Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

by NMI Tue May 08, 2007 23:43

Maybe this vehicle is solar powered, or maybe we need an environmental ombudsman?

(You know the Dublin Fire Brigade is still using fire trucks from the 1980's?)

Will it be using Shell petrol?

by ha Wed May 09, 2007 01:24

ah ok - i was wondering why the teeming hoardes of cops all over the place today.
this openin now?
fun times.

this is hilarious:
Eventually after trying to interrogate me they stopped and sulked from a distance. I think they realised that they couldn't arrest me outside the GSOC offices on their opening day, but they were certainly considering it for a while...

by d'other Wed May 09, 2007 03:05

The de-facto reporting of this event threw me for a few seconds when I came upon the line mentioning the make up of the new body drawn being a community activist, a former Panther and Shinner. It's brilliant to see this sort of reporting on the site, hope we get to see more of it. Did you do any research into what the first cases going to the Ombudsman will be? There's a good number of video's on that Youtube documenting Garda behavior now.

by p'd off. Wed May 09, 2007 11:21

I have a few to make, that I didn't bother making through the sham Garda Complaints Board. This doesn't look a whole lot better, given the worthies appointed to it. No fear someone from the ICCL would get on that board eh? Anyhow, not having cops investigate cops is a step forward, and I'd like to lay my complaint at their door.

by as they start... Wed May 09, 2007 11:32

I tried to navigate the garda ombudsman website...

on the complaints page it lists the options for making a complaint, and says that the online form is at the bottom of the page.

But when I scroll down to "Online Form" the only link is »back to top which of course brings you back to the top of the page, not to the complaint form.

same thing is happening when I click the link marked "Click here to see sample of GSOC 1 form"

and when I click on "Online by using the Online complaints form at the bottom of this page.

So, I can't even see what a form looks like, never mind fill one in. Great start, eh?

by Battle the Bulge Wed May 09, 2007 11:43

of a sauce-mechanic of the first order, the type who has not seen a sober day since leaving school.

Such weak and easily manipulated characters are obviously carefully chosen by this stinking government and McDowell to use their substantial weight in keeping the lid pressed firmly down on a seething crockpot of state corruption.

Can you envision this cheetah bounding across the dusty plains of Ireland in pursuit of errant cops?

Correct, he will never pass the first pub.

by DM - Labour Youth Wed May 09, 2007 14:51

Does anyone who's involved with justice for Terence Weelock know?

by Mick Butler Wed May 09, 2007 16:55

Congrats to Battle the Bulge, your piece is the business and adds light, insight and hilarity to Indymedia. I too would have my doubts about the new body, I recall that Carmel Foley was no Rotweileer when she was Director of Consumer Affairs, if that is the right name of the body. This organisation was meant to do battle for the consumer in "RIP OFF Ireland".

When many were feeling the pinch as the euro replaced the punt and many basic foodstuffs went up 40 percent in one month, Carmel Foley came on the radio to issue stern warnings to rip off stores ? Not a bit of it, She told the public to "Shop Around" ! Matta Harney took up that cudgel too.

But lets give them an opportunity to make their pitch in defending human rights in this state, out of control and bent cops, is too serious a matter to do nothing, this body could have some leverage to use in obtaining justice.

by Me and you - We the People Wed May 09, 2007 17:18

This new G.S.O.C. Mob is just the latest obsticle to Justice.

When 'they' have to resort to such measures , it means 'they'are feeling the heat from somewhere, or everywhere.

The G.S.O.C. is only there to get conroy off the hook and handy to let files go missing, or, just like the Council for civil liberties Buliding some years ago - mysteriously..................went on fire. No more files.

Keep up the good work out here .

Just keep your complaints 'ON THE RECORD' by registered mail to Noel Conroy.
The book stops with him.

by Shell to Sea Thu May 10, 2007 10:05 dublinshelltosea at gmail dot com c/o 134 Phibsborough Road, Dublin 7 0871323369

Yesterday, people from the Shell to Sea campaign handed in complaints about Garda behaviour during the policing the peaceful protests against the Shell/Irish Government scheme to install the Raw Gas Pipeline and Refinery in Erris, County Mayo.

The Ombudsman received 62 complaints in total on their first day of business.

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NOTE: Shell to Sea activists will join in the the Norwegian Constitution Day event in Dublin next Thursday morning, with a parade up Grafton Street from Trinity College.

We will be handing out leaflets and hopefully getting our pictures in the papers. Micheál Ó Seighin of the Rossport Five will be there to talk to the media about how Norwegian pensioners (and schoolchildren, and road users, etc) will be getting a much better deal from Corrib gas than he will as an Erris resident.
If you want to come along and join in meet us at Trinity College (Main Gate) at 10.45AM on Thursday 17th May. Here's what we did last year: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76116

Activists brought photographic evidence of maltreatment at the hands of Garda

Among the complaints received was one from Philip McGrath of the Rossport Five

by paul Thu May 10, 2007 12:14

The one on the left is the Facilities Manager for AXA, whose building adjoins this one.

Part of the photo-op occurred on AXA premises (e.g. the little car park), so that's why he was around and about.

No doubt someone suspects he's CIA.

by fiosa Thu May 10, 2007 16:28

Which photo?

When you say "this one" do you mean you are posting from inside the GSOC building? Shouldn't you be working?

by the diogenes club Fri May 18, 2007 14:00

We have collectively forgotten the worst failures of Mcdowell's ministry and his ultimate responsibility for investigations in to the "worst crime". It was not too long ago we learned that the Gardai didn't take the worst crime so seriously - or seriously enough - especially when one of their own members were involved. Is that an ombudsman issue? or an election issue? or is just to be regretted and forgotten? in case feelings get hurt?

by Jerry O'Neill Sun May 20, 2007 14:33

Show me one instance where the ODCA were remiss in their mission statement. If you did a tad more reasearch you'd see they did not have the legal power to enforce competition effectively. That was not their fault, but YOU who elected the legislators.

So stop your armchair whinging and change it on May 24th if you don't like it.

by Jerry O'Neill Sun May 20, 2007 16:35

It seems you don't know or are apparently silent about water extraction from the Shannon, let me clue you in. The city of Dublin, yes that one that is shown to be the worst-designed city in all of Europe, and is used as an example of how NOT to plan now wants to extract water from the Shannon.

Hello?? Clean up that sewer called the Liffey. There is plenty of water there if they stopped shitting in it.

And in another stroke of genius Dublin Corporation did a plan for a straight line across the Bog of Allen and the Esker Riada (Dubs hate to hear that the Bog of Allen starts at Dublin, but check your geology if you think I lie), whereas same pipe could be built south of Limerick, with no harm to the Shannon where it goes out to sea.

Why are we silent about this?

by Unified Thread Theory - UTT Sun May 20, 2007 17:17

Er, and this is something to do with the Garda Ombudsman how?

by RIP Thu Jan 29, 2009 23:32

The judge very unfairly referred to above as having the look of a "sauce mechanic" has died suddenly at the age of 64. Judge Kevin Haugh was due to step down as the chair of the GSOC next month and return to the Bench.

There is an interesting article on Haugh here: http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2005/10/16/story883...7.asp