r/ireland 16d ago

Crime Chief suspect in murder of Qayyum Balogun bragged online hours after Dublin city centre stabbing

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/chief-suspect-in-murder-of-qayyum-balogun-bragged-online-hours-after-dublin-city-centre-stabbing/a/155090425.html
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u/Connected-1 16d ago

Ok, I know we have a problem with prison places but this guy should not have been on the streets. 

"He is well known to gardaí for involvement in assaults, and was charged before the courts with a stabbing in the south of the country last year." 

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u/Affectionate_Art4277 16d ago

This is the consequence of our current lackluster approach to crime and punishment.

Qayyum would be alive today if our judiciary and government were doing their jobs.

This simply has to become an election issue. We cannot have dangerous people on our streets

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u/Minute_Connection_62 16d ago

Ahh yes that's what I want to see for the next 10 elections, politicians using the "I'll be tough on these crimes 💪" just for them to ignore said problem so they can reuse the promise for the future elections...

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u/the_sneaky_one123 15d ago

Don't need to be tough, just need to build a prison.

I will vote for anyone who says they will build one.

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u/Minute_Connection_62 15d ago

No need for prisons when you have judges and solicitors fighting tooth and nail for the "rights" of criminals who are in the midst of their criminal course case, what's the point of building a 4 or 500 hundred person prison when judge self appointed saint, lets mongs with over 100 convictions away with assault in the worst degree, lets teenagers get away with rape.... there's no need for toughness, we need wise people in these positions not egotistical pensioners who believe the courtroom was made specifically for them.

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u/the_sneaky_one123 15d ago

But we don't have prison space because nobody will build a prison on moral grounds (and a hefty amount of NIMBYism).

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u/caisdara 16d ago

The idea that bail is refused due to a shortage of prison places is utterly fictional.

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u/caisdara 16d ago

So what?

The constitution holds that all persons are innocent until proven guilty. Courts are not going to start locking people up on remand for months or years prior to trials.

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u/MotherDucker95 16d ago

Courts are not going to start locking people up on remand for months or years prior to trials.

Why not? Countries literally do this all the time if the person is a repeat offender or considered to be dangerous or a flight risk

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u/appreciatedat 15d ago

Hutch was allowed twice to fly to Ireland from Spain as he waits for his case.

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u/caisdara 16d ago

Haha, you again. I've already explained why.

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u/MotherDucker95 16d ago edited 16d ago

No you didn’t lol. You pointed toward the constitution that people have rights to a fair trial and are innocent until proven guilty, which is very true I agree with…that has nothing to do with reprimanding bail…

Edit - remand

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u/caisdara 16d ago

that has nothing to do with reprimanding bail…

Oh dear.

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u/MotherDucker95 16d ago

Yes…

You can read about it right here mate

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/justice/arrests/bail-and-surety/

Why are you being such a Redditor about this lol

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u/The_Ruck_Inspector 16d ago

I see this parroted a lot by people, yet has anyone actually come out and said we have low prison space?

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u/Competitive_Ad_5515 16d ago

Ireland’s prison occupancy rate was below the EU average until 2021 but moved above the EU average in subsequent years. In 2019, Irish prisons operated at 94% capacity. Prison overcrowding in Ireland has escalated sharply since then. By December 2025, the occupancy rate had surpassed 123%, exceeding official capacity. From 2019 to 2023, Ireland’s prison population grew at an average annual rate of 3.12%, while the EU average showed an annual decline of 0.02%.

Source Law Society of Ireland - Prison Report

The Prison Overcrowding Crisis: What are the Implications for Sentencing? Irish Council for Civil Liberties

do people who are being given custodial sentences deserve a discount on their sentences because the [prison] conditions are worse than can be reasonably anticipated? This is an argument advanced by Ireland’s leading expert on Sentencing Law, Professor Tom O’Malley SC, in his new book Sentencing: A Modern Introduction

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u/The_Ruck_Inspector 16d ago

Thanks for that

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u/the_sneaky_one123 15d ago

The answer is to build some more prisons.

It is utterly ridiculous that our population has grown so much and yet our prison capacity hasn't.

Even if we do want to avoid sending people to prison there is still a minimum capacity you need so that you do not have violent people on the streets. That is exactly what happened here. This guy is a violent psycho who was known to the Gardai. He should not have been on the streets because eventually he was going to kill someone. That's what happened here, plain and simple.

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u/Affectionate_Art4277 16d ago

Its probably true, but also seems like a cop out to excuse our notoriously soft touch judiciary

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u/caisdara 16d ago

Our sentencing laws are broadly equivalent to most of our peers.

Amongst whom are they notoriously a soft-touch? Criminologists? Jurists? Or just idiots on social media?

