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Graham Carey grew up in Finglas in Dublin, his father working in construction and his mother a home maker. He started work at 10 and has been paying tax since he was 15, working in the general construction area, including roofing, and since 2013 he has worked as a truck driver, all over Ireland and a little in the UK. As well as a lifetime in work he also has no criminal record at all.
One of his early interests has been religion and for many years he studied at almost Phd level, the bible, including its various languages like Greek and Hebrew, under Dr Gene Scott in Dublin, as part of a Protestant denomination called the Faith Centre.
Then about the time of the crash of 2008 (“when I knew it was corrupt”) he got involved in politics and activism. For many years this was with people like the Yellow Vests, Irexit, and notables like Hermann Kelly, Glenn Miller, and Ben Gilroy. Then when Covid hit, and later the anti-mass migration movement, he joined in the protests and became one of the most recognisable people in that space in Finglas. Those who go on peaceful protests will remember an attempt to, peacefully, close Dublin Port for a while and I believe he was a prominent figure there. In fact in Finglas he was frequently trying to restrain people rather than the opposite, for example he helped scupper an attempt by two criminal gangs there to abduct Dessie Ellis SF TD, and at another protest he tried to calm a crowd that was been riled up by the now Councillor, Gavin Pepper. His experiences have led him to be wary of the modern leaders of this movement in Ireland: “I am sceptical of all of them”, some are agents and “some are ignorant of what they are doing.”
As part of this he became targeted by the Gardai who, as part of huge surveillance, instigated:
Which was about Oct/Nov 2020.
Also after one protest he was stopped to give a drug test, on spurious grounds. Then he was arrested under Section 29 of the Offences Against the State Act, which is anti-terrorism legislation although nobody pretends he ever had anything to do with terrorist organisations, and held for 72 hours and questioned for 9, at Shankill Garda Station. Incidentally he did ask for a solicitor then, Rory Staines, but he just didn’t come and this has led to some disillusionment with the legal profession, and suspicion of those the state proposes he employ but whom he doesn’t know, and so for the later case he had no legal professional help.
So then he was charged over a 30 minute Instagram video he recorded in his truck in Feb 2023. In that he was reporting other people saying to him that there were “threats to take over Finglas Garda Station”. It seems that that has been interpreted by the Gardai as an incitement to hatred crime, against them, and it seems that it is on that basis he has had this charge and oenerous bail conditions held over him for three years. You can read the bail conditions on the side of this sheet and after that you can see the list of Garda witnesses that were arrayed against him. It goes to show you the unlimited manpower and money that the state security apparatus has to harass one, now destitute and sometimes hopeless, Irish protestor.
He is that way because of the bail conditions and harassment, for example they went to his employer, supposedly looking for him, and the latter said he had to sack him because otherwise he would lose an important contract. They also took his tachograph for a while, essential for a truck driver, and also his license.
Anyway Graham has lost this case in front of a jury and will be sentenced on Friday, the 3rd of July, at about 10.30 in the Criminal Courts of Justice in Parkgate Street in Dublin, Court 7, with a potential two year custodial sentence, in case some people might like to support him.
by Brian Nugent, http://www.orwellianireland.com
