BUDGET cuts to the probation, prison education services and youth programmes reveal the Government’s “deep indifference” to tackling the causes of crime, a juvenile justice group said last night.

THE recent coverage of the disgraceful hate campaign targeting Ms Lara Olukunle in Tralee illustrates the chronic need for condemnation of racist behaviour and adequate censure and punishment of all racist acts.

A €1.2 million travellers’ rights campaign has been wound up because it failed to address the concerns of the settled community and State funds were used for ads critical of the Government.