Jozef Puska guilty of murder of Ashling Murphy (Mod notes and threadbans in op)

If it was horse manure surely the prosecution would have torn it apart?

I said it before, if he rocked up with a Slovakian sick note and was handed over the keys to the kingdom then there needs to serious questions asked, but it seems like he played the game, and I refuse to be any angrier at him than someone doing the exact same thing who happened to be spit out in the republic

Senior garda sources told The Sunday Times (ST) last weekend that Puska will be banned form the state once he has served his sentence. He will most likely be banned by the justice minister for 10 years - and the ban can be renewed. He is likely to serve 25 years or more in prison because he neither admitted guilt nor expressed remorse, according to ST crime correspondent John Mooney.

Couldn't agree more.

He was captured on cctv cycling for hours and managed to overpower a camogie player who fought for her life.

I'd love to see his disability report.

Revenue are useless these days, they dont bother with small fry like that, which is a pity.

They ignore tax evasion in my experience. if someone is making say 30,000 + and paying zero tax on it, they don't care.

I worked since I was 13. First delivering leaflets, then Super Valu, then Arnotts then the buildings and into Financial Services where today I contribute heavily into our tax system (highest bracket). I left Ireland for 2.5 years in that 23 year span to go to Australia from 29 to 32. When I came home from Australia to restart here - I went to the social welfare office to go on jobseekers for a couple of months and they said NO. I needed to get my teeth sorted and they said no PRSI credits.

How can this piece of **** saunter in and get all he asks for and when our own citizens THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED genuinely needed help, they have to jump through hoops or are rejected.

This country would sicken the hole of you some days. It is a soft touch. Lazy welfare officers are not asking the questions that need to be asked. I have always worked - i have been paying taxes a long time and for that value we have inadequete hospitals, not enough guards, no prison space, poorly paid nurses and teachers, poor public transport systems, etc. There are probably hundreds of Josef Puska type welfare cases, homegrown aswell.

It is about time the place copped on. Ryan is spot on.

Because it’s easy.

Come to Ireland, work for 6 months while putting your name on the housing list.

Claim disability after 6 months and bingo.

Its piss easy because we are a bunch of mugs.

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And it’s up to us to not let that happen.

But the anti-immigration people appear to have completely missed this line in his victim impact statement : "This country needs to wake up. We have to start putting the safety of not only Irish people , but all people in this country who works hard first" i.e. his criticism was not of immigrants or immigration, but the idea of some waster with badness in his heart being allowed to live on benefits for a decade. He's actually arguing that decent, hard working non nationals living in Ireland (the vast majority of non nationals of course) need to be protected as well.

It's an absolute shame that that paragraph has been seized on. Ryan's statement was very lengthy and deeply moving and gave us a very good picture of what the real Ashling Murphy was like - we learned far more about here as a person than we have seen anywhere else before in the press.

I know nothing about Strazdas views or posting history but everything they’ve said in the post you quoted is 100% accurate in my view.

Anybody criticising Ryan’s statement is a tool. He is a proper decent person who should be listened to.

Ashling's boyfriend who gave a powerful statement in court. It's on newstalk.

https://www.newstalk.com/news/ashling-murphy-murder-boyfriend-ryan-caseys-victim-impact-statement-in-full-1615521#Echobox=1700235323-1