Cormac O'Keeffe: Invest in frontline to help tackle street violence

Action, not empty words, are what's needed to address street violence, says Cormac O'Keeffe, Security Correspondent 

All the time the resources continue to drain from the garda frontline. Picture: Facebook/Garda Síochána

While it provides no comfort to recent victims of assault, violence on our streets is not a new problem.

Nor is it a problem only for Dublin’s north east inner city — or just Dublin. It affects cities and towns across the country and includes a spate of vicious assaults recently in Cork city and Galway city, resulting in fatalities in some cases.