Sex abuse survivor slams canonisation of Pope John Paul II - Irish Daily Star | Irish Daily Star

Sex abuse survivor slams canonisation of Pope John Paul II - Irish Daily Star | Irish Daily Star: Brave campaigner Michael O’Brien (81) suffered years of rape and physical abuse at a Co Tipperary industrial school.

And he said the victims of clerical child sex abuse should be made saints, not the late pontiff.

“It makes me sick to the stomach that that man has been canonised,” he told The Star.

“He’s far from being a saint. It’s the little innocent children who were raped and beaten by the Church that should be made saints.

“No-one listened to those children, not the State nor the Church.?

'My dad and uncle were gunned down...and my mum and cousin took their own lives' - Irish Daily Star | Irish Daily Star

'My dad and uncle were gunned down...and my mum and cousin took their own lives' - Irish Daily Star | Irish Daily Star: Conor (17) said: “Before I sit my Leaving Cert in June I’ll already have lost my mother Frances to suicide, my father and uncle were both shot dead, and my cousin and good friend Glen to suicide.?

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: October 2009

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: October 2009: .It is all about'SOCIAL CLASS"and maintaining difference;about those who are not [deemed]important enough on the social scale to protect and save from poverty and ill-health (a natural consequence).This is depraved and immoral political reasoning.?

Brendan Boland welcomes Cardinal Brady apology - RTÉ News

Brendan Boland welcomes Cardinal Brady apology - RTÉ News: Mr Boland added: ''I note that Cardinal Brady has now acknowledged that the information I gave him regarding other children being abused or at risk of abuse, should have been passed on to their parents in 1975.?

"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: EncourageChange's Bookmarks on Delicious

"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: EncourageChange's Bookmarks on Delicious: "How can kids from a disadvantaged background who spend years studying cope in irish society against a culture of 'legal corruption'that involves favours,vested interests,patronage,and personal relationships"AND DONT FORGET "NOBLE CAUSE CORRUPTION"ANOTHER PART OF OUR CRIMINAL LEGAL[NOT JUSTICE]SYSTEM THAT THE PUBLIC AT LARGE ARE NOT EVEN AWARE EXISTS.?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: NoleenBetrayed40Years



NoleenBetrayed40Years: NoleenBetrayed40Years.

Context for, and focus on, the Garda | Village Magazine

Context for, and focus on, the Garda | Village Magazine: After a number of trials and having served their sentences, Joseph Grogan and Joseph Meleady, were granted certificates of miscarriage of justice although they are still, all these years later, awaiting the compensation due to them for their wrongful imprisonment?

Bishop Accountability

Bishop Accountability: SECRECY AND CONCEALMENT OF SEXUAL ABUSE BY PRIESTS,BROTHERS,AND OTHERS.

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: "ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: Top garda attacks McVerry over abuse

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: "ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: Top garda attacks McVerry over abuse: "John Burke Crime Correspondent.Those that are culturally incapable of admitting mistakes.Should we speak out or run the risk of regretting our silence later?"THE DESPAIR OF SILENCE,BY B.O'CONNELL?

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: June 2010

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: June 2010: "The Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality and Women's Rights said they want powers to compel former judges to appear before them, even if it means changing the Constitution"?

Opus Dei Knights of Colombanus in coverup about Ryan Report(catholic church abuse), page 2

Opus Dei Knights of Colombanus in coverup about Ryan Report(catholic church abuse), page 2: Judges knew, lawyers knew, teachers knew, civil servants knew, childcare workers knew, gardaí knew. Not to know was not an option,” she said.?

Prosecutors and the Law: CQR

Prosecutors and the Law: CQR: Two Justice Department units are investigating, among other things, whether the prosecutors were ousted because of partisan considerations and whether politics influenced any cases handled by their offices?

