Stabbing deaths - Knife crime has reached crisis levels

IRELAND’S epidemic of death by stabbing has reached such alarming proportions the country risks being dubbed “stab nation”.

Stabbing deaths  - Knife crime has reached crisis levels

With mindless violence growing at a frightening rate, hardly a day passes without headlines of a fatal stabbing somewhere in the Republic.

The scale of the crisis confronting decent, law-abiding people, and increasingly taking up Garda resources, is graphically illustrated by today’s Irish Examiner analysis.

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