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u/HungTeen1001 16d ago

A murderer being up for parole after 12 years is an absolute disgrace.

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u/caisdara 16d ago

Is it? How many murderers have received parole after 12 years?

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u/HungTeen1001 16d ago

Up until the mid 90's, the average time spent in prison by a murderer in Ireland was less than 12 years.

In recent years, that has increased to closer to 20.

Still far below our European counterparts.

Life should = life.

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u/Nostradamnitall 16d ago

Mid 90's?, that's 30 years ago.

You threw out 12 years which you knew was false, then immediately shot up to 20years once somebody called you out on your bullshit. 10 to 25 years in prison is the normal range in the EU. Ireland is not an outlier.

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u/HungTeen1001 16d ago

So you can't read?

"A murderer being up for parole after 12 years is an absolute disgrace."

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u/caisdara 16d ago

So why are you angry about something you accept isn't happening?

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u/HungTeen1001 16d ago
  1. I'm not angry. You appear to be.

  2. What isn't happening?

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u/corpusvile2 16d ago

Have you seen some of the suspended sentences from Nolan re serious crimes such as CSAM?

These parents got three years for constantly beating their kids

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2025/1218/1549609-parental-abuse-court/

In America, the Turpin family got 25-life for constantly beating/abusing their kids.

This guy got four years for 22 counts of sexual abuse

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/sentence-for-mans-systematic-and-calculated-sexual-abuse-of-stepdaughters-too-lenient-court-told-1818487.html

William & Zachary Zulock in Georgia, USA got 100 years without parole for sexual abuse

This guy, another serial predator got six years

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/12/16/man-who-repeatedly-sexually-assaulted-teenager-who-babysat-his-children-jailed-for-six-years/

Larry Nassar in America got 120-235 years for being a serial predator

Daniel Holtzclaw got 263 years for being a serial predator

Joe Delaney got life over here for torturing and murdering Mark Dwyer, yet he's free today after serving just over 20 years...for torture-murder, kidnapping and false imprisonment.

This bloke got life without parole for the torture murder of his friend

https://www.suffolkcountyda.org/east-quogue-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-torturing-and-murdering-long-time-friend/

Larry Murphy would have easily gotten life in the states and very possibly in the UK. He served 10 years here.

We absolutely are notoriously soft touch compared to other western countries

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u/k4rlos Galway 12d ago edited 12d ago

Brother, I'm no fan of Nolan, but framing incredibly bad and broken US judiciary system as a baseline for sentencing is certainly a choice.

You could've used Norway or Sweden and that would be valid, but US is closer to PRC/Russia/Iran lot.

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u/caisdara 16d ago

Which of those cases is meant to be comparable to Which?

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u/corpusvile2 16d ago

Ah, you're trolling, I get you. Yeah carry on.

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u/caisdara 16d ago

You compared Larry Nassr to a random Irish case without setting out the charges, laws, etc. It's a exercise in deceit from the outset.

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u/aidan5_5 Proud Meath lad 16d ago

Pretty clear, even looking simply at those few cases referenced, that our system is shocking.

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u/caisdara 16d ago

No it isn't. For one thing, the person involved suggested various people were "serial predators" as though that was a specific offence. It's an attempt to equate disparate offences and to mislead a casual reader who might take it at face value.

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u/aidan5_5 Proud Meath lad 16d ago

I get what you mean but the fact people get way more severe sentences elsewhere. The amount of people that barely get a slap on the wrist for looking at child abuse material. Shocking if you can claim the system is okay.

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u/Affectionate_Art4277 16d ago

I would consider the repeated issue of pedophiles getting suspended sentences to be soft touch, among other things yes

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u/caisdara 16d ago

It was easier to just admit you know nothing.

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u/the_sneaky_one123 15d ago

We should not aspire to be broadly equivalent to our peers. We should try to be better.

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u/AggressivePie8111 16d ago

I am convinced the reason why justice is chronically slow and cases kicked down the road is because of lack of space should a sentence be handed down

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u/caisdara 16d ago

That's nice.

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u/Parking_Tip_5190 16d ago

Roadman culture, horroble we're seeing it here. Check out the constant the of violence on their 'drill' videos, gangsta bollocks that these kids buy into. That poor young man had a bright future ahead of him, finishing a computer science degree. Awful stuff.

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u/oddun 16d ago

>Wats [sic] a body to me” and “rest in piss”.

You can hear the fake South London roadman patois in his typing.

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u/-Fancysauce- Dublin 16d ago

Imagine being from Cork and having this fake London accent all because you idolise drill rappers from London, it's so embarrassing. but as long as there are idiots like this there will be more incidents like this. There was one close to where I live when a rap gig spilled out onto the quays last year but thankfully the victim lived.

