We go to bi-monthly Community Police meetings and our Community Police Officer has asked that we report any problems to him through the local police station. That way he can keep on top of things becoming worse. There was a time a couple of years ago when 3 young girls who were in the last year of primary school were tormenting a lady who lives alone just a few door up from us. She has a degree of learning difficulty and was really quite afraid. Then, they began doing the same with my next-door neighbour, thinking probably, that because she's also elderly, that she was a prime target. She would often be looking out of her top window, and they would jump about in the field just over her garden wall, doing 'obscene' actions. She contacted the police and they dealt with it really quickly. The policewoman went to the school's headmistress and also to the parents of the girls. There was never a problem after that.
I think that if I knew the parents of the offending children I might approach them and complain, but often, as has already been said, the parent may not be interested - or just say "well, it's what kids do, eh? Just a bit of mischief".
July 23 Limerick (continuation of July 21)
apple trees not flowering this year. Anyone else?