Features
Should any police force really be above reproach? Kieran Allen takes stock of Fionnán Sheahan’s impassioned defence of the Gardaí. Last week Fionnán Sheahan, the Irish Independent columnist, lost the rag in a television debate with Adam Doyle, the artist known as Spicebag, who created a parody of Garda
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In the wake of the heavy-handed policing of Debenhams workers and Black Lives Matter protesters, Sadhbh Mac Lochlainn takes apart the myth that the police are there to simply ‘protect and serve’. In Ireland today there is an argument put forward by many about the Gardaí and it goes
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“Lord have mercy, it’s the cops!” – Van Morrison ACAB was once so popular there were fellows had it tattooed on their knuckles. But the PR is now so pervasive, and nervousness presses in so closely, that you could find yourself in bother just for spelling it out – All Coppers