The Sunday Times January 19, 2020 17 COMMENT Brenda Power Marked for death by their Hugo Boss tracksuits

hile the murdered boy laces confiscated but your gangland feud, wasn’t enough to galvanise a their visible means of support, and we l Bringing the farmers’ pick up their children from was still a missing person, swagger intact. Such subtleties are response. It took the satanic murder of a have the Special Criminal Court to put tractor protest to creches 20 miles or more gardai compiled a scorned by modern gangsters, though. young lad, and the brazen distribution of them on trial without endangering city after the Dail had been down the road. And heaven description of what he Anybody can discard their shoelaces, footage of his mutilated body on civilian jurors. We may need some form dissolved, according to help any airline passengers was wearing when he but only “somebody” can afford to drop WhatsApp, to get the reaction seen with of emergency powers legislation to close Restaurant Association of trying to make a flight on went out last Sunday a grand on an overpriced ski jacket when the kidnapping of Quinn Industrial down the kingpins — and now, with a boss Adrian Thursday evening, with night. You didn’t need to everyone knows they’re claiming Holdings director Kevin Lunney. Youths general election under way, might be Cummins, was a bit like both the city centre be a detective working the jobseeker’s allowance of €200 a week. If you weren’t careful about what are their best chance to get it. travelling to Croke Park and the M50 snarled up Wgangland beat to suspect that Keane When he put on his Goose jacket and messages you opened on group chats Gardai also need local policing to spot on the Monday after for hours. Mulready-Woods was never coming his Boss gear and set out last week, poor, last week, you’d have seen that footage. I the likes of Mulready-Woods before they an All-Ireland final. Still, it’s debatable home again — all you had to do was look doomed Mulready-Woods must have did. And unless another young body was bought grow too embedded in gangs. They need Some city-centre whether a quiet mid- at that list of costly designer clobber. thought he had donned a fearsome recently desecrated in that exact communities and families to act when a restaurants, many of them January weekday for the Here is what an unemployed teenager, armour that at once distinguished and manner on the drab floral carpet of a by gangs jobless young lad comes home with a with Irish beef steaks and restaurant trade was who should have been home studying protected him. It didn’t protect him, but small sitting room, then this crime has fancy new phone, trainers or expensive burgers on their menus, entirely down to the for his Leaving Cert, had chosen from his it should have distinguished him to breached new depths of evil. Gardai say for the bike — Mulready-Woods was a skilled were entirely empty last farmers. In fact, I’d have wardrobe for an average evening out: a someone other than his awestruck it’s fake, while simultaneously warning scrambler rider, according to his sister’s Thursday evening, he said, thought at least some Hugo Boss tracksuit, worth about €300; younger associates, his ruthless that the video might deter witnesses. But price Facebook tribute. so the protest was not commuters might have Hugo Boss trainers (€150); a Gucci handlers, and his barbaric killers. it might also deter other young lads from Gangs prey on impressionable just futile but opted to eat in town and let Kingsnake baseball cap (€250); and a red Since the 17-year-old was tortured, deciding that a Goose jacket is worth the of a youngsters as they are mobile, eager and counterproductive. the roads clear. Canada Goose Macmillan parka (€875). murdered and dismembered, there has risk. The impunity these gangs must feel, biddable. They’ll move product, collect Staging a rush-hour That might have been a It’s known as a “Goose jacket”, and the been much hand-wringing from gardai to parade their wickedness so casually, designer money and carry out threats. Mulready- go-slow of hundreds of more viable option for your eye-watering price tag makes it an about the depravity of the perpetrators, shames the country. Woods reportedly strangled the pet cat thousands of euros’ worth average wage slave if the instant signifier of status and clout. and the need to bring them to justice. And the shame is that gardai have the jacket of an innocent woman he terrorised over of farm vehicles on the price of a steak, in the A surprising amount of street fashion But the people of Louth and of Longford, resources to tackle them, and the a relative’s drugs debt. Youths are gridlocked M50 was also a cheapest city-centre originates in gangland. The fad for where a similar type of drugs-based intelligence, and the special bought for the price of a designer jacket shortsighted move. restaurant, wasn’t about low-slung jeans and trainers worn feuding is terrorising the town, have investigations and armed response and the envy of former classmates You don’t win public 10 times the €3.50 per kilo — without laces came from the Los Angeles been crying out for help for months. The units. They have the Criminal Assets dressing out of Penneys. Then they’re as sympathy for your cause by 50c less than the British rate ghettos, and meant you’d just been freed shooting of an innocent taxi driver, as he Bureau to move in on gangland figures dispensable as the cheapest fast fashion. delaying commuters facing for often poorer quality from police custody with your belt and ferried a leading figure in the Drogheda whose lifestyles are not consistent with [email protected] lengthy journeys home, and meat — that the Irish beef some of them in a hurry to farmer gets. QUOTES OF THE WEEK

