Anti-social youths ‘should be given community work’

YOUNG people engaged in anti-social behaviour should be made give something back to the community as is the case in the North, Sinn Féin said yesterday.

The call came from the party’s Cork members who launched a policy document on anti-social behaviour.

“This restorative justice approach can involve them helping to clean up the results of anti-social behaviour: removing graffiti, cleaning up areas, restoring vandalised property,” the document’s author, Cllr Jonathan O’Brien, said.