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

All comes back to the courts.

Whole system is rotten. Legal industry creaming it.

No political will to call out the scummy behavior either, as the media will jump on them, backed up by our endless list of tax payer funded NGOs.

And around and around we go.

The kids have taken a wrong turn and got themselves into difficulty but the usual response is string them up hard labour lock them in a dark hole all that rubbish tell me one time that has worked

I agree, I am sure a lot of them involved in last nights events all have social workers assigned and wouldn't be surprised if most of them already have a number of convictions. The thing is there would be no buy in from either parents or the kids in seeing social workers or mental health specialists unless it is ordered by the courts and even then all they would be doing is turning up to tick a box.

no but they have more opportunities than most people in the world, they have just been conditioned to think that they have it worse.

im sure there are parents in these communities that love and encourage their kids??

This will just be the beginning as it rampa up for Halloween, there will be more of this, fireworks are already going off and many animals will be burnt alive in Bonfires as was seen in swords a few years back or horses made jump over bonfires and get badly burnt.

Cut their dole cut the parents dole and three Strikes and your homeless!

Build a proper prison, no PlayStations or other creature comforts, give them an option to study and better themselves in prison.

More Guards on the beat better equiped and same with vehicles better equiped for scumbag areas like what was witnessed in Cherry Orchard.

Judges need to be held to account for letting these scumbags with multiple convictions out on the street. 3 Strikes and your doing jail time

Mcintee seems more worried about mean tweets then real crime she needs to be replaced same with Drew Harris.

Country has become a joke at this stage

"Blame the parents"

The most knee jerk answer ever.

And so who do we blame for how the parents are?

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I BLAME THE GRANDPARENTS!!!!!!!

What's the solution?

Give them all a big hug?

Behaviour such as what we're seeing in our society now isn't the result of taking a wrong turn. It's a result of criminal behavior not being sufficiently punished.

No material changes will occur until there is a perception amongst these people that their actions will be properly punished.

In effect these people aren't doing what they want to do, they're doing what they're being allowed to do.

Maybe the solution is simple, if you cannot behave as a civial human being in society and have an attitute of take take take from the state, then to me its simple if you start abusing society and what is on offer, then them priveledges should be removed bit by bit until you get a better unstanding of them. As an example, someone mentioned, 'free houses' if your a serious issue to society around you, then out on your arse from the house and the state should not have to deal with you for 12 months until you get an appriciation of what it is that is offered from the state and society.

Yes it doesn't work in a country like the United States where there is real poverty and no social welfare state.

The only poor people in Ireland are those working on low incomes. Nobody on social welfare here is living in poverty. Nobody. We don't know the meaning of the word.

“Deprived” areas is a crock a Sh1t. It’s thug people, and nothing to do with deprivation . Usual excuses. Nobody taking responsibility. Always blaming someone else. And it’s the likes a the shinners and PBP who lap this up and exacerbate it and perpetuate it. Dangerous people.

The first thing required is to create space to address the underlying problems. That space can only be created with some aggressive security, the gardai need to restore confidence.