I favour reform of character or rehabilitation over incarceration however very few countries are able to achieve this. Some, I believe have good stats but not many. It requires money, lots of it but it’s a long term investment when it pays off.
Irish politicians with their ‘just for today’ policies will never justify spending it as it doesn’t suit their agenda, nor that of the legal profession who’ve been shamelessly riding the gravy train of the claims fiasco and the revolving prison door policy in the last decade.
I believe voter appetite is there for another two or three prisons. They cost a lot to build and operate. However, with our failure in investing in and engineering the rehabilitation of prisoners, I would be a proponent for much harsher sentencing. The extra prisons, to accommodate the already overflowing ones we currently run.
Burying our head in the sand and not picking a side will lead to higher levels of crime and more violent incidents until we’re forced to decide.
Between the Garda letting this show of strength happen and the priest allowing burglary implements on a coffin in church is a fuckin disgrace, Garda I calved again as they did with each traveller funeral during Covid
I’d say the Gardai would love nothing more than to be able to put a stop to it but don’t get the resources. It usually takes a high profile murder before anything is done. The directors of Quinn had to go public about the harassment they were getting. Even then it was only when Lunney was nearly killed that the resources were given. These things need political intervention.
A skanger robs a hard working man’s car in tallaght, drives to Offaly off his head on coke and holds up an elderly man in his bed at knife point stealing his money.
Guess who the left on here think is the victim in this sequence.