Scumbag Ireland

[Lionel Ritchie]

...or maybe we just institutionalised our child abuse.

Only yesterday the cops were excavating a graveyard in this country where they'd been informed a child was secretly buried over a decade ago.

Then you've the Kerry Babies...

As for "bogey man" type abduction/killings ala Soham or Sarah Paine -Try telling Philip Cairns folks this is a safer place to raise kids.

[liam88]

...or maybe we just institutionalised our child abuse.

Happend everywhere sadly

Only yesterday the cops were excavating a graveyard in this country where they'd been informed a child was secretly buried over a decade ago.

Never said it didn't happen-just said proportionally less extent.

Then you've the Kerry Babies...

Your going back to 1973 here arn't you? At the same time Britain had the babes in thw wood etc. the difference is it now has monsters like huntley, whiting etc. that Ireland has proportionaly less of

As for "bogey man" type abduction/killings ala Soham or Sarah Paine -Try telling Philip Cairns folks this is a safer place to raise kids.

You've proves your own point-all of these atrocities are at least a decade on......Britain has a lot now

[Lionel Ritchie]

Your going back to 1973 here arn't you? At the same time Britain had the babes in thw wood etc. the difference is it now has monsters like huntley, whiting etc. that Ireland has proportionaly less

1984 I think

You've proves your own point-all of these atrocities are at least a decade on......Britain has a lot now

Not so sure Liam. We don't seem to have the same headline grabbing child killers (in the same proportions). There's a few factors at play there ...geographic dispersal of population being one (but decreasingly so). The anonymity of the larger urban jungle has been a camoflaging factor for these individuals too.

There used be a time when people used look at the type of crimes your descibing taking place in the UK and say 'that's never happen here' on the basis that we were a tighter knit society with a stronger sense of community.

But if that was the case it failed a considerable number of people and in any case it's a vastly declining one here as Irish society increasingly apes it's bigger neighbour in both good and bad ways.

[Macy]

Our Taoiseach, when asked about the housing crisis in this country, pointed out (confessed even) that the hub of the problem is that the vast majority of available land banks in the country are owned, controlled and drip fed onto the market so as to keep their prices artificially high (here's the rub) by NO MORE THAN EIGHT OR NINE INDIVIDUALS.

And he's done what exactly to solve this, bar invite them in to the tent in Galway? All he has to do is put a time limit on re-zonings or give them a certain amount of time before tax is due on the increased value of the property if nothing is done. He has the power to do something about it, but is getting too many backhanders/political donations (delete as applicable) to leave the status quo in place.

[rebs23]

its not only dublin where you get mugged.
cork is 10 times worse at night.

Absolute rubbish. You really are obsessed with all things Cork. Of the 27 posts so far only one or two are not about Cork
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How about Waterford being the place with the second highest murder rate in Ireland?

[sparkey]

The English lady in question at the top of this thread who had her bags snatched after being knocked down by the bus died of her injuries on Friday. May she rest in peace.

[paul_oshea]

yes sparkey well said. horrible tragedy, made so much worse by a few scumbags actualy scumbags is too good a word for these individuals. animals. i would treat this as bad as killing someone in terms of a jail sentence. no matter what state you are in, to do that is just sick sick sick.

[sparkey]

The scumbag who mugged the now dead English lady was arrested, may the cops give him the mother of all kickings before the courts unfortunatly let him of on "probation" or something.