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Defence Forces Tribunal: Officer denies putting pressure on soldier to not make formal complaint
A Defence Forces officer has denied pressure was put on a soldier who suffered sexual assault to not make a formal complaint.Captain Mark Doyle said anybody who makes a complaint to the military police is free to use any number of options open to them, including calling gardaí.It took four working days to report the matter to gardaí. Capt Doyle, a former senior member of the military police, said legal advice had to be sought on whether the assailant was subject to military law. “There is no p...
Defence Forces Tribunal: Women of Honour challenge restrictions on access to Defence Forces Tribunal evidence
The Women of Honour is to ask the Defence Forces Tribunal for access to the same files available to the Defence Forces and the Department of Defence.Details of the information the group wants access to were delivered to the tribunal’s legal team at 5pm on Friday by its lawyers, Malcomson Law.The matter is due to be addressed through oral submissions before Ms Justice Ann Power at the tribunal from 2pm on Tuesday.A request for the issue to be dealt with was made before the end of the final public...
Defence Forces Tribunal: Soldier had status downgraded after complaint of sex assault by army chaplain
The Defence Forces Tribunal has heard a soldier had his status downgraded after he complained about being sexually assaulted by an army chaplain.Sergeant Noel Brennan, who was sexually assaulted by Fr David Tyndall, also said he felt officers had tried to persuade him to deal with the matter through mediation rather than pursue the formal complaint he lodged in 2021.The incident happened in 2015 but Sgt Brennan, who was applying to join a particular unit at the time, was worried it might affec...
Defence Forces Tribunal: Complaints process should be independent of military command, say officers
Much of the Defence Forces complaints process should be "externalised" and run by people outside the chain of military command, according to the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers.On the second day of the Defence Forces Tribunal, RACO deputy general secretary Colonel Derek Priestley said too few officers are qualified to handle complaints within the Defence Forces. He also said his members are frequently exasperated when ordered to investigate allegations against soldiers, regar...
Defence Forces Tribunal: Women of Honour battle over funding at Defence Forces Tribunal delayed until November
A High Court hearing of a judicial review brought by the Women of Honour over the funding of legal representation at the Defence Forces Tribunal has been postponed.
The two-day hearing, which had been due to begin on Tuesday, has been adjourned until November.
It is understood the postponement is due to the availability of a judge.The hearing will be the latest chapter in the Women of Honour group's long-running battle to secure ongoing State funding for their legal costs while participating...
The two-day hearing, which had been due to begin on Tuesday, has been adjourned until November.
It is understood the postponement is due to the availability of a judge.The hearing will be the latest chapter in the Women of Honour group's long-running battle to secure ongoing State funding for their legal costs while participating...
Defence Forces Tribunal: Officer declines to answer whether 'a good soldier' would complain
As the Defence Forces Tribunal resumed on Wednesday, a senior officer involved in human resources declined to answer whether “a good soldier” would complain.The question was asked by senior counsel Gareth Compton, who represents serving and former members of the Defence Forces. The exchange led to objections from a barrister for the State.Earlier, Colonel Daragh O’Brien was asked if it had ever occurred to him that the Defence Forces’ complaints process should be run externally.Mr Compton told...
Procedures to prevent newborn brain damage were the biggest safety issue reported to Hiqa
The biggest single patient safety issue about which HSE hospitals notified the health watchdog under new mandatory reporting requirements were procedures to help prevent newborn baby brain damage.Neonatal hypothermic treatments, also referred to as neonatal cooling, were the subject of of 121 patient safety notifications received by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) from September 2024 to September 2026.They made up the highest notification type, followed by 56 cases of what we...
From grief to the Snotiverse: How Andrew McGinley brought his children's imaginary world to life
For a man who has endured what no parent should ever have to face, Andrew McGinley is laughing again.The source of that joy is a cast of characters inspired and created by his three children before they were killed by their mother at the family home in Newcastle, Co Dublin, on January 24, 2020.Before their deaths, Conor, 9, and Darragh, 7, spent hours drawing and writing about imaginary characters of their own creation, often with suggestions and ideas from their younger sister, Carla, 3.Now, M...
