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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: God's Wheat Field: "'There will be a great 'time of trouble' for all nations, society, governments, financial institutions, etc. The wheat class will be saved from that 'time of trouble' by the resurrection change. But the tares will not be saved from it; they will be cast into the trouble and have their portion with the hypocrites.'SO LOOKING AROUND THE WORLD TODAY WHO OR WHERE ARE THESE HYPOCRITES?DONT GIVE UP ARCHBISHOP DIARMUID MARTIN GOD IS TRUELY ON YOUR SIDE."

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-08-16T13%3A54%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7: "'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?'"

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Shifting Focus: From Criminal Justice to Social Justice Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT): "The goal of any criminal justice system should be to make society safer for all. However, the justice system in Ireland has long emphasised punishment over prevention – an emphasis which has been damaging to Irish society."?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-08-16T13%3A54%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7: "'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?'"

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/06/schilling-show-blog-charlottesville.html: "Manipulation and Hypocrisy. I Hope Mannix Flynn Can Now Encourage[Real]Change And Educate The Working-Class That There Is A Better Way.It will be hard to do takeing all the tribunals into consideration.Espically with the latest scam that the "Legislators Will Be Exempt" from the new parking levy?Still the old adage do as i say and not as i do"?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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'I thought we had moved on from fearing landlords' - Lifestyle, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "'My concern is for people of the older generation, who have raised families here and have lived here for generations, who do not have the money to contest their rights in court."AND IN NINE OUT OF TEN CASES IN IRELALD THEY DONT HAVE THE MONEY?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Paul O’Connell: School of Law: University of Leicester: "'Anxious Scrutiny in the Irish Courts: Too Little, Too Late?’'CRIME AND ITS'TRUE'CAUSES?"

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Legal gaps mean children remain vulnerable - Children's Ombudsman: "The Ombudsman for Children chose the occasion of the publication of her 5th annual report to once again highlight the need for constitutional change on the rights of the child."?

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Andrew Madden: "For people who have never been abused this is probably very difficult to understand."?

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Andrew Madden: STAY SAFE / SPHE: "I join with others today in calling on the Government to make the teaching of Stay Safe & SPHE Programmes in schools compulsory."I HOPE THAT INCLUDES SCHOOLS FOR PROFOUNDLY DEAF CHILDREN?

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"ALL THIS NORTH INNER-CITY KID WANTS IS TO'HOPE-FULLY'STAY ON THE RIGHT TRACK."?

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Issues Juveniles Face in Adult Prisons - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com: "Use the facts to form your own opinion on the matter, as I will not be lending my own opinion at this time."?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Garda gangland list is stolen from squad car: "commented, on August 18, 2008 at 1:13 p.m.:
It would make you wonder this criminal intelligence bulletin going missing.
I suppose it could be put down to 'exceptional circumstances ?'Just like the case of Kieran Boylan who had drug charges of €1.3m dropped on the last day of the legal term in our courts. The Director of Public Prosecutions is I understand trying to bring about what is termed 'the reasons project'to let members of the public know why certain decisions were made by his office. Recently he appealed a suspended sentence handed down to Brian Wall who was caught with €145,000 worth of heroin - will he be doing the same in the Kieran Boylan case?. Or will the ordinary public still be left with a feeling of 'legal nihilism'? As Ross Kemp said on the subject of criminal gangs: 'since time immemorial anyone who feels isolated for whatever reason, will form themselves into groups. At the end it's always a criminality based on human suffering of some kind'."?THE"REAL"REASONS PROJECT?

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Munsterfans Forums: Secret Garda files sent to copy shop: "In an unusual move, part of the intelligence file on the
gang responsible for murdering gang boss Eamon 'the Don'
Dunne was brought to Reads by a garda from Store Street
station instead of to the official garda photocopying centre
in Santry."?HOW MANY TIMES HAS THIS HAPPENED?

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"Sean Aylward, the secretary general of the Department of Justice, was named in the Dail last week as the man who complained to gardai about a report written by McCaffrey when he worked for the Evening Herald last year."?THE"REAL"REASONS PROJECT?

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State Papers – 1977: Amnesty called for inquiry into alleged Garda brutality: ThePost.ie: "Minister for justice Patrick Cooney, in reply to a Dail question in February 1977, said he was satisfied that allegations about the mistreatment of prisoners were unfounded."?

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Secret garda files from 1970s will never be released - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "'Of particular interest to the Inquiry were payments made to confidential sources but full information on this matter no longer exists.'"?TO QUOTE THE LATE JUDGE DERMOT KINLEN ABOUT PRISONS BOSS BRIAN PURCELL"HE IS TRYING TO DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE AND EXCUSE THE INEXCUASBLE?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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"Judge Hedigan was also Chair of the Committee on "Status" and Conditions of Judges,"?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Department of Foreign Affairs - Election of judge in respect of Ireland at the European Court of Human Rights: "The previous Irish judge in respect of Ireland at the European Court of Human Rights, Mr. Justice John Hedigan, resigned last February to take up a position as a judge of the High Court in Ireland."

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Suspect is let off after theft from witness scheme - National News, Frontpage - Herald.ie: "NO charges will be brought after an enquiry into the alleged theft of thousands of euro in cash from the State's Witness Protection Programme."?VERY VERY INTERESTING?THE"REAL"REASONS PROJECT?

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Evidence that puts lives at risk - The Irish Times - Sat, Apr 18, 2009: "The protection programme operates in secret. It was never put on a statutory footing."?WHY?THE GREY HAIRED MEN?

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eTest.ie - Report - RYAN REPORT BETRAYS VICTIMS OF INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL SYSTEM: "Mr Justice Brian McCracken, for example, did more in a single page of his report on Haughey and money than Mr Justice Ryan has done in 2,500 pages."?THE SYSTEM?THE GREY HAIRED MEN?

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ISLR - Welcome: "Following the introduction of the Witness Protection Programme in Ireland, a new category of accomplice would appear to be emerging, which in turn would appear to have ramifications for the mandatory corroboration warning. This is comprised of witnesses who, following long-term participation in organised crime, have turned state’s evidence against their former associates."?

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Digital Rights Ireland » Gardaí investigated for selling access to case files: "There appears to be an ongoing problem with a minority of Gardaí abusing their position by selling or leaking confidential information. The most recent episode involves allegations that Gardaí have been illegally supplying information to insurance companies"?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Irish Examiner - 2003/09/25: McDowell defends wife's remarks: "Mr McDowell said his wife had not given the impression she did not trust any gardaí. The media had given that impression"?

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Illegal salon at FF man's property faces closure - National News, Frontpage - Herald.ie: "A BEAUTY salon operating out of a Dublin premises owned by a Fianna Fail councillor does not have planning approval."?

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Half of senators double jobbing amid criticism of costly Seanad - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "They are engaging in side-line work as lecturers, barristers, psychologists, solicitors, farmers, auctioneers, musicians, restaurateurs, hoteliers, consultants, journalists, retailers, board members and GPs."AND RUNNING PUBS WITHOUT A LICENCE,AS IN SENATOR DIARMUID WILSON,WITH NO HINDRANCE FROM THE GARDI?

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BBC News - Quinn treatment 'not heavy-handed' says watchdog: "Cavan-Monaghan Senator Diarmuid Wilson accused Mr Elderfield of being 'heavy-handed' and acting with haste."?

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O'Dea: It's taking too damn long to bring the bankers to justice - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "Cabinet ministers are 'deeply frustrated and exasperated' at the long delay in bringing to justice, bankers 'who brought this country to its knees', former minister Willie O'Dea has declared."?

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Mountjoy stint beckons but businessman can't be found - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "Asked if her son was a friend of Taoiseach Brian Cowen,"?