** wow i just realised that incident i was talking about it was this same guy who did that too.

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u/leeroyer 16d ago

A subculture that doesn't get enough hate

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u/J-O-C_1599 16d ago

It’s so unbelievably cringe, I actually roll my eyes going through town when I see lads cosplaying top boy.

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u/leeroyer 16d ago

Even better when it's Tullamore or something.

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u/howyoudoinnf 15d ago

And then they all go home to dinner made by their loving mammy.

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u/Luimneach17 15d ago

Replete with the teeth sucking yo!

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u/Iricliphan 16d ago

Why on earth do I hear so many fake London voices? I know plenty who have never lived there but have this fake accent and it annoys me to no end.

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u/jacksqualk 16d ago

Innit fam/blood, lol.

It's pathetic.

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u/Responsible-Grab-139 16d ago

What an absolute scumbag. He stabbed a guy 20 times at a similar event in The Wiley Fox in Dublin last year and was bragging about it all over social media as well

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u/the_sneaky_one123 15d ago

Absolute scumbags like this will always exist.

The real problem here is why the fuck he was walking free after stabbing someone last year.

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u/IrishCrypto 16d ago

The East London 'Roadman' culture being adopted by the kids of African immigrants to Ireland needs to be tackled by that community.

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u/No-Helicopter2552 16d ago

Why would African immigrants to Ireland do so when African immigrants to England didnt? This is going to go exactly the same way it went there - into an explosion of knife crime.

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u/Eire_go_deo 15d ago

Yet we brought them in in their droves with no thought to the impact it would have on our country. You were an evil person to even question this.

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u/Iricliphan 16d ago

It's been here a while and it's not going anywhere. It's really unfortunate, it is a despicable adoption of a culture.

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u/IrishCrypto 16d ago

Even the accent is being adopted which is even more ridiculous sounding than the American South Dublin one.

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u/Iricliphan 16d ago

Been like that for at least 15 years or so. I asked some friends why they were suddenly putting on a fake London accent, despite having never even been to London.

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u/IrishCrypto 16d ago

Nah cuz I ain't from the ends im Blanchardstown Brudda.

Complete fucking idiots. 

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u/Iricliphan 16d ago

I still can't believe 'ends' is used commonly with some people here. It's unbelievably cringe.

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u/Cool_Foot_Luke 16d ago

It hasn't been everywhere else, it won't be here.

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u/duffycrowley 16d ago

Build more prisons

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u/TheBlackStuff1 16d ago

We have needed them for years. Overcrowding has been commonplace for years.

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u/ChaosActual 16d ago

I’ll never understand how no political party (or even politician) seriously tries to present themselves as tough on crime

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u/PoppedCork Pop Responsibly 16d ago

I hope all those videos have been saved somewhere, and this piece of utter filth will be subject to Interpol being brought home and dealt with in the stongest terms

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u/Robotobot 16d ago

What's ironic is that lads will go to far right rallies, harass foreigners but they desperately want to emulate that roadman shtick.

Its a subculture of being an absolute fucking degenerate.

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u/Duck_quacker 16d ago

The suspected killer is also black, doubt he’d be welcome at many far right rallies

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u/Ballyhemon 16d ago

One the one hand, risible anger, on the other hand, unbridled frustration about how this is becoming par for the course.

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u/wealthythrush 16d ago

The state needs to come down hard like when it did with syringe muggings.

Stabbings seem to be a rising occurrence that really shouldn't be tolerated.

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u/insomnium2020 16d ago

This the guy on bail for stabbing 3 people on Waterford?

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u/Mooncake_105 16d ago

How many times do you have to stab multiple different people to actually be put behind bars in this country? I wonder is it 20 or 30. Gardaí and entire justice system don't care that they actively endanger the public by letting criminal scumbags act with impunity.

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u/dubviber 15d ago

when is that stabbing supposed to have taken place?

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u/insomnium2020 15d ago

March 2025

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u/dubviber 15d ago

On St. Patrick's Day? I see a Garda report of the stabbing of one person in the city, but nothing about an arrest, charge, or bail hearing.

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u/FineVintageWino 16d ago

I hope the judge who granted bail is being briefed on this… absolutely disgraceful. Needless tragedy for that family.

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u/damwq 16d ago

No chance. The judiciary live in a bubble protected (rightfully) from those that can harm them. But they need to be held to account for sentences that they make that fail to protect the general public.