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David Quinn Hopkins’s Benedict is played for liberal agenda

Grossly simplistic caricature of former pontiff in The Two is at odds with the real humble, gracious and courteous man

f we were able to elect a , and song Eleanor Rigby, the German cleric In other words, not at all like last week because of an apparent row here nor there, though, because it is part more outspoken against abortion, the two candidates were the present still responds: “Who?” Hopkins’s brash portrayal of him. The between them over priestly celibacy. of a much wider debate within the gender ideology and euthanasia than is pontiff Francis and his predecessor The two men debate theology and the Two Popes goes right back to the Once again, we were given the narrative church about how it should position commonly supposed. He is noted for Benedict XVI, there is no question future of the church. Benedict is caricature of Benedict many people of Benedict the Traditionalist versus itself in the modern world. One side attacks on capitalism, and says we must about who would win. It would be interested only in preserving its envisioned before he visited Britain. Francis the Reformer. favours some sort of compromise, and do more to save the planet. But Benedict Francis — by a landslide. If he were a doctrines, while Francis wants to open Also, the film was made before we saw What happened was that a new book the other believes even steeper decline also criticised the excesses of capitalism, candidate in our general election, out the church to the people. Benedict Francis get tetchy with a woman in St entitled From the Depths of Our Hearts, lies down that path, because this has and when he resigned in 2013 was he’d win, too. Watch The Two Popes likes ecclesiastical ostentation; Francis Peter’s Square over Christmas after she which purported to be co-authored by been the fate of liberal Protestantism. named “the first green pontiff” by a Ion if you want to see why. loathes it. What we get from The Two grabbed his hand and yanked him Benedict and Cardinal Robert Sarah, a The debate is partly a subset of the prominent environmentalist. In that film plays Popes, in other words, is a grossly towards her, earning an annoyed slap senior official at the Vatican, argued in ongoing battle in society between those There are some differences, of course. Francis, and portrays simplistic caricature of Benedict. from the pontiff. favour of keeping priestly celibacy. The who think western history, and not Francis has definitely put less emphasis Benedict. Both have been nominated for I interviewed him in his office in The two real popes were in the news background is that a synod (or meeting just the church’s, is a long catalogue of on abortion than his predecessor, and Oscars — Pryce for best actor, and Rome in 1995 when he was Cardinal of bishops) was held in Rome recently to intolerance and bigotry; and their believes the church should be more Hopkins for best supporting actor. The Joseph Ratzinger. I had read about the discuss the future of the church in the opponents, who believe we will end up relaxed, or merciful, about the two were also nominated for Golden “German rottweiler” and the panzer Amazon region, where there is a scarcity repudiating and denying our own identity application of some of its moral Globes and the movie has received kardinal who ruthlessly enforced of priests. Could the answer be to ordain and culture, including the positive teachings. For example, he thinks widespread critical acclaim. doctrinal conformity in the church as married tribal elders, the bishops aspects, by pushing this line too hard. it shouldn’t be overly strict with a In the movie Francis is portrayed as head of the Congregation for the wondered. The meeting was open to the If you want to use a very person who is in a second marriage an earthy, humble man of the people. Doctrine of the Faith. So I wasn’t sure idea. Francis is to give his verdict on the contemporary political analogy, following a divorce and wants to Benedict is crusty, doctrinaire and what to expect. Would he be as arrogant, matter soon, and seems open to the Francis is more of a remainer and receive holy communion. He has a out of touch. In one scene, as the brash, overbearing and intimidating as proposal as well, although the Pope is Benedict is a Brexiteer. Benedict very pastoral approach. cardinals gather for the conclave that his public image seemed to indicate? against a general lifting of the celibacy worries about watering down our The Two Popes greatly exaggerates elects Benedict as pope, the two men Actually, he was none of those things. He In truth, the requirement. historical identity too much. He opposed the differences between them, and meet by chance. Francis, at this was humble, gracious and courteous. The book appeared to be a shot across Turkish membership of the EU, for while it doesn’t want us