Hell of a story leaking from the Limerick Leader this morning.
We didn’t ink there was a chronic shortage of pens in Limerick at the moment, but it seems as if that very problem is causing havoc at one of the busiest Garda stations in the city, and the country, in recent weeks.
According to a report in the Limerick Leader, numerous people have been prosecuted at Limerick Court for threatening and abusive behaviour towards Gardai at the station in question, with at least one case coming about when an argument broke out after a person attending the station was told to go away and return with his own biro when there was none available for use in Henry Street.
The report in the Leader details that Judge Eugene O’Kelly heard the case of one defendant, who became aggressive and began to verbally abuse Gardai after being told to get his own biro when signing on as a condition of his bail relating to a separate matter.
Having heard the facts of the case, Judge O’Kelly spoke of his concern at the “lack of biros” at the station and admitted that it was not the first time he had been made aware of such a complaint.
“It’s not acceptable that people, who are coming in to sign on in compliance with their bail are being, told to go away and return with their own biro,” Judge O’Kelly is quoted as saying in the report.
“I am hearing it too often and too frequently,” he told Inspector Luke Conlon, who said he would pass on the judge’s concerns.
Worrying as the situation might be, it’s good to hear Judge O’Kelly address the (ball)point of the situation as quickly as he did and refreshing to know that when it comes to the supply of pens in the Treaty County, that he’s got their bic back.
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