From today’s Irish Times SOCIAL WORKERS believe that a mother who subjected her children to incest and serious neglect received support from “a Catholic right-wing organisation�? when she got a High Court injunction in 2000 to stop the children from being placed in the care of relatives. …Tadgh Guider, a social work team leader, said [...]
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Miriam Lord writes in today’s Irish Times about the busy day yesterday – attending the Dáil commemoration and the recalling of the Oireachtas to debate the legislation needed to nationalise Anglo Irish Bank. The first event was mixed with the vibe of the second it seems. Yet even though the country is going through “turmoil�? [...]
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Since the crash/collapse of property prices in Dublin and the rest of the country there’s been a bit of a problem with affordable housing. It’s wasn’t affordable anymore. While there are several thousand people on the waiting list (Including yours truly) nobody is buying anything. The difference between the market price and the affordable price [...]
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You may remember that Pat Rabbitte and Dermot Ahern went head to head before Christmas on the cutting of the budget of the Equality Authority. Last night Labour’s Spokesperson on Justice released a statement in reaction to the resignation of 5 members of the authority. Today’s resignation of five more directors of the Equality Authority [...]
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I’ve received a copy of the resignation letter of David Joyce, Congress Equality Officer and ICTU representative on the board of the Equality Authority. In the letter the impact of the 43% on the budget of the authority combined with the refusal of the Minister to meet with the board to discuss their proposals for [...]
Five more members of the board of the Equality Authority have resigned. David Joyce from ICTU, Louise McDonnell a senior official in IMPACT (Public sector trade union) and Frank Goodwin from the Carers Association have informed the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern that the authority can no longer fulfill it’s core [...]
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Added to my feed reader and recommended reading but maybe not agreeing! (Now if only some Irish sociologists and social policy specialists could join them!) Group blogging at IrishEconomy.ie Gerard O’Neill at Turbulence Ahead Stephen Kinsella Michael Taft’s Notes from the Front (The Recession Diaries) David McWilliams Ronan Lyons Missed anyone? Leave links and recommendations [...]
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…For Rick O’Shea. I’m not sure why 2fm decided to mess with Rick’s show – I don’t think it was money but some managers ‘new idea’. I’ve been listening in the afternoons at work for a while now. Rick keeps me sane at work when I’m not out at meetings. I’m a talk radio junkie, [...]
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At the end of the US election some of us were wondering what the very well oiled and funded machine will do next. I found this news interesting in the midst of the train journey and inauguration/transition coverage currently underway. Obama’s campaign moved to the next phase with the announcement today of Organizing for America [...]
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Niall Crowley, former CEO of the Equality Authority has given an interview in today’s Irish Times to Kathy Sheridan. It says everything some of us knew already – the campaign against Equality and civil and human rights in this country is a very dirty business. ‘…The “storm clouds�? had been gathering since September 2007, when [...]
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