to actively point the cardinal archbishop of In fact, he was very like the Benedict differences Francis’s bows and his efforts at reform. example, because he felt Turkey was not dislike Benedict, it definitively places , is humming a tune to who visited Britain to great acclaim in So a big row broke out between his part of Europe’s common culture. him on the losing side every time he himself. Benedict asks what it is. 2010. Following the visit, the BBC’s between supporters and those of Benedict. Then Francis, on the other hand, prefers and Francis have an argument. This is When Francis says it is Dancing Queen David Willey wrote: “A pope who had Benedict’s private secretary, Georg softer borders and is less worried about because its director is inviting us to by Abba, Benedict has no idea what previously been regarded as someone Francis and Gänswein, issued a statement to say the diluting identity. draw a wider conclusion, one that is he is talking about. rather cold, professorial, aloof and former pope was not a co-author of the In truth, however, the differences relevant to debates about immigration, Francis likes football; Benedict plays authoritarian had suddenly been Benedict are book, though he did make a between Francis and Benedict are the economy and climate policy: the piano. Benedict has heard of the perceived as a rather kindly and gentle contribution. It was all pretty confusing. exaggerated and are mainly ones of liberals are always right. Beatles, but when Francis mentions the grandfather figure.” exaggerated The specific issue is really neither emphasis. Francis has been a great deal [email protected] The Sunday Times April 5, 2020 13 COMMENT Brenda Power I mourn the loss of celebrating a life well lived

t was the anniversary of Jean, my yesterday. I’d never seen a white coffin wedding-gift tumblers; distant cousins a priest and an undertaker as mourners. l Last week Disney won a Saturday morning, and only sister, on Thursday — a date before, though in the lights of the and old friends from my parents and Her husband of 51 years was isolating planning permission to has to step over sleeping that feels like it should be circled hospital morgue, I thought it was pale grandparents’ younger days turning up at home in dread of the disease that install security gates around bags, urine, excrement in black on the calendar every year. green. She had a bandage around her from the four corners of the country, killed his wife. the recessed doorway of its and discarded drug It was marked out that year, head, little blonde curls escaping bringing sweets and cakes and books The sparse funerals, now limited to store on Grafton Street in paraphernalia, as the store’s actually, but we thought this was through the gauze, and the women and toys. Sparse just 10 mourners, are the visible evidence Dublin, in the face of staff frequently reported to only because it was Easter Sunday were putting their hands on her We’d be let sit up, late into the night, of this wretched plague’s toll. But the indignant opposition from gardai. A doorway is not an on the year she was four and I was forehead and saying how cold it was. on the edge of the chats, the memories funerals denial of a chance to gather round a one “homeless sector acceptable “bed for the Inine. It was a complete accident — she Somebody tried to take my hand and the stories, the strange yarns and grave and salute a life well lived is only volunteer”, Enda Fanning. night” for anyone, and if shouldn’t have gone out on a main and put it to her face, but I wouldn’t let coincidences. There were so many are the part of the trauma. He had challenged that’s the best that our road with kids not much older than them. I didn’t want to remember her stories of pictures falling mysteriously Worse still is the loss of those visits, Disney’s claim that the homeless volunteers aspire herself; a freak slow-motion collision feeling cold, and I knew I’d remember from walls before a sudden death that visible the silence in those houses when they doorway was being put to to, then they’d be better off where both she and a young cyclist it for ever. what had seemed like an odd mishap in should be full of neighbours and friends, “improper use” by rough pursuing another mission. thought the other had stopped to let Years later, in a dream, she reached our good room that morning, before evidence of low solemn murmurs and the odd sleepers and drug users Any store’s first them pass. She caught the toe of her out her hand and I touched it, and it was everything, gathered moment with stifled laugh, of women boiling kettles at night, describing this as responsibility is the safety red welly in the spokes, and the back of warm as life. Your brain is like the most every visitor’s eerily similar retelling. of this and men pouring whiskey, of sweets a “false impression”. of its staff, not mollifying her little head struck the road hard. officious civil servant, I reckon. It stores On a visit to Glasnevin cemetery for the children and distant cousins And yet the main reason anyone who may be For years afterwards we didn’t have everything without discrimination, recently, I found the “picture falling” plague’s they’d never met. for Fanning’s objection attention-seeking. an Easter egg in the house, because my so it was still there to be retrieved, harbinger recorded among