The Last Person I Would Go To For Help Is Ms Emily O Reilly,And That Stems From The Time She Lived In Howth,I Would Love A Full Breakdown Of The Freedom Of Information Requests Made To The Gardi, Department Of Justice,And The Prison Service.To Prove A Point Of Public Importance.
PaddOConnell Blogs 2007 I'm.Or Clare Daly.
A lawyer representing a whistleblower in the Irish Prison Service has called prison management to engage in mediation with his client following a finding that his client had been penalised as a result of making a protected disclosure.
The Workplace Relations Commission directed the Irish Prison Service to pay €30,000 to a whistleblower as a result of the penalisation.
The prison officer made a number of complaints of penalisation to the WRC. A number, relating to rostering and workplace issues were not upheld. However, the most serious issue, relating to a potential security threat to the complainant was upheld.
In its ruling on 8 March, the WRC described the incident as "extremely serious".
In February 2015, the prison officer was notified by local gardaà that they were investigating a report by a member of the public that he and his wife had been filmed in suspicious circumstances at a local shopping centre.
The prison officer alerted the prison authorities of the incident.
He told them that he would be taking security precautions and that the incident was a source of considerable stress to him and his wife.
The officer wrote to management on a number of occasions seeking an update on the investigation.
However, he was not made aware until August 2016 that the investigation into the filming incident had been concluded over a year earlier and had found he was not at risk.
The prison authorities were made aware of the conclusion of the investigation 14 months earlier in April 2015.
The WRC ruling found that the withholding of information from the officer constituted penalisation and was linked to the making of a protected disclosure: "I find the failure of management to inform the complainant, despite his very clear cogent description of the affects (sic) of the matter on his family constituted unfair treatment of the complainant as provided for in the definition of penalisation in Section 3(1) (e). I conclude that there was a link to his protected disclosure."
The prison officer's solicitor Andrew Cody told RTÉ Radio 1’s 'This Week' programme that the failure to inform his client had "a huge impact" on his client and his wife, who was suffering from anxiety and high blood pressure during the period.
According to the ruling, the Irish Prison Service did not initially accept that the prison officer had made a protected disclosure during the WRC hearing, a stance it later changed.
In statements to RTÉ News, both the Department of Justice and the Irish Prison Service said the IPS is considering appealing the ruling to the Labour Court and would not comment further.
The prison officer's case was previously the subject of an External Review by Judge (Retd) William Early, as revealed by RTÉ's This Week programme last May.
Judge Early also found that the prison officer was "penalised" and "isolated" by the prison service after he made a protected disclosure about the use of resources within one of the country's prisons.
Neither the Department of Justice nor the Irish Prison Service would say whether they accepted the Early Review.
Mr Cody also told RTÉ’s 'This Week' that his client has raised further concerns, including complaints of assault by another member of staff and other workplace issues, which he may seek to bring to the WRC.
"He really doesn't want to be going with repeated complaints and he would like a process put in place (so) that all of these could be resolved," Mr Cody said.
"They (the IPS) won't meet with us, they won't go to mediation and that is inexplicable: Their own circular says they must consider mediation, but in this case it has been flatly refused."
The IPS has told 'This Week' that it is considering appealing the €30,000 award.
In a statement it said it was "currently giving consideration to the ruling of the Workplace Relations Commission which was received on the 8 March, 2018 and as to whether the matter will be appealed to the Labour Court." I'm
C: The €41bn public money pumped into Ireland’s banks during the worst days of the economic crash risks never being fully recovered, a new report has warned.
C: The €41bn public money pumped into Ireland’s banks during the worst days of the economic crash risks never being fully recovered, a new report has warned.
WHO IS YOUR REAL FRIEND?
