State handing over community to criminals, claims parish priest

A PARISH priest said the decision to close his local Garda station, in Doon, Co Limerick, appeared to him as if the state is “handing over the community to criminals”.

Fr Pat Coffey said the shock in the community was all the more intense as people were still on a knife-edge following a spate of 15 burglaries in the area over the past two months.

Fr Coffey said he was burgled twice during this period.