The Left’s Europe Problem

The Left’s Europe Problem: I am thinking here of universal free or nearly free primary, secondary, and tertiary education, universal health care, the elimination of extreme poverty and hunger, government funded pensions, improvement in labour conditions and the guarantee of leisure time. The list goes unapologetically on.?

Garda chief denies McCabe claims - Independent.ie

Garda chief denies McCabe claims - Independent.ie: Nuala O'Loan, Northern Ireland's first Police Ombudsman, told the hearing a ban on probing complaints against the Garda Commissioner would not happen anywhere else.?

It hasn’t gone away you know – The Story

It hasn’t gone away you know – The Story: I acknowledge that there are genuine concerns that the provision might be used by some on the administrative side of the house to implement a charging system that is not intended. To that end, with the permission of the committee, I propose to withdraw the amendment and, in co-operation with my officials, devise a form of wording to take it beyond confusion, doubt or misinterpretation that what I have set out is what I intend to be achieved?

WHAT IF?

WHAT IF?: After The Sergeant Mc Cabe Controversy,I Find That Very Hard To Believe?

Making the next ‘States of Fear’ - Religious News & Affairs | The Irish Times - Sat, May 17, 2014

Making the next ‘States of Fear’ - Religious News & Affairs | The Irish Times - Sat, May 17, 2014: Denial and complacency were no longer possible.?After The Sergeant Mc Cabe Controversy,I Find That Very Hard To Believe?

Making the next ‘States of Fear’ - Religious News & Affairs | The Irish Times - Sat, May 17, 2014

Making the next ‘States of Fear’ - Religious News & Affairs | The Irish Times - Sat, May 17, 2014: The programmes she made were always aimed at confronting truths about power: who has it and how it is used.?

A True Life Story of Life in an Irish Industrial School

A True Life Story of Life in an Irish Industrial School: Because of the grammar??? Are you serious???? This man tells the story as he knows it and YOU are more concerned with the grammar than the words… Shocked really! These boys were taught how to break rocks, how to hold their breath under water long enough to not drown under the “brothers” hands, how to survive on morsels, how to not tell of the sexual violence they endured, how to wake up every morning feeling un-loved and forgotten by their families. These boys were NOT taught grammar in their “school”. My father was in Letterfrack from 12-16 years of age, sadly he has suffered to this day having never dealt with his childhood… Nobody should ever correct a suffering, dying inside man! Shame on you!!!?

Public Inquiry · Unanswered questions

Public Inquiry · Unanswered questions: .b18\6706\64 b18\8407\67 a1\9\67 b16\68 82ss.113ss.111\13\73 715\73.P.Quinn high court registrar1980.2\2\1970.some say its no use advising the ignorant poor.TR,#2390 410134,26/9/2000?Eithne Fitzgerald,Bernard Allen.Gay Mitchell 20/8/1993.?God Never Closes One Tribunal Of Inquiry Without Opening Another?

HOPE…….. | Awaken Longford

HOPE…….. | Awaken Longford: HOPE……..?

GP claims special needs boy ‘whipped’ at Limerick garda station - Limerick Leader

GP claims special needs boy ‘whipped’ at Limerick garda station - Limerick Leader: Concerns raised by Dr O’Flaherty over the treatment of persons in custody were previously raised in a Dail debate on the Garda Siochana Amendment Bill last Summer when Deputies Luke Ming’ Flanagan, and Finian McGrath used privilege to raise the accusations.?Dr.Roche Mater Hospital 4/7/1989.Ref.A0162650.

Garda Complaints Board.18/12/1989.Ref.890587.The Dept.Of Justice Notified As Well As The Attorney General.?

Garda corruption rife claims lobby body Justice4all - Irish Mirror Online

Garda corruption rife claims lobby body Justice4all - Irish Mirror Online: The body was was set up by TDs Clare Daly, Luke “Ming” Flanagan, Joan Collins and Mick Wallace to highlight injustices within the legal system, the judiciary and the gardai.?