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Colum Kenny: Security nets a diversion from prison's real issues - Colum Kenny, Columnists - Independent.ie: "And why has it taken the Garda, the Department of Justice and the Irish Prison Service so long to stop them?"WHY INDEED?

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Investigation into Christmas Day death of prisoner in Portlaoise - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "It is understood he had been isolated from other prisoners."?THE GREY HAIRED MEN?

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EU heads unable to inspect Mountjoy death cell - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "Privately, prison officers have expressed concern at "the haste of the renovation", but the Irish Prison Service insists the revamp is consistent with a recommendation by Michael Mellett, a former deputy secretary in the department of justice who was appointed by minister Michael McDowell to investigate the killing."?WHY WAS THE LATE JUDGE DERMOT KINLEN NOT"ALLOWED"OR"ASKED"TO INVESTIGATE THE DEATH OF GARY DOUCH?

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Discipline in Prisons - Indymedia Ireland: "Corruption among staff was rife and went on for decades."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Social Justice Ireland Working to build a just society: "Facebook Impact of Globalization on Small and Medium Scale Industries in Developing Countries.: 'Go to 'ON RECONCILING IRRECONCILABLES'neo-liberal globalisation and human rights.By Paul O Connell.''THE REASONS PROJECT?
http://paddoconnell.blogspot.com/"

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Social Justice Ireland Working to build a just society: "Others have argued that globalisation will undermine it in due course."?

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Kinlen fired parting shot on jails weeks before death - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "The Director General of the Irish Prison Service, Brian Purcell said: 'Judge Kinlen's direct involvement with the prison system goes back to his days as a member of visiting committees and no-one was better qualified to take on the challenging role as the first Inspector of Prisons."?THE CULTURE AND MENTALITY OF NO CHANGE?

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Kinlen fired parting shot on jails weeks before death - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "The late judge, who was made a Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of St Gregory the Great with Cross by the Pope, is said to have recommended that where reckless disregard towards prisoners resulted in deaths and attacks in custody, senior government and prison officials should face proceedings for criminal wrongdoing."?

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Irish Law Updates: Report of Inspector of Prisons 2005: "Not merely are they denying human rights to prisoners and prison staff, they are also breaking their own law. Human Rights Commission has expressed concern as has the Commissioner of Freedom for Information about the way their respective briefs are being handled. In Northern Ireland there is an ombudsman dealing with prisoners complaints. There is none in the Republic."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Seanad Éireann - Volume 110 - 20 November, 1985 - Report on Prison Reform: Motion.: "'I recall the establishment of the Whitaker Committee. On that occasion I recall, as a member of the MacBride Committee of Inquiry into the Penal System in Ireland, criticising the narrowness of the terms of reference particularly the omission from the terms of reference of the 'CAUSES OF CRIME'?WHILE IM DELIGHTED TO SEE THE PUBLICATION OF JUDGE MICHAEL REILLYS PRISON REPORT,MY CONCERN WOULD BE THAT HIS PREDECSSOR THE LATE JUDGE DERMOT KINLEN'S RECOMMENDATIONS WERE IGNORED.JUDGE KINLEN TOLD IT AS IT IS NOT'WAS'WHEN HE COMPLAINED ABOUT THE WAY HE WAS TREATED BY THE MANDRINS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF 'JUSTICE?'HE WAS RIGHT TO FLAG THE NEED FOR EXTERNAL EXPERTS TO SEE HOW THE DEPARTMENTS BUDGET WAS AND IS BEEN SPENT.ITS NO GOOD MAKING SUGGESTIONS,RECOMMENDATIONS,IN RELATION TO INHUMAN AND DEGRADING TREATMENT IN IRISH PRISONS IF NOTHING IS GOING TO BE DONE ABOUT IT."?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: "'I wish to extend my deepest sympathy to judge dermot kinlens family on the death of a fearless and honest human being.he will be truly missed by the marginlaised and disadvantaged in irish society.it will be a test of brian lenihans honesty and conviction to see if he replaces judge kinlens role as inspector of prisons and places of detention with someone that has the same courage and conviction to expose the truth as to what really goes on in what is called the”system”a system that judge kinlen said thrives on a mindset of obsession with power,control and secrecy.judge kinlen was not afraid to ruffle feathers in cosy high places by exposing the hidden appalling and inhumane conditions as well as the lack or non existent 'mental health care'.over the years there has been many a speech made by public officials well published to the effect for example{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.(tell that to the parents of what the state refers to as boy !d!}dead at 14years of age in the land of the celtic tiger?''"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Kinlen fired parting shot on jails weeks before death - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "'Judge Kinlen, who last year claimed that the prison system was a failure, is understood to have 'accused named officials' of being guilty of criminal wrongdoing by failing to protect at-risk prisoners and operating sub standard conditions at the prisons.'WHO ARE THEY ?WILL THEY BE EXPOSED JUST LIKE THE BISHOPS?"

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Mr Justice Dermot Kinlen Times Online Obituary: "Kinlen castigated the prison service as administratively over-heavy and criticised its officers "for travelling first-class" to view prisons overseas."?JUST LIKE THEIR MASTERS?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Dermot Ahern TD « Machholz's Blog: "Fair play to the GRA for telling the truth and saying openly what every member of the Force hears on a daily bases from their real bosses (The people'"?

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Public Inquiry · Why Callely’s stupidity scares the body politic: "The bottom line is simple: The corrupt political system in Ireland cannot allow a serious police investigation into political expenses because to do so would risk exposing the whole rotten system."?THE"REAL"REASONS PROJECT?

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Lenihan says 'sorry' for role of Fianna Fail in crisis - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "Lenihan says 'sorry' for role of Fianna Fail in crisis"

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG Growing Inequality Threatens Middle Class and Democracy: "As income inequality rises, the power of a "wealthy elite" to control the political process increases."?

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The Truth Seeker - The victims of Ireland's economic collapse: "Ship of Fools."?

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Bank transfers 'should have been spotted' - Irish, Business - Independent.ie: "Queried why such large transactions were not scrutinised under the stringent laws designed to combat money laundering."???????

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The law governing ' insider trading' in Ireland.. Vistage Ireland: "This is the case of the DPP v Byrnes. The Director of Public Prosecutions accepted that the activity had to be intentional. The Judge stated that the DPP would have to prove that the defendant not only knew that he was dealing, but that he "intended" to make an improper profit from those dealings."?

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html: "BUT THE CELTIC TIGER CUBS ARE BEEN EXPOSED LATELY THANKS TO THE RECESSION,IT IS ALSO EXPOSING THEIR "SOCIAL CONNECTIONS" (SOMETHING) "THE INNER CITY CLASSES DONT HAVE".MAKES YOU WONDER WHY THERE IS SO MANY WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE LOCKED UP."?THE GREY HAIRED MEN SYNDROME?CHECK OUT "PUBLIC INQUIRY"IRISH CORRUPTION?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Ex-RUC officers tell of Chesney pursuit - The Irish Times - Fri, Aug 27, 2010: "''The chances of the DPP sanctioning prosecutions would have ranged from slim to nil'THE REASONS PROJECT?'JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Ex-RUC officers tell of Chesney pursuit - The Irish Times - Fri, Aug 27, 2010: "'Mission Statement'READ MY LIPS,THERE IS NO 'PROACTIVE ADVOCACY' FOR CERTAIN PROFOUNDLY DEAF PEOPLE IN IRELAND?'THE REASONS PROJECT?JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED?"

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Ex-RUC officers tell of Chesney pursuit - The Irish Times - Fri, Aug 27, 2010: "But Were Instructed By Senior Officers Not To Proceed"?

