“”It appears that the standard strategy for dealing with complaints – especially when they concern important or ‘connected persons’ is to target the complainant regardless of the complainant’s personal integrity – or of the legitimacy of their complaint. In the course of I-I members’ collective experiences with particular agencies and institutions, certain tactical patterns have emerged that are clearly designed to wear down, exhaust and intimidate the citizen, and thereby suppress the truth and frustrate justice.”?”

Ivor Callelly and the expenses regime

Ivor Callelly and the expenses regimeIn a culture that has seen even recently the amount claimed by high-profile politicians come into question, is it not time to have a full investigation to examine every detail of the legitimacy of all expenses claimed by all politicians both past and present? The initiation of such an appropriate inquiry would be in the public interest and would ensure that Ivor Callelly was not just sacrificed on the altar of political expediency and hyprocrisy in a perceived purgation of the political process

Ed FitzGerald decries 'personal attack' against famly

When the penalty for an indiscretion is suffering goodness knows what at the hands of the secret police, you learn not to wear your heart on your sleeve.

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Almost 100 years ago, the 1916 proclamation called on the Republic to cherish all her children equally. In that time, the children of Ireland have been physically, mentally and sexually abused at home, in school, in state care; they have suffered poverty, illiteracy, ill health, inequality; they have been neglected, abandoned; they have died in state care. - See more at: http://paddoconnell.blogspot. - See more at: http://paddywantstoknow.blogspot.ie/#sthash - See more at: http://encouragechange.blogspot.ie/#sthash.wciJWBqU.dpufAlmost 100 years ago, the 1916 proclamation called on the Republic to cherish all her children equally. In that time, the children of Ireland have been physically, mentally and sexually abused at home, in school, in state care; they have suffered poverty, illiteracy, ill health, inequality; they have been neglected, abandoned; they have died in state care. - See more at: http://paddoconnell.blogspot. - See more at: http://paddywantstoknow.blogspot.ie/#sthash - See more at: http://encouragechange.blogspot.ie/#sthash.wciJWBqU.dpuf

Department of Justice 'has not changed or adapted to modern world' | BreakingNews.ie

Department of Justice 'has not changed or adapted to modern world' | BreakingNews.ieCivil servants in charge of the country’s policing and justice system have a closed, secretive and “silo driven” culture, a hard-hitting review has revealed

Public trust has been eroded, Tanaiste Burton admits - Independent.ie

Public trust has been eroded, Tanaiste Burton admits - Independent.ie?