'Joy may face human rights court probe - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

'Joy may face human rights court probe - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "Sources in Mountjoy say there is a very serious problem with physical and sexual violence in the jail. There are also concerns about rape and sexual violence in the adjoining St Patrick's Institution where young offenders are held."The Prisoners’ Rights Organisation: a case study in grassroots organising, ‘history from below’ & police accountability Date: Thu, 2013-07-04 16:04 The Prisoners’ Rights Organisation (PRO) was founded in the early 1970s. Before its dissolution in the late eighties it was in many ways a unique phenomenon - a small but highly energetic grassroots organisation that consistently called public attention to cases of police brutality and misconduct through varied forms of street protest and media work. This article tells the story of the formation and development of the organisation and the ‘hidden history’ of the PRO’s attempt to make police accountable. The origins of the PRO As the name suggests the PRO was not initially concerned with the gardaí but with prison conditions. In the early 1970s the prison system reached crisis point as more and more people were incarcerated in filthy, badly planned Victorian prisons. As a result Irish jails were convulsed by waves of protest and repression and the PRO emerged from this cycle of resistance. Specifically the organisation’s roots lie in a ‘Prisoners’ Union’ set up in Portlaoise in 1971 following a serious assault on an inmate by a warder. When members of the Portlaoise union were moved on to the Curragh and Mountjoy, prisoners’ unions were established there. Through the unions the prisoners began to document the reality of incarceration and to formulate clear demands for a more humane prison system (34). The demands were publicised outside the prisons by a hastily formed Committee for Prison Reform. In 1972 a number of the prisoners who had been involved in the unions were released and began to work with some of the members of the Committee for Prison Reform which led in 1973 to the formation of the PRO. The organisation was launched publicly in July 1973 at a packed meeting of ex-prisoners and human rights activists. The group soon proved to be extremely active and innovative. In the following months they organised a number of high profile meetings in Dublin at which radical clergymen, Irish and international political activist and trade unionists (35) called on the government to reform the prison system. At the same time they were routinely organising pickets and protests outside prisons and the Department of Justice. Within a couple of years of their inception, the PRO was involved in an enormous number of intiatives and projects. This activity took three forms - practical support and solidarity for prisoners, political agitation and protest, and media and research work. The practical support for prisoners involved a wide range of services and even included running a bus for families visiting inmates, but most frequently involved making legal representations and complaints on behalf of prisoners. The political and media work drew directly on the information gathered while offering practical solidarity to prisoners and was then disseminated both in their own publications and through the mainstream media. However, despite the impressive level of energy shown by the PRO throughout its history, the core group of activists was very small - between 10 and 15 people. Initially it was mainly made up of ex-prisoners and was based solely in the north inner city of Dublin. Over the years the composition of the organising committee of the PRO changed somewhat and despite positioning itself as an explicitly ‘non –political’ organisation it did attract a number of political activists from both inside and outside the community into its ranks, most notably the feminist and socialist Máirín de Burca whose interest in prison reform stemmed from her own experience as an inmate and Joe Costello who was a spokesman for the organisation for several years and later became a Labour TD for the north inner city. However, political activists were never a majority within the organising committee or the group as a whole. Although the core activist group remained small, the PRO did over time spread beyond the north inner city in Dublin and eventually set up another branch in Cork and developed a fairly large active support base of people who would turn up at protests. By the late seventies the PRO had also developed a network of influential contacts in the media and in the legal profession. In 1979 they had the contacts and wherewithal to organise a high profile three-day public commission on the penal system chaired by Seán McBride with extensive submissions from prisoners, academics and legal experts. Remarkably, it was the first review of penal conditions in the history of the state. The event was reported by RTE and the Irish Times and later resulted in the publication of a book (36). According to a campaigner active in the PRO throughout the eighties “letting the public know” by documenting and publicising the reality of everyday life in the prison system was seen internally as one of the central functions of the organisation. Particular attention was given to the personal experience of prisoners and in this respect the PRO can be regarded as part of a serious and sustained attempt to write the history of the criminal justice system in from ‘below’. A key part of this was the regular publication and distribution of the Jail Journal which came out every couple of months. The journal was mainly written by prisoners or ex-prisoners, and the bulk of the publication was concerned with the experience of imprisonment through personal testimonies, poems, reports and analyses. Although in the latter half of the life of the organisation the tone of the journal became a little more formal, it always retained a sense of immediacy and a connection with everyday life. The publication built up a regular circulation in the low thousands by members selling it in pubs and at demonstrations. The PRO tirelessly tried to bring the issues raised in the Jail Journal to the attention of journalists and a number of the stories first carried in the journal later featured in the national media (37). The main publication was the Jail Journal, but the PRO also published a range of other material including a book on how to use prison rules to make legal cases about prison conditions. The organisation also took upon itself to do more ‘academic’ research. It completed socio-economic surveys of young and adult offenders and drew up reports on individual institutions (38). This grassroots research on crime and punishment was completely