A fortnight ago the HSE published the first round of reports from the National Review Panel for Serious Incidents and Child Deaths relating to children known social services within the HSE. As one has, regrettably,…
Posts By Darren Broomfield
London Showed Us the Need to Understand More and Condemn Less
Last Saturday night when disturbances in Tottenham began I tweeted the following “Its a bus and a few cars. Bigger problems in London that 24 hour news doesnt tell you to talk about.Keep calm and…
“Simple Solutions to Complex Problems”- I.T. answers won’t address Ireland’s Child Protection Crisis
“It’s often the direct work with the child which is lost in the paperwork, form-filling and filing and administration that makes up much of our jobs. (Social worker, Dublin) The Health Service Executive’s decision to…
The Challenge of Gang-Based Offending – a Collaborative Approach
The identification of offenders as members of a criminal gang is generally not an essential criterion in the prosecution of offences. It is not therefore possible to ascertain the precise number of criminals who are…
Folk Devils, Folk Angels and the Erosion of Real Discourse in Ireland
The current economic crisis in Ireland has highlighted many of the problems in Irish society that perhaps we all knew were there to a greater or lesser degree. For me the one interesting aspect of…
Ireland’s Child Poverty-Short Term Thinking and Long Term Consequences
The old adage that children should be seen and not heard seems to have been a mantra taken to heart by some members of the political establishment in the run up to the recent general…
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- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
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