ASSASSINATION OF DETECTIVE SERGEANT DENIS O'BRIEN 9 SEPTEMBER 1942
D/Sergeant Denis O’Brien was ambushed and murdered on 9 September 1942 as he drove away from his home in Ballyboden, County Dublin. He...
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Sep 1
- 11 min
MURDER SUPERINTENDENT JOHN CURTIN, TIPPERARY, 20 MARCH 1931 Posthumous Award of Gold Scott Medal 9 September 2024 " Belated Recognition - Why so long"
The sacrifice made by Superintendent Curtin and the grief visited on his family was neglected by official Ireland for many years. I had...
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Aug 23
- 10 min
One More Crisis in the Garda
Significantly the last time this post was advertised no senior guards applied. Sleep walking all round!
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Aug 10
- 2 min
THE KING WITH NO CLOTHES
CHRISTY GALLIGAN CALLS IT! Letters to the Editor: Irish Examiner - Garda Commissioner's dubious legacy One reader writes in to say that...
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Aug 8
- 54 min
SMITHWICK DEBACLE - DEIRDRE YOUNGE EXPLAINS
https://coverthistory.ie/2024/02/17/deception-and-a-death-foretold-by-deirdre-younge/ © Deirdre Younge February, 2024. AUTHOR - JOHN...
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Aug 4
- 7 min
Assistant Commissioner - State Security
The head of An Garda SÃochána's Security and Intelligence Bureau has said Russia is one of a small number of countries spying in Ireland....
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Aug 1
- 4 min
DEEPLY UNCONVINCING COMMISSIONER
DEEPLY UNCONVINCING COMMISSIONER - Commissioner Harris and Team met with Policing Authority on Anti-Migration.
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Aug 1
- 3 min
DID COMMISSIONER HARRIS MAKE THESE REMARKS
The Commisioner is quoted in several papers (1.8.2024) that "rogue gardaÃ" could potentially abuse the new BODY WORN CAMERAS (BWC). I...
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Jul 31
- 2 min
What's wrong with Road Safety
What’s Wrong with Road Safety in this Country - Start with Inflexibilty and Garda Enforcement Emasculated by Commissioner - And theres...
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Jul 28
- 2 min
Hate on the Streets - Anti Migration Protests and Garda Capacity
https://youtu.be/tHD4u-hM-a8 Ireland has experienced several notable anti-migrant protests in 2024. In May, thousands marched in Dublin,...
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Jul 3
- 1 min
WHY BELTURBET AND NOT DUBLIN AND MONAGHAN BOMBINGS
Dublin has handed over the single biggest atrocity to the British - Shame
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Jun 30
- 1 min
Road Speed Detection Strategy is Inflexible since it was Privatised
Interrogate the Facts
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Jun 1
- 6 min
STAKEKNIFE - Questions for Dublin?
THE INTERIM REPORT from Operation Kenova into the activities of the British Agent, Freddie Scappaticci, aka Stakeknife has now been publishe
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JOHN OBRIEN
- May 30
- 1 min
Remembering Dublin Monaghan BOMBINGS THE GREAT DECEPTION W/B 13 May 2024
Memories packed week on attacks on the South.
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Feb 12
- 2 min
Fifty Years since the Dublin & Monaghan Car Bombings 1974
The Dublin and Monaghan Car Bombings of 1974 were unspeakable crimes of wanton savagery, exhibited with total disregard for human life...
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Aug 14, 2023
- 3 min
Groundhog Day - In the Garda/Justice Crisis 2023
https://youtu.be/_FhBnZ-oMsg Has no one learned the lessons of the past. I reminded myself that 25 years ago I submitted a dissertation...
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Aug 10, 2023
- 1 min
WILL HE STAY OR WILL HE GO - NOT THE QUESTION - FOR NOW
Professionally I have always believed that Policy not Person should be ones focus when analysing situations. Some times easier said than...
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JOHN OBRIEN
- Aug 7, 2023
- 4 min
Has the Garda Chief Lost the Room - His Policing Model is not working....................What Next..
https://youtu.be/C7dMX-LhCCg Trevor Laffan raises some very important questions https://www.echolive.ie/corkviews/arid-41199169.html As a...
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