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Unsigned article on Justice Peter Kelly in Sunday Times • thepropertypin.com: "In the same case, Kelly lifted the lid on reckless practices within Irish banking. He expressed 'astonishment' that Allied Irish Banks would hand out ¤550m in loans to five firms formerly controlled by Carroll with only a letter and the deposit of title deeds as security."?IS THIS WHAT PEOPLE GET"EDUCATED"FOR?ITS NOT JUST RECKLESS PRACTICE ITS"MALPRACTICE"DESTROYING PEOPLES LIVES?

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GSOC - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.: "The Garda Ombudsman’s mission is to provide the public with an independent and effective oversight of policing, and to deal with the public’s complaints concerning Gardaí fairly and efficiently so that everyone can have confidence in the complaints system."?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Take Back Parliament campaigns for electoral reform - The Yorker: "Take Back Parliament campaigns for electoral reform"?SOUNDS A BIT IRISH TO ME?

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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."?KEVIN MYERS GETS PAID FOR HIS"RANTS"I DONT?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Kevin Myers: Self-defeating working class tolerates lack of punctuality, fecklessness and low achievement - Kevin Myers, Columnists - Independent.ie: "A self-defeating working-class culture now tolerates unpunctuality, fecklessness and low achievement"?DONT FORGET THE PRISONS KEVIN?

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A prison service on the edge - National News, Frontpage - Herald.ie: "On August 1, 2006, when 21-year-old inmate Gary Douch was kicked, beaten and strangled in a holding cell he shared with six others, the prison's population was 525.
When another inmate, Derek Glennon, was stabbed to death at the jail in June 2007, the population was 568 -- despite a commitment that it would not exceed 480."?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: "Most of them were influenced by self interest and not the interests of the wider community,for instance the kennedy and frank martin reports where are those reports today,the irish penal reports for 1966 and 1982 what was done about those reports?"

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Talks over prison dispute stalled by call for strike vote - National News, Frontpage - Herald.ie: "Executive POA member Gabriel Keaveney was given the blunt message yesterday evening that there would be no talks if the union was going ahead with the ballot called for by the local branch"?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Talks over prison dispute stalled by call for strike vote - National News, Frontpage - Herald.ie: "The POA President Stephen Delaney said today that staff at Mountjoy had reservations about the regime being operated in the segregation unit, even before the arrival of controversial prisoner Leroy Dumbrell on Tuesday."?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Prison service cancels meeting - The Irish Times - Wed, Aug 25, 2010: "Mr Whelan said Dumbrell was "Not A Disruptive Prisoner", but a protection prisoner. He added that wildcat industrial action by the prison officers had put the security of the prison at risk."THE REASONS PROJECT?

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The Greenroom » Equality Before The Law: "The political class certainly does not face the same treatment before the law as private citizens."?NEITHER DOES THE CRONYISM CLASS?

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Jerry Large Social inequality in prisons Seattle Times Newspaper: "Pettit told me that over the past 30 years increasing imprisonment has had less to do with criminality than it has to do with race and class"?COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT FIFTY YEARS AGO?

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Tom Tuite: We must act to extinguish this wildfire of youth crime - Analysis, Opinion - Independent.ie: "Most of the regular defendants at the court come from pockets of Dublin characterised by poverty and plagued with social problems; many have become wild, developed behavioural problems and have grown up in dysfunctional families."?BEING LOYAL TO DYSFUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES THAT CREATE SOCIETYS SOCIAL PROBLEMS?AS EXPOSED BY THE PRESENT RESCESSION?

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Inquiry into €200,000 Gormley expenses refused - The Irish Times - Thu, Aug 26, 2010: "“Your queries have now been addressed. However, as pointed out previously, the Minister for Finance is the statutory authority in respect of the allowances system. You may wish, therefore, to address any further queries about the statutory framework concerning such allowances to that Department,” he noted."?

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Haughey calls on Callely to resign - The Irish Times - Thu, Aug 26, 2010: "“Sending a host of Government TDs and Senators, including Mary O’Rourke, Senator Dan Boyle and, this afternoon, Deputy Sean Haughey onto the airwaves to call for Senator Callely to consider his position means nothing unless the Taoiseach acts. The only call that matters where Ivor Callely’s resignation is concerned is the call that must come from the Taoiseach.”"THINK ITS TIME FOR IVOR TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT WHERE ALL THE"CONTROVERSIAL"SKELETONS ARE HIDDEN?

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What made Mary Bale dump cat Lola in a wheelie bin? Mail Online: "But then again, before judging Mary Bale, perhaps it might be worth examining our own thoughts and impulses a little more deeply."?THE CULTURE AND MENTALITY OF"NO CHANGE"BY THOSE THAT ARE NORMALLY A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE USED TO BE GIVEN PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT THEMSELVES?

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Buffalo Professor Claims Discrimination Because He's Straight - ABC News: "A New York college professor who claims that he was discrminated against for being a heterosexual man and then fired for complaining has caught the interest of the state's Human Rights Division."?HOPE THE IRISH VERSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION IS DOING LIKEWISE IN IRELAND?

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A need for fresh thinking: "Being loyal to dysfunctional structures is always rewarded."?THE RECESSION PROVED THAT?

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United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - State Party Report - Ireland: "The Constitution states that all legislative, executive and judicial powers of Government derive from the people."THE UPPER CLASS OR LOWER CLASS?SOCIAL-EQUALITY?

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Fugitive Nadir flies back to UK after 17 years - Arab News: "The "Environment" Now Is Acceptable"?

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Public Inquiry · Poor Mary…: "I don’t want to particularly remember (if anything like this happened before),"ITS CALLED TURNING A"BLIND"EYE?

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Press Clippings - Page 12 - boards.ie: "Judge Riordan’s refusal was because of the lethality of the guns in question but, as recent events in Cumbria had shown, any gun in the wrong hands can be lethal,"?THE SAME APPLIES TO POWER?

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Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: "And to your neighbour in greek classics thanks for been human"?

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Human Rights Books - Routledge: "Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the Cinderella of the human rights corpus"?PROFESSOR JOHN DILLON TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN IRELAND?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Dublin: Archbishop Diarmuid Martin launches Who is my Neighbour? on Independent Catholic News: "Bring Justice To A World Too Often Marked By Economic And "Social Divisions.'"?

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html: "There is also another story in the mail about a lawyer jumping of a bridge and killing herself and the writer asking what does her death tell us about society today?What does anyones death by'suiscide'tell us about society in general?"THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Garda dawn death crash shatters three families - Analysis, Opinion - Independent.ie: "Friends of the much-respected garda said he never drank on the job and would certainly not have been drinking at that early hour."D.COBURN?

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Prison service cancels meeting - The Irish Times - Wed, Aug 25, 2010: "He criticised the walkout by prison officers yesterday, saying: “There are agreed industrial relations mechanisms for "Dealing With Grievances", and these should be followed.”"THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Let them eat cake, not the crumbs off the table… Joe Higgins.eu: "The resources of the billionaire philanthropists were created by social effort in the first place and in a rational economic system those resources would be available as of right for the good of society and not dependent on the whim of private individuals."

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Let them eat cake, not the crumbs off the table… Joe Higgins.eu

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'I have quite a respect for Haughey' - The Irish Times - Sat, Jul 17, 2010: "You sense he understands people because he has studied them, not because he lives among them."?

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http://paddoconnell.blogspot.com/2010/05/encouragechangepaddoconnell8gmailcom_3470.html: "'Im innocent but the 'dpp fought all the way' my bid to clear my name,,if what happened to me is not a miscarriage of justice then what is?'the words of Feichin Hannon'.'"THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Media very skilled at missing the big picture - The Irish Times - Wed, Aug 25, 2010: "The problem is not so much that some politicians, very few of them, have corrupted the system for their own financial gain; the problem is that most politicians have colluded in building an essentially corrupt society."CRIME AND ITS"TRUE"CAUSES?

