Civil Partnership. No not Dermot, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform who published the Civil Partnership Bill earlier this year but our Dear Iar-Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern. As you may have noticed Bertie has a book out and has been on the book tour trail both here and abroad and has been enthralling interviewers with [...]
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I’m going to let the very talented Sabrina Dent explain herself as what to her ambitious and stunning new initiative is all about. But click on the picture – visit the site and don’t get up off your arse (male or female!) – just click on the picture above, read and type! (Am looking forward [...]
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I wonder what the Evening Herald headlines are today with regards to the guilty plea in the case concerning the murder of Sharon Coughlan. Will they exonerate the victim? This case came a bit late for the new Press Council and of course who knows if the new body would have actually done anything? I [...]
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The last time that Michael Lynn, (the solicitor wanted by the High Court for contempt, and wanted by the Law Society for questioning, and wanted by clients for taking their money and misappropriating it, and wanted by his staff for not paying their wages) was seen by his wife was in the offices of Merriman [...]
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Is the snobbishness so much between IT’s and Universities that they don’t check out each other’s full time staff lists? What did Athlone Insitute for Technology think that Fergal O’Malley was doing in Galway? Shopping? NUIG wouldn’t notice too much – heads of department get lots of time off to be heads of department, and [...]
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Note – please see this post for the latest on this matter. I won’t comment on the case as someone is now facing charges but as for the coverage – well some of the Irish print media spent the last few days libeling the dead. I do hope that a lot of time is spent [...]
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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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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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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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