unprecedented in an Irish context and demonstrated in a systematic way, for those who may have doubted it, that there was a clear link between poverty and imprisonment. Given the emphasis the PRO gave to creating space for prisoners ‘to tell it like it is’ the organisation inevitably found itself getting to grips with and articulating with a whole swathe of problems which had a bearing on prisoners’ lives but which were not directly connected with gaols. So along with prison conditions the Jail Journal often carried articles about social inequality, mental health and the anomalies and idiocies of the court system. In this way the remit of the organisation widened somewhat. As a consequence in the 1980s the PRO even found itself involved in the struggle against the criminalisation of street traders in Dublin’s inner city and it even became one of the first groups to do advocacy work and popular education on the issue of HIV/Aids. The PRO and Garda brutality It is unsurprising then that from very early on in its history the organisation found itself documenting cases of Garda brutality. This would come to the attention of the PRO either through personal contacts or from people who would arrive at the regular committee meetings and give an account of their experience at the hands the police. Advice would then be offered on how to proceed against the police. The PRO would then double check the story and great care was taken to be scrupulously accurate and avoid any exaggeration. If they thought the story was credible they would contact the media and hold a picket at the station where the incident occurred. The stories were written up in the Jail Journal and followed up in various ways either through further protests or through legal means. Significantly the PRO would offer support to the victim right through any legal or complaints process. Eventually policing became one of the major concerns of the PRO and every edition of the Jail Journal prominently included a list of rights when arrested and occasionally carried advice on how to best to deal with the police. In fact one of the highpoints of the PRO’s activity and certainly some of the most visible and angry protests that the PRO was involved in concerned a high profile case of police violence. Eamonn Byrne a 22 year old from the north inner city was shot during a foiled armed robbery in November 1982 on the North Wall. On the morning in question Byrne and two other went to steal the cash from the purser’s office on a B & I ferry docked in Dublin port but when it became clear that the gardaí had foreknowledge of the robbery Byrne and the others decided to abandon their plans. They attempted to flee but failed and Eamonn Byrne was shot while unarmed and on the ground. The gardaí said the shot was discharged accidentally, but it widely believed that his death was suspicious and that the gardaí had set out that morning to settle a score with Byrne . Some of the suspicion and anger created by the death of Eamonn Byrne stemmed from the fact that he was very well known and popular young man in the north inner city who was viewed by many as a Robin Hood sort of character. More importantly though, it was common knowledge that in the months preceding the botched robbery Byrne had approached several organisations including the PRO and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and made statements that he worried about his safety and that the gardaí had it in for him. In the wake of these events the PRO regularly mobilised hundreds for numerous well attended pickets and demonstrations. Sympathetic articles about Byrne appeared in the mainstream media and although the gardaí were exonerated the PRO had a key role in articulating a community’s concerns and creating media and legal pressure for greater police accountability. Assessing the impact of the PRO on Garda brutality Byrne’s case is in someways representative of the strengths and limitations of the PRO work in general. Looking back over the organisation’s history it is clear that because the PRO was embedded in the community, had a stable organisational structure, enjoyed a network of legal, media and political contacts and above all was willing to provide a public forum for stories of misconduct and brutality it was a uniquely well placed to make the invisible abuse of police power a visible phenomenon (39). Eventually through an accumulation of individual stories the PRO was able to build up a picture of what was happening in custody in a way that had not been done before for ‘non-political’ everyday policing. Specific gardaí, specific stations and particular patterns in behaviour emerged as particularly important through these stories and the PRO was able to link them across time. In some ways the PRO helped construct a collective memory of what was happening in particular stations and see structural patterns which before could be written as ‘anomalies’ or the actions of ‘rogue’ gardaí. Following this up over an extended period of time demonstrated that violent macho cultures flourished in certain stations (40), most often in or at the edge of working class areas, and must have therefore either been encouraged or at least given tacit approval by senior officers. The PRO dissolved in the mid-eighties. According to one of the members of the PRO active at this time this was primarily because drug abuse changed the social dynamics within the communities that PRO was rooted in and led to some of their erstwhile supporters falling away. In retrospect it is difficult to judge how effective the PRO’s work was in making the gardaí more accountable. The PRO never reached, and for various reasons probably could never have reached, the sort of size where their work would have a clearly discernible direct effect on policing (41). However, activity such as regular pickets outside a given police station, the naming of gardaí guilty of brutality in print and the creation of visible networks of solidarity, however hard to measure, is very likely to have had numerous hidden positive effects . What is easier to establish is that that the PRO alongside left wing activists, Republicans and to a lesser extent international NGOs such as Amnesty helped to change, to some extent, the public discourse about policing between the 1970s and 1980s. More importantly still what the PRO demonstrates is that the work of a small committed group of activists, however poorly resourced and however enormous the task they face, can create a new cultural and political space where silenced stories can be aired, elaborated and thought through. And at the very least, through persistent research, protest and media work, the PRO created a powerful chink in the armour of untouchable moral righteousness that continues to contribute so much to the lack of Garda accountability in Ireland.

