And it continous: Stabbing in Dublin!

Phew! I just started to become a little bit afraid after a couple of stabbing- and murder-free days. Were people in Dublin becoming more civilized?
But no, they just took some deep breaths, and the butchery continues!

Yesterday, two men were hospitalised after a double (!) stabbing in Loughlinstown, Dublin.
It's not murder as nobody died, but it shows that a real Dubliner also stabs others on a wintry cold afternoon. No more sheep to herd 'round here, and no more money to go for pints, so why not try a good, old-fashioned stabbing, ey`?

A murder case from Arklow, where a shopkeeper was stabbed to death in the night of the 25th November 2009 was further considered before the court today. The murder seems to be a 19 y.o. thug. That's relatively old and mature for killers in this country...

A Murder in Cork

And the 5th shotgun victim 2010 is... Gerard Staunton!

He was shot dead in a drug-related situation yesterday evening. The killer escaped. He rode a red Toyota Liteace (construction year 1992, registered in Cork), the abandoned car was found in the Castlewhite / Waterfall area of Cork.

22 days in 2010 and already 5 shotgun killings - who needs IRA bombings when he's got pseudo-mafiosi and a desperate, undereducated populace in search of ultimate drug kicks...

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/ireland/cork-shooting-death-callous-and-brutal-442906.html

Beyond Dublin - A stabbing in Tipperary

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0119/1224262633252.html

"An altercation" was reason enough for another member of the human race to stab his brethren to death.
Human live seems to be of little value on the Emerald Isle. That's a tradition, and the Irish seem to hold tradition in very high esteem. Guinness, Traditional Irish Music, Storytelling, and Stabbings. Ah bollocks.