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Should we have tougher sentencing in Ireland?

 John Whelan of the Sentencing and Victim Equality Group SAVE, has described how his family are b...

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08.20 22 Dec 2025


Should we have tougher sentencing in Ireland?


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08.20 22 Dec 2025


 John Whelan of the Sentencing and Victim Equality Group SAVE, has described how his family are being ‘retraumatized’ at the biennial parole hearing of his sister’s murderer.   

 Sharon Whelan and her two daughters, Nadia and Zara, were murdered on Christmas Day 2008, and their murderer Brian Hennessy has applied for parole every two years since 2017. John Whelan joined Shane Coleman on the show to discuss.


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