Radical Reading: The Progressive Dr. Seuss

Radical Reading: The Progressive Dr. Seuss

Other News - Major Conference on Irish media and social justice www.siptu.ie

Other News - Major Conference on Irish media and social justice www.siptu.ie: "Conference organiser Jack Byrne, one of the founders of the Near Media Co-op in 1983, said: “This exciting and thought-provoking event will look at how media in Ireland has evolved over the past 50 years and how it has treated social justice issues. It will examine the impact of shrinking media ownership on coverage of these issues and will ask how community media can step up its game and enhance social justice.
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Dearbhail McDonald: We're blind to the new Magdalene scandals happening in our midst - Independent.ie

Dearbhail McDonald: We're blind to the new Magdalene scandals happening in our midst - Independent.ie: "These include the deaths of almost 200 children in care and the 500 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who went missing from state care during the Celtic Tiger years."?

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Publications | Keenaghan Research & Communications

Publications | Keenaghan Research & Communications: "Sweeney, J. and Keenaghan, C. 2009 “Impacts of Professional Choices Promoting Resilience in Children in Court Related Child Assessments through Practices Relating to Empowerment and Enlightenment” Irish Journal of Family Law Volume 3 2009"?

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Emer O'Kelly: Religious must pay for warping our society - Independent.ie

Emer O'Kelly: Religious must pay for warping our society - Independent.ie: "Nobody listened then to his cry for the voiceless; we remained deaf for generations."?

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Bill restricts Dáil banking crisis probe | Irish Examiner

Bill restricts Dáil banking crisis probe | Irish Examiner: "“While such inquiries can look into the activities of past governments, it is important to note they cannot make findings having a direct adverse affect on the reputation of individuals.”"?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Ireland : Infowars Ireland

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Ireland : Infowars Ireland: ""'But Mr O’Keeffe said it is “absolutely outrageous” that Mr Noonan would ask the Government to interfere with the judiciary in relation to the Garda probe into Anglo. “The judiciary is independent of all of the state institutions. It has to have regard for all of the rights of the individual under the constitution and surely Michael Noonan is not asking our Government to interfere with the judiciary. If he is, it is an outrageous call and a call that we reject out of hand.”'?""

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Apply the Rule of Law Minister Linehan.....Brian Rossiter - Indymedia Ireland

Apply the Rule of Law Minister Linehan.....Brian Rossiter - Indymedia Ireland: "I will close by asking are the Gardai Siochana a private army of Fianna Fail - I believe a lot of them are. Don't forget some months ago, Assistant Commissioner, Martin Donnellan sat at the top table at Clontarf Castle with Bertie Ahern and co. That surely leaves the Deputy Commissioner compromised. Some members of the Gardai Siochana are responsible for this young boys death and I ask tonight that they come forward and face a criminal court. Don't forget the cover-up relatng to the young Wheelock boy in Store Street Station.?

Kevin T. Walsh"

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A MAN arrested and released without charge in connection with the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder is seeking garda investigation files for his legal action for alleged wrongful arrest. Ian Bailey is also seeking the report of the review by Assistant Garda Commissioner Ray McAndrew into the garda handling of the investigation. - Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) | HighBeam Research

A MAN arrested and released without charge in connection with the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder is seeking garda investigation files for his legal action for alleged wrongful arrest. Ian Bailey is also seeking the report of the review by Assistant Garda Commissioner Ray McAndrew into the garda handling of the investigation. - Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) | HighBeam Research: "A MAN arrested and released without charge in connection with the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder is seeking garda investigation files for his legal action for alleged wrongful arrest. Ian Bailey is also seeking the report of the review by Assistant Garda Commissioner Ray McAndrew into the garda handling of the investigation."?

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High Court denies Bailey access to garda files - Independent.ie

High Court denies Bailey access to garda files - Independent.ie: "The review was carried out by Assistant Garda Commissioner Ray McAndrew, who recommended a prosecution in his report to the DPP but, in July 2008, the DPP decided there would be no prosecution."?

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Dearbhail McDonald and Ralph Riegel: Ten reasons why the DPP refused to prosecute Ian Bailey - Independent.ie

Dearbhail McDonald and Ralph Riegel: Ten reasons why the DPP refused to prosecute Ian Bailey - Independent.ie: "Have given cash, clothes and hash to Martin Graham -- a destitute drug abuser -- in order to obtain incriminating evidence against Bailey."?

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Fears over costs leave Protestants without redress - Independent.ie

Fears over costs leave Protestants without redress - Independent.ie: "Abuse victims in "Protestant Magdalene Laundries" with links to the State were not included in the redress scheme for fear of the financial cost, contrary to the official policy that money would not be a factor, official documents suggest."?

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Clerical Whispers: Protestant homes omission prompts charge of bias

Clerical Whispers: Protestant homes omission prompts charge of bias: "Protestant homes omission prompts charge of bias"?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Shame on Kit Cunningham and Father Myers - My Telegraph

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Shame on Kit Cunningham and Father Myers - My Telegraph: ""Where is the English justice system in this case?"THE SAME PLACE THE IRISH "LEGAL"JUSTICE SYSTEM IS?"