"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com

"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: An assistant garda commissioner was allegedly involved in an attempt to have pressure exerted on the DPP to charge Ian Bailey with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Martin McQuinn, who retired from the force in December 1998, was the most senior officer at a meeting in Bandon garda station when, it is alleged, Malachy Boohig, the state solicitor for west Cork, was encouraged to persuade the DPP to prosecute Bailey.?

Mary Lou’s 20-minute wonder underlines the need for top official to explain Gardagate – for his own sake

Mary Lou’s 20-minute wonder underlines the need for top official to explain Gardagate – for his own sake: So far all we’ve heard from Purcell on the matter is a six-page memo issued on 1 April (above). From this we know that Callinan first informed Purcell of the garda recordings issue, specifically in relation to the Ian Bailey case, in a letter on 10 March.?

Mary Lou’s 20-minute wonder underlines the need for top official to explain Gardagate – for his own sake

Mary Lou’s 20-minute wonder underlines the need for top official to explain Gardagate – for his own sake: Purcell is a veteran of the public service. As an executive officer in the Department of Social Welfare in the 1980s he famously went where others dared not by signing the papers which cut off Martin ‘The General’ Cahill’s dole. The criminal boss later kidnapped Purcell and shot him in the legs twice.

Purcell later became head of the Irish Prison Service where his reforms would earn him the role of top civil servant in the Department of Justice in July 2011. But his tenure there, much like Shatter’s, has been riddled with problems not least the handling of the garda whistleblowers.?

ENCOURAGECHANGE.

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Public Inquiry · What’s new?: Dysfunctional values Dysfunctional structures Dysfunctional morals?To quote the late judge Dermot Kinlen who said”One has to be addicted to HOPE no matter how DEPRESSING reality may be?So i would like to dedicate this post to professor William Binchy who recived a measure of gratitude in judge kinlens previous report on prisons. This is to ask the human rights commission what is happening to the judges final report where he stated and accused named officials of criminal wrongdoing,he also said senior government and prison officials should face proceedings for criminal wrongdoing.?

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?: “This is about getting it right for the people of our country, for the citizens, for the next generation, for everybody to have integrity, belief and faith in the Garda Siochána, in the accountability and transparency of the way it is run,” he added.?ARE THE PUBLIC BEEN ASKED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST INVESTIGATIONS?

Articles 1 | Untold Story Out

Articles 1 | Untold Story Out: Untold Story Out?Ombudsman Examines Youths Tragic Death,Evin Carey From Crooke,Co .Waterford.Was Found Dead In His Home.

WHAT IF?

WHAT IF?: SO HERES A SPECIFIC CASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE THAT WAS BRUSHED UNDER THE CARPET,”you must rember that susan denem now supreme court judge once sat on the garda complaints board”A YOUNG PROFOUNDLY DEAF MAN WAS BEATEN TO A PULP WHILE IN GARDA CUSTODY,TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY HE WAS GIVEN HIS RIGHT TO A PHONE CALL}now i dont know how many members of the public who ever heard a profoundly deaf person on a phone”BUT A PERSON DEAF FROM BIRTH FROM RUBELLA”who is in a high state of distress is not a very nice thing to listen too on the other end of the phone or anywhere else for that matter,he still suffers to this day from that beating one of a few he recived,from the so called few bad apples in the gardi?

Committee hears garda training ground to a halt - RTÉ News

Committee hears garda training ground to a halt - RTÉ News: He also alleged that a 17-year-old with special needs was arrested, stripped and whipped with a belt.

The doctor claimed to have statements and photographs of alleged beatings in custody.

The chairman of the committee accepted that the allegations were disturbing, but told the doctor that the committee's focus was on the 2005 Garda Act.

Dr O'Flaherty said all patients detained by gardaí should be entitled to their own doctor of choice and there should be a protocol for vulnerable people in custody.?

ENCOURAGECHANGE.

