Had Mr. Maxim been an Irish criminal, his crimes would have been recorded on the Garda pulse system, and detected in the vetting process.
“How can you say that you’re serious?” Justice Minister Helen McEntee confronted on Ireland’s lax sentencing for criminals. #gript
A uniformly more casual approach to policing?
The people who assaulted Mr. Sheehan have no fear of getting caught. If they do get caught, they have no fear of prison. If the Gardai bring them all the way to court, chances are they may get suspended sentences.
On the face of it, the idea that the local gardai should have the discretion to be able to inform women if their partners have convictions for domestic violence is a good one.
If this happened to an Irish embassy in, say, Tel Aviv, how would Ireland react? With outrage, one might suspect.
For example, it would be unthinkable that the new dress code for the Gardai would be extended to the judiciary.
It is also a policy likely to change Garda behaviour, and the priorities of the Gardai as a police force.
Brutality
The question in the headline is not one which you really should be asking, in a modern western democracy, but asking it appears to be necessary. Consider this story from Chai Brady, a very good reporter with the Irish Catholic: A Co. Cavan priest who has not prevented parishioners from attending Mass in the church […]
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“Hate speech is a concept that is only used one way in certain conflicts. In the LGBT issue, for example, if I was to say something nasty, I never have, and the were to report me to the Gardai, I would be prosecuted for sure. I have been attacked on Twitter by LGBT activists, there […]