Shooting in Carlow

Its using terms like "loser" that can be a trigger for people with low esteem or mental health issues.

As we don't have much personal information on the person who carried it out, using emotive and degrading names such as "loser" is not appropriate.

This person committed suicide. He did not harm anyone else and neither did he set out to harm anyone else.

There was something obviously going on in his head that he felt he was unable to talk about / work out and decided to take his own life. Society has an issue if people cannot talk and part of society's problem is calling people names to brand them in such a way that is inhuman.

Unfortunately, mental health services in Ireland are dreadful unless you have private heath insurance and can get access to John of Gods or St Patrick's. The gardai in particular have little training or understanding and will treat those with mental heath issues as criminals rather than see if there is a way to correct the state of mind.

In this case Gardai knew this person had a fascination with guns and explosives. He had to sign on once a day as the primary part of his bail. - It would have been better if the bail had him attend a psychiatrist once a fortnight as a condition.

He was ill. He and no person that commits suicide is ever a loser.

This has got absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the right to a fair trial and the hyperbole is ridiculous. Unless you actually think everyone should get bail, you will always have the possibility of someone being remanded in custody who will ultimately not be convicted.

Actually, given that you mention appeals, does that mean nobody can be jailed until after they have exhausted all routes of appeal, either?

At a bail hearing it's up to the judge to decide based on the circumstances whether bail is appropriate. The Gardai will often object because of the seriousness of the charges, flight risk or other reasons.

The wrong decision was made this time. The justice system failed to protect the public (and, arguably, protect this guy from himself)

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Pretty decent podcast on stopping mass shootings and the type of characters that carry it out.

would that include one of his parents?

Not a fan, a sweaty meat. However years later I tried marinaded rabbit in Malta where it's a bit of a national dish and it was actually very tasty.

Nothing though was as fowl smelling as my granny frying eel, it smelt like burning rubber!

The comments by Judge Zaidan today are all a bit mad. He seems to have warned journalists against reporting on the fact that he is the one that granted bail to the guy. Passing blame to Gardai for not objecting to bail at the time.

"This judge or no judge in Ireland has the power to go behind that. They'd be running to the High Court if I did. Once gardaí consent to bail, it must be granted, amen.

"Please report sensibly. Please tread carefully," he said.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0604/1516630-carlow-disinformation/

wtf

Of course. It's an utterly bizarre thing for the judge to come out with!

If they were dual or single licensed,and/or deliberately or accidently left him have access to the firearm,by not securing it properly in a way,he would have no access to it or even removing it from the property and putting it in a gun dealers for example until this was all sorted out.

Then yes they could be looking at some serious trouble.Allowing unauthorised access to firearms and ammo.If this is the case that you are implying in so many words.I'm surprised the aGS then didn't revoke whosoever else had a license in that address and demand the gun be put in storage or surrenderd. That is a major blunder then by aGS if that happened.

You dont know what you are missing then!

This morning I saw a Virgin News screenshot of a tabloid article headed Cops Seize USB Key Belonging To Carlow Shooter

Edit: From Indo, paywalled.

Gardaí investigating a shooting incident involving Carlow gunman Evan Fitzgerald (22) have seized a USB device discovered at his friend’s home on the day Fitzgerald shot up a shopping centre.

The flash drive was placed in a secure bag and duct-taped to the friend’s bedroom window before being discovered on Sunday.

A lot of people in Ireland don't realise that its perfectly legal to own rifles/shotguns. Even more don't realise that its perfectly legal to own handguns.

Anyone can access the dark web and buy whatever they like. It's not rocket science

Yeah,very easy if you have a TOR browser,know a specific address,and know how to cover and delete your footprint and search logs and are a dab hand at bitcoin accounts and a few other things to survive in the basically the deep Mariana Trench of the internet,where all sorts of horrors lurk.

I'll hazard a guess that the parcel was intercepted by customs and didn't have a valid return address on it. Making a controlled delivery doesn't mean they knew where the parcel came from.