Balaclavas illegal??

[The OD]

Is that a stick of armalite or are you just pleased to see me?

Errrr...

I wasn't even talking to you! Dirty boy, is THAT a stick of armalite or are you just pleased to see me?

I think he's blushing for you.. not at you.

An armalite is a gun.. so it wouldn't be stick shaped..

Perhaps you meant gelignite ?

Perhaps a quick view of the Movie 'Straightheads' with Danny Dyer and Gillian Anderson (of X Files fame) might shed some light on how an armalite might be used for 'bedroom activities......'

(For the record, its a sh*t film and the scene in question is highly, highly disturbing and graphic - you have been warned!)

[Geekzilla]

Reading this report of a man convicted of IRA membership
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhmhgbqleyid/rss2/

I could not help but notice his past convictions, one for assault, but the other more interesting one, possession of a balaclava! Is this true, that it is a crime to own a balaclava, cause my mother used to send my brother and I off to primary school in balaclavas when it was really cold in the winter!

I can understand why they are not liked by the Gardai, but can a piece of clothing really be illegal?

Possibly it depends on the context of its' use.

[Fir Bolg]

"Previously, the court was told that, during a search of Mr Doran's flat, gardaí had found military manuals, books and DVDs, raffle tickets used during a fundraiser for the families of IRA prisoners, and two bodhrans, one with a picture of a woman with a rifle and the other with signatures from several Port Laoise prisoners."

Delivering the court's judgment, Mr Justice Mc Menamin said that such material was "consistent only with significant paramilitary involvement".

Surely they would need more evidence than a few books and dvds???

[Bogwarrior]

"Previously, the court was told that, during a search of Mr Doran's flat, gardaí had found military manuals, books and DVDs, raffle tickets used during a fundraiser for the families of IRA prisoners, and two bodhrans, one with a picture of a woman with a rifle and the other with signatures from several Port Laoise prisoners."

Delivering the court's judgment, Mr Justice Mc Menamin said that such material was "consistent only with significant paramilitary involvement".

Surely they would need more evidence than a few books and dvds???

The day earlier a Dublin man was jailed for 4 years on the basis Gardai had seen him talking to suspected dissidents.
This Carlow man's case is typical of the repression faced by anti GFA Republicans in recent years.
He was a supporter of the wrong type of IRA. Had he been a Provisional supporter with the same material, he would never be charged.
The second case of internment against Republicans in a week, and the best people can do here is crack jokes.
Luckily for the Gardai and the SCC, Irish media don't seem to mind internment in their own backyard and would prefer to highlight cases in Burma, Venezuala, or Cuba.

[badinage]

The second case of internment against Republicans in a week, and the best people can do here is crack jokes.
Luckily for the Gardai and the SCC, Irish media don't seem to mind internment in their own backyard and would prefer to highlight cases in Burma, Venezuala, or Cuba.

That's because the Irish people are scared of anti-GFA republicans. They're scared anti-GFA republicans are going to blow them up by planting bombs in town centres if they're left alone. Whether the RIRA was behind the Omagh bomb or not, it made a big mistake in planting those town-centre bombs leading up to the Omagh bomb itself. People, even those of a republican persuasion, will support internment if they feel there are people out there who might kill them without achieving any progress on the united Ireland front.

[Rapscallion]

I think he's blushing for you.. not at you.

An armalite is a gun.. so it wouldn't be stick shaped..

Indeed!

[Garda]

"Previously, the court was told that, during a search of Mr Doran's flat, gardaí had found military manuals, books and DVDs, raffle tickets used during a fundraiser for the families of IRA prisoners, and two bodhrans, one with a picture of a woman with a rifle and the other with signatures from several Port Laoise prisoners."

Delivering the court's judgment, Mr Justice Mc Menamin said that such material was "consistent only with significant paramilitary involvement".

Surely they would need more evidence than a few books and dvds???

The day earlier a Dublin man was jailed for 4 years on the basis Gardai had seen him talking to suspected dissidents.
This Carlow man's case is typical of the repression faced by anti GFA Republicans in recent years.
He was a supporter of the wrong type of IRA. Had he been a Provisional supporter with the same material, he would never be charged.
The second case of internment against Republicans in a week, and the best people can do here is crack jokes.
Luckily for the Gardai and the SCC, Irish media don't seem to mind internment in their own backyard and would prefer to highlight cases in Burma, Venezuala, or Cuba.

Surely your aware that the IRA attitude to internment was positive as it increased support during a time when support in Catholic areas was still largely anti-IRA?

As for weapons, you cannot own any item for personal or home defence. Such allowances do not exist within Irish law. As for Tazers, Gardai dont even have them so how can you justify anyone else having them?

Obviously a wheel brace is for fixing a car and a knife is for cutting and preparing food, etc. In many cases its not the item but its purpose.