Concern over alcohol consumption and violence among pupils and former pupils of fee-paying schools.
The final verdicts in the trial of four former Blackrock College students for the violent death of Brian Murphy outside Club Anabel in highlight the problem of alcohol related violence among some young people.
A witness recalls drinking 17 alcoholic beverages on 31 August 2000 but insists he was not drunk.
More than three years after that tragic night, young people leave the nightclub in the Burlington Hotel in search of taxis. Many of them are pupils or past pupils of fee-paying rugby schools.
A female student gives her opinion on drink-fuelled violence among her peers,
I don't know what it is about guys in the city, but they just seem to come out on a night out and feel like they have the right to take out their aggravation on other people in the city.
A male student explains why the southside of Dublin is often the scene of such aggression.
There's clashes between the private schools.
Two female students have seen physical fights break out over,
Who's richer and who's better at rugby?
Others consider stories of gang fights between rugby players to be exaggerated.
Director of the Rutland Centre Stephen Rowen believes people who believe they can hold large quantities need to be educated.
It's impossible, it can’t be done, they may not be falling down, but they’re heading for serious trouble.
Criminologist at Trinity College Dublin Dr Paul O'Mahony sees how the pressure of modern life leaves young people needing to let off steam, but they do it to the extreme,
When they drink, they do it to excess.
Neurosurgeon at Beaumont Hospital Professor Jack Phillips has seen an increase in cases of serious head injury following assault. He thinks teenagers re-enacting the increasing levels of violence they see on film could be a contributing factor.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 27 February 2004. The reporter is John Kilraine.
