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“Heinous crime”
If you know that somebody is being abused in their home, you have, assuredly, a moral responsibility to notify the authorities.
If so, then several decades worth of state policy have failed in their entirety
Housing crisis
On the face of it, the idea that the local gardai should have the discretion to be able to inform women if their partners have convictions for domestic violence is a good one.
Aontú candidate in the upcoming Dublin Bay South by-election, Mairead Tóibín, has today released documentation which shows that the Minister for Children, Roderic O’Gorman, has been aware of the pandemic’s impact on domestic violence levels for months now. It comes as a report from Women’s Aid this week shows a 40% increase in the number […]
The number of burglaries in March plummeted by 30% due to the coronavirus lockdown, the Gardai have said, even though the restrictions were only introduced halfway during the month. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, in his monthly report to the Policing Authority, also said sexual crimes were down, and that the number of crimes reported in March […]
Terms like ‘self-isolation, ‘social distancing’ and even ‘cocooning’ are fast becoming part of our national vocabulary. For the vast majority of people, these new practices and behaviours will be somewhere between a major and minor inconvenience. Some businesses may close-others will bounce back; but we will go on, even if it is in a radically […]