They wanted to make an example of him. They did.
The only proven way of reducing crime is to incarcerate criminals in large numbers
Judges, of course, have a very defined and limited role: Their job is not to make the laws, but to apply the laws as written by the legislature.
She is probably the least effective holder of that office in Irish history.
There’s a bit of carts and horses about this one.
Time and time again, he chooses – and “chooses” is the only appropriate word here – to allow dangerous people to go free.
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 […]