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: To:
Frances Fitzgerald, Minister for Justice
Enda Kenny, Taoiseach



Dear Enda,
You have been aware of concerns regarding the unresolved Bland Case and in particular the involvement of Alan Shatter since 2009 in emails exchanged between us. It is now time for you to resolve and remedy the Bland Case.

I look forward to hearing from you immediately.


Sincerely,

Sarah Bland

Experts to review Department of Justice procedures after Guerin failings | Irish Examiner

Experts to review Department of Justice procedures after Guerin failings | Irish Examiner: Ministers are to ask the experts to make recommendations and report back to government.?EXPERTS?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: ]The whole purpose of been truly independent is not to be beholden to anyone “a joke in irish demoracy?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: If you check the social life of dublin in 1911,you will see that not much has changed in relation to corruption and class previlege,those so called public representatives that represented the poor of dublin owned the squalid tenement houses the poor lived in “check out what it has to say about those same landlords”{the 1914 housing inquiry}i thought it a sick joke the recent article in the papers involving dublin city council,ITS COUNCILLORS,the lord mayor of dublin,who cried forcefully ,that they were never “CONSULTED”about the sale of clontarf golf club.and there assertion that they the council has a duty of care to the citizens of dublin to makr shure “certain privileged people” dont enrich themselves at the expense of the public?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: July 1994,{insp.keogh\gallagher 262a.complaint no.940291{motor bike cop to house a236 9\5\1994.?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: .Secrecy is the real cancer in any society if it is used for abusive reasons in order to save someone or some institutions image?

Further Garda whistleblower expected to come forward - Crime & Law News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Tue, May 13, 2014

Further Garda whistleblower expected to come forward - Crime & Law News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Tue, May 13, 2014: The drink-driving charge against the plainclothes garda was adjourned a number of times in court and was ultimately struck out on a legal issue by a District Court judge?

Further Garda whistleblower expected to come forward - Crime & Law News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Tue, May 13, 2014

Further Garda whistleblower expected to come forward - Crime & Law News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Tue, May 13, 2014: Another Garda whistleblower is expected to come forward this week with a claim that colleagues told him he had made “a fatal mistake” by arresting and charging another member of the force for drunk driving.

The man, who is a serving garda, is alleging that he came under pressure from within the force and was treated as a pariah by his colleagues after the arrest.?

There’s no ‘crisis’ in the Garda, just a carnival side-show - Political News | Irish & International Politics | The Irish Times - Tue, May 13, 2014

There’s no ‘crisis’ in the Garda, just a carnival side-show - Political News | Irish & International Politics | The Irish Times - Tue, May 13, 2014: Garda Martin Leonard: “It is the nature of the Gardaí, we don’t name the names – we don’t want to get anybody into trouble in the Garda Síochána internal matters . . .We try our best to make sure – we are not going to be hanging our people.”?

Garda in Guerin report promoted despite malpractice allegations | The Sunday Times

Garda in Guerin report promoted despite malpractice allegations | The Sunday Times: McCabe told the garda’s confidential recipient that Foxtrot had “supervised the alterations, erasure and falsification of official garda records to hide malpractice”.?

Garda in Guerin report promoted despite malpractice allegations | The Sunday Times

Garda in Guerin report promoted despite malpractice allegations | The Sunday Times: Garda in Guerin report promoted despite malpractice allegations(FOXTROT)?

Repeat of Bailieboro cases across State would ‘challenge’ confidence in Garda - Crime & Law News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Sat, May 10, 2014

Repeat of Bailieboro cases across State would ‘challenge’ confidence in Garda - Crime & Law News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Sat, May 10, 2014: Frustrated by what he felt was a continued apathy, Sgt McCabe left his position as sergeant-in-charge of Bailieboro in March 2008, and cited, in a memo to Supt Foxtrot, his reasons as: “lack of management support; lack of standards; lack of accountability and lack of duty to the public”.?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: What is it about “rewards”in the form of promotions during the course of high profile garda investigations?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: What may seem insignificant to  those in power and influence could be enormous to the sender?NOT JUST Maurice Mc CABE?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: I would like to say to all those i contacted over the last 44 years and who turned a blind eye to injustices,it is that blind eye that has created todays society?