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: February 6th Peggy Flynn – Dalkey 6/2/1966

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: February 6th Peggy Flynn – Dalkey 6/2/1966: "Who killed Irish prostitute Peggy Flynn? “I did,” said an Irishman serving in the British Army’s Parachute Regiment and currently a patient at the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, Southampton. “Well,” said detectives when they had listened at his bedside to his confession, “we don’t think it was you.”
Peggy Flynn, 49, was found dead on a beach at Dalkey, County Dublin, on Sunday, February 6th, 1966. She had been strangled with one of her own stockings and had probably been killed elsewhere. Because she was a loner, working the streets and the bars with no particular base or pattern, the gardai were faced with a tough task. They seemed likely to be spared much leg work by the confession of the parachutist, who happened to be in Dublin at the time of the murder when it happened."?

Fr Niall Molloy | Broadsheet.ie

Fr Niall Molloy | Broadsheet.ie: Counsel will identify matters, if any, of significant public interest or concern that would warrant examination by a further inquiry and in respect of which such further inquiry would have a reasonable prospect of establishing the truth.???????

Detective hits out at denial of Fr Niall Molloy cover-up - Independent.ie

Detective hits out at denial of Fr Niall Molloy cover-up - Independent.ie: “The Phoenix Park (garda HQ) tried to silence me when I got vital evidence about the case and attempted to investigate it myself.

“Two superintendents came in and searched my office. I told them nobody would silence me. When I joined the guards, I swore an oath of office that I would do my work without fear, favour, malice or ill-will.?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Struggling to maintain his composure, he quoted an email he received from the nephew of murdered priest, Fr Niall Molloy. “For almost 30 years people have hidden behind a wall of silence, deceit, corruption and cover-up; time for the light of justice to shine on them and reveal them to the people for what they are. Many, many people have gone to their graves overshadowed by this heartache.”?

Cover-up of priest's murder 'aided by State' – TD - Independent.ie

Cover-up of priest's murder 'aided by State' – TD - Independent.ie: Michael Creed TD named those forces as "the senior political establishment, the judiciary, the church, senior medical personnel and the gardai".

He said it was "imperative" that Justice Minister Alan Shatter now establish an independent judicial inquiry.?

Garda told why he felt Bailey was a suspect - Independent.ie

Garda told why he felt Bailey was a suspect - Independent.ie: Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been asked to intervene to stop the French authorities from returning to Ireland next month to continue their investigation. In a letter to Mr Kenny, Mr Bailey and his partner said the Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, granted permission to French prosecutors to return to Ireland, even though the prosecution attempt was based on a "corrupted" garda file.?

Garda told why he felt Bailey was a suspect - Independent.ie

Garda told why he felt Bailey was a suspect - Independent.ie: Ray McAndrew, in 2006. The findings of that inquiry have never been disclosed.?

Cold Case Special: Gardai let 9 possible killers slip through net / Sunday World

Cold Case Special: Gardai let 9 possible killers slip through net / Sunday World: Of the 10, one was a former French lover, another a German martial arts expert who left the area and committed suicide shortly the murder, and a third was a French fisherman, who also killed himself following Sophie’s death.?

Long political silence over garda conduct during Ian Bailey case | Irish Examiner

Long political silence over garda conduct during Ian Bailey case | Irish Examiner: They have sought the McAndrew report but the State has refused to hand it over.?

Whisteblower John Wilson ‘very, very shocked’ by new allegations of garda misconduct - Independent.ie

Whisteblower John Wilson ‘very, very shocked’ by new allegations of garda misconduct - Independent.ie: “I was very, very shocked by one of these allegations”, he said.?

CONNECT TO MY ANGELS

CONNECT TO MY ANGELS: "'In a world marked by profound class divisions and social inequality, to talk about “democracy”— without talking about the class nature of that democracy and which class it serves—is meaningless, and worse. So long as society is divided into classes, there can be no “democracy for all”: one class or another will rule, and it will uphold and promote that kind of democracy which serves its interests and goals?

Justice4all

Justice4all: Shatter asked to clarify phone calls relating to 1985 murder of priest?

Kerry Babies Scandal: Scapegoats

Kerry Babies Scandal: Scapegoats: More seriously, the vast majority of members of the Oireachtas have abroogated their constitutional responsibiility to scrutinise the Lynch Report, which they commissioned by resoluution of both Houses, and which has been the subject of widespread dismay and disbelief.?