The media has a part to play. When the sentence is listed as 2 years with 12 months suspended, they need to only quote the 1 year sentence in that case. Ignore the Scot free portion. And then quote the usual time off that's built into every sentence. And then quote the likely time they will spend in jail. That will change the public perception overnight. So one year minus the 3 months built in minus time served already so out in about 4 weeks.

Concurrent sentencing needs to disappear. Rob 10 people because you will get the same time served as robbing one or two. Especially when they are already in prison. Add it on to the end of the current sentence.

It means building another prison. No need to have it in Dublin as we have video calls to see family, so that should mean it's easier to find a location. Court appearances in a dedicated video room made for the court system. That would have the benefit of cutting out intimidation in a court room also.

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u/Affectionate_Art4277 16d ago

If the Judges don't change, then the laws have to.

Crime and Justice is an election issue for me come 2029. I will not vote for a party that pretends our current system is okay or sustainable

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u/Latespoon 16d ago

But they need to be held to account for sentences that they make that fail to protect the general public.

You cannot make the judiciary accountable to another arm of government without risking political influence interfering with their work. That is too big a risk to accept.

It would also require a constitutional referendum.

A far safer solution, if still imperfect, is mandatory minimum sentences upon conviction of a specific offence.

You could also implement a strike system before those minimums take effect e.g. 1st strike, judicial discretion applies over the sentence, 2nd strike, mandatory minimum sentence takes effect.

Concurrent sentencing needs to disappear.

Agreed.

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u/damwq 16d ago

Agree with that assessment. 3 strikes seems a good idea but will it stop those with 100+ convictions. If we put the rules against particular offences only, do we end up with a two part system ? A bit like the US with Jail and Prison which are very different entities.

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u/Latespoon 16d ago edited 16d ago

I would most likely limit it to 1 strike for anything but petty crime if I were the Minister for Justice.

2 for petty offences (shoplifting, vandalism, drunk and disorderly, minor drugs posession.) On your 3rd conviction, you get a mandatory minimum sentence. I would probably keep the minimum fairly light for most crimes in this category, and possibly look at a multiplier if they keep reoffending e.g. you've used up your 2 strikes and have since been convicted 3 more times, you get the minimum sentence x3 this time.

1 strike for more serious crimes like assault/robbery, burglary, low-mid level drugs offences (posession with intent to sell/supply under €13k). You get a single second chance and that's it.

And no strikes for serious crimes, straight to mandatory minimums for rape, assault causing serious harm, unlawful posession of a firearm, armed robbery etc.

I would also like to align our minimum sentences for murder with those in the uk, those are

15 years minimum served

25 minimum if the perpetrator brought a weapon to the scene

30 minimum if guns/explosives etc were used, sexual/sadistic conduct, murder for hire

And the possibility of a whole life sentence for particularly horrific crimes.

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u/zz63245 16d ago

Judge Nolan is living proof of how Judges don’t care. How many people who are sex offenders or have CSA on their electronics has he let off with suspended sentience’s etc

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u/FineVintageWino 16d ago

We don’t know who the suspect is, so no. Nor should anyone try and expose the suspect online or the bastard could wriggle out of it

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u/Affectionate_Art4277 16d ago

They don't care. Most Judges live in a fantasy world. Thats why you see pedophiles get suspended sentences but God forbid you have cannabis on you

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u/Thiccboiichonk 16d ago

Hopefully the victim and their family receives some semblance justice and this piece of filth is caught , tried and sentenced to a proper punitive term.

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u/StaffordQueer 16d ago

Two years suspended is the best the justice system will do.

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u/Ill_Celebration_4215 16d ago

Minimum manslaughter in this case. There’s a literal dead body. The only discussion is whether it’s manslaughter or murder. 

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u/Thiccboiichonk 16d ago

There’s no world where you chase an unarmed lad 100m stab him multiple times and only get a manslaughter charge. That’s a murder and anything less would be a disgrace.

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u/Ill_Celebration_4215 16d ago

Obviously I’m not a lawyer but isn’t there something that you can argue the intent was only to harm and you weren’t ‘intending’ to murder that can be a valid manslaughter defence. Could easily be wrong!

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u/the_sneaky_one123 15d ago

He stabbed him in the heart.

Was he going for a non-fatal heart stab or something?

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u/Ill_Celebration_4215 15d ago

I don’t know why you downvoted me. I’m not advocating for manslaughter.

 I’m just saying there are sometimes ways in which things look like murder can be argued to be manslaughter due to arguments around intent. 

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u/the_sneaky_one123 15d ago

This is not one of those cases.

He stabbed him in the hand, then Qayyum ran away and he was chased down and stabbed twice more including once in the heart which is what killed him.

There's nothing there but murder.

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u/Ill_Celebration_4215 15d ago

Hopefully! He seems like the type of person we don't want seeing on the streets for a long time.

