Hi everyone
Hi everyone. The Irish nation is shocked by the events that took place in County Kildare over the weekend. This involved a tragic car accident that claimed the lives of five teenage occupants of what I understand was a stolen car. And I also understand that they were involved in a number of attempted robberies earlier that evening, according to early reports on this. And they were traveling the wrong way down the M9 motorway. Remember, this is a motorway.
And it crashed into a car on its way from Carlow to Dublin Airport with four occupants. Four members of the same family including a very young child. Now, those four members of that family from Carlow County Carlow are in hospital in a serious condition. And my thoughts and prayers are with them and their families and the wider community. And it's absolutely just tragic, but when did human life become so valueless?
We've seen that in Ireland over the past number of years where so much of this stuff is taking place in Ireland really on a daily basis. This madness just continues. And the usual political and media suspects have been out to try and say that they're going to come up with a solution to this. They have to get tough on crime and all the usual nonsense that is spewed by them, but there'll be no follow-up action in terms.
Of proper enforcement until the next accident rolls around. This has been ongoing for a significant period of time in Ireland and hasn't been addressed. And in the context of this, just imagine young teenage boys thinking about in the first instance stealing a car and then going and claiming their lives and impacting so many other families in terms of the accident that took place in the early hours of Sunday morning.
It really gets you you thinking really about our society and what road it's going down. Is it going down a road where you value people? You value life. We've seen it happen nearly every day of the week in Ireland. In these sometimes we've seen near collisions on the M50. We've also seen horrific crimes taking place unreported by the media as well in Galway in the last number of weeks. The last day of the Galway races where a.
Rape took place
Rape took place. And on the 13th of August there was a 27-year-old and a 25-year-old man who were in court by video link. Bail was refused. They were remanded until the end of this month and had an Arabic interpreter. And they're charged with rape and false imprisonment. This happened around Kent Station. Wasn't reported at all by the Irish media or very little was by the mainstream media because it doesn't go with the more normal narrative that's.
Being pursued in Ireland. But you really wonder in the context of what took place in Kildare over the weekend, what the solution would be. Which is the same as what happened previously with the scrambler that of young Grace Lynch on the north side of Dublin from the Finglas area who was killed by a scrambler a number of months ago. And the Irish government said they'd come up with a solution. And again what's really happened next to nothing.
In terms of really strong enforcement of what took takes place in terms of criminal actions. Already there's an center for juveniles in Oberstown that is full, nearly to capacity at the moment. We've seen prison spaces overcrowded, massively overcrowded. And also, we've seen in the context of sentences handed down being so lenient. And even in the last week, we've seen members of staff, for instance, of Oberstown and other places have taken industrial action because of the serious pressure that they're facing.
And are under in terms of the stress, the strain of having massively overcrowded facilities. But really, with the massive increase in population in Ireland, this will have a knock-on effect in terms of the societal impacts. But really, it begs a bigger question around how to value and dignify somebody's life. We have a political establishment that doesn't offer dignity to these people's lives.
“And are under in terms of the stress, the strain of having massively overcrowded facilities”
We see so many people who are dying on the streets, who are living on the existing apparently existing on the streets, many who are struggling on hospital waiting lists and emergency departments, many who are denied basic health treatment. And even recently, we've seen those who were protesting out to the Dáil last year for the proper rights for those who were in reformatory schools, really farmed out to slavery, state-sponsored slavery also where they had who still haven't been given their.
Entitlements after going on hunger strike for nearly 40
Entitlements after going on hunger strike for nearly 40 days just before Christmas of last year. But they were promised with much fanfare in Dáil Éireann. So again, we'll have the usual platitudes, we'll have the usual responses saying they'll crack down on this. But fundamentally, what will change? And again, as I stated at the start, we need an Ireland that values people's lives, that offers dignity to people, and starts with respect. And my thoughts and prayers are with the.
Victims of those horrific incidents over the last number of weeks that I mentioned. And it's just um where does it stop? Where does this stop? So, thanks so much for all the support. More videos from Dublin City and Slan Abhaile.
