April 2009 Archives
April 29, 2009
PUBLICATION OF THE COMMISSION'S REPORT The Investigation Committee and Confidential Committee of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse have prepared their reports and presented them to the Commission. Consequently, the Commission expects to publish its report on Wednesday, 20th... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 29, 2009
Ruairi Quinn TDLabour Party Spokesperson for Education and ScienceLeinster HouseKildare StreetDublin 201 618 3434ruairi.quinn@oireachtas.iewww.ruairiquinn.ie Uimhir:447 Ceist PharlaiminteChun an Aire Oideachais agus EolaíocthaTo the Minister for Education and ScienceTo ask the Minister for Education and Science the way the €2 million... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 29, 2009
st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } When one reads the Parliamentary Debates (Official Report - Unrevised) Seanad Éireann Wednesday, 22nd June 2005 - Page 3 in relation to the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. Question... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 29, 2009
Mr Hayes can this go on the website please on the day Mr Bertie Ahern, 'visited' the Aislinn (March 2009, there was a bloke 'waiting' outside his arrival; earlier the same bloke informed the "RTE/TV-3 camera crews, that there... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 27, 2009
Mon, Apr 27, 2009 A Co Galway man has had his conviction of sexually assaulting a young girl more than a decade ago declared a miscarriage of justice following admissions by the girl she lied about the alleged offence.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 26, 2009
I sent the following to the RTE Radio programme "The Spirit Moves" on Sunday 19 April. They were having a discussion on how to treat sex offenders after they are released from prison. The presenter Myles Dungan read out... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 23, 2009
The Nation, April 8, 2009(This article appears in the April 27, 2009 print edition of The Nation.)[ NOTE: A copy of the original article by JoAnn Wypijewski was published on the Alliance Support website on 9 April 2009 http://www.alliancesupport.org/news/archives/002743.html... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 23, 2009
The letter is in response to an article by Joann Wypijewski "Crisis of Faith: Carnal Knowledge" that appeared in the March 16 2009 edition of The Nation. The article concerns Father Paul Shanley who was convicted in 2005 of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 20, 2009
URGENT ALLIANCE SUPPORT GROUP PRESS RELEASE As Secretary to the Alliance Support Group for victims if Institutional Abuse, I contacted the department of finance and the Department of Education and Science regarding the announcement in the budget on the 7th... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 15, 2009
Reading John Fitzgerald's letter "Turning a Blind Eye to Institutional abuse, I wonder have we learned anything from the mistakes and horrors of the past. People in psychiatric hospitals or homes are as entitled to live with dignity and to have their fundamental... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 15, 2009
Press Association, April 15 2009 Ed Balls has said disruptive pupils should be expelled from school Headteachers should expel children who are repeatedly suspended, Schools Secretary Ed Balls has said. He said that in the majority... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 15, 2009
Nathan Bernier, KUT News, 11 March 2009AUSTIN, Texas: Almost a year ago, the state's Child Protective Services removed more than four-hundred children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch outside Eldorado. And a few months later, the Texas Supreme Court... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 14, 2009
Tuesday April 14 2009 Institutional abuse and neglect is something we associate with the past, with that 'Hidden Ireland' in which a deeply conservative quasi-religious ethos held sway. An Ireland where children were sent to frightening industrial... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 10, 2009
Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Irish Budget As part of the cost saving measures to be taken by Department of Education & Science a E2m cut will be made from the Residential Institutions Redress Board through a lower... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 10, 2009
Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Irish Budget As part of the cost saving measures to be taken by Department of Education & Science a E2m cut will be made from the Residential Institutions Redress Board through a lower... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 10, 2009
BARRY ROCHE, Southern Correspondent Fri, Apr 10, 2009 GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING allegations of clerical sex abuse in the diocese of Cloyne are to prepare files for the DPP after interviewing a retired priest about allegations that he abused two young... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 10, 2009
CARL O'BRIEN, Social Affairs Correspondent Fri, Apr 10, 2009 A LACK of resources and support were the main reasons why an inquiry into the abuse of children with intellectual disabilities took over eight years to complete, according to a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 9, 2009
PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent Thu, Apr 09, 2009 THE IMMINENT report of the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation into clerical sex abuse "will shock us all", according to the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Most Rev Diarmuid Martin. In... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 9, 2009
by JoAnn Wypijewski This article appeared in the March 16, 2009 edition of The Nation.JoAnn Wypijewski: As the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reviews defrocked priest Paul Shanley's conviction on child rape charges, "repressed memory" will be held up to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 9, 2009
Australian Associated Press, 25 February 2009 Knox Grammar Preparatory School On advice from the ombudsman's office, a qualified investigator from outside the school conducted an investigation.Knox headmaster John WeeksSydney's elite Knox Grammar School has defended its handling of an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 9, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald, April 9, 2009, by Jonathan Dart and Dylan Welch Damian Vance ... from a 1988 yearbook.THE latest man arrested for alleged sexual assault at Knox Grammar School, was still working as a teacher in Victoria.Police... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 8, 2009
In all cases, you will be given written notice of the Board's decision. When you receive this notice, you have one calendar month in which to decide whether you accept it. There is particular merit in taking legal advice... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 8, 2009
Man Found Guilty Of Porn-Charge Suspect's ManslaughterWales News, Mar 2 2009, WalesOnlineA man who stabbed to death a former policeman awaiting trial on child porn charges was found guilty of manslaughter today.Daniel Williams, 30, of Trimsaran, West Wales, stabbed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 8, 2009
Wed, Apr 08, 2009 Madam, - I am a former priest married to a former nun, and Patsy McGarry's article on the experiences of former nuns in Australia (April 2nd) opened up, for me, a bucket of worms. I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 8, 2009
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent Thu, Apr 02, 2009 THE CATHOLIC Church has been criticised for inadequate treatment over recent decades of former nuns, priests and brothers without whose unpaid work it would not have been able to provide... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 6, 2009
'That Paedo Is Going To Get It': Drunken Vigilante's Threat to Police Moments Before He Knifed Child Porn Suspect to Death [WALES] Daily Mail, by Liz Hazelton, 29th January 2009 Victim: Geoffrey Harries, a former policeman... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »
April 6, 2009
Dennis Ferguson Crikey - "Telling You What They Won't"Monday, 9 March 2009, Greg Barns writes: Dennis Ferguson has been accorded justice. Mr Ferguson was acquitted last Friday by Queensland District Court judge Patsy Wolfe of one count of indecent... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Read the full article »