A poem by Brenda Tallon, O’Connell (13/03/2018)
Dear Lord My Heart Aches For The Youth Of Today
With Evil and Drugs Been Pushed Their Way,
Families Are Been Shattered and Torn Apart
Dealers Just Don’t Seem to Have A Heart,
The Scourge of Addiction Effects So Many Lives
It’s Like A Bee Taking Honey Back to The Hives,
The Bee Is the Dealer Taking Honey Back to The Hives,
The Bee Is the Dealer with His Drugs So Enticing
Our Youth Find This So Exciting,
They Can’t Resist the Lure? Of the High
It Is A Curse for Every Girl and Boy,
Years Ago Heroin Was The Main Drug Curse
Now Cocaine, Es, Ketamine, Etc, Which Is Worse?
If I Could See the World Through the Eyes of a Child
All the People in The World Would Be Happy and Kind,
Unfortunately This Is Just A Dream
Life Is Not Precious to Many It Would Seem,
I’ll Keep the Youth in My Prayers
To Help Them See Their Families Care,
No High on Earth Can Take the Place
Of A Father and Mothers Loving Embrace.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
FATHERED BY EVIL Three sisters born as result of rape brand evil dad the ‘Irish Joseph Fritzl’ and reveal no one helped their desperate mum
EXCLUSIVE
Alison O'Reilly
22 Sep 2019, 8:30Updated: 22 Sep 2019, 12:10
THREE brave girls of the “Irish Joseph Fritzl” today break their silence about their rapist father — and tell how no one helped their desperate mum.
Ashley, Iseult and Megan Manning have waived their right to anonymity to reveal how they, and three siblings, were conceived after their mother was sexually abused and “held like a captive” for nearly two decades by evil Sean McDarby.
Brave sisters Ashley, Megan and Iseult
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Brave sisters Ashley, Megan and Iseult
Evil beast Sean McDarby
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Evil beast Sean McDarbyCredit: Handout pic - refer to Picture Desk
Monster Joseph Fritzl
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Monster Joseph FritzlCredit: Handout
Iseult and Ashley as children
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Iseult and Ashley as childrenCredit: Handout pic - refer to Picture Desk
The sisters say their mother Mary — who was beast McDarby’s stepdaughter — was repeatedly abused and lived in fear for years.
The monster first raped Mary in 1976 when she was just 12 years old and impregnated her for the first time when she was 16.
But when Mary reported the horrific situation, they said “no one did anything following mum’s numerous attempts to seek help”.
'EVERY TIME SHE REACHED OUT - NOTHING HAPPENED'
Speaking for the first time about her horror ordeal, Iseult told the Irish Sun On Sunday: “I honestly do not know how she survived and every time she reached out, nothing happened.”
McDarby was arrested in his workplace at a haulage business in Dublin and questioned by cops.
He admitted to gardai and the HSE that he fathered six children with Mary between 1981 and 1989 — but said he didn’t believe he did anything wrong.
McDarby, from Ballickmoyler, Co. Carlow, was accused of statutory rape, rape, disposing of a baby’s body, physically abusing Mary and isolating her and her children.
A lengthy file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions but no charges ever followed before his death more than ten years ago.
Shockingly, McDarby was the first to hear of the DPP’s decision.
'OUR MOTHER HAS LIVED A LIFE OF HELL'
Ashley, 35, the eldest of the three, said the system let their mother down time and time again.
She said: “I am angry that no one stepped in to help my mother. She did avail of the rape crisis services, she did talk to social services and gardai and so did her rapist, but nothing was ever done.
“The legal system, the support services and the HSE are all to blame. This has affected all of us, our mother should have been given some right to justice, our mother has lived a life of hell and I’ve no idea how she got through it all.
“Despite everything she was able to separate her love for us, from the reality of our own conception, having come about as a result of such brutal rape by her stepfather Sean. This makes her an unbelievable person. Sean McDarby was pure evil.
“The anger I carried, I carried because sometimes she couldn’t. This is a result of the emotional and physical exhaustion she had from constantly fighting and trying to survive.
“I can only imagine how terrified she must have been, torn between protecting us and herself, and sleeping with a hammer under the pillow and locking every door and window in the house.
