Legal aid is provided to those less well off to ensure they have access to justice, but in 2015 it was revealed that Northern Ireland has one of the highest legal aid bills per head in the world.
We are supposed to be living in a civilised society in 2024, but once in a while the unsavoury underbelly that still blights communities raises its bile, and last weekend’s gruesome nailing of a man in his 20s to a wooden fence in Bushmills is proof once again that sinister elements are still trying to assert the misguided and unwelcome authority they claim to have.