Bring home our troops to sort out the thugs

UP to 1,000 Irish troops assist the UN, ostensibly in peacekeeping functions, abroad.

I believe that those troops are badly needed at home to supplement our valiant but undermanned Garda force which is not physically capable of quelling our endemic street violence, robberies and general vandalism.

Law-abiding citizens, young and old, are scared to walk the streets after dark. Widows and widowers live in dread of break-ins by criminals intending to rob them of their meagre pension money, possibly rape them, or even murder them.