“I am really glad abortion is now allowed in Ireland particularly for cases of rape because it means my mother could have got away sooner had she decided to abort us.”
ATTACKS BEGAN AT 12
The Manning sisters have never referred to their mother’s rapist as their “father”.
Instead they call him the “Irish Joseph Fritzl” and say he treated their mum, who had no positive childhood experiences, like a slave.
Psycho Fritzl, 84, is serving a life sentence in Austria for holding his daughter captive in an underground cellar for 24 years where she was raped and beaten and gave birth to seven of his children.
Mary’s alcoholic mum Mona married McDarby a year after husband Richard, a respected businessman in Ardee, died in 1973.
Three years later, when Mary was 12, the predator began raping her.
And in 1981, when she was 16, she became pregnant with her first child, Rory, and gave birth at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.
The little boy was only three months old when Mary became pregnant again following another sex attack.
Six months later Mary miscarried at home in her bed following a particularly brutal rape.
McDarby, then 37, made her put the dead baby in a bag and he buried the child in a field on his former land in Carlow — where the tot remains today.
The rape and physical abuse continued and Mary gave birth to Ashley at the Coombe Hospital, in Dublin, in 1983.
After Mary became pregnant for a third time, he took her away from Ardee. He brought her to a house in Dublin where she reared all of her children on her own with no money or support and no contact with the outside world.
She then gave birth to Iseult in Holles Street in 1984.
Two years later another child — who was later adopted through St Patrick’s Guild Adoption Agency — was born. Mary never saw him again following his adoption. And in 1989, Megan was delivered at Holles Street hospital.
'STRUGGLE WITH IDENTITY'
In an extraordinary interview, Ashley told how on one occasion Mary did escape to America with the help of a neighbour but returned when she learned her three girls were taken into care.
She added: “In a desperate effort, having received no help or support from the state, my mother fled when she was 22 to escape Sean McDarby’s systematic rape and abuse. We ended up in care.
“My mother had no choices. Her maternal instincts to protect and care for her children, forced her to return to Ireland, as she did not want us in care. Unbelievably, yet again the results of years of neglect were dictating the choices she had to make.”
McDarby is not on any of the children’s birth certs but DNA has proven he is their father.
After being moved to Dublin, Mary was totally cut off from family life, money and society. She was moved around the capital three times by McDarby.
Iseult, 34, said: “It was his intention to isolate her and he knew the children would isolate her further, there’s a bond there with a mother and child and he knew she couldn’t go away.
“I have struggled with my identity, I ask myself, do I look like him? Do I act like him and do I have his personality traits?
“Our mother was forced to carry us alone. Giving birth, nobody came to visit her, he dropped her outside the different hospitals as part of his cover.
“How do I explain to friends and partners about my ‘father’? How I was raised and the childhood we had. People would say, ‘Where’s your dad?’. Teachers would ask me where’s your ‘father’.
“How did my mother give birth in so many hospitals with no one there and it never raised any suspicion?”
BEAST 'DID NOT PERCEIVE IT AS ABUSE'
Eventually, Mary did make friends in Dublin and revealed her deepest and darkest secrets.
Through those pals, she sought help and counselling and met her now husband, Karl O’Reilly, with the couple going on to have three children together.
Mary reported McDarby to the HSE in 1988 before she went to the US and then to the gardai in 1994.
However, Mary’s case didn’t make it to court and her civil case around 2005 collapsed because of time constraints.
Records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, show social services personnel asked McDarby during an interview had he abused Mary.
And even though Mary was underage during her first pregnancy, his response was that he “did not perceive it as abuse”.
Brave Mary went on to write the book Nobody Will Believe You in 2014, which told of her harrowing life at the hands of her stepfather.
Iseult still has many unanswered questions, asking: “Why was he not prosecuted? Why is it that the person who has been violated, physically mentally emotionally must carry the shame fear and many other emotions and the abuser Sean McDarby, walked around our streets a free man for years with free will and faced no consequences for his heinous actions.
