Let's hear about heroes, not cowards
Tuesday March 17 2009
A lot of people have turned their noses up at the media coverage of Jade Goody. They have found her very public journey toward death distasteful, arguing that such things should be kept private.
There is one thing I'm certain of.
I'd rather hear about the Jade Goodys of this world -- their valiant struggles against illnesses like cervical cancer and their attempts to raise money for their children's education while at the same time raising awareness of the illness -- than have to read about animals who kill policemen and unarmed soldiers collecting pizzas.
I couldn't give a fart about the IRA, real, imagined, or whatever silly names they wish to call themselves -- they are just murderers.
Would they were in Jade Goody's shoes, running around with her two little boys, full of life, laughing and doing good, pulling all the attention she loved.
Give me stories of heroic women like Jade in my papers every day and not an inch, not a word, not a dot on the cowardly monkeys who use their sordid little lives to kill people.
They are what I find utterly distasteful and I just don't want to have to read about them.
Jacqueline Cotter
Skibbereen, Co Cork
With all the focus on the recession in recent times, our attention has been taken away from a much more sinister development. That is the huge upsurge in violent crime on our streets.
The brutality and callousness and frequency of these attacks is frightening and nauseating.
The majority of people in this country are good.Why are we allowing a tiny minority to wreak havoc?
How many people have to die, be maimed or scarred physically and emotionally? One person is a victim too many. Do we have to lock up our young people to keep them safe while the criminals freely walk the streets?
It is time for us to fight back and to demand from our politicians a system of justice that protects the people and not the criminal.
We need laws that are tough on crime, especially drugs, and that act as an actual deterrent.
We also need a stronger police presence. We need to look at other countries who have been effective at fighting crime and model ourselves on their methods.
Deirdre Davis
co meath
