The #satuireland team are getting organised for Electric Picnic. Looking forward to our 3rd year of information sharing and awareness raising. It’ll be my first year camping though……if there’s anyone left on this platform share your ‘top tips’!! Hse.ie/satu

We’re looking for papers on all sorts of topics, whether you’re testing out a theory or looking to speak about your ongoing project! There’s space for everyone

#ThroughHerEyes How wonderful to hear that Dublin city councillors have backed a plan to name Inchicore square after Christine Buckley. Her husband, Donal, says he hopes when people walk through it they will be reminded of how “persistence and patience can deliver justice”. And

European human rights law and the legality of sex offence prosecutions based on deception as to gender history | Legal Studies | Cambridge Core - cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I am incredibly proud of my PhD student, Teweldebrhan Abraha Reda, who successfully defended his thesis this morning. To write a doctoral thesis of this standard, while in Direct Provision, is remarkable. As is he. University College Dublin President of Ireland

In today’s Irish Times, Deirdre Healy & Marie Keenan call for a whole-system, trauma-informed and multi-agency response to address delays in the processing of sexual offences. irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0… marie keenan UCD Sutherland School of Law UCDSocialPolWorkJust The Irish Times

Calls for #PublicInquiry into paedophile Michael Shine. The Taoiseach stated government and other organisations need to take a “victim-centred” approach and discuss how to handle the case and the allegations made. #PublicInquiry Simon Harris TD Helen McEntee TD buff.ly/4cvXrOC

Well done to the Irish Penal Reform Trust for organising an important and informative event today on access to information, advocacy and remedies for people in prison. It was a privilege to contribute to this event and to learn from the amazing speakers #KYR2024

Thank you to a brave woman. My brother went to see Pauleen in the hospital; she is the last living woman who sheltered children who fled or were rescued from Ireland's notorious industrial schools. More than 50 years ago, she took him in to her tenement room and disguised 1/3

Between 1922 and 1998, over 80,000 unmarried mothers were incarcerated in church-run mother and baby homes. Tomorrow night, new documentary Stolen explores the heartbreaking stories of these women and their families. Stolen, Monday 9.35pm | @rteplayer #rtestolen

Watched this with my MU School of Law & Criminology #LW698 students who were utterly speechless afterwards... what a powerful and important documentary. Highly recommend

A reminder for anyone watching #Stolen that abuses against unmarried mothers and their children were not solely institutional. See 🧵⬇️ A reminder too that the injustices continue in present in different but no less impactful ways.

I asked about the Confidential Committee in 2015. The Commission refused to answer any questions about how it was going to operate. I knew then it would be what it was. #stolen irishexaminer.com/news/arid-2034…

I'm so sorry to learn of the passing of one of Kerry's and Ireland's finest historians, Maurice O'Keeffe Maurice's oral histories in the Irish Life and Lore collection are his outstanding legacy Condolences to his family. May he rest in peace 🙏 rip.ie/death-notice/m…

Short 🧵on why we insist on unfettered access to all records. People are rightly outraged by #Stolen. But it's just the tip of the iceberg. We know some of what's still hidden, but without access to all records we remain in the dark & the power remains with the perpetrators.

This photo shows Elisa, a woman born in Moscow in 1925, arm in arm with the love of her life Joyce. Taken on Dublin's O'Connell Bridge around 1963, I found it in a garden shed in Galicia in 2021. Let me tell you how 🧵 1/

Judges to receive specialist training in dealing with sexual violence cases, reports Mary Carolan irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024…

My sister is an amazing community activist and advocate for her son Kieran, who is receiving treatment for a brain tumour. She has been raising funds for the Children's Hospitals at Crumlin & Temple St.. If you would see link in article. independent.ie/regionals/kerr…

Brilliant research on justice for institutional child abuse.Essential reading for any new inquiry.key point is need for relational repair .another is modular reports is possible. .. so much more to digest...congrats to Prof Anne-Marie McAlinden James Gallen and marie keenan

Dr Joe Mooney: It's time for a national conversation on the issue of child sexual abuse jrnl.ie/6480357t