What sentence would you or I get if we were twice the legal limit and we crashed into another car killing a 16 year old boy?
I suspect it would be more severe than 7 month suspended sentence, which is what former Ireland and Munster rugby player Eddie Halvey got yesterday. He crashed into the back of a car, killing 16 year old Kevin Walsh. His mother said yesterday:
It sent out the wrong message to everyone in Ireland today. Go out, play sports for Ireland, drink drive, you can kill someone and you won’t get punished in court for it, that is the reality.
We are disappointed. He got a slap on the wrists for drink-driving and killing my child
And how right she is. Halvey apologised in court yesterday. How big of him. From the Irish Times:
Former rugby international Mick Galwey spoke on behalf of Halvey, saying that he was remorseful and was now a different man.
So fucking what? Of course he’s sorry. Unless he’s a robot why wouldn’t he be sorry? But it’s hard to look beyond the fact that he has been treated differently because he’s a rugby boy, one of the lads, and sorry doesn’t change the fact he killed a 16 year old lad with his car.
In February of this year a Latvian man was sentenced to 7 years in jail for drunk driving and causing the death of a Cork woman.
In November last year a Dublin man was jailed for 8 years for drunk driving and causing the deaths of two French women.
Last July a Carlow man was jailed for four months for driving while drunk and not having insurance.
In June a Dublin woman was described as menace and jailed for 6 years for drunk driving and injuring a pedestrian.
In April a Bray man was jailed for 6 months for drunk driving and driving without insurance.
Also in April an Enniscorthy man was jailed for 8 months for drunk driving.
The list of cases goes on and on. Yet this rugby player gets 7 months suspended for causing the death of a 16 year old boy.
It’s not right, is it?
Jesus.
Never mind about The Law being an Ass.
Those who administer it most definately are.
Its depressing!
“was now a different man”. yes – a murderer, and a child killer at that. fucking disgrace. probably went out and got shit faced in the pub after the verdict. why would anyone have any respect for the law in this country when shit like this happens?
That really is nauseating. Brings back memories of that cunt Justice Cyril Kelly:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/apr/21/ireland
Its a fucking disgrace,I’m sure he is sorry and he has to live the rest of his life with the guilt,but a slap on the wrist and a fine is just ridiculous..
THe Munster Team forum has mysteriously blocked any talk of this subject,apparently it “has no bearing on Munster Rugby” ,then you find out that relatives of Halvey run the forum…
Apartheid is alive and well in Ireland. That fucker needs to be found and given a severe hiding.
Esteemed TD GV Wright breaks pedestrian’s leg while drunk behind the wheel. €900 fine & ban. Jim McDaid drives wrong way up a dual carriageway shitfaced, €750 fine 2 year ban but licence returned after a year.
It’s never going to change as long as we keep keep re-electing these gobshites.
The frustrating part is there always seems to be a bigger gobshite waiting to take their place….
It’s indefensible. And it’s not doing him any favours either, in the long run.
That’s exactly the short of shit, Fill.
And there’s an private school/entitlement thing with so many rugby players that’s very annoying.
with Leinster rugby mainly,its a fairly working class sport in Limerick.But the cronyism is the same…
So how many Rugby tickets should my barrister have to barter with if I end up in court for anything in the future?
…what is as shocking as the completely pointless sentence given to Halvey, is that fact that, but for an appeal from certain quarters, the case was going to be dropped altogether.
Yeah, that is amazing. But not at all surprising.
It will never change, the law both here in the UK was never made to protect “people” it is to defend the rights and protect the property of the priviliged.
he’s lucky he was’nt protesting at the corrib gas site, or failed to pay his TV licence. Or any other serious crime that can land you in jail.
True, jojojo. From reading around it seems driving under the influence wasn’t uncommon for Halvey and while he’s a cunt the judge who passed sentence is also a cunt, whoever he is.
heh @ this:
“A Wicklow resident, who twice shot at an empty parked car outside a house because he had “a grudge” against the homeowner for killing his friend, has been jailed for four years.”
Four years for shooting a car, but use a car to kill a kid and 7 months suspended. Lovely.
