As Jamey Carney is laid to rest: Where is her killer now?

Look, let's cut through the establishment waffle and look at the hard realities on the ground.

Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old New York native and mother, was laid to rest in Killarney today. The circumstances of this poor woman's death highlight a catastrophic, systemic failure in our border and intelligence apparatus. Let’s be very clear about how this started: she met her partner, Ahmad Alsaqer, at a local anti-Israel protest, and their relationship—complete with their "lovey-dovey" social media posts—was a public display of two people from worlds apart.

Now, there’s a lot of chatter about him demanding thousands of euros from her just a week before she was killed, but the hard intelligence confirms the neighbours heard a very serious altercation coming from the property. And just to put the rumours to bed right now—she wasn't beaten to death with a shower head. The post-mortem is clear: she suffered severe head trauma and ultimately died of suffocation. That’s the grim reality of it.

The Escape Vector and the State’s Paralysis

The real question the powers that be need to answer is how a prime suspect was allowed to just slip the net and walk right out the front door. This individual, a Palestinian-Jordanian national who arrived here in 2024 claiming asylum, was actually handed his passport back by state authorities before this killing took place. You couldn't write it.

After the fact, he just gets on a 3:00 AM bus from Kerry, heads straight up to Dublin Airport, and catches a flight to Istanbul. He was gone before that poor woman's 13-year-old daughter even discovered her body. He subsequently crossed the border into Jordan, his native country, and that's where he sits today, detained by local authorities.

So why wasn't his face plastered across every monitor in Dublin Airport and the ports the second he went missing? I’ll tell you why. The state apparatus was paralyzed by political optics. In the immediate aftermath, the establishment was terrified of the blowback, with the usual suspects in the media complaining that pointing out his background would "stoke up tensions." When you put PR before rapid-response security, fugitives get the head start they need. We have no extradition treaty with Jordan, so the legal fight to drag him back here to face the music is going to be a drawn-out nightmare.

The Broader Security Context

When you're dealing with intelligence and threat vectors, historical and regional realities matter. The violence of the Middle East doesn't just stay over there; it lands on our doorstep. We saw that plain as day back on October 7th when Kim Damti, a young Irish-Israeli citizen, was murdered by terrorists at a music festival.

And look at the region he fled to. Jordan has a deeply volatile history with Palestinian factions. Following massive influxes of refugees, the PLO essentially set themselves up as a paramilitary force within the country, directly challenging Jordanian sovereignty and causing massive civil unrest. Let’s not forget, a Palestinian radical assassinated the Jordanian King back in '51. The history of that region is written in instability.

The bottom line for this country is simple. The state needs to wake up and smell the coffee about exactly who is crossing our borders and the geopolitical baggage they are bringing with them. You cannot let political correctness dictate the safety and security of the Irish people. It's that simple.