Write to your local TD and complain about Judge Martin Nolan. It’ll probably make no difference, but it beats a Change.Org petition. Enough is e-fucking-nuff

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  3. https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/10/12/man-who-punched-kicked-ex-partner-in-savage-attack-gets-suspended-sentence/

    “A man who punched and kicked his ex-partner in a “savage” attack before standing on her neck and telling her he was going to kill her has received a fully suspended prison sentence.

    Andrew Brennan (41) left the woman with significant bruising, two black eyes and damaged teeth in the wake of the attack, that took place after a 24-hour-long drink and drugs binge, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.

    Brennan, of Castlecurragh Vale, Mulhuddart, Dublin, pleaded guilty to one count of assault causing harm and one count of threatening to kill the woman at an address in Tyrellstown, Dublin on May 6th, 2021. He has no previous convictions.

    Sentencing him on Wednesday, Judge Martin Nolan said this was a “savage attack” and that Brennan’s actions were disgraceful. He said that he could accept that it was unlikely that Brennan will reoffend to this degree in the future.”

  6. It’s a disgrace. It’s tough enough for victims of domestic abuse to come forward, sentences like this makes a mockery of the justice system.
    Judges need to hand out stiffer penalties and not allow the perpetrators of this crime to walk free. Women need to know that help is out there. This joke of a sentence will stop other victims reporting crime.

  7. There’s 7 thousand of us online at the moment and tens of thousands reading this sub daily

    Let’s do something collectively instead of just complaining here every day about this bastard

    Can TDs do anything? Fuck knows

    Can you request that your email is forwarded to the Minister for Justice?

    Absolutely

    And then it’s on the record at least

    https://www.whoismytd.com

  8. What’s going on with all these suspended prison sentence for horrible crimes???
    Early today I saw on the news one guy that drove over a cyclist also got a suspended prison sentence, now this…
    What the hell?

  10. Disgusting. Let’s put someone in jails for years over drugs.. But nearly killing a woman and abuse… Ahh leave him off.

    I’m not pro drugs either necessarily but jesus Christ, I’d rather see someone in jail for being an abuser and nearly killing someone than a drug dealer who sells weed. This is reality in Ireland now.. Drugs and any crime that makes money is viewed as a bigger crime.. Because the government doesn’t get tax out of it.

  12. How many of the people that want to see less suspended sentences; also want to see and pay for more prisons getting built to allow for that?

  13. External panel of investigations and performance reviews for judges tds and Garda, this shit is dangerous even the ombudsman is run by a former guard

  18. Look, I’m not a fan of Nolan as much as the next person, but the fact he gets the ability to do this is the bigger issue people should be complaining about, he can be replaced but the same precedents and guidelines will be in place.

  19. This is from 2013.

    https://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/11/18/who-is-judge-nolan-jailing/

    “Readers may be familiar with the recent decision of Judge Martin Nolan not to impose a custodial sentence on former civil servant Patrick Corcoran, 53, after he was caught with over 7,000 images and 21 videos of child pornography.

    In October 2012 Judge Nolan allowed 29 year old Graham Griffiths, who committed a violent sex attack on a 17-year-old, to walk free from court, suspending his four year sentence in full on condition he pay his victim 15,000 Euros. Griffiths had told gardaí he felt he was ‘under some magnetic force’ and ‘it must have been the hormones’ that caused him to attack.

    In December 2012 Judge Nolan fully suspended a three year sentence given to David Sharpe, a father of one, who went to a shop looking for help to transfer child pornography from one phone to another has avoided a jail term. The screensaver on his phone had an image of a child naked from the waist down as the background wallpaper. 44 images were recovered, 18 of which depicted children aged between eight and 14 years old engaged in penetrative sex, nine which showed children engaged in non-penetrative sexual activity and 17 which showed children in sexual poses. Judge Nolan said he was satisfied a prison term was not justified before he sentenced Sharpe to three years which he suspended in full on strict conditions including that he remain under probation supervision for 18 months. He accepted that Sharpe had not distributed, purchased nor shared the images and had therefore not supported the child pornographic industry.