“She lived through hell because of him and I’d like to ask the DPP what exactly is your job? Her book is a lonely and sad story because it shows her helplessness.
“While she wasn’t physically locked under the stairs, she was mentally isolated and cut off from her friends, family, community, choices and freewill and he used her body at mind at will.
“The power he took from her was her innocence, her confidence, her friends, her family, her community, her choices in life — but more than any of this, he took from her, her freewill and used both her mind and her body at will.
“Choices I take as normal such as travelling, or to go to college, to choose my profession, to choose a boyfriend, to develop a relationship and choose when to have children, such important choices were all taken away from my mother.’”
'WE ARE PROUD THAT SHE IS OUR MOTHER'
Sister Ashley added: “He left her to raise five children she didn’t choose to have.”
Mary has now reclaimed her own life after years of personal development, education and therapy.
Daughter Megan, 30, said: “Today she’s a successful psychotherapist, she has incredible compassion, sensitivity and understanding of the needs of others, who have had difficulties in their own lives.
“She is an amazing woman. We are proud that she is our mother. She has also helped her children to come to terms with the reality of their own conception, she knew that trauma not transformed, will be trauma transferred.”
After decades agonising over their mother’s pain and coming to terms with their own identity, two years ago, the girls complained to the Child and Family Agency Tusla, the Justice Minister and the Gardai. Former Minister Frances Fitzgerald ordered a review of the case and part of that investigation included Drogheda Gardai requesting reasons why McDarby was never charged.
However, the family have never received any information as to why no charges were brought. The trio say nothing became of that review, but they did meet with Gardai.
Iseult said: “The DPP made the decision not to charge him despite the lengthy statements my mother gave. It’s like it’s all been for nothing and it’s a was
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“He was a danger to us and society. We do not want this to happen to any other child or woman.
“However if it does the person should be held accountable, unlike Sean McDarby. Instead, he died a free man.”
Gardai and Tusla said they can’t comment on individual cases.
Special Report: Man who unlocked secrets of the prison service now feels confined: Whistleblower David McDonald says there have been reprisals for his claims, among others, that prison officers had been put under illegal surveillance and that prisoners’ conversations with their solicitors were monitored, writes Michael Clifford.
Whistleblower smear Garda avoids most of legal bill: The former Garda press officer who helped run a smear campaign against whistleblower, Maurice McCabe, and then lied to the Disclosures Tribunal about the nature of his involvement is to get the bulk of his legal costs.
Is report on the prison service ‘locked away’?: The investigation into allegations of illegal surveillance in prisons concluded in March, but the findings have yet to be published, says Special Correspondent Michael Clifford.Kinlen was an unrelenting scourge of what he perceived as the official mindset that rules our prisons system. His view that "the obsession of some few in the Department [ of Justice] to adhere to the principle of POWER, CONTROL AND SECRECY is long established". The capital letters are his own, and illustrate a depth of feeling informed by decades of experience.
Solicitor Gerald Kean has told a High Court jury he was “shell-shocked” by a front page newspaper article concerning a visit by members of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) to his Dublin office three years ago.
Mr Kean has sued for defamation alleging, among various claims, the March 11, 2016, article in the Irish Daily Star, labelled "Exclusive" and headlined "Kean caught up in CAB probe", wrongly and maliciously linked him to gangland crime and to the Kinahan crime gang.
The jury heard the sub-headline on the front page article said: "Gardai call to office of 'celebrity solicitor' for file" and the story also stated: "Sources said officers were looking for paperwork relating to the sale or purchase of a house linked to the Kinahan gang."
The story ran for another two pages inside the newspaper, saying, among other things, that, "as part of their probe into the Kinahan cartel, gardai obtained judicial permission to search 12 homes and seven businesses, including Mr Kean's office".
It also said "it is understood Mr Kean fully co-operated with the gardai who called to his office".
Mr Kean has sued Independent Star Ltd over the article, published a day after two CAB officers called to his premises at Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin. The defence denies defamation and denies the article means what Mr Kean alleges.
