Rationalising Crime
THE TWO biggest organisations representing Garda members have expressed fears the Government may use data indicating low levels of recorded crime at most Garda stations as a charter for further...
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The video to accompany today’s ‘Crime Scene Ireland’ special in the Irish Examiner. A bad time for the non-homicidal crim’. Crime in Ireland: A snapshot of crime in every county (Irish Examiner)
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The Chief Justice Susan Denham and Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter at the presentation of The annual report of the Courts Service for 2012 in Phoenix House, Dublin Which reveals: Murder cases...
View ArticleSurvey: Sex Workers In Ireland
UglyMugs.ie is a scheme which aims to improve the safety of sex workers in Ireland and reduce crimes committed against them. It was established in 2009 and, since then, Irish sex workers have reported...
View ArticleAnything Good In The Dundalk Democrat?
(Cafe owner Stephen Egan and Dundalk Fc manager Stephen Kenny) Much like any normal day, Mr Kenny was enjoying a coffee and a read of the newspaper at Panama Cafe on the Market Square. Kenny, who is a...
View ArticleThe New York Subway, 1981
Photographer Christopher Morris’s shots of the NY subway 33 years ago – the grimy, crime-ridden, tag-covered face of what, until a crackdown by the NYPD and Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s ‘zero tolerance’...
View ArticleLive In Constant Fear And Paranoia
You know it makes sense. A information sheet to mark National ‘Crime Prevention Day of Action’ (that’s Today!) focusing on personal safety, security advice and your ‘vulnerability’. Tom writes: It’s a...
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PhD candidate in economics at University of Michigan Enda Hargaden Further to David Higgins’ number crunching… John McManus, in today’s Irish Times, writes: “Rural crime has got more to do with...
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Hello. I will be committing one petty crime a day for an entire year. Today, first one, I shoplifted a twix out of a Centra in south Dublin — One Crime A Day (@onecrimeaday) November 29, 2015 Ah here....
View ArticleI Want My MP7
The MP7 sub machine gun “The GRA are stating clearly and unambiguously this morning that we don’t have the resources and we’re seeking immediately for the introduction for the RSU in the Dublin...
View ArticleBlunt Speaking
Olaf Tyaransen (top) and independent researcher Tim Bingham speaking at a journalism conference in University College Cork this morning This morning. At University College Cork. A discussion about the...
View ArticleManufacturing Fear
The Save Our Community Meeting in the Anner Hotel Thurles, Co Tipperary last October Up to 1,500 people gathered at a meeting in Thurles on Thursday night to call for urgent reforms of bail laws to...
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This morning. Leinster House, Dublin 2 Labour TD Joan Burton (with Senator Kevin Humphries) speaking to the media about a bill for a standing commission on tax PLUS an attempted burglary at her home...
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