Andrew Montague

We need visible policing, guards walking the streets.

And, you know, you hear this a lot, communities are all looking for more guards.

But there's a small number of communities that have very different levels of crime, where they've got open drug dealing, there's threats of intimidations and violence that sometimes spills into violent disputes where there's shootings.

pipe bombs.

And we're one of those half a dozen communities in the country.

And if each of those communities got 50 extra guards to walk the beat, it would dramatically change the situations on the ground.

That's been shown here in Ireland and Limerick when they did that.

It's been shown internationally.

We know that New York, the whole revolution of Comstat, where they really got control over crime was when they identified

where the crime spots were, and they put in large numbers of police.

It transformed the city.

We can do that here in Ireland.

We have the resources.

There's 14,500 guards in the country.

500 guards to go to the 10 worst, most affected communities in the country would transform the situation.

We can do it.

It's a matter of political will.

Let's get on and do it.

Can this incident shape the future for us?

Can it get us over the line to get the resources we need?