Making Ireland Home is a video launched this week from members of MPower which is the Youth Empowerment Project started by Migrant Rights Centre Ireland. Those taking part in the video were all born outside Ireland and have made Ireland their home. One might wonder why when you listen to some of their experiences of [...]
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- Ireland has the second highest number of millionaires in the EU. – The 300 richest people in Ireland are worth close to €50bn. – Excluding housing values the top 1% control 34% of Ireland’s wealth. – The government plans to cut expenditure, services and infrastructure twice as much as they plan to raise in [...]
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The results of the first national major study into the lives of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people are launched today. Visible Lives surveyed 144 people and interviewed 36 people in depth – all were over 55 and from the Republic of Ireland. The study was commissioned by GLEN, funded by Age and Opportunity [...]
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In his interview with Bryan Dobson on Saturday evening, the President Elect mentioned his intention to visit institutions, including those which are normally closed. This mention in the interview nearly made me reach for the tissues again. It was one of the challenges I laid before him last month during the meeting on the the [...]
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It is an important week for the examination of human rights issues in Ireland as the Irish Government will be appearing before the UN Universal Periodic Review in Geneva on Thursday morning October 6. The Universal Periodic Review is a process through which the human rights records of the United Nations’ 192 Member States [...]
I’m currently reading a new publication from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) on A Social Portrait of Disabilities in Ireland. The authors Dorothy Watson and Brian Nolan are the leading experts in examining the statistics on poverty in Ireland and both of them have examined disability statistics for many years. Their publication is [...]
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The next national Claiming Our Future event will take place on November 5 in Cork. An Economy for Society is the theme for this event which is organised by Claiming Our Future in association with PlanBetter (part of IEN the Irish Environmental Network). It is a one day discussion on our economic system. Individuals and [...]
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I saw the invitation for guest posts on this, one of my favourite, blogs & I asked if I could send in a rant about media treatment of the social welfare system. The lovely blogger agreed. Life intervened and the piece which was about half written (in my head) was delayed. Then the UK riots [...]
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Please go and read Tombuktu’s post on the Cedar Lounge – it is an excellent summary of the problems with the Governments Gender Recognition Advisory Group report which was published yesterday. The post also details the problems with the process and also the reaction which might be expected by the mainstream media who won’t [...]
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It’s nearly there – the Finance Bill No. 3 2011 which deals with the tax affairs of civil partnerships (and children of civil partners) has passed all stages of the Dáil and is now in the Seanad for consideration. It passed the second stage yesterday. The debate which took place can be read here. There [...]
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