Defence Forces Tribunal: Women of Honour want costs to be paid on a continual basis
A High Court judge will this week hear a judicial review of an appeal by the Women of Honour for their Defence Forces tribunal legal costs to be paid on a continual basis.The hearing will be the latest in the group’s long-running battle for the State to pay their legal costs on an ongoing basis, as it does for legal teams for the Defence Forces and the Department of Defence.At present, the tribunal has granted limited legal representation to certain groups and individuals during the tribunal's p...
Waterford arson attack: Waterford family deaths: Gardaí arrest sixth person in fatal house fire investigation
A man in his 20s has been arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack that killed a couple and their two children in Co Waterford last week.The man is the sixth person to be arrested as part of the investigation into the deaths of Philip and Kim English and their sons, Callum, 12, and Jayden, nine.Gardaí said they anticipate that further searches will be carried out as part of the ongoing investigation.Earlier this week, a man and a woman charged in connection with the attack were reman...
Defence Forces Tribunal: Defence Forces instructed to provide directives given to military police investigating abuse
The Defence Forces has been ordered to hand over instructions given to military detectives whose investigations included the suicide of a teenage apprentice and the rapes of both male and female soldiers.The order has been made by the Defence Forces Tribunal as part of its ongoing investigation into the Defence Forces' handling of complaints of abuse.Tribunal lawyers want to see all “provost marshals directives” issued by the provost marshall, or head of the military police, to his deputies and...
Waterford arson attack: Three more arrested over Waterford house fire as one of surviving children in hospital opens their eyes
Three more people have been arrested as gardaí continue to investigate the "murderous" arson attack which left four members of the same Waterford family dead and two children fighting for their lives.The latest arrests over the deaths of Philip and Kim English and their sons Callum, 12, and Jayden 9, came as it emerged one of their two siblings has now opened their eyes in hospital. However, the other child's condition is still critical.On Tuesday afternoon, gardai carrying out the murder inves...
Waterford arson attack: Waterford family's deaths in fire 'due to a €20k drug debt’
The couple killed with two of their children in the arson attack on their Waterford home died because of a €20,000 drug debt, one victim’s son has said.John James English, one of 10 children from Philip English’s first marriage, made the claim as a vigil was held for his father, Philip’s wife Kim, and two of their children, 12-year-old Callum and nine-year-old Jayden.They all died when their home in the Birchwood Estate was firebombed in the early hours of Tuesday morning.Two other children Nadi...
Waterford arson attack: A vigil has been held in Waterford for the English family | Newstalk
Gardaí have carried out a series of searches in Waterford as the investigation continues into the firebomb attack that killed four members of the English family. Speaking to Anton this morning was Irish Examiner reporter Neil Michael.
Drugs: Reports of drug-related intimidation up by over 30% in the past five years, say gardaí
Reports of drug-related intimidation have increased by more than 30% in the past five years, according to gardaí.Latest figures released to the Irish Examiner also show the number of arson attacks have surged, with threats to kill or cause serious harm up just over 12%.Senior drugs squad officers say 96% of victims do not make formal complaints.Detective superintendent with the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, Shane McCormack said: “We would like more people to come in and let u...
Travellers: Racism behind dire state of Cork halting site, advocate tells committee
A leading Traveller advocate has said racism is the reason why an overcrowded halting site in Cork City is in a dire state.Traveller Visibility Group Cork director of advocacy Breda O’Donoghue told members of an Oireachtas committee she had no other way of explaining why there has been insufficient development and improvements at the Spring Lane halting site.
The site was the scene of violent clashes between rival families in August that saw multiple people injured, including one man wh...
The site was the scene of violent clashes between rival families in August that saw multiple people injured, including one man wh...
