Street Performer loses an Eye in attack

DellyBelly · 04-10-2017 09:53PM #1

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/two-teens-sent-for-trial-over-horrific-oconnell-street-attack-after-which-performer-lost-an-eye-808538.html

Read this today and was pretty shocked by it. Seems like there is a real feral population of kids out there. I'll be interested to see what sentence they'll get. Surely jail time?

Ipso · 04-10-2017 09:55PM

Sentence or jail time. I thought Ireland used the 300 strikes and you're out rule.

Couchpotato82 · 04-10-2017 09:56PM

Shocking. Absolute scum. No other word for them. Age no excuse. Lock them up for a long long time.

Are Am Eye · 04-10-2017 09:56PM

"An eye for an eye" King Hamarabi.

Autochange · 04-10-2017 10:02PM

We need to build a new prison and fill it with these parasites. Use them as slave labour to pay for services for the rest of us

lazybones32 · 04-10-2017 10:05PM

Thank God that legal aid has been granted. Those two need help.

Pkiernan · 04-10-2017 10:09PM

Just more proof that our welfare state is a cause of crime.

eviltwin · 04-10-2017 10:12PM

lazybones32 wrote: »

Thank God that legal aid has been granted. Those two need help.

I hope that's sarcasm.

BillyBobBS · 04-10-2017 10:13PM

Pkiernan wrote: »

Just more proof that our welfare state is a cause of crime.

:pac: What's this got to do with welfare?

SEPT 23 1989 · 04-10-2017 10:14PM

And people stood by and let this happen

Collie D · 04-10-2017 10:15PM

"no family member came to the proceedings for the 17-year-old boy."

Says it all really.

17 and 18...only a year younger at time if the crime. Children's court?! Definitely old enough to know better. They're not children.

Thepoet85 · 04-10-2017 10:16PM

CÃºnts

T-Maxx · 04-10-2017 10:20PM

They need to be put down. Anything else would be a waste of time and money.

Tigger · 04-10-2017 10:20PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

And people stood by and let this happen

people are afraid that they will either loose the fight defending people or winnand get sued
im still gratefull the the coos back in 2000 who ran me after i stopped a man beating a woman up inndublin city center

flaneur · 04-10-2017 10:21PM

What is an 18 year old doing in the Children's Court?

Tigger · 04-10-2017 10:24PM

flaneur wrote: »

What is an 18 year old doing in the Children's Court?

crime was commited at 17

Irish Guitarist · 04-10-2017 10:24PM

He's travelled all over the world but as soon as he gets to Dublin some scumbag shoves a bottle in his face.

There's a picture of him after the attack here. http://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/busker-left-blind-one-eye-11943265

death1234567 · 04-10-2017 10:27PM

flaneur wrote: »

What is an 18 year old doing in the Children's Court?

He was probably 17 when the attack happened.

As for them being juveniles well if someone who is a juvenile commits a crime then their legal guardian(s) should be held responsible for the crime.

It's not good enough to give feral children a get of jail free card because their legal guardians havent raised them properly. Somewhere, sometime someone was supposed to raise these children and teach them right from wrong. They failed miserably and should be held to account just much, if not more, than the kids themselves.

flaneur · 04-10-2017 10:31PM

I have to say though I find Dublin City Centre really, really intimidating and I have travelled a lot and lived in a good few places over the years.

My recent trips to Dublin.

1. Boarded Luas : Lads drinking from pint glasses and intimidating passengers.
2. Guy chasing another guy down the street with an iron bar of some sort.
3. Abuse hurled at me by some teenage girl when I was having coffee sitting outside.
4. Junkies everywhere.
5. Guy laid out, looking half dead, on the ground over by the Jervis Centre with people stepping around him.
6. Made the mistake of walking to Smithfield via streets one behind the quays and it is an absolute kip. Vacant lots, buildings looking like they were falling down, general air of threat to the place.

When I walk around most cities I know there's an obscure chance of a pick pocket, a mugger or a terrorist but when I walk around Dublin I am constantly looking out for people who might jump out and attack me.

Aspects of the city are fine but you shouldn't be wandering around with this 'dread' when you spot a stereotypical 'scumbag' (of which there are plenty) walking towards you.

I hate to say it but our capital city is and has been for years, completely out of control.
The Gardai either won't police it or don't have the resources to and the legislation or whatever is preventing proper sentencing needs to change.

Nabber · 04-10-2017 10:32PM

Why was an 18 year old at a children’s court?

