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SEAN QUINN IS to appear before the High Court today.
The contempt proceedings centre on whether he has complied with court orders.
In July, Seán Quinn, his son Seán Quinn Jr and Quinn Sr’s nephew Peter were all found guilty of contempt for breaking a High Court injunction forbidding them to move assets out of the reach of the former Anglo Irish Bank.
Judge Elizabeth Dunne said at the time that she was “not impressed” with the way the three men gave evidence during the hearing. She also described former billionaire Seán Quinn as “evasive and uncooperative”.
Quinn Jr was sentenced to spend three months in Mountjoy prison in Dublin, and was released earlier this month after the High Court heard his sentence for contempt of court had expired.
Peter Darragh Quinn is believed to be in Northern Ireland. His father Peter Quinn defended his son’s decision to flee from the Republic in an interview in August.
The court heard in July that Seán Quinn had done nothing to purge his contempt of court. However, new lawyers for Quinn Sr were given 13 days to examine the case against both men.
Newstalk reports that Quinn Sr has a new legal team working with him on the case and that new evidence will be presented to the court.
The Irish Independent reports that a group set up in support of Quinn Sr has warned there could be “civil unrest” if the businessman goes to jail.
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1) Cops only go after the easy stops
2) students need to grow a pair
@Thomas Harrington: honestly have never seen students complaining. Only people complaining about students.
Also I don’t see how it’s acceptable to say “grow a pair” when students are getting regular fines of €75 when they don’t have any income.
@Thomas Harrington: if they only go after the easy stops who is filling the jail’s with the terrorists, murderers, organised gangs ?
If those little scrotes weren’t having house parties and super spreader get togethers they would have no problems with the guards.
@Pat Casey: maybe read the article
Policing Authority trying to justify their existence again. I can understand the role of GSOC but the policing authority seems like a complete waste of time
The policing authority…… They don’t want body cams because that would be spying on the community says it all really
“People should not be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of their people”
@Diarmuid O’Braonáin: they are… thats why we have the police. You don’t think they’re there for us, do you?!
low hanging fruit is always the tastiest.
@plug: depends on who’s plums you’re tasting
@plug: True that… sure most garda never even see an actual criminal. It goes…
Order of engagement:
Drug users (non supply)
Low level drug mules/ growers
Students
Road users
Actual criminals (low level)
White collar
Government corruption
Other police (usually abusive partners… although realistically this would be much further down)
And yet no fines for people attending golfgate
@Darren Carroll: bit difficult since fines for breaching travel restrictions only came into effect in January 2021, but hey! Whataboutery, am I right?!
@OnlyHereForTheComments: well you’re certainly leaning that way…
if students behaved they wouldn’t have this issue.
@larry bird: and for you! What about read the article? I promise you won’t take that long.
I do have sympathy for students as depicted in the article and yes the pandemic has introduced a changed interface between the gardai and the public. Some gardai behave in an authoritarian manner arising out of new powers the government sanctioned , for a people who have always known policing by consent, this change in attitude is difficult to take on board, it will be good when sanctions are withdrawn and policing returns to normal, no more heavy handed rules and interrogation of people just trying to live their lives.
@Honeybee: The Gardai will always feel entitled to interrogate you at any checkpoint from this point onwards, regardless of the law. Sure, I was out walking once in the park a few years ago and they wanted to randomly search my bag, know all my details… I just asked “why?” and they responded “because we’ll arrest you if you don’t tell us”. Gardai are disgusting to deal with as a young person.
Gardaí will only target those they can pick on. Older people can break the 5km all they like and have far fewer consequences. Students (within their 5km) have been fined so many times (anecdotally). It’s the same with drugs – they’ll pick on harmless people for smoking a joint and won’t go after real drug dealing criminals.
I really don’t think Irish people fully understand the implications of all these restrictions, having the longest lockdown in the world, and having people in fear of arrest or fine just from seeing a police officer. These have long term consequences down the line. Just one example is, as mentioned in the article, if young people start seeing Gardai as the aggressor, they’re could end up not reporting crime to the Gardai.
The Garda, not all, are incorrectly perceived as being desk jockeys who turn a blind eye to common dangerous misdemeanors such as cyclists with no lights on their bikes, cyclsts breaking red lights and less dangerous but, just as annoying, dog owners not being fined for not picking up their dog’s excrement (nothing quite beats walking in dog s%it and bringing it home on your shoes).
As Alexei Sayle once said “I hate fooking students, even when I was a student I hated fooking students”
So there you have! I’m not a student and i can tell that what written in this article doesn’t surprise me at all.
Anyway, people refuse but the truth of since 2020 “End does justify the means”.
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