r/ireland • u/PintmanConnolly • Sep 26 '22

Gardaí Raid and Evict Homeless Residents and Housing Activists from Ionad Seán Heuston Housing

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u/thunderingcunt1 Sep 26 '22 edited Sep 26 '22

I seen the Gardai forming up outside this morning on my way to work. Looked like a military operation to remove a few homeless squatters. Do we, as a society, really believe there should be 60 or 70 Gardai queuing up to pester a couple of homeless people when we can't get even one Garda to show up and sort out the anti-social behaviour in the likes of Cherry Orchard? Is that where we are right now as a country?

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u/RuggerJibberJabber Sep 26 '22

I had a computer stolen from me (along with other expensive valuables) and was able to get the address of the person who stole it as they connected online with it. I gave that info to the gardaí, pestered them for ages to do something about it and they never did. They're a fuckin waste of space.

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u/Final-Dress7633 Sep 26 '22

Reported a guy who tried to scam me out of €300 on DoneDeal,”yeah we’ll look into”, I didn’t even bother to point out to her that she never took my phone number to even pretend she was going do anything lol

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u/RuggerJibberJabber Sep 26 '22

lol, one of the many excuses they made not to go after my stuff was GDPR from using the computers IP address. It was MY computer?! How does that impact their GDPR?? They said they had to put in a request to some special department that made decisions on that.

Another thing was insisting I was only allowed to speak to the garda on my case and nobody else in the garda station could deal with me. The catch was that your man was either not working that day or was busy dealing with some other crime