Witness demands Garda records on 'Kerry babies' case | BreakingNews.ie

Witness demands Garda records on 'Kerry babies' case | BreakingNews.ie: “I’m supposed to have made a confession to a crime that didn’t happen like the five people in the Kerry babies case. I want to show a pattern of fabricating notes and framing people up,” said Mr McBrearty.?

Public Inquiry · Garda/political corruption – Nothing will change

Public Inquiry · Garda/political corruption – Nothing will change: The Irish Examiner editorial describes the latest revelations in the Ian Bailey case as mind boggling.

That Gardai may have considered paying someone in order to frame a man for murder is described as not only corrupt but almost unbelievable.

The Irish Times speaks of an appalling vista and grave national concern that Gardai may have acted illegally in securing convictions in the courts.?

MPs demand inquiry into Met police treatment of whistleblower | UK news | The Guardian

MPs demand inquiry into Met police treatment of whistleblower | UK news | The Guardian: It is also vital that the public trust that if they are victim of crime it will be recorded accurately, investigated fully and that police will take appropriate action.?

Police Federation Independent Review

Police Federation Independent Review: All accounts from the Police Federation should be published – including so-called ‘No2’ secret accounts within branch boards?

Trust in police 'severely shaken' by corruption, says top watchdog | Mail Online

Trust in police 'severely shaken' by corruption, says top watchdog | Mail Online: ‘Controversies and revelations of a serious and negative nature in relation to the conduct of some police officers, both past and present, have hurt public confidence in the police, and the morale of the very great majority of honest, hardworking, committed and brave police officers has suffered as a consequence.’?

*"If voting changed anything they would make it illegal'.*?

Louis Brandeis Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com

Louis Brandeis Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com: “Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”?

—Louis Brandeis

Anne Driscoll | Staff | About the Institute | Schuster Institute | Brandeis University

Anne Driscoll | Staff | About the Institute | Schuster Institute | Brandeis University: In 2013, Driscoll was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to work with the Irish Innocence Project. She will be in Ireland for the academic year 2013-2014 teaching investigative journalism tools to law students from Griffith College, Trinity College and Dublin City University as they pursue 20 cases of presumed innocence for the Irish Innocence Project.?

Forget garda tapes, elections will be won or lost on economic issues - Independent.ie

Forget garda tapes, elections will be won or lost on economic issues - Independent.ie: The political culture has been so preoccupied by Alan Shatter and the gardai taping controversy, that it is in danger of losing sight of what really matters with the general public, and that is the cost of living and sheer economic survival.?

Peaches’ final column: ‘I had the perfect life’ | Irish Examiner

Peaches’ final column: ‘I had the perfect life’ | Irish Examiner: “And no one seemed to want to ask me about my babies, when I wanted to gush endlessly about them. It hurt me. I felt alienated and abandoned?MAY SHE REST IN PEACE.

Frank Flannery cancels PAC appearance, after Kerins does same | Irish Examiner

Frank Flannery cancels PAC appearance, after Kerins does same | Irish Examiner: Mr Flanney said: "My basic rights seem to have been disregarded in the pursuit of a partisan political agenda designed to damage the Party I have been associated with for many years (Fine Gael) rather than to elicit further information on the matters under consideration and I would urge the committee to reconsider their entire approach."?BOLLIX?WHAT ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO LOOK AFTER THE DISABLED AND PROFOUNDLY DEAF?

No justice for bankers | Irish Examiner

No justice for bankers | Irish Examiner: Yet, we are continually reminded how great a job our Government is doing, in spite of the fact all they have done is ease the short-term borrowing costs by inflicting the equivalent of a sub-prime national debt mortgage on future generations. Justice in Ireland is seen to be undone.

Edward Horgan
Newtown
Castletroy
Limerick?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Darcy said he found the legal system in this country to be “very archaic” with “draconian structures” designed to stop people from defending themselves and their families.?IN MOST CASES POOR PEOPLE?

Banking corruption and injustice – the focus of Tom Darcy’s European campaign

Banking corruption and injustice – the focus of Tom Darcy’s European campaign: Darcy said he found the legal system in this country to be “very archaic” with “draconian structures” designed to stop people from defending themselves and their families.?