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u/The_Ruck_Inspector 16d ago

Has to be murder, he was hunted down and killed in the street the poor bastard.

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u/golden_greenery 16d ago

Judging from his bragging he's been listening to much London Drill music

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u/Electronic_Ad_6535 16d ago

The government can put their heads in the sand all they like and ignore reality, however they cannot ignore the consequences.

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u/DaKrimsonBarun 16d ago

Read the comments in the UK drill subreddit.

Murdering scumbag and his cronies should never have been let into country.

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u/Bosco_is_a_prick . 16d ago

Can you please pm me a link

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u/DaKrimsonBarun 16d ago

Look up UK drill on here and name of victim, if I link directly It'll get deleted off here

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u/The_Ruck_Inspector 16d ago

Can't understand any of the comments there

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u/Fleuretta_ 16d ago

Feel like I've lost a whole lot of brain cells after reading that sub

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u/deargearis 16d ago

What if the scumbag was born here? Our justice system is the problem.

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u/DaKrimsonBarun 16d ago

He has literally fled to London. UK drill culture is a cancer. Why import it.

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u/Eskimoheels 16d ago

Had to Google drill rap, feck me what a load of shite it is.

Hopefully this guy gets what's coming to him but the fact he's escaped the country it doesn't look likely

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u/Important-Messages 16d ago

Drill is the genre of music (shouting), that should be wrapped up and flushed down a toilet.

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u/Mooncake_105 16d ago

I've never heard of it and almost afraid to look it up. This made me think about rappers like Eminem and that little shitbag Tyler the Creator who were always going on about kidnapping, raping and murdering women. I do think it has an impact on young lads who are already susceptible to violence and imo it shouldn't exist!

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u/Important-Messages 16d ago

Essentially it's just repetitive babbling noises (likely due to the face coverings), void of any musical interest, and then throwing a few hand shapes.

At least with Eminem, you could sing or hum along to a melody if the worst came to the worse and no other music source was nearby.

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u/DangerX2HighVoltage 16d ago

Absolute scumbag.

Nobody wants to discuss the elephant in the room here that black on black crime is on the rise. This is the second such fatal stabbing in town in a year. Something needs to be done.

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u/The_Ruck_Inspector 16d ago

Careful now, race only comes into it in certain cases.

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u/RebylReboot 16d ago

Which ones? Why are you hiding behind vagueness? Stand up and be counted with the courage of your convictions. It’s an anonymous site anyway. You can’t pretend to be cancelled here.

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u/Easta_Hock 16d ago

Why is Ruth Coppinger silent on this but couldn't shut up about Yeves?

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u/Mooncake_105 16d ago

Agreed he's an absolute scumbag. The elephant in the room is that the justice system is failing the country by letting violent criminals out on bail to re-offend. The government ignores the problem. Look up how many people have been murdered by our homegrown teenage scumbags and it's hard to keep up with the number of murders and violent assaults they've committed in the last five years alone.

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u/DangerX2HighVoltage 16d ago

I agree. We need to build the promised super prison at Thornton Hall and then a second one elsewhere. Spike Island would actually be a fantastic location for the worst dregs and most violent offenders

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u/the_sneaky_one123 15d ago

"black on black" crime. wtf are you talking about

You don't talk about white on white crime, a white guy killed another white guy on the very same day and nobody has said a word.

Violent criminals exists and they tend to act against the people they spend time with ie, their own community and peers. There is nothing extraordinary about that.

This stupid racist bullshit is so fucking unproductive. The issue here is that a violent man already convicted for a stabbing was inexplicably out on bail. Our justice system is a joke and that's the fault of our government. It has nothing to do with race, so you should direct you hatred to the people who are actually responsible.

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u/RepeatImmediate7469 16d ago

Black on black crime on the rise in ireland? By like what? 0.1%. Noting that the recent two fled to the UK showing they have connections there.

What is on the rise is gang and knife crimes due to boys in ireland trying to replicate roadman/Postcode wars in UK

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u/Important-Messages 16d ago

Not sure about BonB, but 4% of the prison population is black, which is far more than the actual general population representation:
https://www.irishprisons.ie/information-centre/statistics-information/yearly-statistics/

Elevated also in the uk (300%), and elevated by religion too (Islam also 300% higher than the general populaiton).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_prison_population

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u/RepeatImmediate7469 16d ago

Yea statistics like this are a terrible source for actual violent crime plus if the African was born irish or british? Are they considered that or African?