Waterford arson attack: Gardaí raid homes after firebomb attack that killed four
Gardaí conducted a number of searches in Waterford on Tuesday night as part of their investigation into the murders of a family whose home was firebombed at a housing estate just outside the city.Philip and Kim English died alongside their sons Callum and Jayden in the attack on their home at the Birchwood estate.Two other children remain in critical condition in a Dublin hospital.Gardaí are investigating whether the arson attack was connected to a drug debt. Investigators are examining informat...
Waterford arson attack: The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast: Gardaí raid two homes after Waterford arson attack
Gardaí have raided two homes in the Waterford area as part of their investigation into the arson attack on a family home in the Birchwood estate on Tuesday morning.
Philip and Kim English and their sons, 12-year-old Callum and eight-year-old Jayden, were killed in the fire, while their two other children remain in critical condition in hospital.
Philip and Kim English and their sons, 12-year-old Callum and eight-year-old Jayden, were killed in the fire, while their two other children remain in critical condition in hospital.
Waterford arson attack: 'I will never forget it': Neighbours describe horror of Waterford arson attack as children named
"Throw the kids down, throw the kids down".These were the heart-wrenching and desperate appeals that some on Birchwood woke up to around 5am on Tuesday, as a fatal fire took hold in a house on the estate in Waterford. Couple Kim and Philip English and two of their children died in the blaze.The children were named locally as Callum, who was 12, and Jayden, who was 8.Tears streaming down her face, one woman who did not want to be named could barely speak.“I’ll never forget it,” she told the Irish...
Before We Die Campaign: 'It's been my biggest fear: What happens to him when something happens to me?'
When Micheál Lynch asked three years ago what would happen if neither he or his wife could look after their disabled son Tomás, it was a wake-up call.He was told the 20-year-old non-verbal wheelchair user would be placed in emergency accommodation in . . . Waterford. Given that he lives with his parents in Castlegregory, Co Kerry, some 230km away, both Micheál and his wife Carol were shocked.Their son has Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome (RTS), which is a rare genetic disorder that can occur randomly w...
Before We Die Campaign: 'I would love if Yvonne died before me so I could not be full of fear of what is going to happen to her'
There is a moment when tears well up in Mags Condon’s eyes.It’s when she says she hopes her daughter dies before her.“It’s not what any parent should ever say, or even think,” the 66-year-old mother-of-two says, her voice faltering as she wipes her eyes.“But I don’t know what will happen to Yvonne if anything happens to me, or my husband Jimmy, and I am worried.“I am worried what will happen to her when I die.”As far as she has been told, Mags’ daughter is Ireland’s only known sufferer of a debi...
Before We Die Campaign: 'I was quite angry with my husband for dying... it was our worst fear — how would either of us cope on our own'
On the evening of Tuesday, May 10, Mick Roche turned to his wife Caroline at their home in Raheny and suggested they both look into what would happen to their daughter Helena if one or both of them died.Their daughter, who is now 31, has Down syndrome, autism, epilepsy and mobility issues. She also has a number of challenging behavioural issues.As a cancer survivor who had also survived a stroke, it was perhaps understandable the 62-year-old electrician should start the conversation.But much to...
Before We Die Campaign: 'There is a very real possibility that she could be put out to tender after we die'
Gerard Hennessy from Midleton sees joining Before We Die as a good way to put pressure on the Government to finance a plan for the future of residential care for adults with intellectual disabilities, like his daughter Kelly.It also gives him a sense of solidarity with thousands of other parents like him around the country who worry what will happen to their children after they die.But the 72-year-old retired teacher, and blood cancer survivor, admits there is a downside.“As carers, we can be ac...
Flooding: East Cork residents accuse minister of spinning flood relief delays as 'development milestones'
Minister of state with responsibilty for the OPW, Kevin 'Boxer' Moran, has been accused of “spinning delays” to East Cork flood defence measures as “development milestones” by Midleton resident representatives.Caroline Leahy, of the Midleton and East Cork Flood Protection Group, said residents want the completion of work that should have been done by now.She said: “We are in the storm season, yet measures to help protect us from floods are still beset with delays.“We are just sick and tired of t...
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