Irish Left Review · The ‘Good Family’ Criminals

Irish Left Review · The ‘Good Family’ Criminals: "Deputy Lynch’s intervention was inappropriate - but it was by no means unprecedented. In 1999, it emerged that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern - together with a number of other political and judicial movers and shakers - had intervened to secure day release for Philip Sheedy, who had pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, causing the death of Mrs. Anne Ryan."THE REASONS PROJECT?