    In July 2012 Judge Nolan again refused to impose a custodial sentence on a convicted sex offender who viewed animated child porn – graphic depictions of sexual activity with speech bubbles that left no doubt they were of children. Judge Martin Nolan said if the material had involved real children or if O’Neill had paid for it, he would be imposing a “reasonably severe” sentence. He added: “This material, no matter how odious, did not harm or exploit children.”

    “However, some before Judge Nolan have not been as lucky…

    In June 2012 Judge Nolan jailed Martin Forsyth, from Bray, for two and a half years. Forsyth had set up a bogus company to import valium so he could self-medicate to get off heroin…

    In May 2012 Judge Nolan jailed a mother and member of the travelling community, Mary Connors for three years for EUR250,000 welfare fraud committed over the course of 14 years, saying he had to ‘send out a message’ to welfare fraudsters….

    In June 2012 Judge Nolan jailed 36-year-old Charity Ajayioba,a Nigerian prostitute working in three properties in Sligo for three years for running brothels. Ajayioba had claimed that she had been trafficked to Ireland and was forced to work here as a prostitute to pay back a debt. The judge accepted the facts of the case were unclear as to what position Ajayioba held, her level of control or the amount of profit she made in the running of the brothels, but she had been directing at least one prostitute and was keeping brothels.

    And of course….
    And, finally…in March 2012 Judge Nolan jailed Paul Begley, of Begley Brothers Limited for six years after he admitted labelling consignments of garlic as apples to avail of a lower tax rate…

  20. Another couple of convictions worth noting, [convicted killer](https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/convicted-killer-jailed-for-stabbing-three-men-outside-dublin-pub-1375356.html) with 22 previous convictions who stabbed 3 people who tried to intervene in a fight, and then escaped to England, given 5 & a half years total for the 3 attacks

    Man [caught with 129kg of cannabis](https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/1012/1328746-cannabis-sentence/) who had seemingly no previous convictions and was accepted was on the lower rungs of the operation (according to court was paid €13,000 to collect the Cannabis), sentenced to 9 years in prison

    There needs to be a serious revamp around violent crime in Ireland.

    I’m well aware 129kg of Cannabis is a lot, but who needs to be kept away from the public?

  21. They try to make me go to prison

    Marty says no no no

    Yes I’ve been bad, I beat up my ma

    Then i stole her Peugeot

    I live a life of crime

    But Marty says that’s fine

    They try to make me go to prison

    But I got Marty no no no

    I’d rather be in town doing coke

    I can’t afford to pay because I’m broke

    So I get a public defendant

    And Marty gives me

    my suspended sentance

  22. What a fucking gowl. What a message to Ireland. It’s unjust to send someone who’s literally battered a woman.

    Have at it lads. SMH.

  25. That poor fucking woman.

    As someone who is all too familiar with the consistent and systematic failings of victims of sexual and domestic violence, my heart aches for her.

  26. In my opinion judges and other people in power need to have health checks including in-depth mental health screenings at least once every 5 years to be able to prove they’re of sound mind. Martin Nolan proves this point.

  29. This man is a national disgrace. History will look back on him with as much disgust as the likes of Archbishop McQuaid and wonder how tf such a person was allowed be in a position of power by the society that surrounds them.

    The fact that we feel powerless to have him removed or even have his judgements be scrutinised with action solidifies the idea that our democracy is an illusion and a farce. It’s a dirty dictatorship we are living under for the most part.

  30. He has to have something on someone and he’s def got some dodgy shit in his laptop but they can’t touch him

  32. I’ve gotten so familiar with this, that now anytime I hear someone getting off like this, his name pops into my head, the man is a danger and the fact he can continue to be a judge is not right at all.

    He may not be misbehaving but surely a lot of this must fall under conflict of interest or something like that to get him the fuck out of there.

  33. Drugs or theft of money from business or state will land you in jail with Nolan.

    Serious assault, Peado or rapists are fine though, they ALWAYS walk

    Dublin people website may be worth going through they seem to cover a lot of court cases.

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