Equality & Rights
Moyross calls for short avenue to TUS to compliment new €84m road
Adrian Power, chairperson of Moyross Partners group, made an impassioned speech today at the official opening of the newly constructed Moyross Link Road which connects with a partially finished dual-carriageway on Limerick city’s northside. He and others in the community had campaigned for years for the road to be built - and they are not finished.
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Community Law and Mediation is celebrating 50th anniversary
The Community Law and Mediation organisation, which was started in Coolock, Dublin, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
The organisation was established by the...
Equality & Rights
“Why are equality and human rights so important now?”
So why are equality and human rights so important now? Past progress has benefited many of us but there are still many groups who are denied equity. Since the foundation of the State every decade in Ireland has seen various groups discriminated against, excluded and in some cases dehumanised.
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Author’s experience in Kosovo might help save people from “black holes of human rights protection, holes of oblivion”
Professor Siobhan Mullally is the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children and she also supervised Andrew Forde when he was studying for his PhD. She spoke at the launch of his book.
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Forde calls on Council of Europe to respond to ‘grey zones’
Author with background in European conflict resolution publishes first book
Equality & Rights
Record high of over 40,000 domestic abuse disclosures in 2023
40,048 disclosures of domestic abuse marks an 18% increase on previous year’s figures and the highest in Women’s Aid’s 50-year history. Reports of physical violence rose by 74%, and economic abuse by 87%.
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Sligo youths created an award-winning project that raises awareness of LGBT+ supports
Young people in Sligo have created an award-winning project last year to raise awareness of the support services in their locality that LGBT+ teens can turn to.
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Calls for legal reform to help people find jobs after prison
90% of employers are willing to hire former prisoners, but they say more guidance is needed
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31 counties have now used Lough Ree’s accessible boat
Since 2021, 5,500 people have enjoyed exploring Lough Ree on Access for All’s accessible boat. The County Roscommon social enterprise started this year with two more boats and aims to treble passenger numbers. So far visitors have come from every county in Ireland bar one - Antrim.
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Cash is “essential for the inclusion of socially vulnerable citizens”
By Dr Olive McCarthy and Allen Meagher (pictured below)
