The stories told at last week’s gathering in Dublin of former gang members from around the world at the Summit Against Violent Extremism (SAVE) should be a salutary reminder of the dangers of ignoring underlying social and ethnic problems.

Zimbabwe’s government faced strong international condemnation after police crushed a prayer demonstration and allegedly tortured the country’s most prominent opposition leader and killed a pro-democracy activist.

Councillors in Co Donegal were today accused of ignoring pleas to combat the number of fish farms springing up on one of Ireland’s most picturesque loughs.