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Forty-five days ago tomorrow, young Kieran Cunningham came to Galway for a night out with his friends. And he never went home. That is the time that has elapsed since he was horrifically knifed to death in an attack that shocked us all, given that it happened in a relatively well-trodden part of the city, just yards from Eyre Square, at a time when the biggest event ever held in Galway was in full swing.

The Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has been remanded in custody pending sentence for raping a young French woman at knife point in 2007.

Last year was one to forget in terms of crime in the city. In the Spring, we had to listen to the harrowing details of how Manuela Riedo met her end. In the midst of the Volvo Ocean race, we had the killing of young Kieran Cunningham on a night out with his pals. As I write this, another young man fights for his life in a Dublin hospital after being assaulted in the city at the end of the year.