I assume Minister for Justice Brian Lenihan will also be investigating the ‘behaviour’ of the Diocese of Dublin Catholic social service agency Crosscare in providing support to the Roma Family on the M50 roundabout, they also called on the government to put pressure on investigate human rights abuses against Roma in Romania, and they fed [...]
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Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy confirmed today that Niall McElwee is under investigation for a breach of the Sex Offenders Act. Gardai are examining if the offence that McElwee was convicted of in the Netherlands in 2005 would be one which would require him to report the offence in Ireland. If the crime committed in the [...]
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First Count announced before 11 pm tonight in the exam hall, TCD. The Quota is 4230 – Spoilt votes 60 Total Valid Poll 16917 Bacik 2794 Conway 214 Douglas 183 Efobi 201 Gueret 1155 Hutchinson Edgar 330 McDonagh 684 Martin 223 Norris 5240 O’Connor 514 Ross 5379 Shane Ross and David Norris were elected on [...]
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I’m not sure if there is any online source of info on the count taking place today. A very unreliable source of info might be found here as I hang around waiting for a vote to be seen.
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I’m offline now until Monday – it’s been a very interesting week as a blogger, lots of traffic, lots of comments, and lots of editing, moderating and deleting of comments. Those who’s comments I had to delete or edit were very nice about it! Thank you. Eoin O’Dell and Simon McGarr’s wise words at Bar [...]
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RTE reports that the inquiry into events which led to the resignation of Niall McElwee will concentrate on child protection issues and only on issues involving Athlone Institute of Technology. [Update - see below for exact terms] Barnardos have already expressed concern at the failure to extend the enquiry to concerns around Dr. McElwee’s practice [...]
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Several of the lecturers who called for an investigation of the practices and career progression of Dr. Niall McElwee in 2000 have called for the terms of reference of the inquiry to be widened. As mentioned here first on Saturday, 3 female lecturers had written to then Minister for Education, Micheal Martin and expressed their [...]
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More on the poetry of Niall McElwee – and his former boss John Ennis. Oisin’s Journey Home was published in 2006 by School of Humanities at Waterford I. T. and Centre for Child and Youth Care Learning at Athlone I.T. and was launched in Newfoundland. I still don’t know what the interest in poetry is [...]
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The HSE have announced the name of the person that has agreed to act as the independent chairperson of their inquiry into Niall McElwee and how the Midlands Health Board did not tell anyone what they knew about the conviction in Amsterdam. Or is it why the health board never knew anything in the first [...]
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I’m sure someone out there can comment on the significance of this publication? Óisín’s Journey Home – A Keen at the Gates of the Heart by Dr. Niall McElwee & Dr. John Ennis I’m currently at a loss to explain why a social care lecturer and (his former/then?) head of department would edit a book [...]
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