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CHELSEA MANNING, THE former US Army private who sent classified documents to Wikileaks, has Irish roots and her family are seeking them out while visiting Dublin this week.
Manning’s mother and some of her relatives will attend an event this evening at Trinity College.
The whistleblower’s uncle, Kevin Fox, told TheJournal.ie that Manning’s father’s parents are all from Rathmines, Dublin.
“His father went off to Wales then but there’s still some family here – brothers and sisters,” he said. “We lost contact with them so we don’t know exactly where they live.”
Fox said the family’s visit to Ireland might encourage them to get in contact.
The family has been invited to attend ‘An Evening for Private Manning’, hosted by Afri, which will take place at the Edmund Burke Theatre at 7.30pm today.
Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four, who was wrongly jailed for life in connection with an IRA pub bombing he maintained he knew nothing about, will speak at the event.
More details can be found on http://www.afri.ie and http://www.privatemanning.org/.
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It’s amazing when a union acts worse then the worst employers… they should all leave or hold back their dues..
@Dan: there you have it Dan, when a union becomes a business it acts in protectionist ways. Always thought that type of transfer policy was contrary to freedom of association.
@Greg Blake: siptu aren’t a union, they’re a business. It’s all about the money for them.
You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave…
Honestly best thing I ever did was get out of the Teeu. Went on strike at there request lost a week’s wages for nothing, applied for strike pay refused. And when I rang to cancel my membership they told me that they were close to securing a pay rise country the promptly hung up the phone when I told them I was made redundant and a subbie is doing my job for 17 Euro and hour cash in hand, didn’t even try and help.
Really hope the unions get taken to task using GDPR.
Best of luck to those trying to use the GDPR for this, let’s hope the thread of a heavy fime wil get them to act. Clearly bad press doe not.
Also why does the goverment allow a cartel? I think some of our goverment agencies should look into this behavior.
Esb is a pension provider who just happen to provide electricity
@Bill Clear: and they do a fantastic job of that. Apart from power cuts did you ever get cut off during a strike? In fact they’re one of the best run state companies. Compare that to Irish Water or Eir back when it was eircom and state owned.
Is all of this Union scheming, manoeuvering and intrigue carried out during worker’s personal time or on company time ultimately paid for by the hard-pressed electricity provider’s customers?
A union official with out a full face beard!? Straight away something fishy there.
The TEEU are a joke no problems in taking your money but come up with excuses when you look for help. left them years ago when I met an official from the union who wanted us to go on strike without any funding from them and he left the meeting in a 60k BMW.
Sorry I ended up on the wrong page…….continue what your talking about apologize xxx
With Connect union- Wasting my fiver every week- it’s time we acted /
Shouldn’t they just request it under GDPR?
It could be worst. catch 23 even.
Absolutely useless. The TEEU sent a lad out to speak to us few years ago as apprentices, we were getting rode by the company doing overtime every day plus every Saturday for months at flat rate of pay. Our boss had a heads up they were coming, pulled us into a boiler room and flat out told us to lie and say we were paid correctly plus travel money etc. Under threat of losing our jobs during the recession. The union rep came out and asked us about the pay in front of our boss and foreman so we all meekly nodded and said what we were told to say. He decided this was grand and headed off never to be heard from again. They also send me out letters every so often after I’ve been unemployed looking for various amounts of money in unpaid subs while on the dole
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