Another ridiculous suspended sentence handed out

What a giveaway, incarcerated by a lack of punctuation. :-(

Would you have me rot in jail for the want of a full stop, even if my Biro gave out?

Methinks you would have criminal lawyers in the supertax bracket and that's just for parking offences :-(

Well I could say that "I don't dare disagree with you", but it wouldn't be true, I reckon I'd get away with it :-)

Well I was in the UK and generally my opinions would have me firmly in the "do gooder" and "friends with criminals" class often for pointing out the obvious such as the fact that if prisons were like holiday camps [a favourite], then no one would pay fines and petty crime to get to prison would rocket.

To have a thug kick a pensioners teeth out would not ever have seen any calls for leniency though, not now or in the seventies and eighties. In fact I am seriously wondering when the Tories will dangle the death penalty in front of their muppets to get re- elected, there always was a firm majority for it in Britain and like migrants arriving there, facts and common sense don't compete too well with pure hate.

So in Britain, no. Here I never locked my car or anything until very recently, so I guess there were few criminals about to be that hard on.

The horrors came with drugs it seems to me, and once again my being a "soft touch" does not extend to my feeling and desires for the disgusting animals that chemically enslave a nations youth, any nations youth, even the Brexit loving poor divils across the water :-)

We are living in more enlightened times.

In the UK, my place of residence for the last 50+ years, the police would have collared each and every one of them and given a full taste of British "justice", the thug that was dragged out would be given compensation and if he was true to form he would have no money anyway and would hardly be worth prosecuting for the initial act.

I still read the local UK paper and a lot of these thugs do have people vouching for their work record. I don't know if the magistrates or judges are taken in, but a seconds thought about the offence coupled with their past records would make this a joke.

The direct solution is no doubt the most effective and seems satisfying, unfortunately the beating might not go to plan and also there is the prospect of starting family feuds.

It sounds like a wonderful deterrent though and certainly beats those signs asking customers not to abuse staff.

I wonder if Holland and Barret had such a sign incidentally, it's common in the UK to have notices asking customers not to abuse staff.

The stroppy punters find them riveting I'm sure.

Vermin like this are just pure bad.. should be put down. Diseased

You can blame McEntee, she raised the age for “youth” offenders from 18 to 24. Another hairbrained scheme by our amazing minister for justice.

Not a suspended sentence in fairness, SFA actually (effectively). Martin Nolan - the gift that keeps on giving.

Dublin man with 'violent propensity' sentenced for attacking and robbing sex workers https://jrnl.ie/6301088

Harsh? That’s about right

Not long enough especially when their dog had attacked another child before that.

Judge Nolan strikes again!

A drug dealer runs over and kills a tourist, ah sure all you're guilty of is "human failure" now have a little tickle on the belly and don't be a bold boy again!

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-33-who-killed-french-tourist-with-his-suv-while-selling-drugs-in-dublins-city-centre-avoids-jail/a1858653620.html

Hopefully the DPP will appeal this ruling and put the killer behind bars with a lifetime driving ban too...

Time a certain judge became a political cause for the people. Cant get to him from below. Change has to come from above.