global Worse still are the empty, echoing was that the doorway was, Yet for such a cohort, father could only see the bits of intact, the last touch of my long-dead superstitions around death. toll days that stretch out ahead of Tom Best, indeed, “the only hope of a companies like Disney chocolate she’d vomited on the road, little sister’s hand. They will never know what a and all the Tom Bests who are, and who bed for the night” for many, can be put in a no-win as she was dying, mingled with the What I remember just as vividly, and consolation they were, those good will be, confined in their bereavement and that Disney had some situation: if they put up the blood. After they came home from the far more comfortingly, is the house in people who gave up their time to drive with nobody to sit with them around a sort of implied obligation to gates, they’re grasping hospital, he filled the calves’ feeding the weeks and months afterwards. The for miles, to sit and talk for hours. fire at night. make it available to them. capitalists; if they withdraw buckets with water and put them into kitchen filled with neighbours and Since this crisis began we’ve seen The funeral is only the start of it, but I Disney is, indeed, a very their plans, and tacitly offer the car to wash the road clean for the friends that night, and the next day images of lonesome obsequies, like the remember how the funeral, on that long rich corporation, but I doubt their shiny expensively neighbours. and the next. Cars pulling into the front-page picture in The Sunday Times ago Easter Monday, was the very worst that the chief executive is tiled doorways as homeless Nothing about those days is a blur, farmyard all that summer; whiskey last week of 72-year-old Anne Best of it. Now the worst is still ahead. the one who opens the accommodation, they’re the every single detail more vivid than glinting in the good Waterford Crystal being lowered into her grave with just [email protected] Dublin store first thing of most heartless of monsters.

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David Quinn We bowed to Beijing but Taipei had the answer

We should have followed Taiwan’s example rather than rely on China or the World Health Organisation for advice on pandemic

hen you study the Two days later China did admit what was happening in northern Italy. A day later, Reid said the country was On March 9, Simon Harris, the health Crucially, we were following the response of our health human-to-human transmission was But that same day , the well-prepared, while Holohan ruled out minister, was still defending the WHO’s advice. As it turns out, we were authorities and occurring. Scientists at Hong Kong chief medical officer, said he believed we temperature screening at Irish airports, government’s decision not to ban flights extremely naive about the political government to the University warned that Beijing was still had a strong chance of containing as was being done in other countries, from northern Italy — never mind nature of that organisation, and the emergence of the under-reporting what was really the virus if cases were to emerge. because it was a poor use of resources. anywhere else — on the grounds that this extent to which it curries favour with coronavirus in January taking place. On February 27, Paul Reid, the chief On February 29, the Republic of would have “very little effect”. There Beijing, to the point of excluding Taiwan and February, and even On January 23, the lockdown began in executive of the HSE, said he believed Ireland had its first confirmed case: an were now several dozen virus clusters in from membership because China wants into March, you find a the most affected parts of China. Our Ireland had adequate supplies of infected teenager had returned from nursing homes around the country but, to isolate the country politically. Wcatalogue of missed chances and, own Dr announced personal protective equipment. northern Italy. His school was closed for as late as March 11, Holohan said he was But Taiwan was much wiser about frankly, complacency. You find the that “China has been very open thus Combine this with Holohan’s statement two weeks but the students’ families did opposed to a blanket ban on people things. It did not believe the official authorities were reassuring us that they far”. Sadly, his faith was misplaced; and we see the extent to which our not have to limit their activities despite visiting these homes. reports coming out of Beijing, and it did had everything in hand, when quite China was not being open. And so it health authorities were underestimating the risk that some might have contracted I think the evidence is absolutely not follow WHO advice. It went its own patently that was not the case. Not that continued, right through January. We the problem, despite their best efforts.. the virus. There was no attempt to clear that our authorities did not fully way and began to screen passengers they were deliberately misleading us; far took the Chinese government at its emulate the contact tracing and isolation understand the size of the problem they arriving from Wuhan on December 31. from it. There is no doubt they sincerely word, as did most of the rest of the occurring in South Korea. were dealing with, and how widely it Three days later Taiwan implemented its believed everything they were