Summonses being delivered ‘late’ is another good one for getting Rock boys off charges. Daddy calls his friend the Judge and he sorts it all out. He gets a nice round in the K Club and a few brandies in return. That’s how Ireland works folks.
“Let us ready the Guillotine!”
The only thing the prick is sorry for is that he got caught. P Pish got it right: Laws are to protect the betters and jails are for the rest of us.
Surely the traditional Irish media will have noticed this?…. oh yeah, sorry.
PP is totally bang on. How can laws be used to punish those who wrote them? And you can be sure that nobody from the wrong part of town will be in with a real chance of becoming a barrister in this country.
What was 1922 all about? It was about the sale of our country to a new ruling class worse than the last one.
Bugger
whats all the furore for? these fucking judges are as bad as any fucking criminal that comes up before them,its been going on for years with the strokey bastards.one rule for them and their cronie cunts of mates but quite a different set of rules if your unlucky enough not to be connected and end up in court before them.this country is FUCKED.
What’s fucked is that Twenty presumes that because he’s a rugby player he must be some kind of posh D4 type. Grow the fuck up.
suitable name youve chosen,asshole.
What’s fucked is that Twenty presumes that because he’s a rugby player he must be some kind of posh D4 type. Grow the fuck up.
Learn to read, fuckhead. I said nothing of the sort. The fact that he played for Munster would hardly make him a D4 head, would it?
Lot of conspiracy theories and lazy stereotyping here. The sentence is extremely lenient, this has dragged on for 3 years amid whispers of mitigating circumstances. Judging by the sentence ther seems to have been some. Sentencing has nothing to do with who he is, just a good defence team.
Shite.
Come on people and elect some folks who will make mandatory sentencing for things like this so everyone, and I mean EVERYONE is held to the same standards of the law, don’t be giving judges the option to favor the rich and privileged. Pft
What mitigating circumstances?
He was pissed while in control of a vehicle,he killed someone…ergo a jail sentence should be mandatory..no excuses..
I saw this this morning, it’s shameful, once again.
Fucking shameful.
Compare two cases
- Anabels: Four posh boys with no previous convictions kill one of their contemporaries. Get quite lenient sentences. Media uproar all through the trial. Constant focus on their upbringing/backgrounds with the emphasis that they should have known better etc.
- New Ross: Eight working class dudes from tough estates and a prior reputation for being pricks kill a Swedish flower seller. I know this because I grew up there. Get even lighter sentences. No media uproar bar cursory reporting of the case. No focus whatsoever on their backgrounds.
PME:yeah i remember that,both cases were horrific.Both should have ended up in long prison sentences.
This bastard, like other criminals is only sorry because he was caught. My thoughts are with the Walsh family.
PME, on the same day that the Annabel 4 were being nudged gently and relatively unpunished into the grateful arms of their rich daddies, 5 young men from Inchicore were being given sentences ranging from 3 to 6 years for breaking into a pharmacy at night.
Now, I believe that the pharmacy 5 got what they deserved,and the pop-collared pre-law cocksuckers of D4 got off lightly. I don’t need a media uproar to tell me right from wrong. Apparently you do.
Incidentally, bocktherobber.com has yet tom comment on the drunk-driving member of the Munster Old Boy Fraternity. Funny that because he usually gets upset about anything.
I raised this point on his blog, but I am banned from commenting without moderation.
That did not stop me.
And to think he got his balls in a twist about censorship a few weeks back.
Double standards are not standards at all really.
update;
Our “Widely-read current affairs website” has deleted another comment.
bocktherobber.com, unable to take any criticism since day one.
Yeah, yeah… Seriously Twenty, will you ever just die off you old cunt. Thought this blog was gone but sure as fuck it came back to life like the psycho at the end of some straight-to-video slasher flick.
Look fatso, there are 4 million people in this country. By accident or design, at least one of those four million people is bound to do something that is entirely indefensible every week.