Bailey lawyers: 'Extraordinary' levels of communication between gardaí and journalists | Irish Examiner

Bailey lawyers: 'Extraordinary' levels of communication between gardaí and journalists | Irish Examiner: Lawyers for Ian Baileys say they have received 12 boxes of documents and 130 tapes of recorded conversations revealing an "extraordinary" level of communication between gardaí and the media.?

Public Inquiry · Be very afraid

Public Inquiry · Be very afraid: Maybe senator Maurice Hayes would like to check this out.It is probably true what( trinity college) Professor John Dillon wrote some very powerful and scary people who have a vested intrest in keeping things the way they are would be found out if Diarmuid Martin and other like minded people not only sought a debate on crime and its causes but”DEMANDED ONE”?if serving gardi wont give information or statments to retired gardi with ongoing tribunals,why would the ordinary joe trust them.?

Public Inquiry · Be very afraid

Public Inquiry · Be very afraid: OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS NOT FACILITATING JUSTICE NOR IS IT FACILITATING TRUTH”SUPT DECLAN COBURN WOULD KNOW ALL ABOUT THAT?

Public Inquiry · Unanswered questions

Public Inquiry · Unanswered questions: SO HERES A SPECIFIC CASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE THAT WAS BRUSHED UNDER THE CARPET,”you must rember that susan denem now supreme court judge once sat on the garda complaints board”A YOUNG PROFOUNDLY DEAF MAN WAS BEATEN TO A PULP WHILE IN GARDA CUSTODY,TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY HE WAS GIVEN HIS RIGHT TO A PHONE CALL}now i dont know how many members of the public who ever heard a profoundly deaf person on a phone”BUT A PERSON DEAF FROM BIRTH FROM RUBELLA”who is in a high state of distress is not a very nice thing to listen too on the other end of the phone or anywhere else for that matter,he still suffers to this day from that beating one of a few he recived,from the so called few bad apples in the gardi?

State lawyer refuses to assist €2m lease probe | Irish Examiner

State lawyer refuses to assist €2m lease probe | Irish Examiner: The chief state solicitor has mentioned legal issues as the reason for refusing to answer questions by the public spending watchdog about her office’s role in arranging a €2m lease on a building which was never used.?

Senators’ attempt to get Attorney General to answer Gardagate questions fails

Senators’ attempt to get Attorney General to answer Gardagate questions fails: FIANNA FÁIL HAS failed in its attempt to bring the Attorney General before the Seanad to answer questions on the ongoing controversy around revelations of calls in and out of garda stations being recorded for decades.?

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: October 2013

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: October 2013: GARDA COMPLAINTS BOARD CHAIRMAN SUSAN DENEHAM,FRANK SMYTH,CHIEF SUPT.JAMES P O SULLIVAN,ABUSE OF AUTHORITY AGAINST PROFOUNDLY DEAF PERSONS,STRIP SEARCHING.DECISION?AN INCLUSIVE SOCIETY?

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: February 2012

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: February 2012: Chief Justice Susan Denham said. The person authorising a search warrant is required to be able to assess the conflicting interests of the State and the person whose home is to be searched, the judge said. In this case, the detective superintendent was not independent, she added. Article 40.5 of the Constitution expressly provides that one’s home is inviolable and shall not be forcibly entered except in accordance with the law, she said. This meant entry had to be effected “without stooping to methods which ignore the fundamental norms” of the legal order as contained in the Constitution.?

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: October 2013

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: October 2013: Director of Public Prosecutions Claire Loftus said the directive will give victims the right to receive reasons in a range of offences - including rape, "child sexual abuse" and harassment.?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: Then you have a former cabinet minister {LIZ O DONNELL}who has just discovered that irelands wealth can deliver social justice?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: The person behind him had his gun directly faceing my head just a few steps away ,i dont know how many seconds went bye ,it seemed quite awhile ,all of a sudden both of them ran out the door onto fleet street.no guards had shown up up to the time our interview was over.?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: {attorney general}Paul Gallagher”it is the hallmark of a modern civilised and democratic society that it strives for wisdom,truth,and justice.they must be the fundamental aims of any legal system we adopt in our society.?

