Soldier beats a woman unconscious, gets a great reference from his commanding officer, avoids jail.

You think the abortion referendum is all about hatred of men and not giving more rights to women? You seem to really hate female NGOs but I can't see why you attack them over a referendum result that the majority of men supported too.

I hope the women sees some so of justice and could understand why she thinks the marches are a way to highlight the issue.

I never mentioned NGOs, I was talking about male hating feminists celebrating the abortion result, that was disgusting in my opinion but that is another issue.

what I hate is this lets all demonize men attitude because of the actions of a tiny minority of crazy men.

It's a pity this has descended into race and gender nonsense.

I disagree with this case being discussed as a gender based crime, but the fact is Natasha had no chance to defend herself. Crotty apparently ran away when another man intervened. Based on that, it's safe to assume he wouldn't have been such a hardman if a man had asked him to stop his homophobic slurs.

The protests should call for more prison places, meaningful sentences for all crimes, an end to judges protecting the careers of criminals and taking a guilty plea into account, when that was only entered after being shown proof of the crime and denied prior to that.

There should be a minimum custodial sentence for all types of violent crimes, and that should be applied equally regardless of the gender of the victim and perpetrator. A scumbag is a scumbag regardless of their genitalia.

Well said, it’s the cause they are looking for, not helping anyone.

If they were genuinely concerned they’d do something to help. I was in Manchester not too long ago and in the gay village they have the “Village Angels” - volunteers who help patrons - people who’ve had too much to drink, vulnerable people on their own etc. They were founded to help the gay community in the area but look after all.

Why not combine to work with Gardai to help make at least one area of their city safe for a period of time? It would be better than posting bear memes!

No military could survive if the soldiers were able to just quit on the spot any time they liked. So they can't.

Why do you think the term "deserter" exists.

Because you are just the latest to try and spin it that when Togher was using positive, subjective adjectives to describe Crotty, and when he stated his opinion that what Crotty did was "out of character", that Togher was not actually speaking about Crotty's character.

We're not at war. Surely he'll just give the usual 1 months notice?

IMHO we shouldnt be relying on an employer to punish for a crime. It should be dealt with by the criminal justice system.

It is satire. Look it up. It's on the internet and printed in real world dictionaries. Like all sature, there is a sprinkle of truth in there. Plenty of exaggerations and faux offense happens when it comes to anything related to gender. This thread is a prime example.

And yet the subject person of their march was not the victim of gender based violence. She was just the victim of a violent attack by a scumbag who should have been thrown in jail. The protests setup to harp on about male on female violence just took advantage of the fact that there was anger that the scummer got a suspended sentence, but nothing is ever said when women get suspended sentences. It's a disgusting double standard and ironic that equality is screamed for on the other edge of the sword.

ONE is too many. And there are plenty. There are many more that go unreported because of pride/embarassment, or the belief that they would simply not be believed. While men lean to the more aggressive end of the spectrum, women can be violent and dominationg too. We just don't see it reported in the media unless it's way out there.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dad-of-seven-stabbed-to-death-in-totally-random-killing-over-parking-space-1400493.html

The Judge and the Army are the problem here.

Crotty was shown to be the cowardly animal he is. The Judge saw this and decided to protect Crotty's career.

The Army saw what he is and decided to give him a glowing character reference. They could have easily just spoke on how long he has served and him not having caused any trouble. Also if his friends were army too, they need to be reprimanded for not intervening.

There should be at least minimal jail time for someone who has carried out vicious unprovoked assault.

The military police would arrest you and put you in military jail, this isn't the boy scouts.

I didnt say anything about being on duty, i said they can arrest him if he decides to leave the Army without paying his way out.

wow. I feel bad for that woman and legitimately would be concerned about her mental wellbeing today. It's incredible the amount of adrenaline that would be pulsating around your body after dealing with the hearing and then having it plastered across the media and contending with tv interviews and being the subject of a national debate. It must be all very traumatising. I really do hope she has some real tangible psychological supports taking care of her because once that adrenaline surge has passed she's going to be left dealing with the aftermath of it all and that's going to take some strength.

I think the issue was being highlighted very fairly itself without the need for the demonstrations although I recognise peoples right to peacefully protest, I don't think anyone was very concerned about the mental wellbeing of Natasha at the rally's yesterday. I know she did call out the man who rescued her from the assualt and thanked him for saving her life, I think that point needs to be driven home.

In the meantime, I do these meditations every day and find them very helpful.