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Critiquing the McAleese Report. - Human Rights in Ireland

Critiquing the McAleese Report. - Human Rights in Ireland: "Sean Aylward and others were entirely wrong to claim that the Magdalene Laundries were largely private institutions outside the remit of the state and that the majority of women who lived and worked in the laundries entered voluntarily"?

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Editorial July-August 2012 Why no prosecutions? | Village Magazine

Editorial July-August 2012 Why no prosecutions? | Village Magazine: "crime committed by the upper social classes, a type of crime that has ultimately ravaged this country. At every level the criminal system has been set up to ensure maintenance of the status quo, and certainly not to challenge the privileges of the wealthiest or most powerful in society.  There is some sign that progressive legislation is being introduced but the culture in the criminal justice system  and particularly among the prosecuting authorities has allowed white collar crime to fester and grow – from widespread tax evasion to deception on a gigantic scale causing the loss of billions."?

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Beppe Grillo's Blog

Beppe Grillo's Blog: "The reconstruction of Italy can now begin on the basis of social justice, of equity, of community, and of solidarity. The Italian has lost the idea of beauty, of happiness, even the awareness of self, of self worth and of personal identity. We can succeed in coming out of the darkness, of seeing the stars once more. It won’t be the spread that stops us if each person plays their part, if we get involved fearlessly. We are the State and they have convinced us otherwise."?

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Young Filipino cardinal could be next pope

Young Filipino cardinal could be next pope: "A younger person is needed to deal with the problems of the times.'"?TIME FOR THE GREY HAIRED MEN TO RETIRE OR VANISH?

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HSE putting hundreds of foster children in danger, says report - Independent.ie

HSE putting hundreds of foster children in danger, says report - Independent.ie: "A damning report into foster care in north west Dublin has revealed how the safety of 368 children was still not protected.

The inspection took place just a few months after a report revealed that 196 children in state care or known to social services died between 2000 and 2010."?

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Ex-judge pleads guilty to new charge - The Irish Times - Fri, Feb 22, 2013

Ex-judge pleads guilty to new charge - The Irish Times - Fri, Feb 22, 2013: "Perrin of Lambay Court, Malahide today pleaded guilty that between May 25th, 2004 and February 2nd, 2009 within the State dishonestly with the intention of making a gain for herself or another or of causing a loss to another she did falsify an account, namely an eight page document entitled “Cash Account, Estate of Gary Doyle Deceased”."?

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Brady under fire ahead of papal conclave | Irish Examiner

Brady under fire ahead of papal conclave | Irish Examiner: "However, Cardinal Brady, who played a role in the cover up of abuse, is refusing to bow to his critics, and his office last night said he will attend and vote in the forthcoming conclave to elect the 266th pope."?

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Sophie suspect Bailey becomes a master of law - Independent.ie

Sophie suspect Bailey becomes a master of law - Independent.ie: "His thesis for the masters was entitled 'Policing the Police – Garda Accountability in Ireland'."?

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Decisions, Decisions – The Story

Decisions, Decisions – The Story: "When I began looking at how Freedom of Information works in Ireland, one of the first things I did was look for decision notices. To my astonishment, there were very few: the Irish Information Commissioner publishes only a selection of decisions. With fewer appeals because of the high fees, the result is a much smaller base of information to draw on. The Scottish Commissioner has published 1,568 decisions in just over eight years; in Ireland, after fifteen years, we have just 435."?

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Outspoken HSE critic to lose core funding | Irish Examiner

Outspoken HSE critic to lose core funding | Irish Examiner: "These include cases with extremely serious concerns around “unexplained deaths, injury, late diagnosis, complaints to regulators, and outstanding requests with the HSE advocacy unit for independent reviews”.?
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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: August 2011

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: August 2011: "In pursuit of his public crusade he has marshalled an array of finely honed skills - the skill to lobby, to organise, to cajole politicians, to embarrass politicians, to master the well timed sound bite, the skill to gently subvert the conscience management manoeuvres of the more privileged. His exercise of these skills has inevitably lead to him being cast in the role of dissident outsider, happily a role he is content to occupy for the foreseeable future."? "

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: August 2011

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: August 2011: "Shortly afterwards the judiciary was convulsed by the Sheedy affair, which led to the resignation of a Supreme Court and a Circuit Court judge, and it appeared a system for regulating judicial conduct was imminent. Over a decade later nothing has been done, despite a further report from a committee chaired by then chief justice Ronan Keane and including Mrs Justice Denham. It recommended the setting up of a judicial council on a statutory basis, providing for the representation, education and training of judges as well as a disciplinary mechanism. This has still to be legislated for, though the last government published the heads of a Judicial Council Bill last year and it features in the programme for government.?GARDA COMPLAINTS BOARD CHAIRMAN SUSAN DENEHAM,FRANK SMYTH,CHIEF SUPT.JAMES P O SULLIVAN,ABUSE OF AUTHORITY AGAINST PROFOUNDLY DEAF PERSONS,STRIP SEARCHING.DECISION? "

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Public Inquiry · Examining corruption in Ireland

Public Inquiry · Examining corruption in Ireland: "It is illegal for a solicitor to deduct money from a client’s compensation award.

THE Solicitors Amendment Act which became law in 1994 Section 68 (3).

