Ireland Is Cooked

And we didn't burn a single car. Call us far-right fascists if you think normality is fascism. We marched through the streets of our capital, carrying our national flag, celebrating our independence and honouring the generations who fought for it. No burning barricades. No smashed shop windows. No revolutionary fantasies about destroying the society we live in. Just thousands upon thousands of people who love their country and are not ashamed to say so. We don't want to burn our country down. We want to see it flourish. And if that makes us extremists in your eyes, perhaps you should reconsider what you consider normal.

Some questions... If a passerby had not Intervened, would these girls be dead? Why such a short sentence when it was possible to give far longer? Why was a Somalian who had lived in Germany first, allowed to stay in Ireland at all? Why do Gardaí and immigration services not know how he gained entry to Ireland? Here is a rundown of the case... A garda witness in this case did not accept a suggestion by defence lawyers for Somalian Shando Alfa that “cultural differences, language difficulties and intoxication” led to him not being able to comprehend what was happening when he was attacking twin eighteen year old girls with a broken bottle. A male passerby who Intervened was also attacked. It is conceivable that these girls could have been murdered had someone not stepped in (risking their own life in the process). All three victims required stitches and staples after suffering serious wounds. Alfa was on crack cocaine at the time of the attack and had twenty previous convictions including one related to an offensive weapon charge. The man attacked teenage twin sisters with a broken bottle after they rebuffed his aggressive and unwanted sexual advances (he was sexually harassing them in other words). The judge in this case knocked years off the headline sentence she set, resulting in a jail term of just four years and two months. In the early hours of April 4, 2026, Alfa followed the girls as they walked down Dame Street in Dublin's city centre. Footage and audio recorded by one of the girls captured them repeatedly rejecting him and telling him to leave them alone. How the Sentence Was Calculated - Judge Elma Sheahan imposed a sentence of three years and nine months for each of the three assault charges, making two of them consecutive to reflect the severity of the attack, bringing the headline total to seven years and six months. This was absolutely pointless as she then reduced the final prison term to four years and two months, taking into account Alfa's early signed guilty pleas, expressions of remorse, his history of homelessness and addiction (he had taken alcohol, crack cocaine, and street drugs on the night), and evidence that he had endured torture in Somalia and spent time in a psychiatric hospital in Germany. Victim impact statements - Victim impact statements were submitted by the twin sisters who spoke about lasting physical scarring as well as ongoing anxiety, sleeplessness, fear, and loss of trust. The court also heard Alfa has been kept in 23 hour prison lock up due to threats received following publicity around the case.