And yes, by the way, it’s still time to impeach Martin Nolan, and remove him from the bench.
“How can you say that you’re serious?” Justice Minister Helen McEntee confronted on Ireland’s lax sentencing for criminals. #gript
Tolerated
Crime wave.
Credit where credit is due.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Time and time again, he chooses – and “chooses” is the only appropriate word here – to allow dangerous people to go free.
The problem is what we tolerate as a country, repeatedly.
The girls on Kevin Harty’s computer were mostly aged between eight years old, and sixteen years old. Some were nine. Some ten. Some eleven. One of the girls on his computer was a baby, aged between one and two. Thankfully, the court was spared the details of exactly what was being done to the children […]
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 […]