Man charged with Wicklow murder - The Irish Times - Tue, Dec 29, 2009

Man charged with Wicklow murder - The Irish Times - Tue, Dec 29, 2009: "Mr Dickinson’s counsel Seamus Clarke asked for him to be given protective custody in prison.
Judge Murrough Connellan said protective custody was a matter for the prison governor."THE REASONS PROJECT?

Clerical Whispers: Priest's testimonial refused in court

Clerical Whispers: Priest's testimonial refused in court: "“I don’t want a reference from a parish priest. I have not time for that,” said Judge Browne."OR TDs?

"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: BIOA : Office of the Ombudsman (Ireland)

http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/03/bioa-office-of-ombudsman-ireland.html: "If they are like the last financial regulator god help us.The three monkeys see nothing hear nothing and for gods'MONEY'sake say nothing,Class inequality."THE REASONS PROJECT?

Victims put pressure on Irish Bishop Drennan to resign - Local & National, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Victims put pressure on Irish Bishop Drennan to resign - Local & National, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk: "The calls come as a second damning report into cover-ups of paedophile priests is now unlikely to be issued."COLLECTIVE ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY?THE REASONS PROJECT?

BBC News - DUP First Minister's wife Iris Robinson quits politics

BBC News - DUP First Minister's wife Iris Robinson quits politics: "The Strangford DUP MP, Iris Robinson, is quitting politics after admitting she is battling mental illness."THATS WHEN YOU KNOW WHO YOUR "TRUE"FRIENDS ARE.

Minister admits some mental health hospitals should close - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

Minister admits some mental health hospitals should close - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "A MINISTER admitted yesterday that some of the country's mental health hospitals were in an appalling condition and needed to be shut down."AND THIS IS WHERE THEY PUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE GIVEN YEARS TO VOLUNTEERING IN THEIR COMMUNITY,WHEN THOSE SAME PEOPLE FALL ILL FROM THE YEARS OF STRESS AND STRAIN ENDURED BECAUSE OF "THEIR"NEED TO HELP OTHERS.OUR UNHEALTHY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES?

YouTube - The Case Against McQuaid

YouTube - The Case Against McQuaid: "Utterly disgraceful and sinful what these men of the cloth, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Labour and any other individual who sat in Dail Eireann, the Garda Siocana and the Judiciary are guilty of; so lets organise something and demand that everyone of them are brought to justice for their criminal acts on defenceless children now"AMEN TO THAT.THE REASONS PROJECT?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: "I read an article once by prof.John Dillon who said special interest groups would thwart any national debate on serious crime that might focus on their inadequacies?It would be interesting to hear auxl.archbishop Eamonn Walsh view on that"IT WOULD HAVE BEEN?THE REASONS PROJECT?