In evidence on Tuesday, Mr Kean said there was no “raid” or “search” of his premises by CAB members on March 10, 2016.
He said his office represents several gardai, including CAB members, and, when two members of CAB called to his office that day, he assumed they might be potential new clients.
He said, following a “lovely” conversation with the two about a range of matters including his late father, who was a Garda, they asked him for any documents concerning a house purchase by a Dublin man, Sean McGovern.
Mr McGovern was described in the newspaper article as aged in his thirties and a business partner of Liam Byrne, who was shot and wounded during an incident at Dublin's Regency Hotel when David Byrne was shot dead.
The article said the homes of Mr McGovern and of Liam Byrne were raided earlier the same day, March 10.
The article also said gardai took away documents from Mr Kean's office concerning the sale or purchase of a property at Kildare Road, Crumlin.
Mr Kean said he was unaware himself of the house purchase matter but another solicitor in his office told him she had acted in that matter and procured the relevant documents for the CAB officers.
Because the officers had a warrant, that meant, despite confidentiality obligations as a solicitor, the documents must be provided, he said.
At his Co Wicklow home that night, he was watching a football match when he was contacted several times by phone by journalists with the Star.
He may have used an "expletive" when he "very abruptly", in reply to a specific question from a journalist, said there was no "raid" on his office and had not answered further calls and texts.
He was "shell-shocked" and "absolutely devastated" when, while later watching an item about the following day's newspapers headlines on the Virgin Media Tonight show, he learned the CAB visit was the subject of a front page article in the Irish Daily Star.
Because he knew he would be unable to sleep, he drove to Dublin in the early hours seeking a copy of the newspaper. When he read the full article, he was horrified and went to the office of another solicitor about it.
He was very concerned how people, particularly his daughter, but also various charities and businesses with whom he is involved, would react to the article and whether they would believe he had no involvement in relation to the matters CAB was investigating.
"I was genuinely very upset and very hurt and I really feared how I would recover from this," he said.
Earlier, outlining the case for Mr Kean, Jim O'Callaghan SC, urged the jury to award "very significant" damages, including aggravated damages, due to the "viciousness" of this "defamatory attack".
He said the jury may be aware of a very serious murder at the Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016, as that was the most prominent factor leading to a "murderous" feud between the Hutch and Kinahan criminal gangs.
The article referred to CAB getting permission to search 12 homes and seven businesses but the only business named was Mr Kean's and only it got this "extraordinary" treatment in the newspaper, he said.
The newspaper was linking all of the CAB searches together and putting Mr Kean in same category as those subject of the CAB investigation which is "totally incorrect and unfair" to him, he said.
The case continues before Mr Justice Bernard Barton and a jury.
State operates under a veil of secrecy: Minister for Finance Michael Noonan kept batting away requests for the truth on the IBRC/Siteserv deal for more than six months through the course of 19 parliamentary questions.
'Damaging to the very fabric of our society': Higgins criticises Ireland's unequal justice system
Higgins was speaking at the opening of Flac’s new Dublin office.
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PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins has said that Ireland should not be satisfied with its current system of justice which is dependent on the ability to pay for it.
Speaking at the official opening of Free Legal Advice Centres’ (Flac) new office in Dublin, Higgins said that effective access to justice is a basic human right arguing that access to legal aid is a crucial requirement of that.
“A nation that aspires towards true equality, could not be satisfied with a system of justice that is reliant on the earning power of those who seek to access it, or accept a situation where those who cannot afford to pay for justice can be more easily deprived of their liberty, or for a view that a fair trial is a commodity is a right limited to one’s capacity to purchase it,” he said.
There can be no doubt that those who are most vulnerable and marginalised in our society are also those citizens who are most at risk of encountering legal difficulties and most in need of a justice system that is accessible and that operates in the best interests of all.
Flac was established in 1969 by four students who wanted to use their skills and knowledge to provide legal advice to those who could not afford to pay for it – an organisation Higgins says has contributed “so much to the achievement of a rights-based legal system in Ireland”.
