#helen-mcentee

#helen-mcentee

The provision of character references for convicted sexual offenders raises significant public concern, especially when taxpayer funds support the salaries of public officials.

Martina and Ammi Burke were 'risk assessed' when they were committed to prison and it was decided they would be housed together in a room with no other inmates, despite the overcrowding crisis.

Following mediation, a settlement had been reached between Palmerstown Temporary Accommodation (PTA) Ltd and the Minister for Justice, allowing the matter to be struck out.

Garda Lorcan Murphy was sentenced to a year in prison for an assault in which a teenager's skull was fractured. He pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault causing harm.

Victims' Commissioner Claire Waxman expressed her delight at the government's decision, stating that the change is long overdue and acknowledges the years of campaigning led by bereaved families like Tracey Hanson, who sought justice following the tragic death of her son Josh.

A detective garda who brutally assaulted his wife in front of their young children walked free from court without a custodial sentence, raising serious concerns about justice.

Niblett is promoting the initiative under the slogan 'Yes Sex Please, We're British!', saying the UK needs to reduce stigma around sexuality and improve lifelong sex education.

A BBC reporter, posing as a former student wanting to remain in the UK, met one of those advisers, Tanisa Khan. For a fee, she offered to provide evidence to support the fake claim that he was gay.

This idea that I became obsessed [with gender recognition reform] to the exclusion of everything else is just a nonsense thing that some of my opponents say.

Mary Lou McDonald pulled two political stunts this week that impressed - in a bad way - this seasoned critic of Sinn Féin's ruthless amorality. One should be accustomed to the party's revolting retelling of IRA history and the cynical game-playing over Ukraine that is conveniently Putin-friendly.

"Shadow fleets are essentially extremely old oil tankers that Russia are using to transport and sell oil, to essentially fund this devastating war that is still ongoing," she told RTÉ's Morning Ireland from the Munich Security Conference. "And what we have seen happen in other countries is they've acted as a deterrent. "So I'm not suggesting that we're going to board the ships to try and steer them into Irish ports or anywhere like that."

On this page, you can find minutes of all Board meetings for the last five years. We aim to publish the minutes of meetings as soon as we can after they have been formally approved.

Guidance on how to implement the landmark supreme court ruling on gender is being adapted to lessen its impact on businesses and to ensure it tries to balance single-sex spaces with the lives of transgender people, the Guardian has been told. Lawyers from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are understood to be in discussions with government lawyers over the practicalities of guiding businesses and other institutions about last year's ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only.