Judge condemns 'trend for violence'

Judge Anthony Hunt has lashed out in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court at what he called "this trend in modern society for violence to be used as a first resort" in a case which arose from a trivial incident in a chipper.

Judge condemns 'trend for violence'

Judge Anthony Hunt has lashed out in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court at what he called "this trend in modern society for violence to be used as a first resort" in a case which arose from a trivial incident in a chipper.

He made his comment when imposing two-year suspended sentences each on two previously convicted Dublin men whose victim suffered seizures in hospital after they attacked him.

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