So when they do, your feeble gimmick is to convince your band of lobotimised fellow travellers that by writing a big long post about how the culprit deserves to die anyone who thinks otherwise is a cunt. Whoopy-dee-fucking-doo… reactionary bullshit, if you know what the government should do, then set it out in advance. Don’t wait for an earthquake and then say that the government should have invested more in earthquake readiness.
It would be one thing if this was just an unfunny comedy website. But you actually try and take the moral highground avoe. It would be difficult to overstate the contempt I have for you. Fool.
I.5 negatives agin you in 38 comments; says it all. Brain has a right to his view but if he doesn’t like the sort of people who comment or the originator, wht dies he read??
@ halvey – apparently there was a fuck-up on the scene of the crime stuff, sort of, and the DPP thought it might fuck up the case – unprompted???
So the DPP says he’s dropping the case, local reaction makes him ‘re-think’ i.e. plea bargain, Halvey pleads guilty to lower charge, compliant judge, and there you are….Irish justice 2009 version.
No surprise, Eejit. I love Bock’s comment policy where he explains, at length, what is acceptable and what isn’t, then says:
You know what’s great about paying for your own site? It’s this: you don’t have to explain yourself to anyone.
heh
And Brian, what a pleasure to see you again. Good to see you’re as insufferably boring as ever.
T.I.A.
“So when they do, your feeble gimmick is to convince your band of lobotimised fellow travellers that by writing a big long post about how the culprit deserves to die anyone who thinks otherwise is a cunt”
Is it standard procedure in blog world to attacke the more popular sites with accusations of zombie followers? I’ve seen this a few times now. Sad, really.
I missed Brian.His worldly view has been sadly lacking on this site,I hate to say Twenty but he’s spot on,we are zombie followers,i mean i think its a disgrace that you ,with your psychic powers,are not willing to stop these atrocious events before they happen,instead of just lazily commenting after the fact.It just smacks of cynicism on your part..
…Brian!..Brian! wait for me! ,show me the light!..
Silly cunt.
(ah,Benylin 4flu rocks so it does)
Oh, THAT Brian.
Fair enough.
Lobotimised and proud ! keep her ticking over there Twenty I feel a majoro majoro story about to break within the next 8 days, mark my words I feel it in me waters. It’ll blow all our minds. And it’s not the Swine flu thingy.
So if this ex-Ireland, ex-Munster player can get a way with killing a lad in a drunk driving smash up, what do you reckon Brian O’ Driscoll, the current golden boy, could get away with?
A cluster bomb in a playground?
Breaking an Archbishop’s nose?
Contaminating the Shannon with radioactive waste?
Getting caught in a parked car in Phoenix Park with Stephen Gately?
A second Irish famine?
The Darfur genocide?
I reckon he’d be cleared of all charges – if it ever got to court in the first place.
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m feeling a bit peckish and have a sudden desire to feast on the brains of the living…
Is Bock Twenty’s evil twin ?
Brian seems a bit of a rugby player
Brian’s a complete cunt,he may also be a Rugby player,but the 2 things would have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in common..
I would say Nemesis rather that evil twin..
Sorry Fill – all sporty types are cunts and especially rugger buggers!
Maggot:read my comment out load..
Bock has quite an amusing Jesus picture on his main page though.
lung the younger, what law would be broken here?Getting caught in a parked car in Phoenix Park with Stephen Gately
bad taste is not a crime..Oh wait the laws of nature
eejit meeja
nice side-stepping of the New Ross case while simulataneously re-hashing the tired Anabels ‘rich Daddies’ line.
Just suppose it wasn’t Eddie Halvey but a young man from Dublin’s inner city with previous convictions that had crashed into Kevin Walsh while under the influence. Just suppose he got a seven month suspended sentence. Would there be the same outrage? Would there fuck
You’re big into the ‘just supposes’ there, PME. As in ‘just suppose’ me auntie had balls, she’d be me uncle. Great logic, mate, keep it up…
Fucking ovals, make me sick. I went to a grossly underachieving rugby school and know the scumbags well. A freemasonry in the members bar.
This woman should get a gun and perform Columbian justice. I don’t think there’s a court in the land that would convict her