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 Chapel Lane, Golden, Co. Tipperary. A man was shot dead at 6.45 am this morning at a house on Chapel Lane in the village of Golden, Co Tipperary approximately 30 km from Thurles. The victim, Mr Shane Rossiter, died later after being rushed to hospital in Clonmel. Mr Rossiter became the 14th victim of gun crime this year to date.
The scene of the incident was quickly sealed off and the State Pathologist is due to undertake an a full examination today.
It is believed the victim, possibly aged in his thirties & who is from Clonmel, was shot in the stomach after answering a knock to his front door. Gardaí believe that up to two gunmen were involved in this incident and that they may have been looking for a second man, who was also staying at the house. Latter is understood to have been a possible associate of Declan O’Reilly, a Dublin criminal, shot in a gangland execution last month & who had already received a death threat.
It is believed the deceased was well known to Gardaí, & had previously been convicted of drug dealing.
Gardaí are now appealing to anyone with information to contact them in confidence at Tipperary town Garda Station, on Telephone No 062-80670, or the Garda Confidential Line 1800-666-111 or indeed any other Garda Station.
Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam dílis.
A male in his thirties is considered to be in a stable condition in the Mid West Regional Hospital, County Limerick, following an assault here in Thurles yesterday.
 The man is understood to have been injured in an altercation with a group of some five men, in the Gortataggart (Translated: Bog of the Priest) housing estate, opposite Thurles Co-Op Creamery on the Templemore Road out of Thurles at around 1.30pm yesterday.
The victim was immediately rushed to the Mid West Regional Hospital in Limerick, where it is understood he underwent surgery.
Thurles Gardaí would like to hear from anyone who may have witnessed this assault or who may have noticed suspicious activity of any kind in the Gortataggart or surrounding area especially between 12.30pm and 2.00pm yesterday.
Gardaí can be contacted locally at Telephone No 0504 25100. Information received will be treated in confidence.
Other Crime
Meanwhile in a completely different incident, a 26 year old Thurles man, who appeared before the court in Limerick city yesterday, has been remanded to appear before Thurles District court in the coming weeks for the activation of a previously suspended sentence he received following the committal of a previous robbery offence.
Mr George Hackett, with an address at Monakeeba in Thurles, stands accused of stealing €320 from the handbag of an elderly woman on a train bound between Thurles and Limerick city. Mr Hackett is understood to have boarded the train disguised; dressed as a priest.
The present Government has closed 39 rural police stations over the past year and is set to make further significant cuts to the remaining 700 stations around the country. Due to a lack of personnel, a large majority of these police stations now open only on restricted hours.
 Templetuohy loose telephone wires to scrap metal merchants. Recent statistics, released through the Central Statistic Office, state that 80% of police stations record only one or less crime per day and 40% record only one crime per week. However these statistics totally distorts the true crime figures, since when a crime is committed in any garda catchment area, because these stations are on restricted hours, they are not necessarily attributed to that particular local police station.
Government statistics while being used to justify continuing cuts to garda personnel and their budget, is not an indicator of the true level of crime committed or the fact that many people currently residing in isolated areas of rural Ireland are now living in real fear.
Rural Ireland Now Living In Fear
In recent days on the isolated Johnstown road running from the rural village of Templetuohy here in Tipperary, thieves cut down strategic telephone poles in order to obtain the valuable copper telephone wire which these poles supported. The wire and poles were then removed from the scene, the insulation burned off to access the wire and same was then taken to scrap metal merchants, latter who appear not to ask question as to the source of such material.
While this is not an isolated incident over the past two years and nothing new on our less travelled roads here in County Tipperary, local rural dwellers are being left without communication of any sort for up to five days. It is these same rural areas where mobile phone signals are weak and access to internet depends solely on land line telephone links.
The unemployment rate in Ireland was last reported, in September last, at around 14.8%. In the past from 1983, to date, Ireland’s Unemployment Rate averaged 10.8%, reaching an all time high of 17.3% in December of 1985 and a record low of 3.7% in January of 2001.
This latest criminal activity must be viewed as a case of “grab what you can before this country sinks further into the mire,” and which sees, currently, one well educated, highly skilled person emigrate abroad in search of a future, every five minutes.
 Serious anti-social behaviour regulation laws are to be introduced which will help Local Authorities evict tenants who are engaging in serious acts of anti-social behaviour.
Minister for Housing Jan O’Sullivan has stated today that there are problem with evicting such offenders and the Government will be introducing new legislation next year which will also include a probationary period for new tenants who offend.
Some 6,000 complaints of serious anti-social behaviour have been reported in local authority controlled housing throughout the country and the minister believes that those who engage in such behaviour should be denied local authority tenancy.
Complaints received included problems with graffiti, music, intimidation and drug dealing and & so far this year councils have conducted 20 evictions for such behaviour.
Graffiti here in Thurles continues to go unchecked and ignored as onlookers who attended the recent Tipperary Women’s Mini Marathon will attest. I must admit however that I find it difficult to understand how we must wait until next year for new legislation to deal with such anti-social behaviour problems. After all, the legislation demanding Household Charges & Septic Tank charges were able to be introduced into law within a few weeks.
Are ‘Town By-laws,’ which were previously permitted rules adopted by Town & City Councils, to regulate the affairs and behaviour of citizens, a thing of the past and are local councillors now devoid of all real power & therefore no longer required in our towns & cities, since the introduction of central funding controlled by national governments? Are there significant financial savings to be made, by the abolition of local councillors?
 Thurles & Tipperary CSO Crime Figures 2011 Thieves are going online to confirm when private homes are unoccupied. Gardaí have warned that thieves are using Facebook and Twitter to spy on their victims in an effort to discover when they are likely to leave their homes unattended. Social networkers are foolishly and openly stating their intentions to travel on holidays or to attend social occasions like weddings and other family events.
Nowadays with strict drink driving laws in force, people are more inclined to stay overnight if alcohol is consumed, thus leaving their homes unattended for at least 12 to 14 hours.
With a 7% rise in burglaries up to July 31st last and with one-in-three burglars now simply breaking in through your front door, people need to be extremely careful about the information they disclose when using such social networks.
Click image on left to obtain a larger view of reported crime in your area or click here to see the crime rate of all towns listed in Tipperary. (Note: Select ‘Tipperary,’ in box marked ‘County or State,’ on the indicated link.)
One other source of information, inviting criminals unto your property now also appear to be ‘For Sale,’ signs, as experienced in Holycross some weeks ago, when scrap metal thieves removed all the copper piping including the copper cylinder from a two story house which was advertising the owner’s intension to sell. Of course no one saw anything suspicious, but surely the questions must now be asked; who receives this stolen metal and is it now time to licence & control those dealers involved in the purchase of such scrap metals, most of whom deal strictly in cash?
With our greatly reduced police force now under massive pressure, attempting to solve our ever increasing crime rate, one must also ask the question why members of our excellent unarmed police force are observed, daily, escorting bank security vehicles around town, when up to six soldiers, armed with Steyr Assault Rifles, are already employed on these same patrols.
Time has come to make changes, time has come for people to start looking out for each other and time has come to be grateful you have a nosy neighbour.
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