Let’s take a break from Coronavirus for a moment to examine one of the most inexplicable Irish Times headlines in recent times: https://twitter.com/IrishTimes/status/1242131251584102402 If there’s one thing the Irish Times is good at, it’s lecturing the rest of us about what words to use and what you are, and are not, allowed to say. […]
In times of crisis, there’s always someone ready to make a wisecrack about the situation. However, the people of New Berlin, Wisconsin, probably didn’t expect that with the covid-19 emergency the smart aleck would be their own local police department. The official New Berlin police department’s Facebook account made a post last week which read: […]
Just when many of us have become virtual prisoners in our own homes to help fight Covid-19, authorities have decided that they might start releasing actual prisoners from actual prisons during the crisis. First those with three and then those with six months left on their sentences would be released, say authorities, and maybe even […]
Are we safer and happier in the new, shiny, progressive Ireland? Megan looks at rates of crime, sexual assault and mental health issues. #gript https://youtu.be/TjoHL7sB5f8
People everywhere were sickened and horrified last April when three teenage boys became the victims of an acid attack in Earlscourt Housing Estate in Waterford. A large group of older boys, most around 18/19 years old, threw acidic drain cleaner in the younger boys’ faces without provocation. The victims received severe burns and scars to […]
It’s probably not a well-known fact that bulletproof vests have a use-by date, and that after that date passes, they cannot be trusted to stop a bullet. But it’s the absolute truth. This is because most bulletproof vests are made using Kevlar, which is a chemical compound like any other, and can degrade: “Like any […]
“We’ve one Garda station for an area the size of Limerick,” Edward McManus of Aontú told over a hundred residents of the Dublin suburb of Castleknock who turned out to attend the latest in a series of public meetings on tackling crime in the area. Describing the current bail laws as a ‘joke’ and calling […]
The news headlines this morning are breath-taking in their awfulness. A homeless man maimed for life because Dublin City Council thought his tent was unsightly and removed it with a digger while he was still inside. A teenager killed and chopped up (no word yet on whether he was alive or dead when the latter […]
ET is that you – the benign two-foot-tall creature from space with a long neck and big loveable eyes, who ended up in a family home in the Hollywood Hills against your original want? No, it’s Lisa Smith, an ex-member of the 27th Infantry Battalion and Air Corps, who served as a flight attendant to […]
More evidence, one might argue, that progress and compassion aren’t necessarily linear. More people died of drug-related causes last year than at any time in the history of the State, new figures cited in the Dáil show. 736 people in Ireland died last year of drug-related causes, compared to just 431 in 2004, an increase […]
Sentencing in Ireland is, not to put too fine a point on it, a sick joke: “A father who raped his adult special needs daughter while her mother was terminally ill in hospital has been jailed for seven years. The 66-year-old Munster man, who cannot be identified in order to protect his daughter’s identity, pleaded […]
Another tale of happy, modern Ireland, brought to you by the Government’s Health Research Board (HRB): “The latest drug treatment figures from the Health Research Board (HRB) show a 50% increase in the number of cases presenting for cocaine treatment between 2017 and 2018. While opiates remain the most common drug reported among cases treated […]