Seal killers hide behind a wall of silence

THE ruthless killers of the Blasket island seals have a powerful advantage in their efforts to evade justice — a conspiracy of silence.

It is the same cowardly and shameful silence that enables the gangs who organise badger-baiting and dog fights to laugh at the law.

The people who know the names of the thugs who slaughtered the seal colony and chose to do nothing about this crime are just as guilty from an ethical point of view.