A new series of advertisements from UN Women using Google auto-complete terms to represent convictions held by many who use the search engine.
Ah here,. Surely those ‘results’ are just mocked up…
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I don’t think @TV3Ireland get the concept of irony: #Roma pic.twitter.com/ApsY8PK7Qs
— Derek Flynn (@derekf03) October 23, 2013
In a Channel 4 News exclusive, Cordelia Lynch spoke with the mother of the 7 year old child from Tallaght taken into care by Gardai this week.
When the child’s mother is asked if there is a problem with the way Irish people view Romas, she replies:
“No we don’t have a problem with them but they do. We don’t know why, we haven’t done anything. We haven’t done crimes but they just hate us. Just because we’re wearing dresses and we’re Roma people. We haven’t done anything bad.”
Second Roma child taken by Irish police for DNA test (Channel 4 News)
Previously: Fears Of Racial Profiling
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Brendan Malone, Deirdre O’Shaughnessy, Enda Cunningham, Neil Henderson, Mike Hogan 4FM, Meliosa Fitzgibbon, Barry Duggan , David Cochrane and Joe Donnelly
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(Members of youth groups from around the country outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin today)
Unless YOU choose otherwise.
From Reverse The Cuts:
To: Joan Burton TD, Minister for Social Protection
Minister,
I strongly believe that Job Seeker’s payments to people under 26 must not be cut.
It is fundamentally unjust that young unemployed adults, who can vote and are required to pay income tax, are expected to accept lesser welfare payments than older people.
All this cut truly ‘incentivises’ is emigration – to a country where our youth and our talents are recognised.
Young people did not cause this crisis and we will not pay for it. This cut must be reversed.
If you agree you may sign here (all ages)
Petitioning Joan Burton (Reverse The Cuts, Change.org)
Earlier: Meanwhile, Outside The Dail
Previously: Go On Now Go
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
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(Kathleen Whelan with Steven O’Riordan at Áras an Uachtaráin)
Magdalene Laundry survivor Kathleen Whelan died in her home at Baile Na Aoire, Montenotte, Co Cork, last Sunday – on her 68th birthday.
She received no compensation before she died, even though Taoiseach Enda Kenny made the State apology in February.
Steven O’Riordan, of Magdalene Survivors Together, spoke to Mary Wilson on RTÉ One’s Drivetime moments ago about this.
Mary Wilson: “Did [Kathleen Whelan] get anything?”
Steven O’Riordan: “No. Unfortunately Kathleen, and like the lady that died previously, has left now €200,000 behind them and the State obviously has saved €200,000 and paying any compensation to these individuals. And I think that’s very sad as well because I think these women really did believe that once the apology was made, and once the scheme was set up in June, that payments would be start to be made and, of course, like everything that the State seems to have to offer is all legal implications and all tied with red tape and nothing ever seems to progress in this country.”
Wilson: “So, what is stopping the progress? They got the apology last February, the scheme for compensation was established in June. Here we are near the end of October and you’re telling me that none of the women have got any money?”
O’Riordan: “No. And I think the implication is that a waiver form has to be signed by the women and I think there’s a…”
Wilson: “This is a waiver, not to sue…”
O’Riordan: “Not to take the State to the courts any more after they get the compensation and I think ultimately then what happens is that if the women don’t sign it and want to go to the courts, would the statute of limitations be lifted? Does the implications of them getting a previous compensation from an industrial school kick in? Does that prevent them from going to the courts? And what are the implications of signing the waiver form in terms of the rights they’re giving away.”
Wilson: “So Steven are some of the blockages to pay out on the side of the women who want certain guarantees in relation to their own futures on the compensation?”
O’Riordan: “Well a lot of the women expressed a view that they feel that they should be paid in full. And the Government feels that they should be getting a weekly allowance each week, on top…”
Wilson: “They want the full payment? The women want the full payment from the start?”
O’Riordan: “Yeah.”
Wilson: “The Government wants to give it on an incremental basis?”