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?: Im Sure All Those Who Heard From Me Over The Past 50 Years Know Who They Are And What I Mean?

Attack victim 'happy' with Guerin report after seven years of 'unanswered questions' - Independent.ie

Attack victim 'happy' with Guerin report after seven years of 'unanswered questions' - Independent.ie: Seven Years Of 'Unanswered Questions'?

Garda whistleblower John Wilson: The contents of the Guerin report are truly disgusting - Independent.ie

Garda whistleblower John Wilson: The contents of the Guerin report are truly disgusting - Independent.ie: Garda whistleblower John Wilson has said he is in no doubt that Sylvia Roche Galvin would be alive today but for certain members of the Garda Siochana.?

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?: : Public Inquiry · What’s new?: Dysfunctional values Dysfunctional structures Dysfunctional morals?To quote the late judge Dermot Kinlen who said”One has to be addicted to HOPE no matter how DEPRESSING reality may be?So i would like to dedicate this post to professor William Binchy who recived a measure of gratitude in judge kinlens previous report on prisons. This is to ask the human rights commission what is happening to the judges final report where he stated and accused named officials of criminal wrongdoing,he also said senior government and prison officials should face proceedings for criminal wrongdoing.?

Whistleblower feels vindicated after 'six years fighting system' - Crime & Law News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Sat, May 10, 2014

Whistleblower feels vindicated after 'six years fighting system' - Crime & Law News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Sat, May 10, 2014: “This is about getting it right for the people of our country, for the citizens, for the next generation, for everybody to have integrity, belief and faith in the Garda Siochána, in the accountability and transparency of the way it is run,” he added.?ARE THE PUBLIC BEEN ASKED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST INVESTIGATIONS?

Grounds for further investigation | Irish Examiner

Grounds for further investigation | Irish Examiner: The GSOC files were not given to Guerin, who concluded: “In my opinion, these matters warrant further inquiry in an appropriate forum in the public interest.”?AS DO "ALL"FORMER COMPLAINTS BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC(ordinary so-called citizens)?

Cancer in the body politic:Killing them softly

Cancer in the body politic:Killing them softly: Poor people die far younger of all the major diseases because of deprivation
By Vincent Browne

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?: Let Them Eat Cake: Socio-Economic Rights in an Age of Austerity - ResearchGate



Let Them Eat Cake: Socio-Economic Rights in an Age of Austerity - ResearchGate: Let Them Eat Cake: Socio-Economic Rights in an Age of Austerity



Paul O'Connell

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?: Cancer in the body politic:Killing them softly



Cancer in the body politic:Killing them softly: Poor people die far younger of all the major diseases because of deprivation
By Vincent Browne

Brian Maguire, Irish Expressionist Painter: Biography, Paintings

Brian Maguire, Irish Expressionist Painter: Biography, Paintings: Brian Maguire's expressionistic drawings and paintings (as well as his video, photography, and poster artworks) deal with themes of physical and political alienation. His focus on marginalized or disenfranchised groups has led him to work at a number of prisons, hospitals and other institutions in Ireland, Poland, and the USA, including: Mountjoy Jail, Dublin, Portaloise Jail, Spike Island, Co. Cork, Fort Mitchell Prison and Bayview Correction Center, New York. His recent paintings have also been inspired by American and world political events.?

RTÉ Television - Programmes - Factual - Outsider

RTÉ Television - Programmes - Factual - Outsider: 'Outsider' is a journey through the fascinating and intimate worlds of Eddie Cahill and Frank "Lucas" Quigley. The documentary explores in depth what made them turn their backs on crime and discover a new world in which art became their saviour. It explore their memories of a dramatic childhood to the events that drove them to the dark side of society. Lucas became an active republican and Eddie became a significant part of one of the most violent gangs in Dublin in the 1980's.