Victims and families urge enforcement of parole law

Sinead O’Leary with a picture of her best friend Nichola Sweeney who was killed in a knife attack in Rochestown, Cork, in 2002. Picture: Dan Linehan

Families across the country have joined forces to demand that the new justice minister urgently commence a parole act which was passed into law in July 2019 but has never been enforced.

Surviving victims and the families of murder victims say the Parole Act 2019 offers greater protection within the criminal justice system.