Crime Prevention
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-10
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Tony McCormack (FF), Offaly

I want to acknowledge the wider trauma surrounding this event. Another woman remains in hospital with serious injuries. Her life has been changed forever and she will need support in ways we cannot measure yet. I also want to acknowledge the first responders, gardaí, paramedics and Offaly fire service officers who entered that scene. They faced what most people could not. They acted with courage and humanity and they deserve recognition and support for the trauma they now carry quietly on behalf of us all. Neighbouring families are shaken. Children in the estate are frightened. Homes that should be now filled with Christmas excitement are instead filled with fear and unanswered questions that no parent should ever have to answer.
Edenderry Garda station does not operate on a 24-hour basis. Edenderry now needs reassurance through action by way of a visible policing presence and strengthened Garda numbers. Criminals do not operate on office hours and safety should not either. I ask that Edenderry Garda station would operate 24 hours a day. Let this tragedy be the moment that confidence is rebuilt in Edenderry, not the moment when we simply mourn or move on.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-10