I think justice was served here.

The tangential conversation about there not being a case to answer and the DPP doing something “wrong” in pursuing the case is mad btw.

It is absolutely correct that this case was tried as a teenager was stabbed and the people involved had conflicting stories as to why.

I feel for Bento and his family in that, and ideally the process would have been quicker. But we’ve got an outcome that seems highly logical to most people, this is the system working as it is suppose to.

He got Bail and recently had the conditions relaxed so he could go on a Jolly with his family.

That were lifted temporarily?

A SENIOR barrister charged with murder has had his bail terms relaxed so he can take a “short trip” with his family. A court today temporarily lifted residency and curfew bail conditions for Diarmuid Rossa Phelan (53), who is accused of killing a man in a shooting on farmland in Dublin

Nice for him and his family to get away to destress. 👍️

He and his friends initiated a fierce and physically dangerous confrontation and the men they jumped were forced to fight for their lives in response. What happens from there spirals out of control very quickly.

If you attack a man and force him to defend himself by any means necessary whatever resistance you receive in return in that moment is deserved. If every time a bunch of scumbag teenagers hopped on an unassuming member of the public they met this type of resistance and one of their number lost their life as a result, my guess is the amount of times scumbag teenagers behaved this way would drop towards zero.

The reality is scumbag teenagers like Josh Dunne who engage in this type of behaviour have been getting off the hook for their actions forever. Not this time.

The prosecution didn’t put him on the stand because they would have guaranteed a loss of the case there and then.

Like the more you get into it, the clearer it becomes that not guilty was the only justifiable outcome.

Weren't some of the other "witnesses" also charged in relation to this incident.

Technically he's guilty of manslaughter, had there been a scuffle and he, say, picked up a length of steel pipe and whacked the vermin over the head and killed him (in self defence) that would be totally different. But in this instance, after months of harrasment, he went after then (determined to retrive a bike) armed with a knife. Had he killed more than one, which could have happened under the circumstances, would the verdict be different ? He has served his sentence in more ways than one, he's a young determined man with a work ethic unlike the wasters he had to face on his daily rounds, hope he rebuilds his life in a safer enviorment.

Technically he's guilty of manslaughter

Nope. Technically and in reality he is not guilty on all 4 charges. His presumption of innocence (which he wasn't really afforded) remains in tact.

If he had killed the guy that stole the bike at the time of that confrontation then maybe you may have a point, but that didn't happen.

He lawfully killed a person in self defence, no crime took price, technically or otherwise. Whether he used a knife, pipe or his fists makes absolutely no difference, they was a grave threat to him and his friends safety.

Imagine if his friend was killed but he had a weapon and refused to use it?

First off, you are libelling him. He's been found not guilty of anything, not even assault, not even unlawful possession of a knife.

Secondly you are either totally unfamiliar with the detailed reports of the case or are reading them completely selectively. He and his friend didn't go after the teenage gang, they went after him and his friend, for no reason whatsoever except they saw a local headbanger getting justifiably confronted by a couple of 'foringers' and they decided to get involved and use unprovoked violence.

Definitely the right decision made, though sad that any young life is lost, even though it seems the teen was a proper sumbag.....he might have grown out of it before doing any real harm.

There really needs to be changes made to the system though. We are at endemic levels of youth gang violence. We constantly hear about teens intimidating and attacking vulnerable members of the public, or having massive gang fights in the summer with all sorts of weapons. So many of these scrotes are left to be raised by the streets and will in almost all cases be drains of the public finances and dangers to the public. It's been getting worse year in, year out and is particularly bad in the city centre.

I used to do food deliveries in the eastwall area on a moped years back. It was strongly advised to never leave the bike out of arms reach because the scum of the area would have it in a second. Common problem 20 years ago and worse now. The parents of these scummers are no better, having never worked an honest day in their lives and never set any example for their kids. I remember I was delivering a pizza to the Clarence street area near the 5 lamps. I had pulled up right at the door and as I was handing the pizza over to the chap in the house, a half dozen 8-10 year olds had taken a break from smashing beer bottles on the ground and managed to slip a large pizza out of the back of the box on my bike and ran off with it. They had cut the seal of the box (presumably with a blade) and grabbed what was left in the box. This was after midnight and their parents were nowhere to be seen. The chap at the door just said "ye have to watch the little b@stards here" and closed his door. I'm sure most of them are either in jail, or dead now...but their spawn are most certainly doing the same or worse with 100+ convictions reached before they hit adulthood.

yeah, lucky. I'd rather not rely on luck for my continued existed if I am capable of doing something about it.

noting of worth it seems