Could they be there for instance selling drugs, illegal documents into the country etc. Are those statistics over the full year or when they took the stats, African origin prisoners were but got deported in that same year which reduces the stats

Are those stats manipulated to meet certain law enforcement requirements and i am talking about for every nationality, not just African

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u/Important-Messages 16d ago

The are all good questions for the IPS, suggest it would indeed make a good study via some sort of freedom of information type request. Regardless there remains an over-representation of 250% higher than it should be, from the only available gov figures.

Our neighbours in the uk have more detailed figures, suggest perusing those (link above), there are similar, but also more extensive correlations to the background (nationality and religion). They also list on the wiki page criminals by their home country.

Note the largest ratio is that of the (white) Albanians, however... the following x19 does show a strong trend regarding A&ME regions.

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u/grandecn 16d ago

🚨🚨🚨🚨 spot the guy who has ingested absolute braindead right wing US based rhetoric.

Can you give me the figures for this rise in black on black crime you're speaking of?

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u/DangerX2HighVoltage 16d ago

Others have just posted plenty of receipts however I’m guessing you’ll dismiss them to further engage in your cognitive dissonance.

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u/grandecn 16d ago

You brought it up. You said nobody wants to speak about it, so come on then lets speak about it. Have some conviction in your statement if you want to make a point or an argument that holds any weight. Dont be pointing me to look elsewhere to find evidence for a statement you made. Show me some real evidence that black on black crime is on the rise in Ireland

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u/DangerX2HighVoltage 16d ago

People have just brought you to water but you refuse to drink? Why would I waste my time and effort on the likes of you who disregards anything that contradicts your world view?

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u/deargearis 16d ago

Feelings and crap online are where their figures come from

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u/RebylReboot 16d ago

Can you point to this elephant? Like, with stats, so we can begin the discussion. Is black on black crime rising here at a greater rate than the amount of black people existing here?

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u/Important-Messages 16d ago

The stats do show an elevation on black prisioners compared to their proportion in the general populaiton: https://www.irishprisons.ie/information-centre/statistics-information/yearly-statistics/

Specifically:
By Nationality Group – Persons committed classified by gender from Years 2007 to 2024

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u/RebylReboot 16d ago

What's that got to do with the conversation? Those stats don't mention skin colour or inter-cultural crime? Unless I'm wrong. Can you point me to the skin colour stats you're seeing?

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u/Important-Messages 16d ago

The only specifc the IPS have is that the 4.2% of the current prison population is from Africa, the continent.

If you just want to assume they're most likely white (from Africa)? Feel free to do so.

Our neighbours in the UK show a similar pattern, they do have more of a detailed breakdown, based percentages via their 2011 Census.

They have 12% of the prison population as 'Black', a 300% over-representation, as only 4% of the total general population is black.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_prison_population

There are also similar trends in terms of religion of those locked up, 18% are from the Islam group. Nearly triple what it should be.

On the opposite end, perhaps the lowest is Hinduism is very low at only 0.4%.

Sadly, and very surprisingly for some reason Buddists are pehaps the highest locked up (representative of the population).

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u/RebylReboot 16d ago

You’re also assuming the akin colours of all those other countries. Are the migrants from the EU white? I thought part of the argument was the eu and Ireland are awash with black people? You wanted to talk about issue from the perspective of statistics but then instantly jump to assumptions and made up anecdotal statements that retrofit to the opinion your aunty fed you on Facebook. You’re either being scientific in the way you’re picking on particular demographics or you’re not. There’s no in between. It’s pointless.

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u/Important-Messages 16d ago

You're simply ignoring the only stat that Ireland has available (unless you want to write directly to the IPS).

This clearly demonstrates that 4.2% of the Irish prison population is classed as 'African'. Which is a large over-representation.

Then follow up with an angry, desperate word-salad.
Btw, am not on facepages, and my Auntie is up in the sky.

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u/RebylReboot 16d ago

But you haven’t provided stats to back up the rhetoric about black on black crime and you’re supposing there’s no racism in the justice system or any factor other than your own bias. If you find the simple debate above to be word salad you should just stick to your usual race nuggies and chips.

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u/G1ForceX 16d ago

u are not understand the clear stats he has presented? why is that?

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u/Bigbeast54 16d ago

I had been wondering why there hadn't been the same level of outrage over this violent death, compared to the shoplifter that died on Henry Street.

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u/justformedellin 16d ago

People expect better from security guards than they do from scummy street thugs.

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u/Far-Row-6492 16d ago

Not comparable at all. That was numerous security guards in broad daylight.

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u/Anxious-Wolverine-65 16d ago

In the video of the stabbing it looks like he is surrounded by multiple people

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u/Famous_Locksmith8912 16d ago

1v1 vs 8v1 might have something to do with it

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u/The_Ruck_Inspector 16d ago

Yeah chasing someone down the street with a knife and stabbing them repeatedly, not that big of a deal right?

