Noises next door. A cop car whurdles into gear. Speed along the empty Luas line, the M51. Gunning after the source of evil. Keeping the streets safe. It's what's indoors I'm worried about.
09:00
1809 BORN: Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of USA, Gettysburg address, emancipation of slaves
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| Early Abe, 1840 |
Evidence from 70,000 years ago in Botswana suggests that the python was the first god worshipped by mankind.
12:19
(Lots of) Budweiser and Chips over here, please:
A Government Minister has described as 'disgusting' a suggestion that Minister for Health missed a Dail debate on health because she was at the Superbowl. He said she was on a week-long trip to study cancer and dentistry facilities.13:06
Christ the sound of breaking glass bottles is awful loud. Three bins full so far this morning. Such a racket! Afuckingddled.
12:41
A riot on Pearse st last week with the gardai going off on one. The youths tried to suppress them. Many injuries. Friday night.
13:46
JOERADIO: The gardai overreacted?
CALLER 1: Went bananas. Women with handcuffs getting beat on the back of the head. Stripped of their clothes and shoved in the back of the van. Everyone gets into a row in Dublin now and then. What happened to them is disgraceful. Needed a brain scan. Handcuffed on the ground and they were hitting him.
JOE: We'll go to the northside. Amiens street. The Hairlip Herild is saying loads of people will get killed.
CALLER 2: In fairness the Gardai are adopting a high profile here.
JOE: I seen them with machine guns standing on the corner. They're not doing tax and insurinance?
CALLER 2: High profile murders that was all connected with a case. Family thing. Spin off from that. Kewling off period. Irresponsible journalism. Where'd they get the idea that eight people will be kilt?
- City slums under siege. Riots and murders. Brother on brudder. Cluster fuck the working class with uzi sub machine guns.
JOERADIO: We're getting calls that Gardai were taken to Tallaght hospital.
CALLER 1: They must have been dehoi-drated from the way they were using their batons.
14:05
CALLER (local Shinner): We want to take the sting out of it and build on it going forward.
- They were cuing up. There were cops speeding in from all over the city to join in the molestation of the working classless.
CALLER 3: I don't think there's enough cars in Irishtown and Tara st to get all the police there.
JOE: The city is on high alert.
CALLER 1: For two brudders foightin' outsoide a pub? Why're they not on high alert for when someone gets robbed or a house broken into?
JOE: Blue lights in the grill.
CALLER 4: Wearing a flak jacket. He sticks his head in the window sayin' where are you off to? Were you ever in trouble before? Never in me life. I'm only dropping me mother home. We asked him for his number but he wouldn't produce it. I think you were in trouble before he says, I'll be in touch. Hops into the car and drives off. I think the gardai may be over reactin' a little.
JOE: Pearse St. Yew were in the pub?
CALLER 5: Great banter. Sound as a pound. Pints. Walked out of the pub having a dispute and that. Next thing 12-15 cops. 12 police men ourra the vans. 25-40 policemen. Two lads thrown to the ground. Garda lashing ourra them with the batons. I know that pensioner. He said "That's way ourra order" - he got hit. Girl sayin' "Don't be hittin' him" she got hit as well. Batons everywhere. Everyone thrown into the van.
CALLER 6: People tried to reason with the gards. Constantly hittin' them with batons into the head. Totally, totally heavy-handed. Started w' five or six. Then turty or forty turned up. Utterly heavy-handedness.
JOE: Was there amb'lances called?
CALLER 5: No! Thrown into the van. One guy handcuffed in the ground. Two lads holding him down. One fella hittin' him and hittin' him with his baton. People passing by lookin' at it. It was groo-some.
CALLER 7: Gardai'd be first to be reprimanded if they weren't there. I don't see the need for fighting in public streets. There's fights down the country outside chippers. Nonsense. All the violence starts at this level. I'm middle aged.
JOE: We'll go to Nenagh. Mary?
CALLER 8: I would also like to support the Guards. Usually people are complaining because they're not there and there's not enough of them. It's a no-win situation.
CALLER 9: Everyone in de area is just shocked!
CALLER 10: He was resisting big time. There's no other way to handle people who are struggling. We're law abiding people. Drink is not an excuse. We don't go out and fight on the street.
JOERADIO: Caller from Limerick, says the Gards are not hard enough?
