The fairness of the Irish justice system came in for a strongly worded challenge from Sinn Féin councillor Brian McKenna when Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee convened on Monday morning last.
Citing a number of well-publicised recent cases, the North Monaghan public representative argued that there was a disturbing contrast between the conviction and sentencing decisions in cases involving the affluent and those at the lower end of the Irish economic scale.
The poor fella at the bottom in life will get all the justice they can give …