Navan- disgusting homophobic attack on schoolboy

Absolutely disgusting. All sorts of rumours about what led to it, some dubious claims. Regardless, there is zero excuse for any human to lay hands on another like that. Animals. Hope the lad makes a full recovery.

While it was a reprehensible attack it's nothing that doesn't happen every day across the country outside schools ,the school will release a statement saying how they are an inclusive are and take a Zero tolerance to bullying ,the guards will go quite and no charges will be brought and it will be referred back to the school to deal with,the victim might get to make a statement about how they don't feel safe anymore and the Story will disappear in a few days,

The school will refer several for some restorive practice.....

Reading some of the comments on this and it seems that when the parents first reported it to the gardai they were told by the gardai that they had better things to do. Now whether that is true or not, I am hoping it's not true but if it is the Gardai have questions to answer as well as to why the parents were dismissed when they first reported it. As for the people involved in this they should be removed from the school and should be charged. Disgusting.

I've found unedited video of the attack, the male victim has pink hair big fuckin deal pink hair and theres roughly 12 or 14 youths aged 14ish-older taking vids and doing the beat down. Most aren't locals, the kicks in the face he gets are from a local kid aged about 14 with blonde hair. It's pretty nasty but I think he was set up by his own, if thats your pal you go in feet and fists first take no prisoners defending him. Nobody defended him.

What then? Send them to Bakhmut to fight real Big-B Bullies?

There's a big difference between two school lads settling it out with a few punches (seen it plenty of times, it's still wrong, but often those lads are fine with each other after) and a group of lads targeting a particular individual and landing them in hospital.

The bullying thing is scary as back in my day, bully's were confined to schools, but thanks to social media, they can be so insidious and right inside your home.

The only solution I can see is to bring a hammer down on lads and girls like this. They have been educated on this, they know its wrong, but they also feel there is no consequences to their actions because they feel the law protects them and not their victim.

Very shocking video.

Feel very bad for the kid beaten.

I see the school has turned off comments on their facebook and twitter accounts.

To ask you what you yourself mean when you say teenagers should be punished worse than adults? Feel free to elucidate.

Yes that's the part I'd like to understand what you mean by.

What’s his ethnicity?

Irish I reckon.