The image of an elderly man crawling on hands and knees to find help, his shoelaces tied together in an act of horrible cruelty, should have us determined to change something.
Time and time again, he chooses – and “chooses” is the only appropriate word here – to allow dangerous people to go free.
The real problem, as it has been for some time, is that parts of our capital city – and other cities – have been abandoned to a kind of feral lawlessness.
Independent Cork TD Michael Collins has hit out at politicians who he claims seized on the death of Ashling Murphy to advance “sad points of view.” Following the killing of Murphy, a 23-year-old Offaly native, People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith took to the Dáil to lay culpability at the feet of Catholic schools for […]
A free country should always retain the right to say that those who come here and systematically break our laws and harm our people are not welcome
Jail time halved by the Court of Appeal
A Moldovan national has been jailed for sexually assaulted a 91-year-old woman in her home just 5 months after arriving in Ireland. The assailant had previous offences in Italy before he came to Ireland, being convicted of carrying weapons, theft and damage to public property. He was sentenced to over two years in jail in […]
He had 15 previous convictions.
The problem is what we tolerate as a country, repeatedly.
In the aftermath of senseless horror, we reach for easy answers, and ignore the harder truths
This has not been an opportunity for a “national conversation”. It has been an opportunity for one group of people to do what they always want to do: Tell everyone else to sit down and shut up and listen to what they have to say and accept it as gospel truth.
For most of yesterday, the name of the person who was wrongly suspected of carrying out the unprovoked and brutal murder of Ashling Murphy was not made public by the Gardai. All that we knew is that he was male, in his forties, originally from Romania, and was known to Gardai. And, of course, that […]