Public Inquiry · What’s new?

Public Inquiry · What’s new?: "At last and about time too.It is refreshing to see that the crusade for justice and truth is comeing from the liberties in the form of father Martin Dolan of the saint nicholas of myra parish francis street dublin 8.This is one of many inner city parishes that have been neglected and abused in relation to constitutional and other rights for decades,Fr.Dolan states according to the gospel that”other people should be put first even if that means your personal reputation or position is at risk”he goes on to say ,people wont challenge one another and they wont point out what they see as wrong(TURNING A BLIND EYE)and thats "PRECISELY" what allowed all of this(ABUSE)To happen in the first place.unquote.So should institutional arrogance or the establishment take precedent to an individuals rights?Are ordinary citizens truly able to exercise their rights if they dont have the money to do so?"THE REASONS PROJECT?

Public Inquiry · Corruption? Not in Ireland

Public Inquiry · Corruption? Not in Ireland: "God played a big part in irish society for a very very long time does that mean we can blame him for all thats wrong in irish society today?What is the purpose of gods image having a “SOCIAL”meaning in this so called modern world,or sean haughey for that matter when he opened a combat poverty agency conference,one observer is quoted as saying”He was speaking,though presumably not from "personal experiance",on the theme of”SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE”."

Public Inquiry · What’s new?

Public Inquiry · What’s new?: "Yeah all the laws are made for the little people,you dont need brains to do what all those people did who created all the modern day tribunals,u just need low friends in high places,The i did nothing wrong brigade,it shows courts and prison for the lower classes,tribunals for those in power and the well connected,there might be a tribunal set up to find out why it is that the prisons since the foundation of the state is only bursting at the seems with those from a working class background,"the causes of crime"is in fact socially engineered,if u check out watching the watchers,and then do an audit over the past sixty,seventy years you will find a connection between todays prison population and all those who were victims of abuse in institutions in this state all those years ago,like wise if u do the same audit on the rulers of times gone by you will find the same names cropping up again and again up to this present day,and its about time someone put a stop to it,i have done my part before i kick the bucket,and hope ex judge kinlan is not prevented from doing his,slan"THE REASONS PROJECT?

Public Inquiry · Search results for whats new

Public Inquiry · Search results for whats new: "Fact: The international financial crisis which resulted in the collapse of the mafia type financial system in Ireland has also exposed the rotten political system for all to see."

Public Inquiry · Be very afraid

Public Inquiry · Be very afraid: "It is alleged "THE FAMILY UNIT" is the natural and fundamental unit in society and is "ENTITLED "to protection by society and the “STATE”?So how come there are two standards of "JUSTICE"?INTERNAL DEMOCRACY WILL NEVER WORK.”SECRECY”WHICH INVOLVES CLASSIFIED CORRESPONDENCE AND INTERNAL MEMOS”is like studying social issues in “ACADEMIC”isolation.here are two examples,regarding MORAL DUTY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS?"

Public Inquiry · Search results for be very afraid

Public Inquiry · Search results for be very afraid: "Janette Byrne describes herself as a nobody (Irish Independent) .
In fact she is more powerful than"?

Public Inquiry · Unanswered questions

Public Inquiry · Unanswered questions: "How it came about that Mr. Shortt was returned for trial on serious criminal charges at the suit of the DPP even though it was conceded in the Court of Criminal Appeal that there was then no sufficient case against him on the documents which had been produced."THE "REAL"REASONS PROJECT???????

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?

Public Inquiry · Who’s watching the watchers?: "You havent seen one person from a disadvantaged background been brought before the mahon tribunal.why is that, is it because they dont get the same representation that those who can financially support political parties ?"THE REASONS PROJECT?

Public Inquiry · Criminal prosecution? Depends on who you are

Public Inquiry · Criminal prosecution? Depends on who you are: "Criminal prosecution? Depends on who you are"AND WHERE YOU LIVE.THE REASONS PROJECT?

'Irish Church accused of abuse cover-up ' by BBC - RichardDawkins.net

'Irish Church accused of abuse cover-up ' by BBC - RichardDawkins.net: "It also said that state authorities facilitated the cover-up by allowing the Church to operate outside the law."THE REASONS PROJECT?

