Galway police ignore pedestrian safety

Whenever a major event is held in Galway, there is always major traffic congestion. Illegal parking on footpaths is the norm, and is routinely ignored by the Gardai / police (and by Traffic Wardens, in the unlikely event that any are present). This video shows two Gardai on traffic duty immediately after a sports event on 5th October 2008. Clearly their priority is "traffic flow", with the safety and convenience of pedestrians being of no importance. Watch how the two Gardai direct a constant stream of traffic at this crossroads, completely ignoring the pedestrians, some of them children, who are trying to cross the road. Is this what they're taught at Garda College? Will they act in a similar fashion during the Volvo Ocean Race stopover?

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• traffic
• road
• safety
• ignoring
• pedestrians
• danger
• GAA
• Pearse
• stadium

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@Davehogan565

There are traffic lights at that junction (though not the most 'intelligent' installation ever). The signals include a just about adequate pedestrian phase. What exactly is being achieved by putting untrained Garda officers in this situation and over-riding the lights? What pressure are they under when they can just let the lights do the work?