The law is not strict enough on knife crime,and these young thugs should be taught a lesson.

The poor lad. These knackers need to have the book thrown at them and made a fierce example of in the courts.

Knife crime is the most cowardly, despicable crime and needs to be shut down immediately by a severe penalty, the maximum the law will permit.

Seriously knife crime is a complete black hole if allowed to take hold in our towns and cities, it’s got to be shut down with the full strength of our law and massive penalties put in place for being caught carrying concealed knives.

This is not exclusive to mayo and can happen in any town in ireland.Those involved and i mean all of them should be charged with attempted murder but there is every chance that if they end up in court they’ll be blaming the drink or have some bs sob story about how they’re usually grand lads and it’s completely out of character

I’m shocked to hear of something like this happening in Westport. Been there few times on holiday and it always seemed like a safe place.

Mayo is gone to f#ck, seriously!

If found guilty these boys sorry animals should get a belt of a chimney stick every day for a month across the arse ,they would think twice about doing it again, bring back proper punishment for lawbreakers

violence to and among young men always increases during economic hard times, in the late 80′s and early 90′s it was the same all over ireland and the uk

westports gone awful bad just recently a couple were mugged and hit with beer bottles, a guy was beatin up on the street and a guy tried to burn down someones house