Homeless Focus Group - Focus Groups - Dublin City Community Forum - Dublin.ie

Homeless Focus Group - Focus Groups - Dublin City Community Forum - Dublin.ie: "To facilitate the voice and real experience of homelessness.
To bring the voice of the homeless into places where homeless related decisions are made.
To act as a watchdog and give clear feedback to the Homeless Service.
To facilitate discussion on new solutions to the problems associated with homelessness.
To lobby for more accommodation with supports to help people get off the street"EQUALITY IRISH STYLE.

FitzPatrick got €49,000 fees from docks body - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

FitzPatrick got €49,000 fees from docks body - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "DISGRACED banker Sean FitzPatrick is one of two former Anglo Irish Bank directors who pocketed more than €100,000 in fees from the troubled Dublin Docklands Development Authority"

Canny operators who matched up to the bosses - Analysis, Opinion - Independent.ie

Canny operators who matched up to the bosses - Analysis, Opinion - Independent.ie: "Without spilling a drop from his glass, gentle Jack, meek and mild, promptly instructed Dunlop to 'tell that fella to fuck off, and while you're at it, fuck off yourself as well'."EQUALITY IRISH STYLE,FRANK RELEASED FROM PRISON FOR XMAS 2009>

Education in Israel dependent on race, religion, class | Israel | Jerusalem Post

Education in Israel dependent on race, religion, class Israel Jerusalem Post: "The report, compiled by the Adva Center for equality and social justice and entitled 'Segregation, Inequality, and Weakened Leadership,' bases its findings on statistics including class size and budget allotments, as well as academic achievement among the separate branches of Israeli schools. The report found glaring differences between poor and rich Israelis, Jewish and Arab students and Orthodox and secular institutions"

"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: Statute Barred? - UK Business Forums

http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/08/statute-barred-uk-business-forums.html: "'Surely one case in 1992 does not render the entire Statute Barred law insignificant. Is anyone aware of another case or precedent where the Execution of a Judgement has NOT been awarded on the basis of it being Statute Barred post-1995?'"CONFLICT OF INTERESTS IN STATUE BARRED CASES IN THE IRISH LEGAL SYSTEM?THE REASONS PROJECT.

Dear people: it's time you stood up for abused like me - The Irish Times - Wed, Dec 23, 2009

Dear people: it's time you stood up for abused like me - The Irish Times - Wed, Dec 23, 2009: "Dear people: it's time you stood up for abused like me"THE REASONS PROJECT?

Prosecutorial Accountability | The Justice Project

Prosecutorial Accountability The Justice Project: "Recent studies reveal that prosecutorial misconduct is a systemic reality within the criminal justice system. In 2003, a study conducted by the Center for Public Integrity found that prosecutorial misconduct was a factor in dismissed charges, reversed convictions, or reduced sentences in at least, 2,012 cases since 1970. In 28 of those cases, involving 32 separate defendants, prosecutorial misconduct led to the wrongful conviction of innocent individuals. In 1999, a national study conducted by the Chicago Tribune found that between 1963 and 1999, the courts dismissed homicide convictions in 381 cases because prosecutors suppressed exculpatory evidence or presented false testimony."THE REASONS PROJECT?

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Debut novel is straightforward portrayal of the end of innocence on Dublin’s dark streets: ThePost.ie

Debut novel is straightforward portrayal of the end of innocence on Dublin’s dark streets: ThePost.ie: "Jay’s childish innocence and their hopes and dreams are destroyed by the nefarious world of drugs and addiction that lives on their doorsteps. But the author’s determination to write in single-clause sentences and unembellished, flattened prose does leave some genuinely dramatic moments feeling strangely empty and stilted."TO THINK JUDGE FRANK MARTIN WAS REARED IN DUBLINS SOUTH INNER CITY?

Facebook | Paul O'Connell

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

"Bush Rationale on Libby Stirs Legal Debate" by Adam Liptak, The New York Times | Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT)

"Bush Rationale on Libby Stirs Legal Debate" by Adam Liptak, The New York Times Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT): "The Libby clemency will be the basis for many legal arguments, said Susan James, an Alabama lawyer representing Don E. Siegelman, the state's former governor, who is appealing a sentence he received last week of 88 months for obstruction of justice and other offenses."