Speaking at the opening of Flac’s new office, the first in a series of events to mark its 50th anniversary, Flac’s chief executive, Eilis Barry, said that five decades later, justice continues to be unattainable for some groups in society.
“We are proud of the work that FLAC and its squad of volunteers have done for the last 50 years in seeking to establish a comprehensive system of civil legal aid. However, Flac and its volunteers cannot begin to meet the current legal need it encounters on a daily basis.”
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Last year Flac dealt with over 25,000 requests for legal information and advice to its telephone information line and advice clinics.
It recently urged the government to make free legal aid available in proceedings involving the repossession of a home.
“It is simply not acceptable, in a state that claims to be a democracy, that the most vulnerable section of our society is unable to access our legal system or is prevented from doing so in a timely manner. That is a situation which damages the very fabric of our society, entrenching and exacerbating inequality,” Higgins said.
The homeless, the poor, those with a disability or who suffer from mental illness, immigrants, lone parents and those living or growing up in disadvantaged communities encounter many more legal problems than the rest of our population.
Higgins added that when vulnerable citizens are abandoned to navigate a complex legal system alone, they are experiencing a grave injustice.
“It is, indeed, worrying to know that figures released last year by the Irish Penal Reform Trust to the Oireachtas Education Committee showed that the majority of those currently in Irish prisons have never sat a State exam, with over half having left school before the age of 15.
“It is also revealing that prisoners in Ireland are 25 times more likely to come from deprived communities, indicating a very clear link between social disadvantage and crime and punishment,” he said.
FLAC’s new premises on Upper Dorset Street has a special historical significance as the playwright Sean O’Casey was born on the original site in 1880.
O’Casey’s daughter, Shivaun, was in attendance today for the opening.
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan kept batting away requests for the truth on the IBRC/Siteserv deal for more than six months through the course of 19 parliamentary questions.publish Oberstown review ‘deeply problematic’Authors of report into period of disorder at children’s detention centre in 2016 speak outMon, Aug 6, 2018, 01:00Maresa FaganMinister for Children Katherine Zappone said an operational review of the children’s detention centre will not be published because of the “passage of time”. Photograph: Nick BradshawA decision by the Minister for Children not to publish a report that followed a period of disorder at Oberstownchildren’s detention centre two years ago has been described by the report’s authors as “deeply problematic”.Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zapponesaid an operational review of the children’s detention centre, commissioned in response to significant challenges at the facility in 2016, will not be published because of the “passage of time”.A major fire causing €3 million in property damage, protests by youths, and strike action by staff over health and safety concerns during 2016 were among a series of incidents to trigger reviews of security, health and safety, behavioural management and operations at the facility.Prof Barry Goldson, a child law expert from the University of Liverpool, and Prof Nick Hardwick, former chair of the UK’s parole board, were commissioned to assess the Oberstown facility against international human rights standards and best practice. They also looked at the use of restraint and single separation at the facility, which can hold up to 54 young offenders.Speaking publicly on the issue for the first time, Profs Goldson and Hardwick said the decision not to publish the report was “deeply problematic”.The UK-based academics told Belfast-based website The Detail: “We have very grave concerns about what we learned, what individuals told us, and what we discovered during the operational review and believe it would serve the public interest for our findings to be published.Punishment and rehabilitationPrison population increases sharply following years of declineTougher anti-corruption laws to tackle white collar crimeRedacted version“A number of boys involved in an incident at Oberstown in 2016 were given extended prison sentences when they came before the courts this year and further children have been issued with lengthy prison sentences for incidents that occurred shortly after we completed our review. If our report had been published it may have been of interest to the courts and relevant to the sentencing of these children.”The authors said a redacted version of the report could be published.A representative for the Minister said: “The department is aware of the view that publication of the report is in the public interest. However, given the passage of time it is considered that it would be misleading to publish the report now, having regard to progress that has been achieved in the interim.