Teenagers with no value for life and no care for repercussions - **Read OP**

It has nothing to do with what facilities people have and never has – That argument was manufactured for the rich to stay rich, provide more opportunities for profit and an easy stick to bash everyone else with when the low-income areas erupt every so often.

I believe it is solely to do with broadening the vision of our youth, even if they can't/won't do school at least give them some means of seeing the vicious cycle they were born into. The majority of people I've met who got clear of a rough area and were very nearly pulled into the nefarious dealings in their communities did so only because they recognized the pattern of generations before them and broke the cycle.

If formal education can't assist in enthusing those worse off, we need alternatives and it's not a new swimming pool or a football field.

unfortunately unless the state build a Burj Khalifa sized ‘facility’ filled with distractions, amenities and resources there will be a Q as there are here of people trying to excuse every criminal act, every antisocial discrepancy committed, no matter who suffers.

competitive sports teams & clubs…. Soccer, tennis, swimming, basketball, GAA, pitch and putt

fitness…. Gym, athletics,

artistic…. art classes, youth theatre, music lessons ..

there is tonnes of stuff… in our communities, MAKE THE EFFORT ! kid ain’t interested ? Sorry but “ am not interested “ is not a get out of jail free card"..

from my own example I was involved in…organised..

soccer, tennis, art, competitive swimming, music lessons and a youth orchestra at various junctures of my youth and adolescence…

still hung out with friends, acted the maggot like every adolescent….

parents have to parent,

Actually feel sick after reading that.

Why does this little bastard deserve another chance to destroy someone else’s life?

How, can individuals like that be not locked up….mad kip of a country.

Holy sh1t. This scumbag should be put under a strait jacket while having his head locked into stocks for doing this sick attack on this vulnerable man.

I'm sure the young lad will take this chance to reform and no further money will be made by the legal industry out of him in future!

Not sure if that was aimed at me, but if it was it refused to deal with the issue I raised, it refered to it and just sidestepped it completely

Precisely. Throw the book at the prick, why should he deserve any different?

Cannabis addiction? Piss off - that’s become a go-to excuse for lawyers lately alongside the classic “difficult home life” spiel. You see it day in day out in the papers, people who have got every single thing handed to them by the state - in return they contribute these disgusting crimes to the society that funds them. Revolving door “justice”, a slap on the wrist and off you go, free to destroy another vulnerable persons life.

The “boy” knew bloody well what he was doing was wrong, now that he’s been caught he tries the poor me victim card and gets away with it. Yet another future member of the sickening line of reoffenders who cost our state millions and make life hell for normal good people. Your and others permissiveness to this kind of behaviour is a contributor to all this too.

Fair enough. It's happened that people have meant me without quoting me. The bit where you said 'tons of stuff' when I said doesn't matter how much if its not interesting to them is what make me think it was.

Anyway, complaining to them that it's their fault for not being interested in what already exiists is just going to push them further over the edge and the problem worse.

I would have it on good assumption that people who suffer from mental health issues in this country by and large do not go out to needlessly injure other innocent people when they go about their day to day business.

The "boy" in question, who beat up this elderly man to bits, is an out and out psychopath who is a clear danger to other people in this society. It should have allowed a clearer path for a much greater level of punishment to he put forward on this dangerous individual.

But the sentencing that this guy will receive in this case just shows the real lack of will from the courts in enforcing that severe punishment on this scumbag. He really should have been tried as an adult so that a real form of justice can be given to him for what we did to the vulnerable man who was the victim of this sickening attack.

There is no way on earth that the scumbag in question will get away with this sort of crime if he did it towards this man in another country. If a more severe punishment was coming toward this scumbags direction; he wouldn't have gotten away lightly. He could have been killed with a gun or much worse.

But in Ireland; it counts a period of detention in Oberstown and a slap on the wrist. It makes me sick. What can we do to stop it?