THE justice system “is breaking down” and is now failing society, rank and file gardaí have claimed.

WAYNE O’DONOGHUE has just finished his sentence and paid his debt to society — the media frenzy at the Midland Prison indicated he is just starting his sentence with Irish journalism.

The family of the slain teenager Brian Murphy said tonight that the criminal justice system was “in tatters” and had swung too far in favour of the accused.

The Court of Criminal Appeal today quashed the four-year jail sentence for manslaughter given to Dermot Laide in connection with the death of teenager Brian Murphy outside a Dublin nightclub.