Roaming free.
40 trafficked in a month
Judge Melanie Greally has said that Dublin city centre is becoming a “increasingly dangerous” place at night. “Unfortunately this is becoming a fact of life and Dublin city centre is becoming an increasingly dangerous place in which to circulate, particularly in the early hours of the night,” she said. The comments were made as she […]
One suspects, in this case, that Mr. O’Callaghan is not going to prison because of what he did, but because of how foolish he has revealed the state to be.
The number of foreign criminals deported for “serious criminal convictions” has reduced dramatically since Helen McEntee became Justice Minister, Gript can reveal. The figures were obtained as part of a Parliamentary Question submitted by Aontú leader Peadar Toibín TD, who quizzed the Justice Department on how many criminal deportations there have been over the past […]
As violent crime surges across Ireland, particularly in major cities, few politicians have been willing or able to admit the severity of the crisis. With Fine Gael styling itself as the “Party of Law and Order,” and insisting that Ireland is “a safe country,” it’s seemed for several years now that the government is reluctant […]
Senator Doherty’s bill does not really accomplish much
Including rapists?
A violent drug dealer with 24 previous convictions who slashed open a man’s throat with a stanley blade has been given 2 and a half years in prison by Sligo Circuit Court. 22-year-old Sait Murrin, who has previous convictions for drug dealing, was convicted of assaulting two men, including one whose throat he cut with […]
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.