State needs to get its act together and put murder gangs behind bars

THE family of Anthony Campbell said it all. They do not expect the killers of the apprentice plumber to be brought to justice.

Depressing, isn’t it? Yet that is precisely what the majority of people in this country feel about the onslaught of serious crime which saw the death of a totally innocent man as he went about his daily work during the week.

Within hours of the Campbell family expressing what the rest of the country was thinking, another criminal was shot dead in the centre of Dublin.