A solicitor shall not deduct or appropriate any amount in respect of all or any part of his charges from the amount of any damages or other moneys that become payable to a client of that solicitor arising out of any contentious business carried out on behalf of that client by that solicitor.

By law, solicitors are required to provide clients with an itemised bill or at least a fair estimate of fees."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: DPP review emerged after 10 years | Irish Examiner

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: DPP review emerged after 10 years | Irish Examiner: ""Asked yesterday when the department became aware of the 2001 review, senior counsel Robert Barron, for the justice minister, said he was instructed that the department only became aware of it last October.

That material was not previously sent to the DPP, Mr Barron said. Another probe, prompted by claims made by Mr Bailey’s solicitor, Frank Buttimer, and carried out by Assistant Garda Commissioner Ray McAndrew in 2007, was given to the department but "did not include the material in this case", said Mr Barron. "?"

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"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: Daingean: Minister describes steps to uncover abuse in 1960s

"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: Daingean: Minister describes steps to uncover abuse in 1960s: "Fr.dr.Eoin Cassidy from the irish commission for justice and social affairs wonders why violent crime which he says much of which is hidden from public scrutiny is now so much a serious social issue.He wonders as to the theories on who or what to blame for the causes of crime in todays society."?

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"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com

"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: "It took a brave and honest journalist Joe macAnthony twelve years previous to expose what really went on,but what happened to him for writing the truth?How many of his collegues had been turning a blind eye in order to keep their own places in society?"THEN AND NOW?

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Daingean: KENNEDY REPORT 1970 PRIVATE PAPERS of Kennedy Committee

Daingean: KENNEDY REPORT 1970 PRIVATE PAPERS of Kennedy Committee: "I'll believe the State is serious about protecting children when I see Government Ministers AND Bishops taken away in chains. The Dept. of Education knew full well what was happening in the Institutions and the Bishops who moved abusers around Ireland are culpable and should be sent down."?

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"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com

"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: """"“Perhaps new forms of research-based investigation might better address such issues as the Magdalene Laundries or the quality of care in some mother-and-baby homes "and other institutions,”"?"ALL INSTITUTIONS WITHIN THE STATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND?"

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'I've done so many bad things; I've done a lot of damage to people. I'm not proud of that' - The Irish Times - Fri, Aug 24, 2012

'I've done so many bad things; I've done a lot of damage to people. I'm not proud of that' - The Irish Times - Fri, Aug 24, 2012: "In 2005 research by the Irish Association for the Study of Delinquency found what many had suspected: the vast majority of children coming before Dublin’s Children’s Court were from the poorest parts of the city."?

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'I've done so many bad things; I've done a lot of damage to people. I'm not proud of that' - The Irish Times - Fri, Aug 24, 2012

'I've done so many bad things; I've done a lot of damage to people. I'm not proud of that' - The Irish Times - Fri, Aug 24, 2012: "Early intervention for children and support for parents who can’t cope have to be significantly increased if we are to tackle some of the root causes of criminality"???????

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padd oconnell's Profile - Technorati

padd oconnell's Profile - Technorati: "Hi the point of my blog is from lifes experience i know for a fact that people involved in crime have never been given enough encouragement to follow a different path,but the vital ingredient is change of enviornment.But with a country up to its neck in legal and illegal corruption what else could you expect?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Lijit | paddoconnell

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Lijit | paddoconnell: " "'Basically i find it obnoxious that in this life cronyism comes before qualifications,Plus the fact that your class background defines what position you may be granted in life by the so-called elites.'?THE GREY-HAIRED MEN?""

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Fergus Finlay: What turns boys into killers? - Opinion, Frontpage - Herald.ie

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Fergus Finlay: What turns boys into killers? - Opinion, Frontpage - Herald.ie: " "A couple of years ago I met a group of teachers in Dublin's inner city. One of them told me -- and none of his colleagues disagreed -- that each year he meets a group of six year olds, new to his school. And almost at a glance, he said, he could tell the ones who were bound for Mountjoy"?"

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An Taoiseach Enda kenny: Statement On The Magdalene Laundries Report

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: "ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: Former Education Ministers 'not made aware' of abuse

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: "ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: Former Education Ministers 'not made aware' of abuse: ""''Former Education Ministers 'not made aware' of abuse'?WHERE ARE THEY NOW?Heather Alexander formely wellmount health centre circa 2002?Melanie Sanson social worker,Helen Coughlan social worker,Mave Drummy,Carmel Murphy, ditto,Coleman Duggan,Ms Suzanne Phelan ditto.Psychologosts national Rehabilation Board Criona Garvey,Erland O'Neill,br.Bernard McGetterick.Dr. P Rowland.Margaret Woulfe Connie Dolan interpreter's.Teachers Mrs Boyle,Mrs Corry.Dr.Anthony Clarke 41 manor St,Dr.Ting Malahide rd.Dr.antonio Lehane.Psychologist Tara Deehan,Sharon Mulryan,Dr O Boyle and Mary Swords. Dr.Larkin Feeney Lawrences Rd.former Principle Seamus Clandillan, ABUSE CASE No.763978.14/1/2003.Heather Alexander 20/12/2002.Helen Coughlan Social Worker 31/5/2002?'""