“The review was carried out following a particularly difficult time in Oberstown. There had been serious incidents involving young people which threatened the safety of the campus. However, we are advised by Oberstown management that the environment in Oberstown is now more stable. There is evidence of positive change in the day to day operations.”Asked to clarify the reasons for not publishing, a representative for Oberstown said: “While due to legal advice it was not possible to publish the report in full, the recommendations of all reviews have been published in full, and a review implementation group was established in March 2017 to consider these recommendations.”‘Legal risks’The board of the facility confirmed legal costs of more than €19,000 between February 2017 and April 2018 to assess the operational review findings.Profs Goldson and Hardwick, however, have broken their silence on the unpublished report, which has been the subject of protracted correspondence between the UK-based academics and the board of management of the centre and the Department of Children.Documentation obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation reveals the children’s experts sought clarification on the decision not to publish their 67-page report and on “legal risks” associated with their findings.The Health and Information Quality Authority (Hiqa) requested a copy of the Goldson/Hardwick findings and was given an opportunity to read the report on site in May 2018.The State watchdog said: “While it would be preferable if Hiqa were to be issued with the report, as Hiqa has had access to the content of the report, our statutory powers of inspection and monitoring have not been hindered.”In May, three youths were handed down sentences of five years for their role in a “rampage” at the facility in August 2016, which involved a fire causing more than €3 million in property damage. In a separate case, a youth detained at Oberstown was sentenced last month to four years in prison for causing €50,000 in damage at the facility during four incidents between January and October
Public Inquiry · Unanswered questions: “From someone who has experianced and observed the criminal justice system since 1964 who met shan mohangi and many other murderers while still a teenager,it was the stories u heard that only many years later made some kind of sense ,for instance i cant recall the exactdate but a peggy flynn who had just come back from lourdes {she was supposed to be a prostitute}was found murdered on sandycove beach, by coinscidence i met the person who was on remand in mountjoy accused of this crime he told me that even though he was going to plead guilty he would never go to prison?i was told a lot of other things which i took with a pinch of salt but these other things were confirmed to me by by an m,w, whos then girlfriend was a prostitute as were most of her friends,the person did stand trial was repersented by frank martin who went on to be a judge of the irish courts and as he said he did not go to prison for that ladys murder,thats one example,”THOSE WORKING-CLASS CHILDREN THAT ARE CONDEMED TO A LIFE OF HELL BY THE “POWERS THAT BE”?
Public Inquiry · Unanswered questions: “From someone who has experianced and observed the criminal justice system since 1964 who met shan mohangi and many other murderers while still a teenager,it was the stories u heard that only many years later made some kind of sense ,for instance i cant recall the exactdate but a peggy flynn who had just come back from lourdes {she was supposed to be a prostitute}was found murdered on sandycove beach, by coinscidence i met the person who was on remand in mountjoy accused of this crime he told me that even though he was going to plead guilty he would never go to prison?i was told a lot of other things which i took with a pinch of salt but these other things were confirmed to me by by an m,w, whos then girlfriend was a prostitute as were most of her friends,the person did stand trial was repersented by frank martin who went on to be a judge of the irish courts and as he said he did not go to prison for that ladys murder,thats one example,”THOSE WORKING-CLASS CHILDREN THAT ARE CONDEMED TO A LIFE OF HELL BY THE “POWERS THAT BE”?
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Public Inquiry · Unanswered questions: “From someone who has experianced and observed the criminal justice system since 1964 who met shan mohangi and many other murderers while still a teenager,it was the stories u heard that only many years later made some kind of sense ,for instance i cant recall the exactdate but a peggy flynn who had just come back from lourdes {she was supposed to be a prostitute}was found murdered on sandycove beach, by coinscidence i met the person who was on remand in mountjoy accused of this crime he told me that even though he was going to plead guilty he would never go to prison?i was told a lot of other things which i took with a pinch of salt but these other things were confirmed to me by by an m,w, whos then girlfriend was a prostitute as were most of her friends,the person did stand trial was repersented by frank martin who went on to be a judge of the irish courts and as he said he did not go to prison for that ladys murder,thats one example,”THOSE WORKING-CLASS CHILDREN THAT ARE CONDEMED TO A LIFE OF HELL BY THE “POWERS THAT BE”?
