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CHILDREN’S MINISTER CHARLIE Flanagan has been presented with a list of international judicial figures who could potentially chair the upcoming Commission of Investigation into mother-and-baby homes.
The Coalition of Mother and Baby home Survivors, which represents a number of groups, met with the Minister today to outline their priorities for the inquiry.
Flanagan has been meeting with survivors, campaigners, academics and politicians from the coalition and the opposition in recent weeks — in tandem with the Government’s ongoing review of existing information, which spans a number of departments and State agencies.
It’s expected the Commission, set up in wake of the recent scandal over the mother-and-baby home in Tuam, will be established before the Oireachtas summer recess.
“CMABS legal advisor Mairead Healy made a persuasive argument that an independent and international Judicial Chairperson be appointed to the inquiry and asked to have a direct input into the selection of all key personnel for this inquiry,” a statement from the group said.
The Minister was presented with a list of potential candidates who may be available.
The campaigners at the meeting also highlighted that all relevant institutions should be included in the process, with one survivor from the Westbank/Bethany Homes sharing his own personal testimony with the Minister and calling for all Protestant homes to be included.
The issue of memorials for all ‘Angels’ plots was also raised by Paul Redmond of the Adoption Rights Now group, who said it would be a “concrete gesture” to begin the process of healing.
CMABS, which also includes the groups Beyond Adoption Ireland and Adopted Illegally Ireland, amongst others, has been has been campaigning for a wide-ranging investigation, to include issues like vaccine trials, inhumane/degrading treatment of residents, high mortality rates, open access to records and fathers’ rights.
Speaking after today’s meeting, Redmond told TheJournal.ie that the meeting had been positive, and that he hoped campaign groups would continue to be included in the process as the Commission got under way.
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NSA knows two things about me.
That I have a crush on super-milf Lisa-Ann, and that nobody ever calls or texts me.
God I’m so lonely. :(
Text me NSA xxx
I just get a text giving me a quote for my kitchen. Can anyone in the NSA beat it . Give us a buzz.
Be honest. You’d be worried if they couldn’t. An IPhone isn’t exactly the enigma machine.
Going by the first paragraph neither are Blackberry and Android devices
Android would be by far the easiest to hack. iPhones would be the hardest. Never once has a virus impacted iPhones, android is just like a PC. Open to attack.
There are ios viruses but android heavily accounts for the largest proportion mobile viruses
Apple account for something like 0.7 percent of all phone viruses.
ITT people who do not understand computer security. No OS is more secure than another..eapecially not to the NSA who even have back doors into encryption. It’s a numbers game for hackers..whichever OS has the bigger market share is more likely to produce results if attacked.. Thats why XP is so exploitable.
That’s because Android accounts for the largest proportion of mobiles aswell. 79% of smartphones are Android powered in fact.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/07/android-nears-80-market-share-in-global-smartphone-shipments-as-ios-and-blackberry-share-slides-per-idc/
Naw, you just lose all your info when you do an update on an iphone!
You can restore your data after an update by contacting the NSA.
They have there top men working on what LOL , ROFL means.
Karol, Apple is probably ensuring they have access to iPhone users data as well.
I operate under the assumption that a 13 year old kid in Ohio can access my phone.
It’s just easier because there will be some day.
Oh wrong you are, she’s only 8.
The NSA know I’m crap at candy crush so
Death to America, hang on there’s someone at my door hope they have wifi in Guantanamo.
Meanwhile in Ireland Eircom is still able to defeat the NSA by using dial up for internet access, which forces the NSA computers to time out.
Just imagine if they wanted people to submit their own fingerprints to an NSA database, wouldn’t happen. Would it? Wait until the new iPhone is unveiled tomorrow, complete with fingerprint recognition. You couldn’t make this up if you tried.
They’ll be checking journal comments next, and iam going to presume all red thumbs to this comment will be NSA agents.
Stasi USA
There’s 800,000 Americans with Top Secret clearance, all part of the spying apparatus. So 1 in 400 Americans are involved in the system that spies on other Americans or foreigners. Do yes, Stasi America us right.
I remember the days when your big brother gave you your porn, now big brother knows all about my porn as soon as I do. Shocked…
I couldn’t care less if the NSA know every facet of my iPhone.
Me neither, but that’s not the point. The point is it shouldn’t be (and may not be) legal to do it.