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Eviston v. D.P.P. [2002] IESC 62 (31 July 2002)

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/07/rte-news-tribunal-shown-phone-records.html: "SHURE WE ALL FORGET THINGS EVERY NOW AND AGAIN?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Act, 2000, Section 2: "'A complaint to the Garda Síochána was made by or on behalf of such person in respect of the act to which the action relates.'?HOW WOULD THESE LEGISLATORS FEEL IF IT WAS ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN?MICHAEL MC DOWELL?"

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Gene Kerrigan: Grubby scandal reveals state we're in - Gene Kerrigan, Columnists - Independent.ie: "'Watching the carry-on of Ivor and his type is what helps some of us understand how this godforsaken country is in the state it's in.'?WORKING-CLASS INEQUALITY=APARTHEID?THE EXCLUDED,THE OUTCAST,THE DISADVANTAGED."A"DETAILED"GARDA INVESTIGATION INTO SEXUAL,MENTAL,AND PHYSICAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS?WERE THE COMPLAINTS PURSUED IF NOT WHY NOT?JUDGE CHARLES MORAN TAXING MASTER?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Public Inquiry · Examining corruption in Ireland: "Former Dean of Law, Donncha O'Connell, has just edited a book to mark ..... Donncha O'Connell, Paul O'Connell, Siobhan Cummiskey and Emer Meeneghan. ..... Professor McCrudden's talk is entitled 'Buying Social Justice - the Role of Law' . ..."?HOW MUCH DOES "JUSTICE"COST IN IRELAND?

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Public Inquiry · Examining corruption in Ireland: "He should be behind bars for what he done, other criminals are behind bars and it starts from the top."CRIME AND ITS"TRUE"CAUSES?WHAT QUALIFIES CANDIDATES FOR "PUBLIC"OFFICE?BLIND LOYALTY AND UNQUESTIONING ALLEGIANCE?

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Public Inquiry · Callely: Questions and answers: "Is Senator Callely correct in his claim that he is complying with the "regulations" and do his claims meet the "definition" of the Department of Finance?"INTERPRETATION?

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Gardaí yet to launch probe into case of ¿Ivor the Invoices¿ Mail Online: "Gardaí are not yet investigating Ivor Callely’s use of forged invoices to claim Dáil expenses – because the ‘victim’ of the alleged fraud hasn’t made a complaint."?

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Real Fathers for Justice - News » Parents win legal battle to name doctor who accused them of child abuse: "Lord Justice Munby agreed with their request and in a landmark judgement in January this year ruled that expert witnesses in family courts could now be named."PRECEDENT IN SECRECY OF FAMILY LAW COURTS"IN CAMERS RULE"?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Australia’s electoral administration shows up shortcomings in Irish system « politicalreform.ie: "It’s still never been explained who made the decision to set up 30 year leases on machines that only function for 15 or 20 years."?

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three little dogs: Written complaint to a Judge cost a man €17,500: "Defendant: Kevin Tracey, representing himself (a lay litigant)"

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Statement of Claim: "STATEMENT OF CLAIM"

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New committee to have power to investigate judges - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "Allegations of misconduct made against any of the country's top judges can be investigated under long-awaited legislation published today."?

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Ombudsman probes suicide of young garda - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "The officer, Stephen O'Sullivan, from Co Clare, is the fourth garda to die using an officially-issued weapon in just over two years."

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RTÉ News: Garda Commissioner seeks Callely clarification: "Garda Commissioner seeks Callely clarification"?

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I believe my brother did justice to legacy of Michael Collins - Opinion, Frontpage - Herald.ie: "The statement by Brian Lenihan to invoke the spirit of Collins to be the spirit of Irish public life was a timely one, given the challenges that those in public life face in these times"?

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Regulator urges transparency on trackers - The Irish Times - Mon, Aug 23, 2010: "Regulator urges transparency"?

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Ireland’s property crash could have been avoided Irish News IrishCentral: "“You’re a sad bastard.”"?

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Ireland’s property crash could have been avoided Irish News IrishCentral: "Other investigations underway included the cause of deaths of detainees in State custody; the inaccurate conclusions of the official tribunal of inquiry into the Stardust tragedy of 1981 when 48 young people died in a Dublin disco fire; the need for Whistleblower protection legislation; an enquiry into lax governance in Irish corporate life; an examination of the monopolisation of the Irish media; and the circumstances surrounding the €30 million purchase (authorised by justice minister McDowell) of a hugely over priced piece of agricultural land in north Dublin for a new top security prison"?

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Ireland’s property crash could have been avoided Irish News IrishCentral: "Feeney had first suggested to me that such an agency might help expose some of the obvious corporate and political wrong doing in Irish public life."?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Ireland’s property crash could have been avoided Irish News IrishCentral: "Coogan said the report, if published, may have helped prevent the massive exposure of the Irish tax payers to the debt, potentially €33 billion, they face following the corporate collapse of the bank"?WHOS WATCHING THE WATCHERS?

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2005, Office of the Information Commissioner, Ireland: "It is long acknowledged that corruption in all areas of life, including government, relies on secrecy and that where there is transparency and openness opportunities for corruption are reduced"?

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2005, Office of the Information Commissioner, Ireland: "He seemed happy that public bodies were implementing the Act conscientiously and even enthusiastically, though, as I said to him, it will be the reaction of the politicians that will determine much of the future of the Act"?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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A Brief History of Critique in Australian Legal Education - [2000] MULR 37; (2000) 24 Melbourne University Law Review 965: "Critique dared to mock the law’s self-righteousness."? A JUDGES"REASONING"PROCESS?

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UNHCR Refworld Gag Reflex: Ireland's libel laws muzzle a free press: "The commitment to freedom of information means that the Official Secrets Act, which effectively says that all government documents are secret unless specifically stated otherwise, will be amended in the coming year. That means that the presumption of secretiveness will be turned on its head, so that all documents are public unless specifically exempted. The Official Secrets Act will then no longer be a threat to the media."?THE ESSENCE OF LEGAL PRINCIPLE?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Police Accountability - Human Rights in Ireland: "We need to be cautious of being so "sceptical" that we don’t hear the truth.'THE'REAL'REASONS PROJECT?"

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'Go Daddy' - John Gill At The High Court - Indymedia Ireland: "The Judge asked Mr. Gill if he understood what was happening and explained that it is an application for discovery."?EQUALITY IRISH STYLE?

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Public Inquiry · Only radical surgery will root out the malignant cancer: "In this country, by contrast, no file has even been presented to the DPP."THE REASONS PROJECT?THE PROBLEM LIES IN THE"FACT"THAT CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO HAVE(FAST TRACKED)LOANS ARE NOT BEEN EXPOSED,BECAUSE OF THE PRIVILEGED POSITIONS THEY HOLD?WHOS WATCHING THE WATCHERS?

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Public Inquiry · Only radical surgery will root out the malignant cancer: "THE nation still waits and grows weary waiting for people to be charged for bankrupting our country."?ONLY THE WORKING-CLASS ARE SUBJECTED TO LAWS MADE BY POLITICIANS?

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Right to Information: "There should be adequate communication policy and programmes tailored to meet the needs of a democratic society to function effectively in its endeavours for a better quality of life. Article 16 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, 1990, guarantees the right to information, which inherently entails also duty to inform the public."

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Get The Money Out Of Judicial Elections: "With midterm elections rapidly approaching political media has all its focus on both state and federal congressional races. But all across the country citizens will vote for more than just senators and representatives. They will also vote for judges."

