Ballsy Irish cops are the top force in Europe at dealing with scumbags.
Hollywood legend Brendan Gleeson's latest hilarious blockbuster, The Guard, about the hard-cursing life of an unorthodox Southern peeler should not mask the fact Garda riot cops are probably the most professional in the whole of the European Union.
Britain's coppers seemed helpless as riots spread across English cities like a Biblical plague of locusts.
The British should take full advantage of the new Anglo-Irish relations which Queen Bess unveiled during her recent trip to the Republic and the Dáil should give permission for the highly trained Garda riot cops to be deployed in English streets.
You won't see any 'Big Brendan' types standing like uniformed scarecrows while gangs of wee skitters pelt them with bottles and petrol bombs.
The Gardaí are great because they get stuck in – and that's coming from a Right-wing Unionist like me who has been consistently critical of the South's security policies during the conflict.
Look at how effectively the Garda riot cops stamped on dissident republican protests during the royal junket; look at how they worked over the thugs who 'kicked off' during the so-called Love Ulster event in Dublin.
And it's not just since the turn of the new millennium that An Garda Siochana has developed its efficient riot control techniques.
Thirty years ago, militant republicans attempted to take their hunger strike protests through Dublin's fair city.
Only the Garda riot cops prevented the images from being flashed across the globe that Dublin was nothing more than a Provo and INLA stronghold.
In scenes more reminiscent of the Irish Civil War, and armed only with truncheons, the Guards battered the republicans off the streets of the South's capital.
Folklore has it the riot cops were so psyched up to take on the republicans, that when they went into action, they beat up their own undercover peelers who had infiltrated the marchers.
In the Sixties, it was the French police and how they kicked the crap out of student who held the accolade of Europe's top riot cops. The Germans took over that mantel in the 1970s when the notorious Baader Meinhof gang was at its peak.
But now in 2011, that Cup for Best Riot Control Cops must sit proudly on the desk of the Garda Commissioner's office in Dublin.
If Dandy Dave Cameron needs a lesson in law and order, let An Garda Siochana loose on the London looters.
You don't hear tales of the Taioseach having to recall the Dáil from a summer recess; you don't see reports of looting and burning spreading uncontrollably across Dublin, Wexford, Limerick and Sligo. Why?
The answer is simple. Any wee scum silly enough to start that sort of blatant yob culture know full well they will face the wrath, boots, batons and cells of An Garda Siochana. They are cops will real balls, not an interview full of empty rhetoric.
What's the point in having all these British-Irish bodies if it cannot be a two-way process?
Britain is pumping in enough dosh to help Dublin with its multi-billion euro bailout. The least the Irish government could do is help the Brits clear up their mess.
There is a huge Irish community in Britain. Who will protect those communities if the British police are being overrun by the thugs and yobs?
There was a time when Irish security forces on British land would have sparked a second civil war. But Britain faces drastic times … and that requires a reality check. We want the Guards!
