You can stab someone in the face in Dublin now, and not go to prison.

I didn't know that one. Was there much rivalry within the RIC back then? What would the most common motive have been for an RIC to kill one of his men?

Excellant , three mercenaries in my family.

I always knew there was something about my fathers side .

Hey, she's got far more important things to worry about such as criminalizing people for having opinions.

Why the **** is the government acting like clueless, powerless idiots all the time ???

They literally can not run a small sparsely populated country.

They never could.

Fail time and time again.

Someone who stabs a person in the face doesn't deserve a cell to themselves. Lob them in to an overcrowded prison, better than having them free on the streets to cause more mayhem for ordinary decent citizens.

It's the same in silicon valley. They can get staff here a lot cheaper, dollar is strong and also tax benefits. Also most tech staff working from home.

I've no real issue with overcrowded prisons. Sure, they need to build more, but I wouldn't let overcrowding stop criminals going to jail.

Did you read the story? The assailant followed the victim off the bus to stab him. This wasn't a knee-jerk reaction swinging a knife at someone coming towards him. He could have easily stayed on the bus and the whole issue would have gone away.

It's not 'the law' in this case, rather this specific judge.

Time after time, but I'm sure certain people will defend his sentencing with 'full prisions' and 'heightened emotions' type arguments until the cows come home rather than call it for what it is.

Fella sees an upset girl with an aggressive fella and tries to help. Maybe he'd already begun to get physical with her and everyone else on the bus is probably pretending not to see.

And people here blame him more than the prick who stabbed him. Congrats lads.

I sincerely hope I never become as cynical as some of yee.

But is that not the point?

Keeping criminals on the street = more work = more money = more control.

We don't have enough of these criminals to keep it going so they have to be allowed free with 10, 20, 50, 80, 100, 150, or in 1 case recently 250+ convictions (convictions not charges).

Assuming they are caught 10% of the time, which is being generous...you do the maths, but I'm sure the answer is $$$.

If you read this snippet from a recent article, you’ll see where two busybodies got involved stopping a sexual assault.

“In court on Monday, the victim said she thought her daughter would end up having to identify her body in the park. She added she feared she would die in the course of the ordeal.

She said the assault had changed her life and she was forever grateful to the two men in the park who had come to her assistance.

Mr Justice Paul McDermott heard the woman had been out walking her dog at around 6.30pm on November 7th, 2021, when she was grabbed from behind by Veste.

The woman said she got a smell of sweat and cigarettes and then Veste put a hand over her mouth.

“I tried to fight. He made me get on to the ground and forced his body and knees on me in the pitch dark. I managed to kick him. He managed to put a weight over my mouth and something on to my nose.”

Having more and more scumbags like this guy and his Mrs around is not a positive for the Gardai, Already swamped and drowning under the pressure of a horribly malfunctioning justice system. The majority of solicitors are heading the same way at this stage due to the circular nature of the system. The small number of élite senior barristers and judges above the district court level live in a totally different world than most people and have no understanding of the world around them.

Intervening in a couple having a domestic in public is a tricky move , Ive done it a few times in the past when I was sure I could handle the situation on my own but it is very dangerous. The vast majority of attacks on gardai and police world wide occur while dealing with domestic incidents. which is why at least two always attend domestics and often more. As regards to what some one else said here there is no training given to gardai dealing with domestics apart from recording and re recording the incidents on crappy admin systems.

Also as some one else said calling the gardai might be a good idea but given poor resources and very poor dispatch systems you would be waiting

As for solutions ? Bild a big f*%koff prison and fill it with people who have shown us via many multiple violent crimes that they can not live in a safe society with the rest of us. I would be a big fan of separation between judiciary and government but the state needs to insist that judges enforce laws properly which they are not doing.