Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

Disgraced minister Willie O’Dea admitted in the Dail that the allegation he made against Councillor Maurice Quinlivan had originated with a member of An Gardai Siochana. Just as Willie O’Dea seemed to be obsessed with ladies of the night it is surely worthy of note that the guards in Limerick seem similarly obsessed with brothels. I wonder why? And in a city with a crime problem that is long out of control. No wonder gangs are free to rub each other out because the police are too inefficient to combat the violence. One recalls the Limerick bouncer murdered by criminals because he would not allow them to sell drugs in the club where he worked. Of course, the gardai were elsewhere that night, too busy cruising Clancy Strand, the old Dock Road and Perry Square in their squad cars to see who they could blackmail.

 The allegation may not have been true, and O’Dea was just so gullible that he swallowed the bait, no matter how much of shit it tasted. Let’s just give O’Dea the benefit of the doubt. The garda in question obviously thought this would be a great way to get some promotion in the future – feed something to a politician who seemed, until recently, to be on the way up. Certainly the ministry of justice seemed one that O’Dea could aspire to. The minister would then remember the debt of gratitude he owed to the flatfoot and respond by giving him a pull up through the ranks. It is alas due to such procedures that many promotions are earned. It would be far better if they were earned for fighting crime, but Jaisus, that’s too dangerous.