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: " "She said they were dismayed that they were not permitted to deliver a victim impact statement in court.
John French said they had seen their daughter slandered but no one pointed out that she had been making efforts to stay clear of drugs."?"

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CONNECT TO MY ANGELS

CONNECT TO MY ANGELS: """Unbelievably, the last of these asylums was closed only in 1996."?SOCIAL CLASS AND ECONOMICS PLAYED A LARGE PART IN WHO WAS SENT TO THESE INSTITUTIONS,THEN AND NOW?""

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PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: accused of kidnapping paddoconnell public inquiry - Google Search

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: accused of kidnapping paddoconnell public inquiry - Google Search: " THE PEOPLE WHO IT IS SAID KIDNAPPED JIM LACEY WERE SENT BEFORE THE SPECIAL CRIMINAL COURTS.OTHERS WHO WERE "ACCUSED IN THE WRONG" WERE LEFT TO SWING,JUST LIKE ALL THOSE MENTIONED IN THE RYAN REPORT.?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: ""JUDGE DERMOT KINLEN'S FINAL REPORT?"

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Doh’a | Broadsheet.ie

Doh’a | Broadsheet.ie:

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Column: The war on drugs isn’t working. We need to medicalise heroin.

Column: The war on drugs isn’t working. We need to medicalise heroin.: "WE NEED TO have a very serious think about our drug policy because it is not working. While the use of other more discretionary ‘recreational’ drugs such as cocaine declined somewhat with the recession, there are as many heroin addicts now as there were at the height of the boom and drug crime has increased."?

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Tackle gangs by legalising drugs

Tackle gangs by legalising drugs: "Peter McVerry SJ was pulling no punches on the Pat Kenny's radio programme on Tuesday 8 January. He was discussing the impact of Gangland culture on young people and Irish society in general. Peter said the gangs would only cease to exist when the sale of drugs became legalised and controlled."?

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Archbishop suggests investigation into Magdalene Laundries

Archbishop suggests investigation into Magdalene Laundries: "“Perhaps new forms of research-based investigation might better address such issues as the Magdalene Laundries or the quality of care in some mother-and-baby homes "and other institutions,”"?

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Harvard's Bruce Western advocates new prison, rehabilitation policies | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2013

Harvard's Bruce Western advocates new prison, rehabilitation policies | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2013: " Western is studying what happens to prisoners after their release and has come to interview Jerry about his experience."?

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Facebook is new threat to trials – judge - Herald.ie

Facebook is new threat to trials – judge - Herald.ie: "JUDGE Sean O Donnabhain warned a Circuit Criminal Court jury to stay off the internet and away from social media sites at the opening of an indecent assault trial.

"We are being plagued by social media. If it was Facebook (that tries the case), I would swear in Facebook," he said.

"You make the decision here, not Facebook. So please stay away from the internet."

Allegations

The judge's direction to the jury of seven women and five men came as the case opened against former Christian Brother, Edward Bryan (58)."?

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Facebook is new threat to trials – judge - Herald.ie

Facebook is new threat to trials – judge - Herald.ie: "JUDGE Sean O Donnabhain warned a Circuit Criminal Court jury to stay off the internet and away from social media sites at the opening of an indecent assault trial.

"We are being plagued by social media. If it was Facebook (that tries the case), I would swear in Facebook," he said.

"You make the decision here, not Facebook. So please stay away from the internet."

Allegations

The judge's direction to the jury of seven women and five men came as the case opened against former Christian Brother, Edward Bryan (58)."?

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Remarks by judge Sean O Donnabhain, Cork - Indymedia Ireland

Remarks by judge Sean O Donnabhain, Cork - Indymedia Ireland: "We have the Laws Society who is supposed to be monitoring the solicitors.., but who is monitoring the judges. More importantly, the public have no recourse if a judge over steps his authority, an makes a biased judgement, based on his own whims.?
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Taoiseach's nephew jailed for burglary, drugs and car theft - Independent.ie

Taoiseach's nephew jailed for burglary, drugs and car theft - Independent.ie: "He has now enrolled to complete his leaving certificate and had been offered scholarships in Trinity and in Galway."?

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Morgan Stanley Peddled Security Its Own Employee Called ‘Nuclear Holocaust’ | FAIR

Morgan Stanley Peddled Security Its Own Employee Called ‘Nuclear Holocaust’ | FAIR: "We are never going to have a full understanding of what bad behavior bankers conducted in the years leading up to the financial crisis. The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have failed to hold big wrongdoers to account."?

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Internet pioneer found dead amid prosecutor 'bullying' | FAIR

Internet pioneer found dead amid prosecutor 'bullying' | FAIR: "Swartz spent the last two years fighting federal hacking charges. In July 2011, prosecutor Scott Garland working under U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, a politician with her eye on the governor's mansion, "?

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Guard rebuked for trying to stop Ashley Smith from choking | FAIR

Guard rebuked for trying to stop Ashley Smith from choking | FAIR: "Her mom was the most important person in her life and if she was dead, Smith felt she had no reason to get out of prison, the officer recounted."?

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Senior managers more interested in careers than inmates: Ashley Smith inquest | FAIR

Senior managers more interested in careers than inmates: Ashley Smith inquest | FAIR: "The federal prison where Ashley Smith died was in perpetual chaos, with senior managers essentially in “a pissing contest” and careerists so busy clambering over one another in the drive to the top, that front-line staff and inmates didn’t count."?