Cross-Domain Receiver Page

Cross-Domain Receiver Page: "Paul Cortez was represented by two low-budget attorneys who were held in contempt of court for missing the first three days of trial. After the trial, it was discovered that Paul’s attorney was being prosecuted on drug smuggling charges by the same District Attorney who was prosecuting Paul."

Public Inquiry · Hutch and Haughey – Two of a kind

Public Inquiry · Hutch and Haughey – Two of a kind: "It’s interesting to observe how RTE treats people like Hutch in comparison to more ‘respectable’ criminals. For example, Miriam O’Callaghan introduced the piece by telling us that people are often outraged at how some individuals seem to be almost immune from prosecution."THE REASONS PROJECT?

Text Only | Irish Examiner

Text Only Irish Examiner: "'There should be no hesitation in taking action against Gardaí responsible for covering up sex abuse crimes committed by the clergy."THE REASONS PROJECT?

Irish News, June 16, 1999

Irish News, June 16, 1999: "Det Insp John O' Mahony said Meehan also told Bowden that Veronica Guerin's car had been stopped at lights on the Naas Road and that The Wig shot her at the lights.
He said Charles Bowden had put his life on the line and had his house burned down because he agreed to give evidence against his former colleagues."THE REASONS PROJECT?INEQUALITY IN THE IRISH LEGAL SYSTEM?

Martin: Is there a paedophile ring? - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

Martin: Is there a paedophile ring? - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "An assistant Garda commissioner appointed to review the Murphy report on Friday, is to meet officers from the Garda sexual assault unit this week. The failings of some gardai were amongst the most surprising findings of the Murphy report, with former Garda commissioner Daniel Costigan among those criticised for passing a complaint about a priest to Archbishop John Charles McQuaid."I HOPE MR.O'MAHONEY PUTS THE SAME KIND OF EFFORT INTO INVESTIGATION'S INTO HIS OWN COLLEAGUES AS HE DID INTO A SEX ABUSE CASE HE CALLED TO MY HOME ABOUT,BUT THERE AGAIN THAT INVESTIGATION INVOLVED PEOPLE FROM A WORKING-CLASS BACKGROUND.IT WONT BE GOOD ENOUGH TO SEND A REPORT TO THE GARDA COMMISSIONER AND THEN"MAYBE"TO THE DPP'S OFFICE.SECRECY AND POWER WITHOUT PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY JUST DOSENT WORK,AS ALL THE PRESENT,PAST,AND FUTURE TRIBUNALS AND INQUIRIES SHOW.

"ENCOURAGECHANGE"paddoconnell8@gmail.com: 'Joint culpability in abuse scandal'

http://encouragechange.blogspot.com/2009/07/joint-culpability-in-abuse-scandal.html: "'Joint culpability in abuse scandal'?"POWER WITHOUT PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY?

Willie O'Dea caught lying to High Court - Page 10 - Politics.ie

Willie O'Dea caught lying to High Court - Page 10 - Politics.ie: "Perjury is a crime. It is as simple as that. If we cannot expect the Ministers of the State to attempt to uphold the law, then what right have we to expect anybody to uphold the law?"CONTEMPT OF COURT LIKEWISE,BUT LIKE EVERYTHING-ELSE IT ONLY APPLIES TO THE LOWER CLASSES.

Primetime Investigates the Bankers - 21/12/2009 - Page 16 - Politics.ie

Primetime Investigates the Bankers - 21/12/2009 - Page 16 - Politics.ie: "They cant go after me, I know where all the bodies are buried'."OLIVIA GREENE SHOULD BE MADE HEAD OF THE REASONS PROJECT?

Cowen denies banking inquiry would implicate Government | IOL

Cowen denies banking inquiry would implicate Government IOL: "Calls for an inquiry have come from the economist Colm McCarthy, new Governor of the Central Bank, Patrick Honohan, and today from the Consumer Consultative Panel."POWER WITHOUT PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY?

Sprit2008’s Weblog › Create New Post — WordPress « Sprit2008’s Weblog

Sprit2008’s Weblog › Create New Post — WordPress « Sprit2008’s Weblog: "John and Susan hand formerly cox,lived in no 8 cumberland st,they had a son born on the 27th january 1900,his name was Patrick hand.Mary lee would in years to come meet and marry patrick hand and live in francis st.dublin 8.where they would have five"WONDER DID PATRICK HAND WORK FOR FRANK MARTINS FATHER IN PATRICK ST?ADVERSITY IS A STRANGE CONCEPT AS IS"THE GREY HAIRED MEN"THE REASONS PROJECT?

