A PRIEST celebrating the funeral Mass of Ireland’s latest gun murder victim, Wayne Doherty, told mourners that crime gangs should face legislation that held them accountable for their actions. Fr Joe Coyne told up to 800 mourners at St Ciarán’s Church, Hartstown, west Dublin, that it was “scandalous and utterly unacceptable” that criminals believed they could carry guns and decide whom should live and die.
“It’s beyond any convention of right and wrong that somebody would be shot brutally outside his parents’ house, utterly wrong,” he said of Mr Doherty’s murder last Saturday night.
“Our society can never give in to that kind of violence and that kind of deprivation of life.”
Referring to the controversial Criminal Justice Amendment Bill, which seeks to tackle gangland crime, Fr Coyne said the reason it was before the Oireachtas was because of “issues in our society”.
“People who are known to be involved in criminal activities and particularly organised violence; why shouldn’t they be accountable? Why shouldn’t they have to give an answer and to be responsible for their actions?”
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