Enough is enough? Dublin north inner city crime

If 14, too young to be named

Reminds me of the prick who said “No thanks, I don’t have cancer” to a lady collecting for Daffodil Day.

I know that, I said they “should” be named. If they are old enough to kick the **** out of innocent people they should be shamed

Are the “unvetted” and “military aged” junkies though?

I think the court can decide to name him if convicted and it decides it appropriate to do so, but that’s highly unlikely.

Personally I’d get rid of the juvenile diversion program for all arrestable offences. If a teenager seriously assaults someone, or burgles somebody’s home, they should be sentenced in the same way an adult would be.

There's only one way to get through to these delinquents & that's to make it very painful & to put the fear of God into them. Six strokes with a birch or cane, if they get into trouble again it will be double. I know it's against their human rights, I think they give up that when they beat up an innocent man.

A good article in The Times this morning, they sent a reporter into the area in question, never saw a single Garda & when they asked a doorman on a hotel he told them they won't. The Times made the point about how low the numbers of Gardai are, but just increasing the numbers to a visible presence would only work if these louts had some respect for the law, it's clear they have no respect at all.

Give them a glimpse of hell, they would soon learn.

The 3 scummers who died on the N7 had 200 convictions between them.

The 26 year old lad had 62 convictions. SIXTY TWO.

I’m inclined to agree with you , do away with Oberstown and the special care units and bring back something similar to St Pats .

I know we can’t because EU law imprison under 18s however I grew up in the city centre, one of friends was an infamous joyrider when a judge told him in court , you’re going to St Pats or joining the army .

He joined the army serving 12 years , leaving and eventually getting a degree and settling down.

I do have reservations about putting these fuckers in the army to be babysat but it worked for him.

It's gas the way garda can make arrests when a tourist is assaulted, media pressure is put on or political pressure but if a ordinary local is assaulted no one gives a shoite.

Hope the poor man makes a full recovery and the scumbag gets dealt with properly (which won't happen due to his age or poor unfortunate upbringing)

Disagree. I'd wager the fella was identified the same day and they knew who he was. Media "pressure" has very little to do with it. Just so happens in this case, someone contacted a journalist about it.

There's no point then arresting him straight away and doing it wishy washy. Spend a while gathering even more evidence, more CCTV, more concrete things from an evidential perspective.

Then other times, things can be unsolvable, media pressure or not. The fact he was identified prob means the guards already knew him from previous dealings.

If I went out tomorrow, never been arrested before, glassed someone in a nightclub in a moment of madness and left straight away, it might be on CCTV but odds are, I'll never be identified. If the person who I glassed went to the media, I still wouldn't be identified. Did media pressure solve the abbey theatre attack?

Go over for a day to the courts and sit and watch all the cases that made it there without ever having been reported on in the media.