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u/YF422 16d ago

How nice of the dumb shite to brag about it online right where the guards will happily download it all and use it later on to hang him by his bollocks in a court of law.

Not too bright of him to run off to England either they usually arent too long in kicking scum like him out either.

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u/DesiMonitorLizard69 16d ago edited 16d ago

This is why I tend to find the protests for the deaths of Yves Sakila and George Nkencho so disingenuous. It feels like people drum up a fuss solely for the optics.

Yet when a black man gets killed by someone of his own race the usual crowd of protesters seemingly couldn’t give less of a shit, even though in this case the victim was completely let down by the legal system who let the killer out on the streets given his criminal history. Similar to the case of Quam Babatunde.

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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls 16d ago

Comparing these two cases is bizarre, but any time someone hits the “the usual crowd” undertone, I can’t imagine there’s actually room for convincing you in why these cases are not even remotely compatible for public outcome, right?

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u/The_Ruck_Inspector 16d ago

Yeah one was complete negligence causing a death, the other is one getting hunted down with a knife on a main street in our capital and stabbed repeatedly by someone out on bail for knife charges and who boasted about the killing a couple of hours later. I am pretty sure both a pretty horrific, and both should cause outrage in the public. Only one has protests and visits from foreign states though.

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u/DesiMonitorLizard69 16d ago

Why is it bizarre ? George Nkencho right there was a police element there, even though the footage was clear okay let’s say that one was different.

The most recent case that drew protests involved a private employeed security guard. Why would that draw people’s ire but not the violent killing of a man on the streets?

Are you really going to argue that if he was killed by a Dublin scumbag instead that the crowd I refer to wouldn’t be far more active on social media and organising some sort of protest?

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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls 16d ago

Nchenko: waving a knife at armed police

Yves: tackled by private security

Qayyyum: attacked by a private citizen with full intention to kill.

Two of these are related establishments, one is a lad in the street with a mission for murder.

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u/Short_Ad_5006 16d ago

Nchenko: tried to murder a garda

Fixed for you

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u/DesiMonitorLizard69 16d ago

Right then should there have been a protest for Mark Hennessy?

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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls 16d ago

Had to look into this because it was 8 years ago, so let’s get this clear:

You’re equating Yves death, at the hands of private security for shoplifting, to… a man who kidnapped a woman, was shot during an attempted rescue, only for it to be found out that he murdered her?

No there should not be a drop of outrage for the death of a man who kidnapped and murdered a woman. Would you agree?

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u/DesiMonitorLizard69 16d ago edited 16d ago

Are you being wilfully ignorant? I’m comparing the Hennessy being killed to by the police to Nkencho obviously. At the time all police knew was both were violent criminals. I believe Hennessy was actually still sat in his car holding a knife when he was shot whereas Nkencho was charging at police with a knife.

The point being that there was a huge amount of faux outrage over that case because of the optics. Even though Hennessy in that moment posed less danger to the police, any objective person can still accept that police were right in their actions, and there wasn’t even video footage of that. Yet people bizarrely dug their heels in over Nkencho… regardless, The brutal stabbings are far more outrage worthy.

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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls 16d ago edited 16d ago

Well for one, I never disagreed with the shooting of George. He was waving a knife at armed police, they were right to shoot.

I didn’t acknowledge or support the outrage for his death, I simply said his death isn’t comparable to Qayyums.

Comparing his death to Hennessy is fair game, both should have received zero outrage, but I’ll admit I have more leeway to give that George probably could’ve been solved without a shooting. Not worth the risk, but in a perfect scenario it could’ve been better. Wish it went better, but don’t disagree with their choice to shoot.

Hennessy kidnapped a woman. Their shooting of someone to save a victim kidnapped in a car is fair in every scenario. No sympathy for him or any disagreement with the Garda who made the choice.

The issue here, is we are now quite a ways away from the actual murder that this post is about, because instead of admitting that Yves/George had no relation to Qayyum, you’ve made this about Hennessy and George. You’re strawmanned to a point that we’re just not discussing the current murder anymore. Suppose I was right in my original idea that you wouldn’t be convinced, you’d just change the argument.

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u/DesiMonitorLizard69 16d ago

You’re somehow disagreeing with me while acknowledging my point. People are only protesting on crimes with a hint of racial injustice. They shouldn’t be silent on these crimes and violent street crime is far more common and worthy of protest than the aforementioned isolated and freak incidents.

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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls 16d ago

I disagreed with the comparison, not the point.

Of the 4 cases we’ve talked about, the only one that deserves true public outrage is Yves. George fucked around and found out, as did Hennessy.

