A few bad apples don’t make a bad barrel

By Jim Gibney (for the Irish News)

Almost 70 active members of a paramilitary organisation have been convicted of criminal offences, including assault, carrying offensive weapons, being drunk while in charge of a loaded weapon, being drunk in a public place and deception.

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