'Prison is only cure' IRISH DAILY Mirror CAMPAIGN.Byline: By DARREN Darren is a given name of uncertain etymological origins. The most popular theory is that it originated from a Gaelic surname meaning "great". Another is that it is an English version of the name Darryl, which originated from the French surname D'Airelle meaning "of Airelle. BOYLE KNIFE killings have more than quadrupled over the past four years. Research by Fine Gael Fine Gael (fē`nə gāl), Irish political party. Formed in 1933, it was the successor of the party founded by William Cosgrave that held power from the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922 until ousted by the republican Fianna has found that four people died from stab wounds in 2003, while this figure jumped to 18 last year. At the same time, serious knife incidents rose from 55 to 146 - an increase of almost 300 per cent. Fine Gael's Justice spokesman Jim O'Keeffe said: "We need to introduce a strategy to counter these knife attacks. There need to be more gardai on the street and we need tougher sentences. "Crime levels have remained fairly static, but there is a significant increase in the levels of violent crime." |
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