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Loose leaves - The Irish Times - Sat, Aug 07, 2010: "”,'BECAUSE THEY MAKE THE LEGISLATION EVERYONE ELSE HAS TO LIVE BY?"

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http://vaticancrimesglobalarchive.blogspot.com/: "According to informed sources, the report singles out "the lax response of gardai in certain investigations" and also criticises the former health boards in the Dublin area for failing to protect children from exposure to paedophile priests."?AND BROTHERS ,NUNS,ETC?

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CLLR AODHÁN Ó RÍORDÁIN: "Aodhán is a consistant advocate of the most vulnerable in society with a track record of strong representation"?

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Anti Corruption Website: What is the legal position in Ireland?: "What is the legal position in Ireland?"IT"DEPENDS"ON WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOUR FROM?AND WHO YOU HAVE BANK-ROLLED FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS?WHOS WATCHING THE WATCHERS?

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Free Egyptian Blogger Karim Amer - The Petition Site: "Free Egyptian Blogger Karim Amer"ALL WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION,FREE SPEECH,FREEDOM OF INFORMATION,FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE,SHOULD SIGN THIS PETITION."IT COULD BE YOU TOO"?

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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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'I didn't expect to lose a son. The guards took their eye off the ball' - The Irish Times - Sat, Aug 21, 2010: "He believes the State has now abandoned him, writes KATHY SHERIDAN"?THE"REAL"REASONS PROJECT?

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Nearly 5,000 jailed last year for not paying fines - The Irish Times - Sat, Aug 07, 2010: "Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has also announced new legislation designed to reduce the numbers sent to jail for failing to pay fines or civil debt."?

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Right to Information Movements, Human Knowledge & Society Nepal Monitor: The National Online Journal: "Legislations that allow people to seek information or knowledge from public authorities or governments."?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Code of silence among politicians is shameful - Analysis, Opinion - Independent.ie: "Having assured us that ' every tree in west Dublin' had been checked to establish Ray Burke's innocence of taking planning bungs, Bertie Ahern eventually decided that old Rambo Burke was actually unsustainable and quietly encouraged him to walk the plank. What took Bertie so long, we wondered?"THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Gerry Adams exclusive: “for young people the future looks bleak” Cork Student News: "Young people today are as concerned about injustice and oppression, and corruption and poverty in Ireland and around the world as they were when I was young"SO ARE OLDER PEOPLE,BUT WHO'S LISTENING?AS THEY SAY"ACTION"SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS?

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Ministers, new or old, always must be accountable - Malaysiakini: "The new minister had gone through the entire ministry very thoroughly and he was certain there were no skeletons in the cupboard to be discovered."?TRIBUNALS,DAIL COMMITTEE'S?LEGAL CORRUPTION?

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Martina Devlin: Wake up and save this rotting republic of greed - Martina Devlin, Columnists - Independent.ie: "Government Of The People, By The People, For The People."GREAT IF IT EVER HAPPENS?

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Loose leaves - The Irish Times - Sat, Aug 07, 2010: "The people who squander your taxes on white- elephant projects, international junkets and favours for their mates – and how they get away with it”,"BECAUSE THEY MAKE THE LEGISLATION EVERYONE ELSE HAS TO LIVE BY?

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Drug victim seeks justice to right 50-year-old wrong - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "A Fractured Family"?

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Drug victim seeks justice to right 50-year-old wrong - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "Drug victim seeks justice to right 50-year-old wrong"?

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Oconnellpadd13's Blog: "“Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin reminded us that "strong forces" within the Catholic Church still did not want the truth about the cover up of the sexual abuse of children by priests to emerge and added that there are worrying signs that despite solid regulations and norms these are not being followed throughout the Church with the rigour required.”?"

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AFP: WikiLeaks founder says rape claim is 'dirty tricks': "'There are powerful organisations who want to do harm to WikiLeaks,'"INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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And Then a Miracle Happens - A Story of Search and Reunion -: "'Who am I?'"MARI STEED A GUINEA PIG FOR BIG CORPORATIONS?

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Iceland to become a whistleblowers paradise: "'Freedom of information and freedom of speech are the pillars of democracy. Now, if you don't have that, you don't really have a democracy,'"?HOW VERY TRUE?

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WikiLeaks founder's life shrouded in mystery: "'We are creating a new standard for free press,'"THE REASONS PROJECT?BLIND LOYALTY AND AN "UNQUESTIONING" ALLEGIANCE ENABLES CORRUPTION TO PROSPER?

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WikiLeaks to publish more secret Afghan files: "However, the Australian former computer hacker said that WikiLeaks 'will not be threatened by the Pentagon or any other group'.
'Organizations that are embarrassed by the release of documents always call for those documents not to be released,' he said, ahead of a seminar entitled 'The First Casualty of War is Truth'."HOW TRUE.

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Wikileaks: 'Iceland safe haven for press freedom': "The release of the video was vital to 'showing the gruesome reality behind statistics of what the US army calls 'collateral damage',' Hrafnsson said."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Rate Your Solicitor: "'This ia a ploy "deliberately engineered" in the fashion to create the illusion that the prosecution is actually seeking these adjournments.'GARDA DONAL TARRANT?"

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Iceland to become a whistleblowers paradise: "After Iceland's near-economic collapse laid bare deep-seated corruption, the country aims to become a safe haven for journalists and whistleblowers from around the globe by creating the world's most far-reaching freedom of information legislation."TAKE NOTE EMILY O REILLY?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Issue 7: "The State’s recent actions infighting Louise O’Keeffe to the Supreme Court on costs in her case over a claim of sexual abuse by a layteacher in her school places question marks over their willingness to accept responsibility in such cases"?WHO ARE THE"REAL"ABUSERS?

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Time limitations for the commencement of criminal proceedings-Information from CitizensInformation.ie: "Technically, therefore, there is no time limit for the commencement of proceedings in the case of an indictable offence unless specific legislation provides one."?

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WHITEWASH; Public inquiry fails to name those responsible for McColgan abuse scandal that shocked nation. - Free Online Library: "Health chiefs admitted they should have reviewed all the relationships within the family and ensured better communication between the various state agencies investigating the case and the Gardai."?IS IT STILL GOING ON?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Seanad Éireann - Volume 162 - 27 January, 2000 - Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill, 1998: Second Stage.: ".'THE DISCOVERABILITY RULE IN THE LIMITATIONS ACT IN MODERN"?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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irishhealth.com - Discussion History: "How we treat the most vulnerable patients,"WHEN POWER CONSUMES YOUR COURAGE AND PRINCIPLES"?THE CULTURE OF THE"BLIND-EYE"SYNDROME?

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irishhealth.com - Discussion History: "no mention of the family unit thats so "revered" in the constitution"?

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Michael Clifford - "Once again, agencies of the state appear to have been more concerned with protecting themselves rather than the citizen": "'Once again, agencies of the state appear to have been more concerned with "protecting themselves" rather than the citizen'"THE"INSTITUTIONS"THAT CAN'T SAY SORRY?DEAN LYONS?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Church 'routinely covered up' child sexual abuse for 30 years - The Irish Times - Fri, Nov 27, 2009: "'Responding to the report’s severe criticism of gardaí, Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy said the report made for “difficult and disturbing reading”, in particular the failure of State authorities to protect victims'?"THE REASONS PROJECT?

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The Victims of the State - Home: "Contact details are as follows:

Telephone: 051 - 347 400 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 051 - 347 400 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Mobile: 087 - 094 8394 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 087 - 094 8394 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Text: 087 - 094 8394 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 087 - 094 8394 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Email: info@victimsofthestate.com"(VICTIMS OF THE GREY HAIRED MEN "EVIL"INVISIBLE HAND?

