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Tue 11 Nov 2008How crime affects us all
THE BRUTAL murder of Shane Geoghegan at the weekend, as he returned to his home in Limerick, is a stark reminder that nobody is safe in a society where gangland criminals fight for control of an illegal drugs trade.
The killing of this innocent young man, because of mistaken identity, should bring home to recreational drug-users their personal responsibility in funding criminal activity and to ordinary citizens their duty to provide relevant information to the Garda. This murder sweeps away the comfortable notion that so long as criminals kill one another, society can turn a blind eye. Not so. Crime cannot be compartmentalised like that. We all have a duty to uphold the rule of law.
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