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Montreal whistleblower quit after 'sense of trust was broken' over rigged land sales | FAIR

Montreal whistleblower quit after 'sense of trust was broken' over rigged land sales | FAIR: "A whistleblower who ran real-estate deals for the city of Montreal lasted just 28 months before he quit his high-level job, testifying he finally gave up trying to stop the rigging of city land sales by his political masters."?

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Judge raps Justice officials for treatment of whistleblower | FAIR

Judge raps Justice officials for treatment of whistleblower | FAIR: "Federal Court judge Simon Noël heard from the two sides in the Schmidt case Tuesday and criticized Ottawa’s swift response to the lawyer, who considers himself a whistle-blower acting in the public interest."?

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CBC "As It Happens": Ed Schmidt on alleged Department of Justice illegality | FAIR

CBC "As It Happens": Ed Schmidt on alleged Department of Justice illegality | FAIR: "Edgar Schmidt is a senior lawyer with the Department of Justice. One of this duties was to review bills that might violate our charter rights. Now he may have to focus a little more attention on one person's rights in particular -- his own. Mr. Schmidt has been suspended without pay."

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Government lawyer Edgar Schmidt courageously blows the whistle | FAIR

Government lawyer Edgar Schmidt courageously blows the whistle | FAIR: "Even at the risk of his reputation and livelihood, Edgar Schmidt couldn’t stay quiet any longer. For more than a decade, the senior justice department lawyer has been trying to convince his bosses that they are breaking the law by inadequately evaluating whether proposed bills violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. When he was finally satisfied that no one would ever listen to him, he decided to sue the government."?

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Public Inquiry · An irresponsible Central Bank still favouring the rich and powerful

Public Inquiry · An irresponsible Central Bank still favouring the rich and powerful: "Regrettably because the full force of public anger should focus on the betrayal by the so-called regulatory authority responsible for reigning in low-life individuals like Fingleton – The Central Bank."?

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"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: Victims of the Legal Profession Society

"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: Victims of the Legal Profession Society: "AS THE LATE PROFESSOR JOHN KELLY SAID:THE ULTIMATE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN A DEMOCRACY LIES WITH THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES
IF THEY ALLOW VILLIANS INTO GOVERNMENT ,A PIECE OF PAPER WILL NOT PROTECT THEM FROM THE CONSEQUENCES,NOR MUST THEY ALLOW A FEW LEARNED MEN[and women]IN WIGS AND GOWANS TO SAVE THE FOOLS FROM THE KNAVES THEY HAVE ELECTED?"

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GRITtv: Danny Schechter: Economic Organized Crime

Plunder - The Crime Of Our time - Home

Plunder - The Crime Of Our time - Home: ""When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men,
they create for themselves,
in the course of time,
a legal system that authorizes it,
and a moral code that glorifies it.”
– Political economist Frederic Bastiat, The Law [1850]"?

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Inquiry chaired by McAleese cost just over €11,000 | The Irish Times

Inquiry chaired by McAleese cost just over €11,000 | The Irish Times: "The committee included senior officials from six departments: Jimmy Martin (Justice); Barry Murphy (Health); Mary Moylan (Environment); Mary McGarry (Education); Francis Rochford (Enterprise); and Denis O’Sullivan (Children).
Nuala Ní Mhuircheartaigh, who came in for particular praise from Mr McAleese, was seconded from the Department of Foreign Affairs to act as adviser, analyst and drafter for the committee.
No member of the committee, which took 18 months to complete its work, received a salary or stipend."?

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About FLAC » Past Recipients : FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres)

About FLAC » Past Recipients : FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres): "Nuala Ní Mhuircheartaigh became the first Thomas Addis Emmet Fellow. Nuala was a student at University College Dublin, completing her final year. During her time in Seattle, she worked at the Federal Public Defender's Office, where she was involved in cases dealing with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the detention of several individuals who had been ordered for deportation from the U.S. She also researched the U.S. system of class action procedure."?

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About FLAC » Past Recipients : FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres)

About FLAC » Past Recipients : FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres): "The recipient of the Thomas Addis Emmet Fellowship of 2002 was Paul O'Connell, a second-year law student at Trinity College Dublin. In Seattle, Paul worked at the US Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR). He was involved in research of legal issues regarding complaints brought to the office. Furthermore, he carried out a comparative research project comparison (between the US and Ireland) on the access to education in each country."?

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Social Justice Workshops | Care After Prison

Social Justice Workshops | Care After Prison: "Care after prison provide a social justice workshop aimed at 5th & 6th year secondary students.  The aim of this workshop is to create an awareness to the dangers and consequences of risky personal choices.  This workshop includes a day in the life of a prisoner ( day to day regime inside our prisons) and Life story"?

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Public Inquiry · Garda Ombudsman: You are not entitled to any information whatsoever

Public Inquiry · Garda Ombudsman: You are not entitled to any information whatsoever: "Dublin TD Clare Daly believes that her arrest on a drink driving charge and the leaking of the story to the media was a deliberate attempt to discredit her because she has raised issues of malpractice within the Garda Siochana.

