Eddie Halvey

DesQ2

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/Eddie-Halvey-39didn39t-have-the.6196923.jp

More on Eddie Halvey, yes its been done before but it boils my blood hearing about him!

This case is proof that our country is corrupt and there's no justice for the innocent!!

Biggins

With respect, if someone killed my son, I wouldn't want him/her at his funeral either.
I'd be tempted to do something I'd regret later - or not!

Limerickgal82

He got off way too light !! The Justice system in this country is so bad it does not protect the innocent victim only the well known !! :mad:

nucking futs

Biggins wrote: »

With respect, if someone killed my son, I wouldn't want him/her at his funeral either.
I'd be tempted to do something I'd regret later - or not!

There's a big difference between not showing up for the funeral and not showing up for the inquest, they're nowhere near similar. Did you misread the article by any chance?

Biggins

nucking futs wrote: »

There's a big difference between not showing up for the funeral and not showing up for the inquest, they're nowhere near similar. Did you misread the article by any chance?

I did, guilty as charged.

Yes, I agree. Disgraceful that he didn't turn up.
He should have been sequestrated at the very least.

The boys family deserve better.

easyeason3

I think he has a long sentence ahead of him as it is. He will have to live with killing someone for the rest of his life, ok it was an accident but it was a reckless one.

The child & his family deserved justice & didn't get it. I just hope that they have done their best to move on as best they can because too much bitterness is a dangerous thing.

I know two people who have gone through a similar situation & to be honest about it they would have gladly taken a jail sentence because they would have at least felt like they did something as a punishment. But everyday is a punishment for them as it is & they regret what they did.
Regret can't bring anyone back though.

DesQ2

I don't think he has any sentence to serve compared to what that family has to serve, all they got was heartbreak and a slap in the face, while he walked free

Don't confuse this with an accident,

This was a very stupid man who got very drunk and drove his jeep into the back of a families car and caused absolute heartbreak and carnage,

Overheal

He was given a suspended sentence on the premise he was ashamed of himself.

Why not go to the funeral and face his music like a remorseful bastard?

He's sorry about nothing. Except that he can't show his face in public anymore.

DesQ2

In February of this year a Latvian man was sentenced to 7 years in jail for drunk driving and causing the death of a Cork woman.

In November last year a Dublin man was jailed for 8 years for drunk driving and causing the deaths of two French women.

Last July a Carlow man was jailed for four months for driving while drunk and not having insurance.

In June a Dublin woman was described as menace and jailed for 6 years for drunk driving and injuring a pedestrian.

In April a Bray man was jailed for 6 months for drunk driving and driving without insurance.

Also in April an Enniscorthy man was jailed for 8 months for drunk driving.

The list of cases goes on and on. Yet this rugby player gets 7 months suspended for causing the death of a 16 year old boy.

Biggins

DesQ2 wrote: »

In February of this year...

Classic good example of how much the state of our court sentencing is terrible.
It for all intensive purposes appears that if your rich and/or famous, say your "sorry" - you walk out of the court with a joke of a sentence.

Madness. Where is the justice!

Mrmoe

Minimum mandatory sentencing is required in this country as judges seem to have their head stuck so far up their backside that they do not know what a fair sentence resembles.

Jigga

what do people think of his rugby pals speaking up for him in court? Makes my blood boil :mad:

Royal Seahawk

Jigga wrote: »

what do people think of his rugby pals speaking up for him in court? Makes my blood boil :mad:

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Having spent a lot of time down that part of the country I have come to the conclusion that the majority of rugby supporters I have met from the Munster region are of a lower intellectual level than normal everyday people.

These are the same type of fools who cannot wait to vote John O'Donoghue back in at the next election or who stand by a convicted rapist because prior to the attack he was a 'pillar of society'.

It's a tribal mentality that stupid people subscribe to because they don't like being told what to do by the 'meeja from Dublin'.

galwayrush

I don't know why anybody is surprised anymore, there's always been 2 laws in this country:rolleyes:

Jigga

Royal Seahawk wrote: »

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Having spent a lot of time down that part of the country I have come to the conclusion that the majority of rugby supporters I have met from the Munster region are of a lower intellectual level than normal everyday people.

