprisonment.
I have yet to hear anyone who thinks he should have been found guilty of false imprisonment made a cogent argument as to why in fact he was guilty of that specific offence and not a general "he's a toe rag" or "he was up to mayhem that day".
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