I agree with her conclusions."?

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Daly considering making second complaint against Gardaí | Irish Examiner

Daly considering making second complaint against Gardaí | Irish Examiner: "But the Dublin North representative said she is in talks with her solicitor about the possibility of making a further complaint about her treatment during the arrest and detention in Dublin’s south inner city on January 28.?
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Magdalene apology urged as UN envoy recommends payout - National News - Independent.ie

Magdalene apology urged as UN envoy recommends payout - National News - Independent.ie: "The victims should be compensated and perpetrators of abuse should be prosecuted, according to a leading member of the UN Committee against Torture.

Felice Gaer, the vice-chair of the UN Committee on Torture, told RTE’s Morning Ireland that the Government had an obligation to provide financial redress and, where possible, justice."?

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Former garda accused of 77 counts of indecent assault unfit for trial due to Alzheimer’s - National News - Independent.ie

Former garda accused of 77 counts of indecent assault unfit for trial due to Alzheimer’s - National News - Independent.ie: "In March 2009, Mr Nolan of Decies Road, Ballyfermot was charged in the District Court with 77 counts of indecent assault against two girls between 1978 and 1986. Both were minors at the time of the alleged offences."?

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Alan Shatter, 17th December 2009

Trouble in the Garden: Critical Legal Studies & the Crisis | Critical Legal Thinking

Trouble in the Garden: Critical Legal Studies & the Crisis | Critical Legal Thinking: "And if it was not for Paul O’connel’s elo­quent piece– that holds onto his own ima­gin­a­tion for a bet­ter world, these beau­ti­ful con­ver­sa­tions will not have ensued."?

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Vatican Crimes in Ireland: Abuse in Industrial Schools run by Christian ...

TD forced to shut office as tax protesters move in - News, Frontpage - Herald.ie

TD forced to shut office as tax protesters move in - News, Frontpage - Herald.ie: "In a statement, the protesters said they occupied the office to voice their anger at the looming property tax.

"People are angry at their local TD who they feel should be supporting them -- if they say no to the property tax, their public representative should also say no to the property tax.

"That's what she is mandated to do -- to represent her constituents," according to spokeswoman Tina McVeigh."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: CYNTHIA OWEN AND MANNIX FLYNN

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: CYNTHIA OWEN AND MANNIX FLYNN: ""By the time he was eight, Mannix Flynn was in court for stealing a box of chocolates. Ultimately he ended up in Letterfrack Industrial school where he was raped, beaten and abused. THE TALENTED ACTOR AND WRITER TELLS BRIGHID MCLAUGHLIN A TALE OF HOLOCAUST-STYLE BRUTALITY AND DEATH IN RELATIVELY MODERN IRELAND ."THE REASONS PROJECT?"

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Ex-SEAL Chris Kyle remembered after shooting death

Ex-SEAL Chris Kyle remembered after shooting death: "The motive for the shooting was unclear."?

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Vatican rule trickles down - Letters, Opinion - Independent.ie

Vatican rule trickles down - Letters, Opinion - Independent.ie: "Maureen Lowndes,

Tullamore, Co Offaly"?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Exonerated death row inmates speak at Law School

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Exonerated death row inmates speak at Law School: ""After winning access to the documents used against him in court, he was able to show that his alleged confession had actually been written down in an accusing officer's notebook prior to Pringle's interrogation. In 1995 he finally was exonerated and released."TO QUOTE PETER PRINGLE WHO ALLEGEDLY SAID THE FOLLOWING WORDS IN A STATMENT TO THE GARDI WHICH GOT HIM A DEATH SENTENCE"I KNOW YOU KNOW I WAS INVOLVED,AND ON THE ADVICE OF MY SOLICITOR I AM SAYING NOTHING AND YOU WILL HAVE TO PROVE IT ALL THE WAY"UNQUOTE.AND BRIAN COWEN BEMOANS THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION.?"I REST MY CASE?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Public Inquiry · The haves and the have nots

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Public Inquiry · The haves and the have nots: "While the country is engulfed with austerity and hopelessness, the lifestyles of our politicians and their exorbitant wages and allowances have remained almost untouched.?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Justice and The Poor

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Justice and The Poor: "The rich get richer . . . and the poor get prison?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Prison Governors: Why the inhumanity? Why the Block in Cork? Do we tolerate the Birch in Ireland - Indymedia Ireland

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Prison Governors: Why the inhumanity? Why the Block in Cork? Do we tolerate the Birch in Ireland - Indymedia Ireland: ""Champions Of Change"?WE TOLERATE EVERYTHING IN IRELAND ONCE ITS AGAINST THE WORKING-CLASS,THE OPPRESSED,THE DISADVANTAGED,THE HOMELESS,THE ILLERATE OR SEMI-ILLERATE,THOSE NOT WELL CONNECTED.?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Shatter criticises media 'campaign' - The Irish Times - Thu, Apr 12, 2012

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Shatter criticises media 'campaign' - The Irish Times - Thu, Apr 12, 2012: "The Garda Commissioner is consulting with the Director of Public Prosecutions as to whether aspects of the Moriarty Report "may" be pursued from a criminal point of view and as Minister for Justice I am determined to ensure that I neither do nor say anything that could prejudice matters.?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: MEDIA ADVISORY: Inhuman and Degrading Treatment in Ireland comes under UN Spotlight | Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT)