Judge Frank Martin - Obituaries, Frontpage - Independent.ie

Judge Frank Martin - Obituaries, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "Was born near Patrick Street in the south inner city of Dublin in December 1923. His father was a shopkeeper and publican who subsequently moved to Clontarf, where Frank was brought up and from where he attended Belvedere College."INNER CITY BUT NOT INNER CITY?THE REASONS PROJECT.

February 6th Peggy Flynn – Dalkey 6/2/1966

February 6th Peggy Flynn – Dalkey 6/2/1966: "The soldier, aged 24, freely claimed that he picked up Peggy after a party and strangled her when she asked for more money than the two or three pounds he had agreed to pay her.
Although there were many holes in his story, he was brought to trial in Dublin in a case where the only real evidence against him was his own confession. That wasn’t good enough for the jury, who found him not guilty, thus putting the murder of Peggy Flynn back into the file marked “Unsolved.”"THE REASONS PROJECT?WHO COULD AFFORD A CAR THOSE DAYS?

Irish murders - Dublin.ie Forums

Irish murders - Dublin.ie Forums: "Poor oul Peggy. She only charged 30 bob a go and ended up strangled with her own nylon ! 1966,all over the papers !"So LOURDES DIDENT SAVE HER?THE REASONS PROJECT?

Rate-Your-Solicitor.com Forum / The Church, the Law, and the Government

Rate-Your-Solicitor.com Forum / The Church, the Law, and the Government: "The Church threatened us with legal action when we tried to see a Baptismal Cert. that linked the DPP with one of the family in whose house Niall's body was found. Within hours of Niall's death my Uncle Billy (Niall's brother) called to the house where his body was found and was informed by one of the Flynn family that there had been an argument between two politicians and when Niall stepped in to break it up he was attacked. Billy then went to Tullamore Garda and made a statement to the Gardai. This statement never came out in evidence???"

Rate-Your-Solicitor.com Forum / The Judge, The Lawyer and The DPP

Rate-Your-Solicitor.com Forum / The Judge, The Lawyer and The DPP: "In 1985 my uncle Fr. Niall Molloy was found dead in suspicious circumstances in a friend's house. His body was found in the blood spattered bedroom of Richard and Theresa Flynn in their house in Clara, Co Offaly (Brian Cowen's home town). He lay beside an eight foot long streak of his own blood, his face deeply cut."THE REASONS PROJECT?

ireland.com - The Irish Times - SPECIAL

ireland.com - The Irish Times - SPECIAL: "It is essential that on the very rare occasions when crises of public confidence occur, the evil, if it exists, shall be exposed so that it may be rooted out;"THE GUARDS ARE AWARE THAT SHOULD THE MATTER"ABUSE"SURFACE IN THE SUNDAY WORLD IN TWO OR THREE YEARS TIME ,IT IS INPORTANT FOR THEM TO COVER THEIR TRACKS?

Failure of Church to stop abuse led to suicides and settlements - The Irish Times - Thu, Dec 17, 2009

Failure of Church to stop abuse led to suicides and settlements - The Irish Times - Thu, Dec 17, 2009: "“This took seven years out of my life, and that’s just this one court case. They fought us every inch of the way."

Brothers fail to stop the truth coming out

Brothers fail to stop the truth coming out: "Brothers fail to stop the truth coming out"

Irish News, October 17, 1998

Irish News, October 17, 1998: "Re-examined by prosecuting counsel Mr Peter Charleton SC , Sgt Condon said that he had known Ward for eight to 10 years before he interviewed him at Lucan."THE REASONS PROJECT?

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: SISTER XAVIERIA AND "CHILD KILLING" IN GOLDENBRIDGE

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: SISTER XAVIERIA AND "CHILD KILLING" IN GOLDENBRIDGE: "''They got no justice 42 years ago and they got no justice today,' she added.'CRIME AND ITS TRUE CAUSES?"DELAY,DELAY,DELAY???????