Irish Politics Thread

I know and I've been following the war between them a while now. I do think there's maybe a 10% chance there's truth behind this theory however. There are well known Russian connections in other EU countries many whom they've not named yet from the investigations. 

Many of the far right were claiming he'd take the huge amount of money raised for him and he'd never be seen again (not that there's anything wrong if he did return to his family in Brazil). 

Looks like they were wrong. 

Like every other post you make on this forum you reference the left or right I'm actually quite entertained at you referencing it in every post at this stage

Anti-carceral policy has its place. There are countless crimes that could be atoned for via community service, training programmes and greater services in areas like education.

But there are the likes of Tony Felloni whose final stretch demonstrated that prison does work. After 15 years in jail he emerged too old, and “out of the loop” to restart his old activities so in effect that stretch put him out of business. After his first Irish sentence in 1986 he emerged at an age and a time that was ripe for him to start again. Had the sentence been longer in ‘86, he may not have got the chance. 

I’m convinced there are people that can be worked with and people that can’t be. Felloni was in the latter category. He was a user and an exploiter, and all for material gain. The only thing that controlled him was jail time, and ultimately the aging process. There are also heinous crimes that are not deserving of rehabilitation, or at least the rehabilitation process can only be part of the sentence (with serious jail time the head line punishment).