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: MEDIA ADVISORY: Inhuman and Degrading Treatment in Ireland comes under UN Spotlight | Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT): ""Degrading Treatment in Ireland"?JUSTICE FOR THE FORGOTTEN,JUSTICE FOR THE IGNORED,JUSTICE FOR THE EXCLUDED AND MARGINALISED,JUSTICE FOR THE HOMELESS,JUSTICE FOR THOSE WHO DONT FIT IN TO IRISH SOCIETY.?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: More tales from a wounded hidden Ireland - Indymedia Ireland

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: More tales from a wounded hidden Ireland - Indymedia Ireland: "Fr. Des Wilson, one of these distinguished campaigners, was at his trial and is lost for words to describe what he saw:?
"Some of us who attended the Green St. court any time during the hearing of his trial will always remember the grip of cold fear we felt at how similar this trial was to what we had read about years ago, the show trials of the dictatorships.....In the past however, news media and church and universities and all kinds of people had condemned what was happening in those countries which they described as under dictatorship or communist rule. Now we were witnessing in our own people’s courts the misuse of a system which we believed was so superior, so basically just, so presided over by people of such integrity that it would always be found better to set the guilty free than to convict even one innocent.?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Harvard-bound homeless grad 'overwhelmed' by ovation – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Harvard-bound homeless grad 'overwhelmed' by ovation – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs: "Dawn's story echoes that of another: In 2007, The Foundation for a Better Life, a Colorado-based group that promotes values through advertisements, started a nationwide "Ambition" billboard campaign.
"From homeless to Harvard. AMBITION. Pass it on," the billboard said.
It featured a photograph of Liz Murray, a once-homeless girl from the Bronx who graduated from Harvard and went on to become an author. Her story was captured in a 2003 Lifetime movie."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Harvard-bound homeless grad 'overwhelmed' by ovation – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Harvard-bound homeless grad 'overwhelmed' by ovation – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs: "I felt like all my hard work had finally been recognized.”?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Homeless to Harvard: How the daughter of two drug-addicts defied the odds to become an Ivy League graduate | Mail Online

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Homeless to Harvard: How the daughter of two drug-addicts defied the odds to become an Ivy League graduate | Mail Online: "Liz now works as an inspirational speaker, and talks to teenagers about resisting the temptations of drugs, and not letting hardship hold you back.?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Manchester University Press blog: Authors celebrate the launch of Coercive confinement in post-independence Ireland

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Manchester University Press blog: Authors celebrate the launch of Coercive confinement in post-independence Ireland: ""During the first fifty years of Irish independence, tens of thousands of men, women and children were incarcerated. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, reformatory and industrial schools and prisons formed a network of institutions that was integral to the emerging state. "?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: SSRN-The Death of Socio-Economic Rights by Paul O'Connell

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: SSRN-The Death of Socio-Economic Rights by Paul O'Connell: ""Over the last decade apex courts in Canada, India, and South Africa – which have traditionally been viewed as progressive and broadly socio-economic rights friendly courts – have issued judgments that are, fundamentally, at variance with the meaningful protection of socio-economic rights. Drawing on the experiences in these three countries, and others, this paper will argue that this jurisprudential turn can be understood as a de facto harmonisation of constitutional rights protection in the context of neo-liberal globalisation. The various national courts, although dealing with idiosyncratic domestic constitutional provisions, have nonetheless articulated analogous conceptions of fundamental rights; which are atomistic, “market friendly” and more broadly congruent with the narrow neo-liberal conception of rights, and consequently antithetical to the protection of socio-economic rights"?THE REASONS PROJECT?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester: ""Ireland’s leading Public Interest Law Organisation"THE DESPAIR OF SILENCE AND THE PUBLICS "RIGHT" TO KNOW?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester: ""'Paul was also involved for a number of years with the Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC), Ireland’s leading Public Interest Law organisation, both working as a researcher for FLAC and subsequently as a member of its National Council.'ITS THE SAME OLD SAYING IN IRELAND'TOO LITTLE TOO LATE'WOULD YOU AGREE DIRAMUID MARTIN ARSHBISHOP OF DUBLIN?CRONYISM IS THE MAJOR CANCER THAT HAS CRIPPLED THE IRISH ECONOMY."?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester: "Too Little, Too Late?’"ALWAYS THE SAME OLD STORY WHEN IT CONCERNS KIDS FROM A WORKING-CLASS BACKGROUND?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester: ""CRONYISM IS THE MAJOR CANCER THAT HAS CRIPPLED THE IRISH ECONOMY."THE REASONS PROJECT?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Facebook | Paul O'Connell

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Facebook | Paul O'Connell: ""'Legal training is a wonderful thing, it enables you to explain the unexplainable, defend the indefensible, and rationalize the irrational'-Howard Zinn"AND OUR OWN HOME -GROWN WHISTLEBLOWER OLIVIA GREENE.NOW WE KNOW WHAT MICHAEL MCDOWELL MEANT WHEN HE SAID "INEQUALITY"WAS A GOOD THING.ROLL ON THE EXPOSURE OF "ALL"THOSE WHO GOT FAST TRACKED "FRIENDSHIP"LOANS.ETC ETC?THE REASON S PROJECT.THE REAL "TRUE"CAUSES OF CRIME?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Facebook | Paul O'Connell

