It spends $80 billion every year on the prison service.
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Government talks out of both sides of mouth at same time
This week's column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane While waiting at the Luas stop in Dublin’s Broombridge in early spring I g...
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An interesting quote from Napoleon Bonaparte: “The honest man never doubts the existence of God’.
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This is a worrying story. It’s written by Conor Pope and appeared in The Irish Times on Monday. It becomes ever more worrying how large org...
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Former Dominican priest Tom Tom Brodie Brodie died in a nursing home in Galway yesterday. He had been ailing for some time. He was born in C...
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Interesting statistics and comparison, Michael. But I am not sure your piece justifies the headline. After all, something like one in five prisoners in the USA has not (yet?) in fact been sentenced!
Maybe that's why they also need the most guns!
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