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The Victims of the State - Home: "This is not a coincidence that this happened just before we were about to go about our hunger protest, this was a direct attack on us personally on you the general public "To Prevent The (Truth) From Been Known" and on the website."?WHAT WE WERE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: CNN.com - The case for abolishing child-abuse statutes of limitations - Jul. 17, 2003: "'The case for abolishing child-abuse statutes of limitations'?WHAT TIME LIMIT IS PUT ON A CHILDS RUINED LIFE FROM SEXUAL,PHYSICAL,OR MENTAL ABUSE?MORE SO IF THE CHILDREN ARE 'PROFOUNDLY'DEAF AND NON SPEAKING?"THE"REAL"REASONS PROJECT?

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/05/former-education-ministers-made-aware.html: "Also to quote Niamh Bhreathnech'If You Were A Pupil In Cabra Then I Would Say'MY BEST WASENT GOOD ENOUGH'Who else does this quote apply to?"THE DPP'S OFFICE,THE STATE SOLICITOR'S OFFICE,CERTAIN ELEMENTS OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION,A LOT OF SO-CALLED "PROFESSIONAL'S"?

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Andrew Madden: CHILDREN FIRST: "This is not a comment on your article,it is a question in light of all the abuse cover-ups in this country.If someone made a formal complaint to the gardi in 2004 about their child been sexually,physically,and mentally abused and you heard nothing about the complaint since,what are you supposed to think?
Are other peoples children different from Michael Mc Dowells? I know for a 'fact'that children from a working-class back-ground are given a different kind of'due process'than those from Michael Mc Dowells background.They are also given a different kind of 'justice'by our courts."?DUE PROCESS SEEMS TO BE THE PRESERVE(ENTITLEMENT)OF THE UPPER CLASS?AS THE DAIL COMMITTEE INVESTIGATIONS WILL SHOW?OR THE TRIBUNALS?

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The Irish Times - Sat, May 16, 2009 - The end of a decade of inquiry: "The Commission’s initial presiding judge resigned in protest at the behaviour of one of the government departments under investigation"?

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http://paddoconnell.blogspot.com/2010/08/encouragechange-encouragechangepaddocon_19.html#uds-search-results: "CHILDREN FIRST: 'This is not a comment on your article,it is a question in light of all the abuse cover-ups in this country.If someone made a formal complaint to the gardi in 2004 about their child been sexually ..."

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http://paddoconnell.blogspot.com/2010/08/encouragechangepaddoconnell8gmailcom_10.html: "'Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied.M.G.September 2004 Now May 2009?'"

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/05/former-education-ministers-made-aware.html: "In sept 1993 two boys were said to have,made, allegations against a school worker in st josephss school for deaf boys cabra,the allegation was of a sexual nature and was described by a dectective garda as being mild."?EASY KNOW IT WASNT HIS CHILD?

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/07/facebook-revolutionise-law-society.html: "Those of us who were not born into the golden circle however don't stand a chance."?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Area youth writes about our political system… oh where oh where will he find a political party that represents him? Perhaps he could ask a close relative with a former cabinet position? « The Cedar Lounge Revolution: "Step forward Hugh McDowell"CLASS-INEQUALITY?

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SSRN-The Death of Socio-Economic Rights by Paul O'Connell: "Such policies – signals “the end,” in substantive terms, for the prospect of meaningful protection of socio-economic rights."?

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Ezra Klein - Research desk investigates: How does college explain unemployment numbers, but not inequality?: "But the anecdotal stories of the PhD's who can't find jobs in this climate aside, economists documenting the growing income gap (Saez, Krugman) have shown that the College-High School wage ratio doesn't do much to explain inequality."?

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A Race to Inequality The Atlanta Post: "“Education is the Civil Rights issues of our time.” This statement has been made by President Barack Obama, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and a host of civil rights organizations all concerned with the continuing failing state of the country’s schools."?ACTION SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS?

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Evil Inequality In the Works for the Web The Nation: "It's Our Ability To Challenge That "Class" System"?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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The Department of Justice and Law Reform: Statement from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on the final report of the Commission of Investigation into the Dean Lyons case: "This offence applies to individuals and to body corporates and attracts a fine of up to 300,000 Euro and, in the case of an individual, imprisonment up to 5 years."?

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The Department of Justice and Law Reform: Establishment of a Commission of Investigation following the death of Mr. Gary Douch: "'There are serious implications for the future management of our prisons. It is now clear that a review going beyond the scope of the Mellett investigation's terms of reference is warranted. A detailed sworn inquiry is now essential. The issues are matters of public importance and the Government has agreed to my proposal that a statutory commission of investigation be established.'"?

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Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech - UK Politics, UK - The Independent: "The feeling of despair and hopelessness that pervades people who feel with justification that they have no real say in shaping or determining their own destinies."?AT LEAST YOUNG CALVIN McNAMRA FROM MOYROSS IN LIMERICK "MAY"ESCAPE THE CLUTCHES OF THE"SOCIAL"ENGINEERS WHO RUN IRISH SOCIETY?THE SAME ENGINEERS WHO CAN GO INTO ANY MATERNITY HOSPITAL AND PICK OUT THE FUTURE CRIMINALS FROM THE TINY BOYS AND GIRLS THAT JUST CAME INTO THIS WORLD?THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Public salaries in a bankrupt state.THE REAL REASONS PROJECT?

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Councillor claims he was offered 'fee' for vote by 'consultant' - The Irish Times - Fri, Jun 18, 2010: "A COUNCILLOR in Drogheda has claimed that shortly after he was elected last year he was approached by a “consultant” who said there would be “a fee” for him if he voted a particular way in relation to a matter due to be debated at a later date by Drogheda Borough Council"?CHERISH ALL THE CHILDREN EQUALLY?

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Industrial school order placed on eBay - The Irish Times - Tue, Aug 17, 2010: "It was further ordered that her father, Eugene McSwiney, pay six pence a week to the inspector of reformatory and industrial schools in Ireland for the period of Mary Bridget’s detention."?

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United Nations whistleblowers face perilous and uncertain times FAIR: "I asked him if he could report this to an oversight body within the UN and he told me there would be no point in doing so because he would either be fired or there would be a massive cover-up on the part of the organisation’s financial officers, who would find a way of cooking the books to legitimise irregular movement of funds"?

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India: Commission seeks powers to stop victimisation of whistleblowers FAIR: "Commission seeks powers to stop victimisation of whistleblowers"

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New Book Reveals More « Justice for Fr Niall: "Whose name is being protected by the Irish Justice System ?"

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Family calls for probe into priest's death - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "'The family feel we never got closure; the "true facts" never came out. Nowadays there is a lot of talk from politicians and the Church about transparency and a new Ireland and we feel it's time there was transparency in our case."?IN ALL DISPUTED CASES PAST AND PRESENT?

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Police Accountability - Human Rights in Ireland: "I can’t say what has actually happened to these people and whether the guards have done any of things that these people allege. It’s easy to be sceptical when we hear such stories but what strikes me is that a lot of people probably were very sceptical of Frank McBrearty’s story ten years ago. "We know that he contacted numerous politicians and journalists, desperate to have someone hear what happened to him, because he felt there was nowhere he could turn"?. A number of those listened and his story was eventually found to be largely true. We need to be cautious of being so sceptical that we don’t hear the truth."THE"REAL"REASONS PROJECT?

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Leave freed Murphy alone pleads former prison boss - National News, Frontpage - Herald.ie: "During his career he made the headlines regularly with his hard-hitting comments on the prison system, but he admitted last night that he believed nobody 'Ever Listened To Me'."?