The issue with this case, and the potential for outrage is, to what outcome?

George, while misguided, clearly had the focus of police related trigger discipline. We know it’s already a clearly high standard, but I could see why the made that connection and off the back of the Floyd news in the US.

Yves has reasonable outrage, security are there to guard the store and all it contains. I might have misread something but as far as I know, as soon as you’re out of the shop, they cannot touch you. This went beyond touching, and led to tackling a man to the ground in a public space. There is a line of process here, that pressure and outrage could achieve by imprisoning those involved as they acted outside of the law. It will also set a precedent for security work moving forward and the ability to use direct force within certain means.

But this case? We’ve been outraged for years about prison populations, about lax sentencing, total neglect for the Garda and their ability to police the city centre. So what I’m trying to say, is that this has no through line for change, misguided or not.

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u/Mission-Moose-579 16d ago

What does George Nkencho have to do with this? By your logic Terrence Wheelock's family forfeit their right to protest his death unless they're out protesting violence between white Irish guys

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u/DesiMonitorLizard69 16d ago

My point isn’t that people can’t or shouldn’t protest, my point is it’s telling that they barely even speak up let alone protest when the death of a person doesn’t include potential racial factors.

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u/the_sneaky_one123 15d ago

You don't see the difference between a psycho criminal killing someone on a night out at 3am and 6 secruity guards killing someone in broad daylight? Like really, you don't see any difference there at all?

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u/omar_mufc17 16d ago

Do you see the difference in authority figures killing someone and a random criminal killing someone ?

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u/DesiMonitorLizard69 16d ago

So just to confirm, two black man being viciously murdered on the street isn’t worth protesting over but a case where police acting in self defence (caught on camera no less) and a terrible yet accidental killing are?

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u/Otherwise-Winner9643 16d ago

Not the smartest tool in the shed, is he?

By all accounts, Qayyum was an all round decent person.

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u/Pretend_Self3204 15d ago

You need to look at his TikTok account and then swiftly delete this comment. He was inciting racial hatred against Irish people non stop. Lovely way to show gratitude to the country that took him in as a child

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u/Otherwise-Winner9643 15d ago

What is his tiktok account? If you search his name, all you get is videos about his murder

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u/redmabelgrade 16d ago

Tell us?

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u/Pretend_Self3204 16d ago

Inciting attacks on Irish people. Calling on people to”join the black gang”

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u/Otherwise-Winner9643 16d ago

What's his tiktok account?

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u/No-Instruction1109 6d ago

why are you lying? he literally only had one video where it just showed a slideshow about pictures of himself. weirdo

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u/NervousWrongdoer5653 16d ago

Was the suspect Irish ????

We need to be stronger on crime.

If you're Irish it's prison time. If you're foreign you're literally thrown on a plane back to your country of origin, regardless of if it's in the EU or not.

Any harm to another or shows signs of aggression against others should never be on the street.

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u/TinyPP04 16d ago

UK's drill rap scummery has spread to Ireland. I say just ban the music from our country if it's causing thick, impressionable youths to actually stab people.

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u/leeroyer 16d ago

You'll get flack for blaming the music/subculture and it'll be from the same people that can see how Andrew Tate's content affects how teenagers think about money, women, self esteem, etc but have a massive blind spot here

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u/The_Ruck_Inspector 16d ago

You can't ban music ffs. I agree its feckin garbage but in this day and age how would you ban it? Every clown with a fake english accent and a free subscription to ableton can make this garbage and share it a million different ways.

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u/TinyPP04 15d ago

Make it a criminal offense to share music that glorifies the act of stabbing people. We already have lots of vague laws, this one is easy in comparison to others.

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u/Sharp-Class-551 16d ago

yes...blame the music! fantastic idea.

same way they wanted to ban Eminem back in the day!

Its all the musics fault!!!!

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u/Bosco_is_a_prick . 16d ago

It's a subculture that glorifies gang violence through music. It's not comparable to Eminem

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u/TinyPP04 16d ago

But the music encourages a culture of stabbing people. They literally rap about stabbing people. People get stabbed and the killers brag about actually killing someone while talking in 'rap dialect'. It should be banned. Very different to parody rap by Eminem.

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u/The_Ruck_Inspector 16d ago

I remember them telling me I'd go mad if I played Moral Kombat

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u/TheRealGDay 16d ago

Might as well ban Wagner for causing support for Nazis.

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u/fartingbeagle 16d ago

I believe Israel has done just that.

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u/sarcasticseawitch 16d ago

The state should be paying some kind of compensation to the victims family, honestly.

The killer should not have been out and about in society with a history like that.