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The Daily PollIT’S GOOD FRIDAY, a day when Catholics abstain from eating meat.
It’s one religious tradition that has survived in Ireland among a wider audience, including lapsed Catholics and people of other or no faith in Ireland.
Strictly speaking, the practice applies to more days than simply Good Friday – let’s not forget that the Catholic Church in Ireland banned eating meat on all Fridays until 1970 – but this is the one day that more people will take part.
And for many, that means a trip to the chipper for fish and chips.
So today we’re asking: Are you getting chipper tonight?
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Strikes me as a little odd reporting sentences as a combination. It’s as if article is attempting to make their punishment out to be more severe than it actually is.
When you consider the fact that prisoners very often only serve about half of their sentences the headline might be more accurately written as
“Three brothers will spend roughly 3-4 years each in prison after string of robberies”
@Derek Murphy: and after effectively ensuring that severall sma towns and villages will no longer have ATMs.
Irish Judges: robbing banks?? 20 years!!
Also Irish Judges: se.x.ually assualted your own kids for a decade? Meh.. 5 years. Out in 3.
@Rob Gale: It’s actually 20 years combined.
@Hannah: They gave someone 30 years for kidnapping a wealthy business man. But do it to a child for their whole life and you get a suspended sentence. It’s shocking really. If we can give large sentences like that for these crimes how can they justify not giving them for child abuse?
@Rob Gale: neither sentence is anywhere near enough, joke
@Jonathan Barr: I fully agree with you.
We seriously need more prison spaces in this country.
@Chris Mc: why not export our prisoners to countries willing to take them. Who says they have to be imprisoned here ? The cost of a prisoner per year in ireland is easily in excess of 100k. Put that out to tender. The Chinese might house them for 10k per year. Going to prison might not be seen as so cushy then…..
Bit of a joke headline – 20 year combined. That means nothing – the two longest sentences were 8 yrs 9 months, with one year suspended. That means about 5 years and 10 months with remission! Very dishonest journalism!
@Ciaran Leonard: actually that would be 6 years and 6 months with standard remission
Is the €790,000 nicely tucked away for the release in a couple of years?
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