Calls for national debate on knife crime

IRELAND needs to hold a “national debate” on knife crime, a victims’ support group has said.

The call came after a 20-year-old man was knifed to death by another young man wielding two kitchen knives on a public green in Swords, north Dublin.

Father-to-be James Joyce was killed after he tried to break up a fight and prevent the attacker from stabbing another man.