CALLER 11: I'm a martial arts instructor. Did you ever try to handle a drunk man? We've had brothers killing each other. Law and order is not going well, the gardai have to take a heavy hand now and then. I would take the action I consider appropriate but I'm not going to be weighing up the pros and cons. I've seen them being set upon by residents of the area.
- It's a class war on the streets and sidewalks.
14:55
JOE: You're one a da brudders?
BRUDDER 1: It was just a stupid argument. Over a football match. I got seven stitches. Me brudder got thirty-five.
JOE: What match was it?
16:23
The hall's not hoovered because the janitor's hungover and the gurriers on the roofer are throwing things down. I'm taking the week off from sorting it out. I needs a break.
17:00
GENTLEMAN FROM EEFRAFA: I was in the hospital waiting room sitting between prisoners from Mountjoy. One had his ear torn off. Handcuffed to a screw. One had his nose ripped off. Seems to be three screws to a prisoner.
17:39
The engine blew up as he pulled up at the bus stop. Kaboom. Forty kids waiting to be picked up gaped at the biggest fire any of them had ever seen in their young lives. On a bus that was meant for them. It's almost unheard of to blow a diesel engine. Phenomenon not reflected in google search. Free advice for the Transport Minister: http://www.freeautoadvice.com/diesel/basics.html [deprecated-archive link]
17:49
Road victims - seven dead in 24 hours, the youngest aged two, in 'collision with a tractor'.
17:50
Search rte.ie for rta.html (rta = Road Traffic Accident):
Six die in weekend road traffic accidents[FAST FORWARD TO ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY PAGES OF SEARCH RESULTS LATER]
Four killed in road accidents in 24 hours
Man dies following Limerick car crash
Man killed in County Tipperary road incident
Six-week-old baby killed in road accident
Two people die in road accident
Four killed in 12 hours on Irish roads
Nine injured in four-car Dundalk accident
Death toll from road accidents rises sharply
19-year-old killed in Kildare crash18:14
Motorcyclist killed in Cork accident named
Seven people killed in road accidents
Pedestrian killed in Co Tipperary
Woman killed in Co Cork car accident
Garda? name man killed in Monaghan crash
Man (21) killed in Wicklow car crash
Two killed in Co Louth accident
Man killed in Cavan accident named
15-year-old girl killed in Tallaght road crash
Man to be quizzed over fatal road crash
Man dies in Swords road accident
Two motorcyclists killed in separate crashes
Woman remains critical after Dublin crash
Man dies following Co Tyrone accident
Two teenagers killed in Donegal crash
Man killed in tractor accident
Two killed in Tipperary collision
Three seriously hurt in Co Mayo car crash
Woman dies in Co Tipperary accident
Four men killed in road accidents
AA urges Government to tackle road safety
Victim of Co Louth road crash named
Victims of road accidents named
Victim of Co Wicklow car crash named
Waterford crash victims are named
Man dies in Kildare road accident
Woman killed in Co Louth car crash
Someone should stamp out the extremists that are devastating the population. Call in the army.
18:22
A noorocrat speekes:
400 people died in road collisions in 2005 an increase of 26 or 6.7% on 2004 when a total of 374 people lost their lives. Compared to 2003 the safest year on Irish roads in over 40 years the number of fatalities in 2005 illustrates a concerning upward movement in fatalities.14:17
In a land where life is cheap, death sometimes has a surcharge:
If you are registering the death, you can get copies of the Death Certificate at the same time, for 8 euro each. A Death Certificate later (including particular Search Fees) costs 10 euro. Extra copies cost 8 euro each.Do you want extra copies now? Yes or no?
- Eh, em, uh.
If you cancel you may buy extra death certificates at a later date for the increased charge of ten euro. Are you sure you want to quit? Are you sure? Y/N.
- Whaaaaaa! Whuuuuuu!
(Government website) http://tinyurl.com/6ptm99 [deprecated]
19:55
The first gent to have a hand transplant rejected the new limb two years later when he stopped taking his immuniosuppressant drugs. When the all-new face transplant stops eating or starts speaking total and utter shite, they'll either elect it, or take it off.
22:57
"Merde! Ou ze 'ell iz 'Donie Cassidy'?"
The electronic voting system being used in Ireland has been selected for use in a number of electoral areas in France, according to the company operating it.http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0216/46436-voting/