Except my browser history…
If this action prevents an aircraft being blown out of the sky that I or ye are travelling inside then we will say ” you guys well done”
You dont really understand all this NSA stuff so?
Why don’t you enlighten us?
Read moar….
I read loads. Maybe the next time you’re doing some reading of your own, you might learn how to spell. Good chap. Back to bed with your tinfoil hat now….
The overwhelming majority of people have nothing to fear from this. There isn’t some guy in Washington following your latest quarrel with your misses with some popcorn. Unless you’re plotting to plant a bomb somewhere I’m sure you’re fine.
Yeah Ferg the NSA are the good guys nothing to worry about here.
I’m just saying, it really doesn’t impact on you.
Sorry Fergal but this “if you’re not up to anything you’ve nothing to be concerned about” attitude is exactly what allows such invasions of privacy to continue.
The NSA themselves have admitted that some of their own agents have abused their ability to get private data.
Not yet
You couldn’t be more wrong.
NSA knw I shit twice a day
You take selfie’s on the loo?
Are you keeping a record on your phone?
time to buy an old school nokia phone from ebay
Hardly a surprise?
I’m not a one for the big brother stories ,but the cell phone technology was around way before we all got to use them ,it is purely just a tracking device ,that’s how they track traffic patterns etc ,the US government wanted to put ,at birth , a little device the size of a grain of rice in children at birth ,but that wasnt allowed ,so they waited till battery technology caught up to have every one have a tracking device ,Steve jobs was no genius , he was a front for the government ,and now he is no longer needed ,bye bye ,iPhone is the final product ,even when they are turned off they can still send a signal because you cannot take out battery ,
When tracking phone signals in America there was a large hotspot showed up in the woods in upstate newyork ,the FBI were deployed straight away and found that there was a meeting of all neo-natzis in newyork going on and this was all because of cellphones that they were tracked ,so it isn’t a bad thing ,it helps catch the crazy s ,and I have nothing to hide so I don’t mind them tracking ,the trouble is even when they find information that is valuable they have trouble using it because of restrictions ,and its normally too late ,people who spill the beans like snowden make them selves look like heros by stealing and publishing this stuff ,but chances are they put out info that was never used and just make it harder on the people who we pay to protect us out of our taxes to do there job .
I bet you really bought into the whole x files thing
Never watched it ,lol,not big Telly fan ,like ms brown and comedy stuff ,I just saw a documentary about this subject on public tv in America ,its the freedom of speech laws allowed it to be brodcast ,but its rarely on channels that get watched a lot ,check out jessy Ventura ,he has a show about the inside dealings of government ,and he used to be a governor ,crazy stuff
They would have no trouble using other information.
The idea that such tracking is only intended to “catch crazies” as you put it is farcical and naive.
What about tracking the information of a diplomat for example – or a businessman, and discovering data which could be used on the stock market. Seems like someone just making money? Well yes, that could be – but it could also mean job losses, and direct impact of people who decide “sure they only do it to protect me from terrorists”.
The NSA themselves have admitted that some of their own staff have been spying on wives, girlfriends – and their ex’s.
This kind of thing goes on until it gets discovered. If it’s not discovered, it goes on.
So the NSA now know that Bomber Riley was seen out drinking the night before the County Final…
I have extremely important documents on my cell phone. If they got into the wrong hands it would surely be the downfall of all that is wrong with society and its rulers. Its a recipe for great Cannon ball stuffing.
We keep the NSA employed – maybe they should give us a grant .!!
I hope the NSA never publish my Facebook stalking habits.
This is not news, every app in the play sorted requires access to information and location. Also ALL “smart”phones have constant gps sat on all the time. So yes even Google sews you calling the mistress to get some on the side or the folks up in finglas getting some Mary Jane. Basically they know all about you it’s not just the the NSA.
Guldr. This is not just about your location data. If you keep up to date on the PRISM scandal and many of the revelations since you might see that this is actually a serious thing and extends to potentially effect anyone and everyone.
As I mentioned – it’s not just about location data. What many don’t seem to understand is that location data etc is by and large still anonymous – but what the NSA are up to is a lot more than just that. There is a very wide gulf between anonymous tracking and privacy.
There’s no way they can access a Nokia 3310 those phones are unbreakable.
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