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Facebook | Paul O'Connell: ""'Legal training is a wonderful thing, it enables you to explain the unexplainable, defend the indefensible, and rationalize the irrational'-Howard Zinn"AND OUR OWN HOME -GROWN WHISTLEBLOWER OLIVIA GREENE.NOW WE KNOW WHAT MICHAEL MCDOWELL MEANT WHEN HE SAID "INEQUALITY"WAS A GOOD THING.ROLL ON THE EXPOSURE OF "ALL"THOSE WHO GOT FAST TRACKED "FRIENDSHIP"LOANS.ETC ETC?THE REASON S PROJECT.THE REAL "TRUE"CAUSES OF CRIME?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester: ""''He is currently completing his Ph.D., on comparative perspectives on the judicial role in "the vindication of socio-economic rights", at NUI, Galway. In the past Paul has conducted research for the Irish Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, the Irish Human Rights Commission and the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights. Paul was also involved for a number of years with the Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC), Ireland’s leading Public Interest Law organisation, both working as a researcher for FLAC and subsequently as a member of its National Council.'WHEN TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION?THE REASONS PROJECT?TO PROFESSOR JOHN DILLON(TCD) HAVE A READ OF FRANK CRUMMYS NEWLY RELEASED BOOK,FR.BRIAN DARCY SEEMS TO LIKE IT.AND I LIKE'PUBLIC INQUIRY'(IRISH CORRUPTION)ITS WHERE I STARTED MY RANTS.'?"IF YOU HAD A"DECENT"BISHOP AS A GOOD NEIGHBOUR THERE MAY NOT BE AS MANY KIDS FROM A WORKING-CLASS BACK-GROUND IMPRISONED?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester: ""Between Rhetoric and Reality: Social Justice and Human Rights in Global Context""?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Young children listed as suspects on garda system - National News - Independent.ie

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Young children listed as suspects on garda system - National News - Independent.ie: ""CHILDREN as young as six years old are listed as "suspected offenders" on the garda Pulse system, according to a letter sent to the Ombudsman for Children by the garda whistleblower behind the penalty point terminations controversy."?NOTHING NEW,DOES IT SAY WHAT SOCIAL BACK-GROUND THEY COME FROM?
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ENCOURAGECHANGE. - paddy o'connell

ENCOURAGECHANGE. - paddy o'connell: """"We are not childcare workers. People have to remember that many of these guys are not your typical 17-year-old and have more life experience under their belt than you and I ever will.""?IM SURE THIS STATMENT SAYS IT ALL,I WISH TO CALL ON ALL THOSE "ALLEGED"TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT JUVENILES WELLBEING IN SAINT PATRICKS INSTITUTION TO CALL ON THE MINISTER FOR JUSTICE TO RELEASE THE FILES IN RELATION TO JUVENILES THAT WERE IMPRISONED IN PORTLAOISE IN THE 1960s.THIS WILL SHOW YOU HOW MUCH LIFE EXPERIENCE KIDS FROM A WORKING-CLASS BACKGROUND GOT IN THE 1940s,50s,60s,70s,80s, 90s,2000.OR GO TO THE SITE PUBLIC INQUIRY(PADDOCONNELL).""

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Lijit | paddoconnell

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Lijit | paddoconnell: "AN OUTLET TO TRY AND ENCOURAGE WORKING-CLASS KIDS TO REACH THEIR TRUE AND FULL POTENTIAL."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Lijit | paddoconnell

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Lijit | paddoconnell: ""'Basically i find it obnoxious that in this life cronyism comes before qualifications,Plus the fact that your class background defines what position you may be granted in life by the so-called elites.'?THE GREY-HAIRED MEN?""

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Gene Kerrigan: Paddy recognises a lickspittle Taoiseach - Gene Kerrigan, Columnists - Independent.ie

Gene Kerrigan: Paddy recognises a lickspittle Taoiseach - Gene Kerrigan, Columnists - Independent.ie: "There's no shortage of examples. We're paying billions to bondholders whose identity is kept secret. Government advisers receive immense salaries, without explanation as to why the advice of these unremarkable people is worth a not-so-small fortune.

Cuts are made that destroy lives, while the rich are hardly aware there's a recession. Even though this policy hasn't a fragment of moral justification, it would help to know the practical reasons why Enda holds it dear."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Author Kieran Allen speaks on The Corporate Takeover of Ireland, Ennis meeting - Indymedia Ireland

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Author Kieran Allen speaks on The Corporate Takeover of Ireland, Ennis meeting - Indymedia Ireland: ""Corporate influence has progressively undermined democracy in Ireland."WHICH HAS LED TO THE BAIL-OUT SYNDROME?"

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Businessman awarded part of legal costs in promissory notes case | Irish Examiner

Businessman awarded part of legal costs in promissory notes case | Irish Examiner: "In his ruling on Thursday High Court President Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns found the businessman lacked the legal standing to bring such a challenge which would be better if it were taken by a member of the Dáil. "?

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