Newstalk sources understand that a Senior Counsel will review whistleblower Sgt. Maurice McCabe Dossier. Details live newstalk.ie
— Jonathan Healy (@jonathanhealy) February 25, 2014
They’re having a laugh.
YOU be the barrister JUDGE!
Barrister to examine claims by garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe (RTE)
Earlier: Someday A Real Rain Will Come
Anti-Austerity Alliance writes:
The Connell family from Blanchardstown, Dublin, have been made homeless through a combination of rent allowance cuts and rack-renting by their landlord. Fingal County Council have no houses. The family cannot get any alternative rented accommodation within rent allowance limits. They are split up…the family are staging a protest at Joan Burton’s Department of Social Protection on Store Street in Dublin tomorrow at 11am, asking ‘Where is the social protection’? They will be supported by their family and members of the local Anti-Austerity Alliance.
More here
When the Beeb hire a panel of folks,
To sit and tell topical jokes,
They don’t think it’s best,
To have a sausage fest,
From now on it can’t just be blokes.
John Moynes
(BBC)
[Justice Eugene O’Kelly]
The Limerick Leader is reporting how four students ran naked down the aisle of a bus in Limerick, while the bus was stopped at a Garda checkpoint.
It reports:
Members of the traffic corps boarded the bus when alerted by the driver and asked the youths to put their clothes back on… Judge [Eugene] O’Kelly said the students had displayed the “height of immaturity” and he asked Mr Grant if had ever considered “streaking around a farmyard?” He also quipped: “What if it was your Granny on the bus?”
Students ‘streaked down aisle’ of packed Limerick city bus (Limerick Leader)
http://vimeo.com/38845207
Splutter.
That Banned BBC rugby promo (with English tykes playing Irish nippers).
FIGHT!
Update: via Guardian Sport
via @SeanPaulV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCpoyYCZABM&feature=youtu.be
During the second stage debate of the Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Judicial Appointments) Bill 2013 in the Dáil last Friday, Independent TD Mick Wallace spoke about unsolved murder of Fr Niall Molloy in 1986.
It follows last December’s appointment by Justice Minister Alan Shatter of Mr Dominic McGinn, Senior Counsel, to carry out an independent examination of the Report of the Garda Serious Crime Review Team relating to the death of Fr Molloy.
From around 1.50 on the video, above, Mr Wallace said:
A final example of what can go wrong when judicial appointments are political and when judges are too close to political parties is the case of Fr. Niall Molloy’s murder. Mr. Justice Frank Roe was appointed President of the Circuit Court just before Richard Flynn was tried for the manslaughter of Fr. Niall Molloy in 1986.
Judge Roe was a personal friend of Richard Flynn, the defendant. Despite this fact, he first decided to assign the case to himself, in an extreme abuse of the power that came with his role as President. He then withdrew the case from the jury after three and a half hours, without letting it consider any of the evidence and directed it to acquit. One eye witness reported that the then deputy leader of Fianna Fáil, Brian Lenihan Snr., was in the room which was the scene of the murder.
Although I welcome the eventual appointment of Dominic McGinn, senior counsel, to review the Garda investigation into the Fr. Niall Molloy murder and hope the facts and background to the case, to include its strongly political background, can finally be ascertained and that the family of Fr. Niall Molloy may gain some justice and peace, it is yet again a shame that this decision to review has only come after a delay of almost 30 years.
If the Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter, would only decide matters based on his ministerial responsibilities to justice rather than on political motivations and his own political survival, we might see more decisions based on transparency and accountability and fewer underhand tactics employed such as delay and confusion, dismissal of allegations, discrediting of real victims such as whistleblowers and the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and misrepresentation of law and fact. These tactics never work on a permanent basis, as the Minister is now discovering to his peril. The truth generally comes out.
Hmmm.
Previously: “We Do Have Truth, But We Don’t Have Accountability”