Such a flawed and expensive justice system we have!

kravmaga · 04-10-2017 10:33PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

And people stood by and let this happen

In fairness the way town has gone downhill with all these ferral teenagers running amok and tooled up carrying stanley blades, would you intervene if you saw this happen if you were on your own, I dont think so.

Dyr · 04-10-2017 10:34PM

still least they're on bail...

BillyBobBS · 04-10-2017 10:38PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

He's travelled all over the world but as soon as he gets to Dublin some scumbag shoves a bottle in his face.

There's a picture of him after the attack here. http://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/busker-left-blind-one-eye-11943265

There is scumbags everywhere. I'd walk around anywhere in Dublin before i'd walk around parts of Naples, Chicago, Paris, London, Stockholm or scores of other European cities. That's not to mention the obvious s hi tholes in the middle east, Africa or South America.

Sick to death of people running down Dublin because of a few thugs. It's a great city.

PeterParker957 · 04-10-2017 10:38PM

Widdershins wrote:

It doesn't bother that girl in a wheelchair, it did bother another girl in a wheelchair, as people went to great lengths to patronisingly point out when it suited, they're not all the same. And we all have good days and bad days. She might be better off having her bad days away from the public eye, but it's not an excuse for grown adults to dine out on it when she doesn't have the sense to stay off Twitter on a bad day, or she makes a complaint they don't deem inportant

"When it suited... ". Not so. And I was speaking from experience not being patronising. Whereas you demeaned my career and pitied my clients.

BillyBobBS · 04-10-2017 10:40PM

flaneur wrote: »

I have to say though I find Dublin City Centre really, really intimidating and I have travelled a lot and lived in a good few places over the years.

My recent trips to Dublin.

1. Boarded Luas : Lads drinking from pint glasses and intimidating passengers.
2. Guy chasing another guy down the street with an iron bar of some sort.
3. Abuse hurled at me by some teenage girl when I was having coffee sitting outside.
4. Junkies everywhere.
5. Guy laid out, looking half dead, on the ground over by the Jervis Centre with people stepping around him.
6. Made the mistake of walking to Smithfield via streets one behind the quays and it is an absolute kip. Vacant lots, buildings looking like they were falling down, general air of threat to the place.

When I walk around most cities I know there's an obscure chance of a pick pocket, a mugger or a terrorist but when I walk around Dublin I am constantly looking out for people who might jump out and attack me.

Aspects of the city are fine but you shouldn't be wandering around with this 'dread' when you spot a stereotypical 'scumbag' (of which there are plenty) walking towards you.

I hate to say it but our capital city is and has been for years, completely out of control.
The Gardai either won't police it or don't have the resources to and the legislation or whatever is preventing proper sentencing needs to change.

What a load of complete and utter nonsense.

TallGlass · 04-10-2017 10:43PM

Guys lost his eye, legal costs will be into 10s of thousands, little ****s will be let off to run amuck cause more trouble.

True winners here are the legal system.

Beechwoodspark · 04-10-2017 11:11PM

Dublin is a dive and getting more dangerous by the day. Gangs of feral thugs wandering around often drunk or doped to the eyeballs looking for their next victim. Cops not bothered about sorting it out.

flaneur · 05-10-2017 12:12AM

BillyBobBS wrote: »

What a load of complete and utter nonsense.

How is the fact that every time I go to Dublin I'm basically wandering past scumbags doing scumbag stuff. I know I tend to end up in the North Inner City quite a bit when I'm there, but that is the city centre.

If you stay around the southern parts of the city centre you don't see anything like it, but the whole stretch from D1 to D7 is both in dire need of policing and investment. For a city that's had a massive property bubble and is currently going through another property boom, I have no idea how it has so many tumbledown buildings.

Are planners and Gardai just happy to accept that the entire northern half of the city centre is plunged into kipdom forever and just write it off?

Junkyard Tom · 05-10-2017 12:24AM

Dublin needs a hard-nosed Mayor with powers to filter the scum out of the city, ban them from public transport, ban them from the city centre etc.

Noveight · 05-10-2017 12:26AM

Admittedly it would achieve nothing, but those are two scumbags you'd love to see the shíte hammered out of.

Snotty · 05-10-2017 12:37AM

BillyBobBS wrote: »

Sick to death of people running down Dublin because of a few thugs. It's a great city.

No it's not, it's a complete **** hole and it's centre cannot be compared to the centre of any other western capital city, every city has slums and no go areas but they are outside the centre, Dublin problems are all in the city centre.
If I never had to go into Dublin centre again I'd be delighted.

Street Performer loses an Eye in attack

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