saying. world. A huge mistake. On March 3, Holohan said he was had spread in the country. We are told to emergency response plan to a virus The problem is, they underestimated On February 1, America restricted confident only a “small number of listen to our experts, and really we have outbreak. This did not involve a total the scale of the threat we were facing. travel from China, and was criticised sporadic cases” would occur in the no choice, but we should listen with a lockdown, but testing, contact-tracing January was essentially a wipeout for doing so by the World Health country. Twenty-four hours later, RTE healthy degree of scepticism, ask all the and isolation of actual and possible from a preparation point of view. We Organisation (WHO). By February 6, News interviewed the lead adviser on right questions, and point out cases. To date Taiwan, which has a took all the information coming out of when a third case had been confirmed in Covid-19 to the Irish College of General inconsistencies. population of 23 million, has had far China at face value. Going back through Britain, the HSE said it had acquired Practitioners. She said: “At the moment In fairness, not much blame is to be fewer deaths than Ireland despite RTE’s Six One News for that month, one more personal protective equipment. It is clear our there is no evidence that there is laid at the foot of our authorities for being a next-door neighbour of the of the only reports about China up until Clearly it was not nearly enough, given community transmission in Ireland . . . losing so much ground in January, People’s Republic. January 17 concerned the country’s the huge quantities of — sometimes authorities The risk to the general public in Ireland February and the first part of March, It now transpires that the authorities record-low birth rate. substandard — supplies we are having remains very low.” because outside certain east Asian we should have been listening to were The next day China confirmed only to buy from China. The next day, the did not fully At this point, it now seems clear, the countries, who appreciated the scale of in Taipei, the Taiwanese capital, not two deaths. The Chinese government HSE said it had a sufficient supply of virus was in fact spreading fast. By the threat? Certainly not the WHO — a Beijing or in the WHO headquarters in told the world there were no cases of masks for medical personnel. Again, understand March 11, we had 43 confirmed cases. UN body, by the way — which gave the Geneva. We were far too credulous, far human-to-human transmission, either delusional. These people would have been regime in China every benefit of the too trusting. The result is that we lost betraying massive incompetence in not The month wore on and alarm began the size of contracting the virus even as our doubt, even though its investigators almost two-and-a-half months of crucial knowing the truth of the matter, or else to rise. On February 26, we postponed leading medical experts were making were not allowed into the People’s time. The result is calamitous. telling a lie of historic proportions. the Ireland-Italy rugby match in view of the problem their reassuring statements. Republic until February 10. [email protected] Irish Daily Mail, Saturday, November 2, 2019 Page 17 Power’s People

Your royal sympathy is all a bit rich, Helena She often dresses like a bag-lady, but Border area Helena Bonham Carter scrubbed up well for a glossy mag photo shoot this week to promote her new role as Princess Margaret in The Crown. The Queen’s younger sister was famously bitchy, and even sniped at Helena that ‘you’re getting better at acting’ when they met at a party, but Helena, left, reckons her IS lawless... rudeness was due to unhappiness. Wouldn’t your heart go out to all these pampered, privileged royal women living lives of misery at the taxpayers’ expense? Excuse me while I fetch the world’s smallest violin… and it can’t Fine Gael TD Hildegarde Naughton had to step down from the probe into so- called Votegate, which focused mainly on Fianna Fail TDs, after admitting that she, too, had pressed the voting button for a colleague. As did the Taoiseach and, most likely, just about every TD in the Dáil at some time. It’s not as if they were sneaking be tolerated into opposition benches and voting on their behalf – can we now press the button marked ‘delete’ on this nonsensical non-scandal? man falls foul of a ­notorious criminal If you thought Ronan ­‘Godfather’ in the Keating’s Fairytale of New York was a crime, wait till you hear €24m sent from heaven ­border region. He is John Legend’s version of Baby, It’s seized by a mob of the Cold Outside. The verse where the As far as the elderly Aman’s heavies, and taken to a woman is clearly pretending to be French woman was rural location. He is tortured drunk so as to stay a bit longer – concerned, it was and beaten savagely with iron ‘Say, what’s in this drink?’ – has just a small ‘holy bars. The famous ‘dogs in the been rewritten to include the line, picture’ that hung street’, including Gardaí and ‘Your body, your choice’. The for years on a wall ­local politicians, know who is original was banned by some by her kitchen, responsible. And yet, to date, ‘woke’ radio stations last right, not even Christmas for ‘date rape’ lyrics. worth a prominent nobody has been arrested or Can we agree an instant boycott of spot. But an charged. any Irish station that broadcasts auctioneer valuing And, no, it’s not Kevin Lunney, and it her house last June reckoned it might be didn’t happen just last month. It was all this joyless abomination? of 12 years ago, and the victim was a worth a little more than that… it turned out to be the work of 13th century young man called Paul Quinn. And he credible death threat to the other wasn’t as lucky as Kevin Lunney. Every ­executives, knowing that their lethal master Cimabue and sold at auction this bone in Paul Quinn’s body was broken intent will not be doubted. week for €24million. Now Irish mammies with crowbars and nail-studded cudgels Lawlessness is when they do so in the everywhere are inspecting ancient, after he was lured to a remote farmhouse apparent belief that, even though headless Child of Prague statues and in October 2007, and he died in agony. ­everyone knows who they are and who wondering if Michelangelo might ever It’s believed that the 21-year-old stood is behind their operations, they are still have knocked one out... up to the Godfather, a feared figure in untouchable. the area, and therefore broke one of the Lawlessness is when a brave priest on rules of the parallel dominion such men the altar publically criticises those Drugs mule Michaella McCollum has rule with terror and threats: he showed behind the Lunney attack, and is come under fire from critics who say her disrespect. warned to ‘watch himself’ after some new book about her time in a Peruvian He forgot that the only law that members of his congregation walk out jail for cocaine smuggling is just an attempt ­matters in the border area is the one of the house of God in protest at his to make money. Good luck to her, I say – she that serves the Godfathers and their words. was a young woman who made a stupid thugs, and theirs is the only authority Lawlessness is when illegal billboards The December issue mistake, paid the price and is trying to turn to be respected. vilifying the directors of Quinn her life around for the sake of the twin boys These men operate with brazen of Harper’s Bazaar. ­Industrial Holdings are erected around Pictures courtesy of she’s raising alone. Far greater rogues have ­impunity and they couldn’t care less Derrylin, and Cavan County Council Harper’s Bazaar/ been rewarded with bigger book deals, and about the dogs on the street, let alone workers are too frightened to remove at least she has a cautionary tale worth the gardaí on the beat. And yet this them. Even outside contractors have Pamela Hanson telling. Let’s give her a chance. week Garda Commissioner Drew Harris turned down the job of dismantling the denied that the border area is ‘lawless’. signs because of fears for the safety of from arrest or prosecution, even though He was unlikely to concede that he and their staff. his force have lost control of this part of everybody knows their names, as proof the country, for fear of emboldening the of their status. Hugh you kidding, Sajid? How much more evidence of gangsters and alarming the public. But VILLAIN OF THE WEEK they have. ­lawlessness do the Gardaí and the PSNI awlessness is when ATM need? AFTER Hugh Grant, pictured, refused And the first step to seizing control machines are ripped from the The attack on Kevin Lunney, and the to shake the hand of Sajid Javid this from these criminals is to acknowledge walls of banks in the middle of their ruthless power. The first step to country towns with the sort of chilling threat to his fellow directors, week, Boris Johnson’s chancellor galvanising public support for the Lheavy machinery that’s impossible to have shocked the country. Outside of denounced the actor with the worst ­massive operation it will take to shut hide or move with stealth, and yet the border region, few understood just possible insult: he’s ‘part of the them down, as the Gilligan gang nobody sees or knows anything. how entrenched and invulnerable this elite’. And how do you spot these were shut down after Veronica Lawlessness is when a border county parallel regime had grown over the hated types’? Well, ‘they attended Guerin’s murder, is to admit that ‘law- TD’s car is burnt out in the driveway of years. But the authorities now have the the best schools, they glide through lessness’ is exactly what we are dealing his home as a direct threat to the momentum to take on these gangs, and life, they get second chances, they always have the with here. ­legitimate lawmakers of the State. they can be stopped. Lawlessness is when powerful men It will take manpower, resources and easy language on the tips of their tongues, and a Lawlessness is when 12 years have funny anecdote to get out of a difficult situation’. can order the abduction and torture of passed since the sadistic murder of a time, but first it will take the guts to an innocent company executive and 21-year-old lad, as his heartbroken declare that we are dealing with law- Hmm, they do sound dangerous, Sajid. Good thing leave him with life-altering injuries. parents­ still fight for justice and his lessness and that, as a democratic you don’t keep such company yourself. Lawlessness is when a gang issues a murderers still flaunt their freedom State, we can tolerate it no longer. REad brenda’s compelling column in tuesday’s irish daily mail [email protected]