JUSTICE Minister Brian Lenihan stated at recent memorial Mass for the victims of violence that the country’s murder/crime rate was statistically low when compared with the European average.

SERIOUS crime has increased significantly since Veronica Guerin was murdered 10 years ago. No statistical juggling can hide this.

THE Taoiseach has criticised a decision by a number of EU countries to keep their doors closed to workers from new accession states as not ‘forward looking’.