Few protesting about gangland killings

I read the harrowing front page of the Irish Examiner (Mar 16), where an editorial written by Garda Representative Association General Secretary, PJ Stone, in their journal was featured, asking whether Irish people cared about what happened to teenager Marioara Rosta, who was tortured and shot in 2008 and had her body dumped in the Wicklow Mountains.

Few protesting about gangland killings

He asks about the lack of public outrage over how she died and what it says about us as a civilised society.

Would there have been protests if this had happened to an Irish national? We don’t protest about the killings being committed by Irish or non-national criminal gangs in our country.

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