The killer instinct

Shane Geoghegan was one of ‘us’ but cultivating an ‘us versus them’ mentality just adds to social divide which has allowed gun crime to flourish, writes Michael Clifford

The killer instinct

The mayor of Limerick got it right. Reacting to the result in the Shane Geoghegan murder trial, Jim Long dismissed statements that Mr Geoghegan had been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“Shane was in the right place,” he said. “Going home to his beloved partner Jenna.”

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