the Irish army arent a real army mate-they are playing at being soldiers
We have one of the best elite forces in the world mate. Our Rangers would beat the likes of Delta Force and the SAS into a bloody pulp.
SS, how do we know we’re the best at elite forcery?
Niamh Horan does it again 
Garda helicopter scrambled for school prank that went too far
THE garda helicopter was ‘scrambled’ after an end-of-year ‘prank’ involving one of Dublin’s top rugby schools got completely out of control.
School pupils at St Mary’s College in Rathmines stripped a fellow pupil to his underpants and covered him in shaving foam before driving him to nearby Donnybrook, where they tied him to a pole in the grounds of the all-girls Muckross Park School.
A woman returning from a funeral witnessed the boy being bundled into the car in Rathmines and, believing it was a kidnapping, alerted gardai.
The garda helicopter and squad cars – one of which crashed – followed in pursuit but the boy was found tied with duct-tape and semi-naked in the grounds of the girls’ school.
Teachers released him and brought him into the school and got him clothes after his ordeal.
The perpetrators were arrested in a follow-up search. It is not known if the garda authorities are planning further action.
St Mary’s College in Rathmines is one of Dublin’s best- known rugby schools and has a long list of distinguished past pupils.
The school authorities were said to be horrified at the pre-Leaving Cert incident last Wednesday – just one of a number of pranks in recent days. The school principal declined to comment when contacted by the Sunday Independent.
A number of other incidents have taken place at schools in recent days. However, none of them were of such a serious nature, or involved the gardai.
At High School in Rathgar, three pupils were expelled last week and the school’s graduation cancelled after a unofficial dance music event in the school led to what were described as “exchanges” between students and staff.
The school has instructed all sixth-year pupils that their school year has ended and they can only return to the school by appointment.
The incidents come after four fifth-year pupils at Oatlands College in Stillorgan, Co Dublin, were finally expelled for what were described as “vile sexual allegations” about both male and female teachers at the school, which were posted on Facebook and surfaced in the first week in April.
The four boys – including the son of a serving TD – were suspended pending an appeals process. However, their expulsion was confirmed last week.
The parents of some of the expelled boys are expected to appeal to the Department of Education, which will now convene a ‘Section 29’ committee consisting of a department inspector and two experts to review the case.
If the students fail in this process, they will be obliged to find another school to take them in for their Leaving Certificate year.
- NiIAMH HORAN
What’s wrong with that story MBB?
Why doesn’t she mention the TD by name? He was mentioned in the daily edition of the indo.
I found it amusing that they scrambled a helipcopter, crashed a police car all for a abit of Mary’s highjinks, given it was in the Sindo thought this was the best place for it.
Ah right, thought you were saying that it was a cuntish article. I found it interesting and amusing myself.
I don’t really want to give the cunt any oxygen but it won’t surprise anybody that Eoghan Harris wrote a pretty disgusting piece of whataboutery yesterday, criticising the FAI over the Loughinisland black armband gesture.
Truly despicable stuff alright. Of course this “journalist” doesn’t have to check his facts beforehand. Its all an FAI plot, totally ignoring the fact that the famillies of the Loughlinisland victims approached the FAI. The sooner Harris features in the (minor) celebrity deaths thread, the better.
Ah tha’ts pure class. I love the references to millionaire’s playground etc (hinting Niamh might be overpaid) and the call to arms for women of the world to unite and support poor Niamh in her terrifying ordeal. What exactly does Niamh want anyway (apart from publicity obviously)? There’s no mention of justice or anything like that - they just want publicity.
Rocko can you write a letter to the Sindo expressing our best wishes to Niamh
Good to see Niamh bouncing back with another hard hitting opinion piece
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That’s a truly inspirational piece of journalism. A beacon of hope for women everywhere.
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karen woods looks a cracker from those distance shots. Some body on her
Who the fuck is she talking about?
I think that might well be the worst article she’s ever written.
You need your eyes tested lad she looks like an old hag ffs