Ireland's Eye: What's going on in the old sod
Published Thursday, March 24, 2011, 8:35 AM
Updated Thursday, March 24, 2011, 8:35 AM
Patrick’s Day parade last Thursday, which was attended by more than 650,000 spectators.” title=”ON THE MARCH – A scene from the Dublin St. Patrick’s Day parade last Thursday, which was attended by more than 650,000 spectators.” border=”0″ />
ON THE MARCH – A scene from the Dublin St. Patrick’s Day parade last Thursday, which was attended by more than 650,000 spectators.
FIFTEEN teenagers under the legal drinking age were arrested in just one area of south Dublin in a night of drunken St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.
The figures reflect a worrying rise in under-age drinking flagged by leading mental health experts last week.
The teenagers — all under 18 — were arrested because they engaged in criminal offenses, and most had been drinking, according to sources.
The arrests took place in different parts of the south city over a 24-hour period. The final tally of arrested juveniles is likely to be far higher, once figures from other parts of the city become available.
In addition to those arrested, dozens of drunken teenagers were brought to Garda (police) stations across the city for their own safety and so their parents could be called to collect them.
The incidents reflect the graphic scenes of drunken youths pictured in newspapers and on the Internet in the wake of St. Patrick’s Day. They included images of one young girl apparently naked from the waist down and of young girls collapsed in a heap on city center pavements.
Paul Gilligan, of St Patrick’s Hospital in Dublin, warned parents last week that kids as young as 12 were experimenting with alcohol. He urged parents to be “vigilant and aware of the dangers of excessive alcohol use by young people”.
Gardai reported a generally positive atmosphere on St. Patrick’s Day, but it was marred by violence.
Joseph Connolly, 48, died from head injuries on Friday after he was attacked in a random and drunken St. Patrick’s Day assault by two young men outside a chip shop in Ballymun, Dublin, at around 9 p.m. on Thursday.
It is understood there had been an altercation minutes earlier in the take-away.
Emergency wards across the country reported the “usual” bank holiday stream of injuries due to drunken assaults and alcohol-related falls.
As usual there were hundreds of extra Gardai on duty throughout the country to deal with the public order problems.
Gardai in Dublin stated there was a marked difference in behavior between young Irish people and young visitors in that the Irish were drunk and badly behaved.
THE Catholic Church in Ireland has pledged an extra €10 million for a counselling and helpline service for child abuse survivors.
It is part of a number of initiatives to mark the first anniversary of Pope Benedict’s pastoral letter to Irish Catholics.
Church-goers are being given a pastoral response, “Towards Healing and Renewal,” while bishops are to set aside each first Friday as a day of fasting and prayer in reparation for the abuse.
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