Another random person hospitalized after unprovoked attack in Dublin city center

In European countries the police are treated respectfully. The police national and garda civil in Spain are a good example. Plus all look fit and healthy, and yes many have tattoos. Local police also act as crossing guards at primary schools, so know children and families in area from young age and are visable in community.

In comparison, yesterday we had a garda car rear ended and then side smashed by adult thug who was given bail as he was carer in community. Total disrespect by attacker and by courts, shown to our police force.

The UK doesnt have enough prisons either.

The problem with this country is, as per your first "Now check this out" picture, if they were Gardai the 3 of them would be up on assault charges and possibly jailed. Doesn't matter what led to it. In order to get that type of force over here, you need to get the public behind you, and the Irish public won't. We may want it to, I too think that the carrot is no longer working so it's time to return to the stick, but that won't fly in modern Ireland. The holier than thou elite are too well protected and immune to these activities that they won't back a tougher approach.

This is the country the people voted for. Most of us saw it coming a mile away, but here we are with one of the softest govermnets not willing to do anything of substance about it. I don't know politics, but I do know the answer is NOT Sinn Fein, who have a history of slashing Garda funding/support.

this...dont know alot about the rest of europe but in Italy where i regularly go its the same,the Polizia and the Carabinieri all look fit, both young and older,seem to have the respect from both the locals and the judges,can be helpful to the extreme(certainly to me a few times when i got lost) you can have a bit of a laugh and joke with them but there is a line you dont cross,saw the Carabinieri in action once,two of them were trying to quieten down a few lads that were getting out of hand,the lads didnt want to be quiet,within what seemed like seconds about a dozen more Carabinieri appeared from nowhere,batons drawn,couple of swift thumps,had the lads in handcuffs and actually threw them into the back of a van,the original two Carabinieri went back to strolling around the square,every one else went back to their food and drinks,and the van and the rest of the Carabinieri disappeared...we need this here in Ireland now...

Talking to someone last week and they had to call the Gardai for scrotes who were trying all the car doors and kicking front doors on the road.

She said she was speaking to a nice Garda on the phone who said he would love to help but they have been instructed not to engage with these scrotes. He offered to send a car to drive down the road sometime later that night and that might help. Some of her neighbors had to come out and patrol the road because when they found a house with noone in they would go around the back and start kicking the back door.

They followed them for a couple of hours with the scrotes calling them names and throwing things at them and eventually they got on the last bus into town. This was a nice quiet neighborhood. Looks like they came out for the night to see what they could rob. No need to worry about the gardai.

Funny how the person who owned the farm was related to someone in government. Money got handed over and then it got abandoned.

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sounds like he has learned his lesson and is benefiting from the social care and offender centered regime in oberstown , Did he really think he was gong to get out ?

Maybe if we didn't imprison him and held his hand and gave him hugs he would be different!

More faciliteez surely could have done the job.

Can this Youth be named after he Turns 18 ?

What is the point you are trying to make?

Every man and his dog know that it is very difficult to get to sent to prison in Ireland and there are people with scores of convictions still walking the streets.

We absolutley need more prison spaces to get these people off the streets and deter others.

People only commit the crimes we allow them to. We are simply too soft and are under resourced with prison space.

not likely...sure they celebrate those wee degnerates