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Teresa Devlin of The National Board for Safeguarding Children In The Catholic Church

The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCCI) published this morning its overview of the safeguarding practice conducted in the Religious Congregations.

They included The Augustinians; The Passionists: The Sacred Hearts Fathers of Jesus and Mary; The Discalced Carmelites (OCD); The Franciscan Friars; The Franciscan Brothers; The Servites; The Marist Fathers and The Dominican Sisters

The inspection process revealed:

* Poor record management in many cases making an assessment of practice difficult.
* Opportunities to safeguard children were missed, known abusers allowed to remain in ministry in 1990s.
* Variable delays in reporting allegations to the civil authorities up until 2009 (introduction of Safeguarding Children, Standards and Guidance) for most Orders and Congregations, however for some practice did not improve until 2013.

Teresa Devlin, CEO of NBSCCCI sez:

“In relation to the large reviews, I’m disappointed that, for the majority of Orders, the whole area of safeguarding is only being bedded down in the last couple of years,” said . “Of the 9 only two Orders have demonstrated good compliance with the standards, and have demonstrated their commitment to putting in place good safeguards for children as well as prompt responses to allegations of abuse. For the other 7 there is considerable work to be done. “A series of recommendations have been made within each report and the Board expects that these will be acted upon…We will request an update on their progress in implementing those recommendations in 9 months.”

Good times.

Franciscans express ‘regret’ over failure to protect children (RTÉ)

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0210/679127-franciscans/

Press Release on publication of 16 Review Reports  (Safeguarding.ie)

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You couldn’t make it up.

Kenny writes:

You guys might get a kick out of this video. It’s based the interview [about the irish Water deadline] between Labour Senator Lorraine Higgins and Gavin Jennings on RTÉ Radio One’s  Morning Ireland last week. We wanted to do it justice and so we transcribed it and re-enacted it! We added in no jokes and stayed 100% with the original content of what was said, mistakes and stumbles an’ all!

Previously: ‘There’s No Clarity On That Right At This Moment’

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UCD Students’ Union last night voted against a motion (above) supporting the legislation of marijuana in Ireland

Bummer.

Donie Sullivan writes:

Students in University College Dublin (UCD) against a motion supporting the legislation of marijuana in Ireland. A conservative bunch in the UCDSU. if they’re like this in their early twenties what will they be like in 20 years time? What is the world coming to?

Anyone?


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Outside Tallaght Garda station this morning.

Tallaght Says No writes:

Just had it confirmed that the young lad, who has just turned 16 a week ago, had approx 10 garda at his house arriving in 3 cars – they heavily banged on the door and made their way into the house, went up stairs as he got dressed and took him out.

Tallaght Says No (Facebook)

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Further to details revelealed by RTÉ’s Investigative Unit of where housing fund grant money ends up (the constituencies of senior government members)…

Out of work mapper Omar Sarhan writes:

I thought the RTE Investigates research into the housing grant allocation was quite good but sadly it lacked a map, so I decided I’d create one! From the rapturous applause my maps usually get on Broadsheet (this could be in my head) I think the audience would like it. You can get to the beautiful interactive version via my blog here…

Yesterday: Where The Housing Funds Go

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Clare Daly TD at a ProChoice protest in 2013

In advance of today’s Dáil vote on Clare Daly’s bill to allow abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities….

That’s why, if I were a member of the Dáil, and irrespective of what a party whip might say, I’d vote for Clare Daly’s bill to allow a mother to choose a termination in the case of a fatal-foetal abnormality. I don’t buy the argument that it’s necessarily unconstitutional — any reading of the amendment itself, not to mention judgements such as the X case, show that to be highly questionable.
But we’re a humane people, when all is said and done. Humane people don’t turn a blind eye to human tragedy.
It has placed generations of women in jeopardy. And it hasn’t addressed the issue of abortion

Two disastrous policy decisions, both of them born of ignorance (Fergus Finlay, IrishExaminer.ie)

There will never be a good time to address Ireland’s abortion quagmire, but Labour TDs have the opportunity today to support legislation that could at least ameliorate some of the trauma faced by women and their families when they are told their unborn children are incompatible with life.

The Labour Party has in the past been an important voice when it comes to supporting women and their right to access abortion services. It will be a sad day if it decides to prioritise petty political concerns over this proud history.

Labour TDs need to vote with their conscience on Daly’s abortion bill (Collette Browne, Independent.ie)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)

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