Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
‘Shell snaps its fingers and the State hops to it’ | Maura Harrington
In Bellmullet court on Thursday, five Shell to Sea protesters were up for hearings on charges ranging from last August 2008 to this June 2009. Judge Anderson dismissed several charges on technical points but was very harsh in serving two of the campaigners [...]
Eoin O’Dell | Blasphemy Provisions Should be Referred to the Supreme Court
Eoin O’Dell, TCD law lecturer and blogger, who comments regularly on defamation, argues that the Council of State, which convenes tonight to advise the President whether to refer the Defamation Bill, 2006 and the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill, 2009 to the Supreme [...]
This post was written and published on the 12th June last on the Irish Penal Reform Trust Director’s blog. It is being republished here with the kind permission of IPRT.
In response to a number of serious incidents at Mountjoy this week, IPRT was asked to make public comment on a number of radio programmes. [...]
So the government has dumped Bernard McNamara and the Leargas consortium because they were no longer affordable just as Bernard McNamara dumped the government when it appeared that the Regeneration Projects wouldn’t be the cash cow that McNamara had planned. In both cases the recent increase in the cost of financing the projects were cited. [...]
The public reaction of profound sympathy and outrage at the killing of Shane Geoghegan, by a killer or killers involved in a bloody feud between drug-dealing gangs in Limerick, is totally justified. Shane Geoghegan was an innocent bystander mistaken for the true target - a member of one of the rival Limerick drug gangs. Shane [...]
For ILR’s first podcast, we interviewed the leading progressive criminologist Dr. Paul O’Mahony. The interview covered a range of topics including the way in which the popular media shapes public perceptions of - and political reactions to - crime, and the effectiveness (or otherwise) of legislation introduced in the wake of journalist Veronica Guerin’s murder [...]
Following developer Bernard McNamara’s decision to pull out of several regeneration projects proposed under a Public-Private Partnership arrangement with Dublin City Council, there has been some speculation regarding the future of another McNamara project. The Leargas consortium headed by McNamara - which also includes international prison operators GSL and Barclays Private Equity - has [...]
Last week, Cork man Trevor Casey was sentenced to thirteen years in prison for the rape and sexual assault of two teenage girls. During sentencing, the judge referred to a letter from Labour Deputy Kathleen Lynch indicating that Mr. Casey was from “a good family”. On Sunday, Deputy Lynch issued a statement accepting [...]
… is the catchphrase of politicians in the wake of each new crime headline. The ‘something’ which must be done generally involves creating ‘new’ crimes in legislation, imposing mandatory or minimum sentences for existing crimes, or some combination of the two. Unfortunately, the Left in Ireland all too often falls in with the [...]
