Time to tool up
Is that Flano?
How ironic that the first people who will most likely be using Nally’s Law as their defence will be two travellers attacked in their house by settled people.
Caravans don’t count under Nallys law.
Ah lovely 
The man himself is on Ear to the Ground tonight, 8.30.
Should that not be “Frog Wards Ear to the Ground”
BOOM
I think it was Actually BOOM, BOOM…reload…BOOM, BOOM
Man shot by pensioner who feared home being burgled
By Tom Brady Security Editor
Tuesday February 08 2011
GARDAI hope to interview a man today after he was shot by an 82-year-old pensioner who feared his home was about to be burgled.
The shooting incident took place shortly after midnight yesterday when pensioner Eamon Sutton was alone in his home in a cul-de-sac in the centre of Birr, Co Offaly.
Mr Sutton had moved into the town from his former rural home for “safety reasons”.
He heard a noise at the rear of his end-of-terrace house at Wood Row, off Mill Street, and when he looked out he saw what he believed to be a burglar at the rear entrance to the home.
Fearing that he could be attacked, he produced a legally held shotgun and went outside.
He fired a single blast from the gun and hit his target on the thigh of his right leg.
Gardai received a 999 call at 12.05am and a patrol crew arrived on the scene within minutes.
They found the injured man lying on the ground and he was taken to Tullamore Regional Hospital for treatment.
The man, who is Polish and in his mid-20s, has been living here for some time.
Stable
He underwent surgery for his leg injury later yesterday and was said to be in a stable condition.
Gardai were told by hospital staff he was not medically fit to be interviewed until today and doctors were hoping to talk to him at his bedside this morning.
Mr Sutton was in a state of shock after the incident and gardai also had to wait to interview him about the shooting.
The shotgun was taken away for forensic examination.
Supt David Kavanagh, who is in charge of the investigation, last night appealed to anybody, who spotted any suspicious activity in the Wood Row area between 11.30pm and 12.05am to contact them at the local station at 057 9169710.
He said: “It’s too early yet to say what transpired at the back of the house at Wood Row and we have to interview both parties as part of our inquiries.”
Locals said the pensioner had moved into the town from a house in the countryside for “safety reasons”.
Neighbour Catherine Hayden said she had heard the shot around midnight. “I couldn’t determine what the bang was and what direction it came from,” she added.
Last year the Government introduced proposed legislation, which would allow a householder to defend the home against an apparent intruder, if it could be proved that the intruder was intent on committing a crime.
The bill recognised the special status of the home and the right of people to defend it.
But then Justice Minister Dermot Ahern stressed that the legislation would not provide carte blanche to householders to kill burglars.
It was intended in the legislation that a court of a jury would decide if the use of force was reasonable. But in reaching a decision, the court would examine the circumstances in which the person using the force believed themselves to be at the time.
The home defence bill did not become law before the dissolution of the Dail. It was introduced after a heated public debate over the jailing of Mayo farmer Padraig Nally.
Mr Nally was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment after he shot dead John ‘Frog’ Ward in October 2004 when he found the Traveller on his premises.
His conviction was subsequently overturned when the Court of Criminal Appeal accepted that he had not been allowed to use self-defence as an argument during his trial.
- Tom Brady Security Editor
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Yeee-haw, that’s the job for the thieving bastard :guns: :guns: :lol:
Lot of robberies around Laois since January, large number of rural home being burgled, I’d blame no one for shooting first and asking questions later if in doubt.
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Old people taking the law into their own hands, I’m all in favour of it . Here is a video of an old bat destroying 6 armed burgulars in Northampton yesterday.
Ah lovely. Flake the cunts :guns:
Deadly video but the comments below are unbelievable - everyone giving out that the other passersby do nothing but watch. FFS 6 lads, 2 on bikes keeping sketch and 4 with lump hammers robbing a jewellers, there’s not a hope I’d go and get involved in that. Not until we all carry guns anyway. It’s fairly amazing the oul wan didn’t take a lump hammer to the head.
The pro’s rarely dish out any beatings for fear they are caught and it leads to a much longer sentance, it’s the amateur guy who panics usually does something stupid.
Do these lads look like pros to you? Fucking amateurs I would say. Look at the crashed scooter, they probably came down from the local university.
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Citizens on Patrol
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That old bag is almost certainly a racist as well. Applauding racism was the inevitable end for this thread I suppose.