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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The report of Conall Devine, commissioned by the HSE, into the circumstances surrounding the handling of information on the conviction of Dr. Niall McElwee will be completed before the end of the year. (Terms of Reference here.) Enquiries by this blog last week indicated that the publication of the report was not imminent. Today’s Athlone [...]
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I have been contacted by Dr. McElwee concerning coverage of his career on Maman Poulet. There is more that one side to the story as we know and Dr. McElwee has information he believes essential for consideration. I have offered him his own posts on this blog to set out his case given the fact [...]
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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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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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