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Salil Shetty: Amnesty International's new voice in the fight against injustice World news The Observer: "And the lesson I learnt was that the root of injustice is people who have captured power abusing it – and holding those people to account is what Amnesty is all about.'"?

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Habeas corpus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Habeas Corpus Acts 'declare no principle and define no rights, but they are for practical purposes "worth a hundred constitutional articles" guaranteeing individual liberty'?.[2]"

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http://paddoconnell.blogspot.com/2010/08/encouragechangepaddoconnell8gmailcom.html: "'Wonder why the media is so silent on this - anything to do with the secretive family courts?'"

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Public Inquiry · Morris Tribunal: "She does not stand up for ideals, she does not act to improve the lot of others and she most certainly does not strike out against injustice."THIS COULD APPLY TO A LOT OF HIGH PROFILE"INJUSTICE"BUSTERS?

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Irish Ways and Irish Laws; dealing with clerical child rapists ButlerReport.com: "Collaborated to suppress information about their molesting and raping of Irish children."Stop treating abuse victims with contemptStop treating abuse victims with contempt Louise O’Keeffe outside Dunderrow NS, Kinsale, Co Cork. She fought a 15-year legal battle to establish that the State’s failure to establish an adequate child protection framework in schools made it partly responsible for abuse suffered by children.Picture: Dan Linehan. Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - 12:00 AM Everyone who suffered abuse in a defective school system should now be paid the compensation they are entitled to under human rights law, writes Conor O’Mahony. It is well known that navigating the justice system is a traumatic experience for people who experience sexual abuse or assault. This has been documented at length in academic research, and extensively discussed in the media in the past year or two. It remains the case in spite of the fact that in criminal cases, the power of the State is amassed on the side of the victim. So imagine how much more traumatic the experience must be when the power of the State is devoted to denying justice rather than pursuing it? This is what has been experienced by people who were sexually abused in Irish primary schools in the 1960s and 1970s. Learn more Louise O’Keeffe knows this all too well. She fought a 15-year legal battle to establish that the State’s failure to establish an adequate child protection framework in schools made it partly responsible for abuse suffered by children. During this time, the State repeatedly sought to pursue her for costs; she could have lost her family home. When she lost in the Supreme Court, the State wrote to other litigants threatening to pursue them for costs unless they dropped their cases immediately. When she eventually won her case in the European Court of Human Rights in 2014, that should have been the end of the matter, not just for Ms O’Keeffe, but for others abused in the same defective system. Instead, the State once again marshalled its considerable resources to seek to prevent others from obtaining compensation. It established an ex-gratia compensation scheme, but applicants could only qualify for compensation if they could prove that their abuse occurred in the aftermath of a prior complaint made against their abuser. This condition was effectively impossible to prove; and moreover, it was incompatible with the judgment in Ms O’Keeffe’s case. Every single application to the scheme was rejected for failure to prove prior complaint. The independent assessor appointed to review applications to the scheme,retired High Court judge Iarfhlaith O’Neill, ruled on Monday that the condition was “an inherent inversion of logic and a fundamental unfairness to applicants”, and was “inconsistent with the core reasoning of the judgment of the ECtHR in the Louise O’Keeffe case”. This establishes once and for all that rather than accepting its liability following the O’Keeffe judgment, the State spent five years (and €1.5m in legal costs) seeking to deny compensation to people entitled to it as a matter of human rights law. So now is the time to put things right. In practical terms, this means that every person who experienced sexual abuse in the same inherently defective system should be compensated inthe same way. The Louise O’Keeffe judgment demands no less. There are 360 known victims, and the scheme proposes to make payments of €84,000 per person. The total cost of this would be €28m — just 2% of the €1.4bn indemnity given to religious orders in respect of abuse in residential institutions. Unfortunately, there is already evidence that the Department of Education is considering a continuation of the“divide and conquer” tactics that it has employed over the past five years. Thus far, it has only indicated that it will make payments in 13 cases specifically considered by the independent assessor. However, to limit the implications to these 13 cases is a wilful distortion of the assessor’s decision. If the condition of prior complaint is inherently incompatible with the O’Keeffe judgment, then as a matter of international human rights law, it must be dropped for all applicants (and not just those whose cases tested the point). Other tactics adopted by the department to date include distinguishing cases based on the point in time at which court proceedings were instituted, and denying all compensation to people who have never litigated in the courts. There is neither logic nor humanity to these positions. They penalise people who lacked the emotional or financial resources to take a court case at a time when the State was attempting to financially ruin those who took one. If two people suffered sexual abuse in the same defective system, it is abhorrent to compensate one and not another simply because court papers were or were not filed by a specific date. And humanity aside, there is a strong argument that since the European Convention on Human Rights does not require people to pursue national remedies that had no reasonable prospect of success, all victims should be entitled to benefit from the O’Keeffe decision regardless of whether they ever took a case at national level (where Irish courts have repeatedly rejected all such claims). This issue has dragged on for far too long already. The State has treated abuse survivors with contempt, and added insult to their significant injuries. It needs to make amends now by paying everyone who suffered abuse in a defective school system the compensation that they are entitled to under human rights law. It has failed to do so once already; the same mistake cannot happen a second time. Conor O’Mahony is director of the child law clinic at University College Cork. The clinic assisted Louise O’Keeffe’s case before the European Court of Human Rights, and made multiple submissions to the independent assessor in this case.

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Deaforward Advocacy Issues « Oconnellpadd13's Blog: "“Many Deaf people live in areas of social exclusion, poverty and most of them are oppressed by society.”HOW VERY TRUE?"Stop treating abuse victims with contemptStop treating abuse victims with contempt Louise O’Keeffe outside Dunderrow NS, Kinsale, Co Cork. She fought a 15-year legal battle to establish that the State’s failure to establish an adequate child protection framework in schools made it partly responsible for abuse suffered by children.Picture: Dan Linehan. Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - 12:00 AM Everyone who suffered abuse in a defective school system should now be paid the compensation they are entitled to under human rights law, writes Conor O’Mahony. It is well known that navigating the justice system is a traumatic experience for people who experience sexual abuse or assault. This has been documented at length in academic research, and extensively discussed in the media in the past year or two. It remains the case in spite of the fact that in criminal cases, the power of the State is amassed on the side of the victim. So imagine how much more traumatic the experience must be when the power of the State is devoted to denying justice rather than pursuing it? This is what has been experienced by people who were sexually abused in Irish primary schools in the 1960s and 1970s. Learn more Louise O’Keeffe knows this all too well. She fought a 15-year legal battle to establish that the State’s failure to establish an adequate child protection framework in schools made it partly responsible for abuse suffered by children. During this time, the State repeatedly sought to pursue her for costs; she could have lost her family home. When she lost in the Supreme Court, the State wrote to other litigants threatening to pursue them for costs unless they dropped their cases immediately. When she eventually won her case in the European Court of Human Rights in 2014, that should have been the end of the matter, not just for Ms O’Keeffe, but for others abused in the same defective system. Instead, the State once again marshalled its considerable resources to seek to prevent others from obtaining compensation. It established an ex-gratia compensation scheme, but applicants could only qualify for compensation if they could prove that their abuse occurred in the aftermath of a prior complaint made against their abuser. This condition was effectively impossible to prove; and moreover, it was incompatible with the judgment in Ms O’Keeffe’s case. Every single application to the scheme was rejected for failure to prove prior complaint. The independent assessor appointed to review applications to the scheme,retired High Court judge Iarfhlaith O’Neill, ruled on Monday that the condition was “an inherent inversion of logic and a fundamental unfairness to applicants”, and was “inconsistent with the core reasoning of the judgment of the ECtHR in the Louise O’Keeffe case”. This establishes once and for all that rather than accepting its liability following the O’Keeffe judgment, the State spent five years (and €1.5m in legal costs) seeking to deny compensation to people entitled to it as a matter of human rights law. So now is the time to put things right. In practical terms, this means that every person who experienced sexual abuse in the same inherently defective system should be compensated inthe same way. The Louise O’Keeffe judgment demands no less. There are 360 known victims, and the scheme proposes to make payments of €84,000 per person. The total cost of this would be €28m — just 2% of the €1.4bn indemnity given to religious orders in respect of abuse in residential institutions. Unfortunately, there is already evidence that the Department of Education is considering a continuation of the“divide and conquer” tactics that it has employed over the past five years. Thus far, it has only indicated that it will make payments in 13 cases specifically considered by the independent assessor. However, to limit the implications to these 13 cases is a wilful distortion of the assessor’s decision. If the condition of prior complaint is inherently incompatible with the O’Keeffe judgment, then as a matter of international human rights law, it must be dropped for all applicants (and not just those whose cases tested the point). Other tactics adopted by the department to date include distinguishing cases based on the point in time at which court proceedings were instituted, and denying all compensation to people who have never litigated in the courts. There is neither logic nor humanity to these positions. They penalise people who lacked the emotional or financial resources to take a court case at a time when the State was attempting to financially ruin those who took one. If two people suffered sexual abuse in the same defective system, it is abhorrent to compensate one and not another simply because court papers were or were not filed by a specific date. And humanity aside, there is a strong argument that since the European Convention on Human Rights does not require people to pursue national remedies that had no reasonable prospect of success, all victims should be entitled to benefit from the O’Keeffe decision regardless of whether they ever took a case at national level (where Irish courts have repeatedly rejected all such claims). This issue has dragged on for far too long already. The State has treated abuse survivors with contempt, and added insult to their significant injuries. It needs to make amends now by paying everyone who suffered abuse in a defective school system the compensation that they are entitled to under human rights law. It has failed to do so once already; the same mistake cannot happen a second time. Conor O’Mahony is director of the child law clinic at University College Cork. The clinic assisted Louise O’Keeffe’s case before the European Court of Human Rights, and made multiple submissions to the independent assessor in this case.