O’Riordan: “Yeah, and I think it’s a shame that the Government again just don’t listen to the women. The Government were asked to get the religious orders to pay something into the scheme, they didn’t achieve that. The Government have been asked for the women can they be paid in full. We don’t seem to be getting that. I distinctly remember writing to the Secretary General Jimmy Martin asking could there be confirmation as to whether the women or not will get the full entitlement rather than this weekly payment, that was in July. I’m still waiting in October to receive a response.”
Wilson: “So where are we at? Are there talks ongoing?”
O’Riordan: “We’re in absolutely no-man’s land. The Department of Justice has completely and utterly shut down. They don’t relay or communicate with me. They only communicate with the women directly. I’ve had over 20 complaints from different women that I’ve worked with in relation to the Department of Justice’s handling of the process of the scheme. The women are very upset with the fact that they don’t know what the situation is with their medical cards. We’ve heard a lot about that from different, various groups already this week in the Budget. And I suppose the women now feel that they might not even get the medical cards. The other thing that they’re upset about is the fact that there’s been no progress on the national monument even though they have a clear vision as to what they want to achieve. And I think their biggest fear is that, will they all be dead by the time this is resolved? And why is it taking so long? What is the situation with regard, the delay in the process of these payments? And why isn’t the Government properly communicating with these women? And why isn’t the Government communicating with the groups that have been set up to deal with these women?”
Stephen also said the women have yet to hear anything about the dedicated unit and helpline that the Government promised to set up, following the State apology.
He also said that the ladies have had to pay in order to obtain birth certificates and marriage certificates, as part of the process.
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, above, archbishop of New York was the man sent to Ireland in March 2010 by Pope Benedict to lead the Apostolic Visitation to Ireland and examine the country’s four archdioceses in the wake of the sex abuse scandals.
In May of last year the New York Times reported that Dolan authorised payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests – when was the archbishop of Milwaukee – as an incentive for them to agree to be dismissed from the priesthood.
The documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House of Good documented the the crimes of one of those men, Fr Lawrence Murphy, who abused hundreds of deaf children.
Today, the Survivors Network Of Those Abused By Priests reports:
Late yesterday, Judge Rudolph Randa ruled that a deaf survivor of Fr. Lawrence Murphy is bound by an agreement he reached with church officials even though he was deceived in order to secure that agreement.The agreement was reached in an archdiocesan program designed by Dolan in 2003. We believe the purpose of that program was to quickly and quietly settle with victims while deliberately misleading them about the archdiocese’s prior knowledge of the criminal history of abusers. At the same time, it induced victims to accept nominal restitution in exchange for waving all future legal rights. If the victim would later discover they had been deceived by Dolan and the archdiocese, as we now know they were, they would have no legal recourse.”
“For instance, long-secret church documents – released by court order – show that Dolan and the archdiocese misled victims and the public about when and how much church officials knew of Murphy’s history of assaulting deaf children.”
“Dozens of the 570 victims who filed cases in the bankruptcy entered into fraudulently induced agreements with the archdiocese, with the direction and approval of Dolan.”
“blockquote>In an earlier decision similarly shielding the court from investigating Dolan’s possible fraudulent conduct, Randa supported Dolan’s transfer of $57 million of archdiocesan funds into a “cemetery trust”, thus eliminating it as an asset prior to the bankruptcy filing. Overturning a decision issued earlier by bankruptcy Judge Susan V. Kelley, Randa said Dolan’s transfer could not be examined or investigated by the court because, even if fraudulent under US law, if the archdiocese says it was legal under Catholic “canon law” it is protected by the 1st amendment of the US Constitution and the free exercise of religion. Church documents obtained since the transfer, including correspondence between Dolan and the Vatican, show that Dolan created the trust to keep US courts from compensating victims.”
“Both of Randa’s decisions are being appealed.”
Previously: “An Old, Old Problem”
This Is The Guy Who Investigated Abuse In The Irish Church
Pic: Sacerdotus
Aria Shahrokshahi recently passed maths. Sez he:
A year before this video I was at a grade F in maths and in England you need a C (pass) to basically do anything with your life. I’ve never been amazing academically and have struggled throughout school. Neither me or my dad or my teachers thought I was going to get my C. I know some of you might be saying , well a C is nothing, but for me it was hard to get.
And then he shared the news with his dad…