Grave Concerns Over Unpublished Oberstown Report
Zappone 400 x 297Minister for Children Katherine Zappone has decided not to publish the report into the 2016 review of Oberstown detention centre, which included a contribution from the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice.
The UK authors of the review received a joint submission from a group of Irish non-profit organisations. The JCFJ, Barnardos, Children’s Rights Alliance, EPIC and the Irish Penal Reform Trust, informed them about current issues and made general recommendations regarding best practice, based on their individual areas of expertise. The JCFJ expressed particular concern about the excessive use of detention and the need for the centre's staff members to have up-to-date training in the appropriate management of challenging behaviour and de-escalation techniques.
An article in the Irish Times says that the authors have expressed ‘very grave concerns’ about what they discovered during the review. Prof Barry Goldson, child law expert from the University of Liverpool, and Prof Nick Hardwick, former chair of the parole board, have called it ‘deeply problematic’ that the report will remain unpublished.
The review was conducted following a period of serious incidents at the centre, including a major fire and staff strike action. Children who were involved in these incidents have been given lengthy prison sentences. The findings of their report could have been relevant to these sentencing decisions, say Goldson and Hardwick.
The JCFJ has reiterated on several occasions the need to publish this report. It is troubling to consider, as mentioned by the authors, that a failure to do so may have negatively impacted on a young person's prison sentencing. We strongly urge the Minister to reverse this decision and publish the report.
Friday, January 25, 2019
Removal of 'outspoken' Master of the High Court criticised by mortgage relief campaigners
25/01/2019 - 07:43
By Digital Desk staff The decision to remove the Master of the High Court from cases involving debts has been questioned by mortgage relief campaigners.
Edmund Honohan has been highly critical of the way banks and vulture funds treat mortgage holders struggling to pay their debts.
He has also helped draft legislation designed to prevent the eviction of distressed mortgage holders.
Edmund Honohan
The decision to reduce his caseload was made by the president of the High Court.
David Hall from the Irish Mortgage Holders Association thinks it is bad news for people trying to hold on to their homes.
"He actually cared about due process and ensuring the process took place and that the paperwork was in order and that people got a fair, dignified and respectful hearing," said Mr Hall.
"That has now been removed and the only people who have benefitted from this are the banks."
"Outspoken is a word that is used but telling the truth is effectively what he was doing which is representing a set of circumstances."
"People were coming before him in court - lay people without legal representation - and he was helping them with the process, guiding them through the process and challenging the banks.
Removal of 'outspoken' Master of the High Court criticised by mortgage relief campaigners
25/01/2019 - 07:43
By Digital Desk staff The decision to remove the Master of the High Court from cases involving debts has been questioned by mortgage relief campaigners.
Edmund Honohan has been highly critical of the way banks and vulture funds treat mortgage holders struggling to pay their debts.
He has also helped draft legislation designed to prevent the eviction of distressed mortgage holders.
Edmund Honohan
The decision to reduce his caseload was made by the president of the High Court.
David Hall from the Irish Mortgage Holders Association thinks it is bad news for people trying to hold on to their homes.
"He actually cared about due process and ensuring the process took place and that the paperwork was in order and that people got a fair, dignified and respectful hearing," said Mr Hall.
"That has now been removed and the only people who have benefitted from this are the banks."
"Outspoken is a word that is used but telling the truth is effectively what he was doing which is representing a set of circumstances."
"People were coming before him in court - lay people without legal representation - and he was helping them with the process, guiding them through the process and challenging the banks.
The segregation of prisoners in jail is important. It is a great mistake from every point of view to permit young prisoners who have lapsed for the first time to get into the company of those who are regular customers of our prisons.
Issues Juveniles Face in Adult Prisons 