Interestingly its only this morning that RTE seems to have noticed the conviction for assault by a Garda last friday, where other guards saw nothing, RTE was only prompted by the statement from the Garda Ombudsman, compared to the coverage given to the Japanese murder trial, first item on the news and to the Australian case. The coverage of Japan is odd, comments like family dismiss claims, family horrifed etc, without being insensitive what did they expect to hear? Is it news for instance that their departure from here to Japan was covered? All distraction news. When one looks at the coverage of Property Tax, CP2, austerity it always starts from the basis of their is no other way.
In general all of teh commentary is about how to implement it not on the core issue, this is part of the problem I was touching on last week with the paid for voluntary and quango sector, all appear to be debating but in reality are saying the same thing.