What do you even call this? Funeral procession joyride maybe?

There must be massive money in repeat offenders. From solicitors to judges. Revolving doors.

The people in the system seems to be content to keep things as they are.

Welcome to the real world, believe me if these scumbags descended on you or any of your family you would wise up fairly lively.

The Carl Freeman video is up on the O'Dwyer funeral directors facebook page now.

One thing is for sure: that Funeral Director loves a slow-mo shot of himself putting on his trilby hat

This is it. In a nutshell.

Why bother with the pretense of rehabilitation when you can coin from the repeat business? Most of those in the upper tiers of the legal system are rarely if ever victims of crime themselves.

The only tragedy is the car hadn't a few more in it and the slow burn wasn't even slower.

These are the worst of the worst and they deserved every minute in that car.

God forbid that any of them died instantly.

We can really see how the other half live in a situation like this. Now, some peoples kids go off the rails and there family look after them but they are ashamed of them at the same time and they'd never act like this.

Now priests, undertakers, etc have to deal with fairly tacky situations sometimes. Now I've never seen an undertaker similar this guy the drone footage, his outfits, sunglasses, no socks, his posing, chest out, etc. It's one of those strangest set up I've seen. He's like a wannabe gangster undertake. Also it's a tad strange that the main contact number for an undertaker is a mobile number in my opinion.

Jesus H Christ what a display at that funeral. And who the hell films people grieving and carrying a coffin?

The funeral video to go with the wedding video. Never heard of it before. Imagine sitting at home one night and thinking to yourself sure lets watch Johnnies funeral video. 😕

I don’t think looking cheap and tacky is looking well!

This story really "warms" my heart! It's almost poetic that these miscreants would have almost certainly be found in what is referred to as the Pugilistic Stance, given their so called "culture"...

We should all chip in and buy these lads some people carriers

Most read story on the IT today.

Everyone’s reading but no-one’s talking because everyone’s powerless!

Key sentence:

Clearly frustrated, the individual speaks of people living in a community where wrongdoers do not face the penalties they should for criminal and anti-social behaviour, while everyone else looks on, powerless.

Wild funerals are the least of their problems.

The article is careful not to smear Tallaght, making the point that it has a population as large as Galway City and quoting an (anonymous) community worker:“Most people are good, decent, wholesome people who get up and do what they must do every day for their kids.”

but it also points to the most troubled areas:

There is obvious evidence of deep-rooted social deprivation and trashed public realm – not everywhere but in significant pockets, including in parts of Kiltalown, Jobstown, Brookfield and Springfield.

The fear is palpable in this article. The clear message is that these thugs are bringing misery to their own neighbourhoods. They used the funerals to broadcast a message - "Three of us died but we are still in control and untouchable. Don't mess with us". At least they didn't desecrate the church with phony remorse. They leave that to their legal teams who prostitute themselves on a daily basis in the courts with lies about their clients "turning over a new leaf".

A pity the IT didn't get a comment from their lawyers - no shame in having a guilty client but lying to the court should get them disbarred. No mention of the Gardai, the courts, the prisons or the probation services. All those services are part of the gangsters business infrastructure. A bit like the Environmental Protection Agency for polluting industries. They do add to operating costs but their main effect is to control competition by restricting market entry, especially in the most lucrative areas - drugs and prostitution. I wonder how lucrative the burglary business can be? I suspect the main attraction is that the market is open i.e. the bigger gangs don't care because it's open season on the general population.

How many elected representatives are currently being paid to serve the people of Tallaght? I would guess more than two dozen at local, national and European levels. Not one will take a stand. Charlie O'Connor and Peter Kavanagh went on the record but only to mutter about how everyone else is staying stumm and they are just sympathising with the families. Eric Adams has got elected Mayor of NY by being tough on crime but I can't think of a single Irish politician in that mould.

Peter Murtagh is a legend among Irish journalists - he worked for the Sunday Times and the Guardian before coming home to be Editor of the Sunday Tribune.