Tánaiste Simon Harris has finally explained the case of Randi Gladstone, a Guyanese rapist with 19 previous convictions in the UK, who there entered Ireland and committed another rape in this country on an 18-year-old girl.
Harris’ explanation for how this happened was that Gladstone was from a country that has visa-free travel with Ireland, and ergo he was “not known to our immigration service”.
This raises some very significant questions, given that Ireland has visa-free travel with 49 countries, including Mexico, Brunei, and others.
Make no mistake – I will be looking into this case further and will report back what I find.