Decisions must be explained

FOR the second time in a week, the Director of Public Prosecutions is mired in controversy over his failure to explain why no prosecution was instituted in a case now causing widespread public concern.

In the wake of the furore over the Adrian Moynihan case, it has emerged that the DPP has decided to take no action against a 19-year-old Traveller who was behind the wheel of a car which smashed into a four-year-old girl during a bloody feud between rival factions of the Travelling community at Tallaght in Dublin.

Six months on, and after multiple operations, the dismayed parents of Elizabeth Heapes have learned that the DPP has decided to bring no charges against the teenage driver responsible for running down their daughter.