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: National Association for Deaf People: Homepage « Oconnellpadd13's Blog: "''“National Association for Deaf People Mission Statement”READ MY LIPS,THERE IS NO “PROACTIVE ADVOCACY” FOR CERTAIN PROFOUNDLY DEAF PEOPLE IN IRELAND?''"

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/05/former-education-ministers-made-aware.html: "Also Ms Mary Durack'commission to inquire into child ABUSE'who said in correspondence my comments have been noted on the commissions terms of reference.?"I HOPE SHE DID NOTE MY COMMENTS,AS THEY WERE ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE WHO COULD NOT ADVOCATE ON THEIR OWN BEHALF?

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/05/former-education-ministers-made-aware.html: "Then they wonder why there is deep social problems,as one letter writer said in a newspaper'What,the people in ballymun have to'ENDURE'were CREATED by an oblivious,callus,state policy bent on segregating different citizens(apartheid)workingclass from middle class.I suppose it can be defined as ruleingclass'HYPOCRISY'."?

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FLAC welcomes decision to quash jury ban on deaf woman » News & Events » Latest News & Issues : FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres): "Mr Farrell said that whatever happened in this case, it was only a matter of time before the "State would have to stop treating deaf people as second class citizens" and treat them instead as fully equal to hearing people when serving on juries and everywhere else."THE REASONS PROJECT?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: For Years, Deaf Boys Tried to Tell of Priest’s Abuse - NYTimes.com: "''They told "two police departments" and the district attorney. They used sign language, written affidavits and graphic gestures to show what exactly Father Murphy had done to them. But their reports fell on the deaf ears of hearing people.'?THE REASONS PROJECT?'"

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/07/public-inquiry-victory-for-corruption.html: "THE PRESIDENT WHO HAS BEEN SPEAKING RECENTLY IN DUBLIN CASTLE AND ELSE WHERE ABOUT ABUSES OF POWER AND AUTHORITY.DOES IT FOLLOW SINCE THE PRESIDENT IS THE PERSON THAT SIGNS THE LEGISLATION INTO LAW AND IF THAT LAW IS USED TO ABUSE HUMAN RIGHTS OR CIVIL LIBERTIES THEN HAS A RESPONSEABILITY TO THAT LAW?"

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http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/07/public-inquiry-whos-watching-watchers_9790.html: "'The next generation of working class children wont be as "illiterate" as the previous maybe then the "class structure" of our prison population will change.with the grace of god and diarmuid martin?slan'???????"

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Hundreds of complaints over abuse of disabled people - The Irish Times - Tue, Feb 02, 2010: "In another case, an abuse allegation in Co Leitrim prompted a social work and Garda investigation, but it does not record the outcome."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: "''The deaf and dumb man of St Mark's Gospel stands for all of us, individually and collectively. As in the case of the man who could neither "hear nor speak", if the Lord loosens our tongues, our ability to understand and to speak out, in truth and honesty, would surely be a blessing for our society.'TWO YEARS AND SEVEN MONTHS?AND THIS IS ONLY ONE OF MANY SERIOUS ISSUES?IS IT ANY WONDER THE 'COUNTRY' AND 'WORLD'IS THE WAY IT IS?'"CLASS-INEQUALITY?BIAS,DISADVANTAGED,MARGINALISED,DISCRIMINATION?

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Andrew Madden: CHILDREN FIRST: "This is not a comment on your article,it is a question in light of all the abuse cover-ups in this country.If someone made a formal complaint to the gardi in 2004 about their child been sexually,physically,and mentally abused and you heard nothing about the complaint since,what are you supposed to think?
Are other peoples children different from Michael Mc Dowells? I know for a 'fact'that children from a working-class back-ground are given a different kind of'due process'than those from Michael Mc Dowells background.They are also given a different kind of 'justice'by our courts."THE"REAL"REASONS PROJECT?

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Andrew Madden: "Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin reminded us that strong forces within the Catholic Church still did not want the truth about the cover up of the sexual abuse of children by priests to emerge and added that there are worrying signs that despite solid regulations and norms these are not being followed throughout the Church with the rigour required."?

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Editorial: Right to happiness may conquer marriage inequality - Waltham, MA - The Daily News Tribune: "Nor is there anything wrong with asking the courts whether a government policy is constitutional."THE RIGHT TO BE HEARD?

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SSRN-The Death of Socio-Economic Rights by Paul O'Connell: "And tacit judicial approval of such policies – signals “the end,” in substantive terms, for the prospect of meaningful protection of socio-economic rights."

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An economy in the service of society: "These principles (collective action, the participation of the most disadvantaged people and communities, addressing root causes of problems, empowerment, etc) attempt to address the issues of poverty, social exclusion and inequalities in a way that ensures that those affected have a say in how the issues are addressed."THE REASONS PROJECT?LAWS AFFECTING THE"SUBSTANTIVE"RIGHTS OF ABUSE VICTIMS?

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Every auxiliary bishop had some knowledge of crimes - The Irish Times - Thu, Dec 03, 2009: "It’s not just about Bishop Donal Murray. Many other bishops failed and they should all resign, writes MARY RAFTERY"WHO REALLY ENABLED THE RULING ELITE TO COVER-UP CRIMES OF CHILD ABUSE?WHO MAKES THE LAWS"STATUE OF LIMITATIONS"TO ENABLE SEX ABUSERS"ALIVE OR DEAD"COVER UP THEIR SEX ABUSE CRIMES PRESENT OR PAST?THE ADAM WALSH CHILD PROTECTION AND"SAFETY"ACT?

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