Sympathy? Redemption? What now for Jackson and Olding?

Should these two men, found not guilty by a jury, be consigned to the fringes of society, unable to get work for the rest of their lives asks Alison O’Connor

Sympathy? Redemption? What now for Jackson and Olding?

Sympathy for Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding? Now there’s a novel thought. However, it was one which was put in my head last weekend as I listened to a speech at the Burren Law School, held over the bank holiday weekend.

The notion was first floated at a session on Saturday afternoon during a questions-and-answers session when well-known journalist and commentator Eamonn Mallie raised the issue of how the public appears to have refused to accept the verdict in the trial; and how, despite that verdict, rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding cannot now get jobs.

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