Our country is in mourning after the pointless and unnecessary deaths of helpless pedestrians on Irish roads. Sister Stanislaus Kennedy mentions but a handful of those killed, but it is sufficient enough a number to shock us into realisation. The general consensus is to imprison the guilty motorists and to discard of the key, and while the writer admits that this is a valid punishment in the opinion of many, she is adamant that it is not a remedy. It is merely a temporary answer, and in no way could this action stop such accidents reoccurring. The threat of a possible prison sentence will not dissuade a potential joy rider to drop the keys of a car. Consider the deceased, whose lives have been prematurely ended due to reasons beyond their control, and their families who are left
heartbroken in their wake. Imprisoning the perpetrators who caused this inexplicable grief cannot turn back the clock or fix anything. To have robbed someone of their life is big enough a shock to any driver, and an offence they are unlikely to repeat. Their lives, too, have been indelibly altered.
The answer lies, according to Kennedy in addressing the fundamental causes before we set upon the larger problem. Issues as serious and as heartbreaking and destructive as violence, crime and drug abuse are impossible to solve easily. Nor can a single person achieve anything. The author of this article suggests how we should deal with the dilemma of violence, poverty and problem children. We must unite as a community to fix this problem, according to Kennedy. Unless we can accomplis
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