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Colm O’Gorman, of Amnesty International Ireland

Further to Amnesty International Ireland last year being told by the the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) to return a €137,000 donation to fund their campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation…

Amnesty International Ireland is pleased that its judicial review action before the Irish High Court has been resolved on the basis that the Standards in Public Office Commission accepts that the process leading to the adoption of the decision it made in November 2017 was procedurally flawed.

This decision has now been quashed.

Amnesty International Ireland has been vindicated in our decision to challenge the decision. The Commission has also confirmed that Amnesty has at all times cooperated in our responses to its inquiries into the OSF grant.”

From a statement released by Amnesty International Ireland this afternoon.

Amnesty welcomes quashing of SIPO’s decision on OSF grant (Amnesty International Ireland)

Previously: Above The Law

Rollingnews

Róisín Coogan writes:

Recently the government brought back the free glass/dentist visit under the PRSI benefits scheme (I think its 42 euro they are giving towards the specs).

As somebody who has purchased two pairs of glass from Specsavers over the last year I’m familiar with the layout of the shop so when I was in one of their branches on Saturday I was interested to see they have removed the 59 euro range glasses and are only displaying 89 euro and up.

After asking where the 59 euro range had disappeared too I was told they are now being stored behind a picture of women wearing glasses in a locker. I wonder if this is going on in all the Specsavers throughout the country…?

Anyone?