A very valuable report called The Vicious Circle of Social Exclusion and Crime: Ireland’s Disproportionate Punishment of the Poor was launched today by the Irish Penal Reform Trust with Community Platform. The details of the…
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What Wikileaks Says about Seán Aylward
The appointment of former secretary general of the Department of Justice Seán Aylward to the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture was described by the Justice for Magdalenes group as ‘a slap…
An Analysis of the Reports of the National Review Panel for Serious Incidents and Child Deaths
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,…
Misery of Earthquake Survivors in Haiti Continues
On the 12th of January 2010, Haiti was devastated by an earthquake which struck some 10 miles Southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince. Recording 7.0 on the Richter scale, it left 220,000 people dead, over 300,000…
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…
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…
Slaves and Slavery: The Economy of the Magdalene Laundry and The Industrial School
I have been thinking about the present scandals enveloping the Catholic Church in Ireland. People say, ‘How could they do it, men and women of God?’, or ‘How could they believe in the Gospel’, etc….
WSF Dakar: the revival of alter-globalisation?
Original article by Dany Stive was published on the 12th of Feb in l’Humanité. Translated by David Lundy. The 11th annual World Social Forum (WSF), held in Dakar, has just closed its doors. Buoyed by…
Ireland’s Shame as European Torture Committee Presents Damning Indictment of Irish Prison System
The fifth report on Ireland from the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Degrading Treatment (CPT), published today, is the most critical yet, and a damning indictment of a prison system…
Young offenders’ capacity for rehabilitation undermined by imprisonment in St Patrick’s Institution
Joint statement ISSUED BY: Irish Penal Reform Trust Barnardos Eddie Darcy, Catholic Youth Care Children’s Rights Alliance Irish Association for Young People in Care Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice Catherine Ghent, solicitor Dr. Ursula…
Life Imitates Art – Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article called Life Imitates Art. The first part can be found here. For more information on the devastating legacy of Agent Orange in Viêt Nam, visit www.lenaldis.co.uk…
Bloom Movement: A Justice Response to the EU-IMF Loans: Local and Global Perspectives
Public Meeting The Bloom Movement invites you to a public meeting: A Justice Response to the EU-IMF Loans: Local and Global Perspectives Wed 26th January 2011, 7 pm Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2 Chair:…
Can Human Rights Help Mitigate the Worst Excesses of Free Trade?
Up to 50,000 people a day die from poverty related causes with 22,000 of these fatalities being children under the age of five. The plight of the world’s most impoverished and vulnerable people have been…
Why is the Government dragging it’s feet over a referendum on children’s rights?
The Taoiseach’s comments on the issue of the proposed children’s rights referendum, which may yet not take place at all, will come as no surprise to any person who has followed the issue since his…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- 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
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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