Dr. Frances Finnegan lectured in Social History in Waterford Institute of Technology in the 1990′s. She made the complaint about the material being used by Dr. Niall McElwee in WIT. Students were distressed by the material including arts students who were taking some of the lectures and would not be working in the social care [...]
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Further details are reported today in the Sunday newspapers about the incident which led to the conviction of Niall McElwee in Amsterdam in 2005. The court reports are not pleasant reading. As reported on this blog yesterday evening, complaints about McElwee’s career progression made to the Minister of Education are also covered in today’s papers. [...]
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I have received information that the Minister for Education was contacted during Niall McElwee’s tenure in Waterford Institute of Technology by other staff members expressing concern at numerous irregularities surrounding his employment there. No action or reply was received from the Minister in response to this complaint according to my informant. Given the nature of [...]
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Mingle2 – Online Dating Ellybabes sent me off looking to see what my blog is rated - it’s under 17′s accompanied by an adult it seems due to finding the words sex (5x) queer (3x) asshole (2x) bitch (1x) Personally I think they did not look hard enough – there is a lot more in [...]
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Well the Midlands Health Board and a member of An Garda Siochana (and his colleagues) knew about what happened in Amsterdam? So why didn’t Athlone Institute of Technology? The assault took place during a health board funded visit. Update: So the issues? The Garda look like they are doing their usual – ‘this is what [...]
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Ah O2 staff don’t like being told that their website sucks or at least sucked when I wrote about it ages ago. Someone googled o2.ie today and landed here, and left a comment. One of those really positive comments from staff members pretending they are satisfied customers – you know it just screams at you. [...]
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There is a lot of ochon ochon oh going on amongst those working in childcare and child protection this morning in relation to Dr. McElwee’s resignation. Those applying to work or even study in the area of social care and social work have to submit themselves to Garda Clearance, one wonders if those teaching in [...]
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Ah yes, that responsible fashion industry strikes again… And as for technology? Ads for the Play Station 2 in India entitled ‘Because Your Girlfriend Bores you Shitless’. What wanker thought that up?
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The head of the childcare learning centre in Athlone Institute of Technology, Dr. Niall McElwee has resigned. It was recently discovered that he has been convicted of a sexual offence with a girl in the Netherlands in 2004. I had heard of the name before and reached for Google for it is your friend – [...]
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Why is a rss feed about an Irish Times opinion article written by Senator (until July 24th) Colm O’Gorman on the future of the PD’s and first published on June 4th appearing in my google reader tonight? It was published on the PD website on June 21 – so on July 10th they need to [...]
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