Call for Dáil debate after spate of violent deaths

AS gardaí investigate three violent deaths in Kerry, Dublin and Tipperary, a call has been made on the Government to hold an emergency debate on spiralling lawlessness.

Violent murders have left Irish streets like those of Al Capone’s Chicago, Labour’s Joan Burton claimed yesterday.

Attacking the Government’s failure to successfully tackle gang crime, Ms Burton told the Dáil there has been an “unprecedented spate of murders on the fringes of the west and north sides of Dublin resulting in a significant loss of human life”.