The Sunday Business Post

The Sunday Business Post: The Taoiseach learned about the tapes on Sunday. He did not tell his justice minister until 24 hours later. Here's what the Taoiseach said about it:


''I advised the attorney general that all of the facts, both of the individual case and the wider trawl, should be assessed by somebody competent in the legal profession to see how serious the issue was. That was done all day Monday?

Former Mountjoy governor John Lonergan: ‘No sinister reason’ for prison call recording - Independent.ie

Former Mountjoy governor John Lonergan: ‘No sinister reason’ for prison call recording - Independent.ie: “There was a system in place from around 2003/2004. It was installed as an enhancement for prisoners to help them keep in contact with their families.?

Profile of Rehab’s Angela Kerins (Village, March ’09) | Village Magazine

Profile of Rehab’s Angela Kerins (Village, March ’09) | Village Magazine: Kerins enjoys the support of Department of Justice secretary general and Waterford confrere, Sean Aylward, who also had reason to find some of Crowley’s work distasteful. Last year, it emerged that the Authority had referred to the Garda a complaint that Aylward in his earlier role as Director of the Prison Service had acted improperly.

In an apparent breach of equality legislation, Aylward was alleged to have given details of a confidential file pertaining to the chaplain of Castlerea prison who was in dispute with the prison service to his Church superior the local bishop?

Cracks appear in Alan Shatter's statement on tapes - Independent.ie

Cracks appear in Alan Shatter's statement on tapes - Independent.ie: "The simple truth is GSOC did not furnish the report mentioned to me and I am advised that it did not furnish it to my departmental officials nor bring it to the Department's attention." At no stage did Minister Shatter mention that officials in his department were aware of the report from last year.?

Omagh - Do We Need To Know Who Did It? - Relatives Seeking Inquiry - Page 5

Omagh - Do We Need To Know Who Did It? - Relatives Seeking Inquiry - Page 5: "We asked minister to withhold Omagh report from Callinan - but he didn't"

Campaigners for an inquiry into the Omagh bomb have asked why Alan Shatter handed a report about Garda failings before the atrocity to then-Garda-Commissioner Martin Callinan - although they had specifically asked the Minister for Justice not to"?

Latest news from the Omagh Support and Self Help Group

Latest news from the Omagh Support and Self Help Group: Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan was killed in the bombing, outlined the contents of the report with Mr Bridger at a briefing for TDs and Senators in Leinster House yesterday. Mr Gallagher repeated a call for a full cross-Border independent judicial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the attack.


Public inquiry
"To date we have not heard from either government on the report and the call for a public inquiry. We say the information contained within the report is sufficient material for a public inquiry,"?

Heartbroken parents tell how killer battered their musician son with rocks and split his skull in two - Independent.ie

Heartbroken parents tell how killer battered their musician son with rocks and split his skull in two - Independent.ie: "It's as if nobody knew and nobody cared."?

Rehab Group CEO Kerins confirms resignation | Irish Examiner

Rehab Group CEO Kerins confirms resignation | Irish Examiner: In doing so I hope the organisation can focus its entire energies on its core activity of developing and delivering services to people with disabilities and others who are disadvantaged???

Student bounces back from bullying to scoop press award - Independent.ie

Student bounces back from bullying to scoop press award - Independent.ie: "Writing is my way of getting my feelings out," she told the Irish Independent,adding that she was bullied as a child.

"My social skills were really stunted afterwards; I had no idea how to talk to people.?

Tom Gilmartin - Frank Connolly - 9780717160471 - O'Mahony's Booksellers

Tom Gilmartin - Frank Connolly - 9780717160471 - O'Mahony's Booksellers: Tom Gilmartin
[9780717160471]
by Frank Connolly


Paperback
Published: 14/04/14

This is a compelling narrative of official wrong-doing and abuse of office. The book exposes the roots of the political and financial disaster that has wreaked such havoc in the lives of so many Irish people.?CRIME AND ITS TRUE CAUSES?