Internment the answer to our soaring crime rates

AS public anger rises with each new atrocity committed, the solution appears quite simple.

Faced with anarchy in the earliest days of the Free State, the new government dealt with the situation clinically and with speed. Convicted perpetrators were executed and a population which was far more devout than today’s accepted this solution with pragmatism and little protest.

Eamon de Valera maintained this stance through the 1930s and was also supported by the general public. The results gave clear evidence of the success of such policies as the nascent State entered a period of stability.