These are the same type of fools who cannot wait to vote John O'Donoghue back in at the next election or who stand by a convicted rapist because prior to the attack he was a 'pillar of society'.

It's a tribal mentality that stupid people subscribe to because they don't like being told what to do by the 'meeja from Dublin'.

Unfortunately you are right, i browse on munsterfans.com from time to time and they don't even allow discussion on this case over there. Pathetic really, a lot of the rugby community would prefer to protect an ex-player than get justice for a 16 year old boys family :mad:

445279.ie

Royal Seahawk wrote: »

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Having spent a lot of time down that part of the country I have come to the conclusion that the majority of rugby supporters I have met from the Munster region are of a lower intellectual level than normal everyday people.

These are the same type of fools who cannot wait to vote John O'Donoghue back in at the next election or who stand by a convicted rapist because prior to the attack he was a 'pillar of society'.

It's a tribal mentality that stupid people subscribe to because they don't like being told what to do by the 'meeja from Dublin'.

I'm a Munster fan and think it's despicable that he got away with it so please don't generalise :mad:

And as for voting for John O'Donoghue, that's Kerry and they're a law unto themselves

SugarHigh

Biggins wrote: »

Classic good example of how much the state of our court sentencing is terrible.
It for all intensive purposes appears that if your rich and/or famous, say your "sorry" - you walk out of the court with a joke of a sentence.

Madness. Where is the justice!

what's this?:p

BarryM

Jigga wrote: »

Unfortunately you are right, i browse on munsterfans.com from time to time and they don't even allow discussion on this case over there. Pathetic really, a lot of the rugby community would prefer to protect an ex-player than get justice for a 16 year old boys family :mad:

Ah but they do -
http://www.munsterfans.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19580&PN=1&TPN=12

But I have to say that, after the original event and then again after the court case, threads were supressed. Apparently someone in the 'management' of the Forum is close to the halvey's.

There are a number of posters on the thread above who have either straight out tried to defend the case; have suggested to have the thread closed; have put up ridiculous contra arguments; have refused to countenance any criticism of Mick Galway, etc., etc.

While I wouldn't accept the 'lower intellectual level' suggestion - as a Dub who lives in Co Cork - there is undoubtedly an almost religious fanatacism by the Munster supporters. It is based on an anti Dub/Leinster thing and is extremely childish. It is, ironically, given the town's reputation, a very Limerick thing.

OTOH, there are a lot of posters on the Halvey thread who are horrified at what happend and the result.

BarryM

445279.ie wrote: »

And as for voting for John O'Donoghue, that's Kerry and they're a law unto themselves

Shouldn't that read 'they are lawless amongst themsleves'

PCPhoto

Limerickgal82 wrote: »

He got off way too light !! The Justice system in this country is so bad it does not protect the innocent victim only the well known !! :mad:

have to partially disagree here !!! (yes he got off way too lightly - but the justice system doesnt just protect the well known)


its not just the well known ..... its the connected !!!

social welfare/scumbags are given FREE legal aid and that legal aid will do their best to keep their client out of prison, if you goto any court case where the accused is caught with a serious amount of drugs - they will:

A) have a drug addiction or forced to deal to pay a drug habit - but since they were caught have been taking steps to deal with their addiction !!!
are dealing out of FEAR from bigger drug dealers - and refuse to co-operate with Gardai out of "Fear"
C) be someone who didnt complete school/education and was taken "advantage of" by someone higher up the ladder.

possibly all of the above but at least one EVERY time

as for Eddie Halvey - I think he should have been treated like a normal person and should have been jailed, there are plenty of middle class people who have received jail sentenced for dangerous driving causing the death of their own family/friends (who were in the car) .... Mr Halvey took the life of a child.

I don't know the exact details of the case so I can't comment tbh.

His sentence was very leniant tbf.

What reasons did the judge give for such a light sentence?

Son Of A Vidic

Jigga wrote: »

what do people think of his rugby pals speaking up for him in court? Makes my blood boil :mad:

I can't believe this sh1t, this carry on should be stopped. WTF has character references got to do with stupid, incompetent and dangerous driving ffs.
The old boys network is alive and well.

Opium led greed

This f**ker should be shot dead. Getting behind the wheel of a car drunk out of his mind and then killing a child. I hope he gets everything coming to him, these things have a way of coming back on people.

sickening