Run out of home on night of Halloween
He rang the gardaí several times: no reply, with the station open a couple of hours a day. Rang the Garda station 12 miles away: nobody to send out. The gardaí say fire bangers are illegal. There were no gardaí to enforce this law.
Halloween is curfew day for my father, and all his elderly neighbours. An elderly man, who was walking to the shop for the paper, had his knee seriously injured with an egg thrown from a passing car. Twelve months on, he is still receiving treatment for his knee.




