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Trust us. We’re the Government

Coverage of some of the structures of the Insolvency Service of Ireland has been rattling through my ears while I work the past few days. What I’ve heard gives rise to an unsettling feeling that the architects of the scheme have decided that the insolvent are a form of unter-mensch for whom some of the …

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Why (with due respect) Ian Elliott is mistaken

Ian Elliott is the chairman of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church. It is an agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland and is not a State agency. It is tasked with ensuring that the Catholic Church in Ireland follows and implements its own child protection guidelines, particularly with reference to …

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Newspaper Licensing Ireland–a return

The last post was a little long and analytical. Having reread the great post on McGarrSolicitors.ie I thought I’d reframe my Data Protection take on this in terms that might be more familiar. Personal Data is being processed via your website without an appropriate Privacy Statement and without any communication of the purposes for that …

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Newspaper Licensing Ireland– some thoughts

This post is about the website of Newspaper Licensing Ireland, who have recently written to a non-profit organisation whose aims I wholeheartedly support, seeking license fees for linking to newspaper content published on the internet by the newspaper publishers. McGarr Solicitors, who are acting for Women’s Aid, have published a detailed analysis of the situation …

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