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'LGBT people have been terrorised for a very long time'

Outhouse Director George Robotham argues Ireland still has a long way to go before LGBT people achieve full equality.

EVERY DAY WE see the indiscriminate effects of homophobia and transphobia. Addiction, substance abuse, suicidality are disproportionately common amongst LGBT people.

Outhouse, Dublin’s LGBT has operated a non-commercial LGBT community centre for over 20 years. Alongside confidence and hope, we’ve seen a bewildering range of need, insecurity and overt fear embodied in nearly the 35,000 individuals who walk through our door each year.

We also see people come alive when they enter the building – how they feel at home – but sadly they often fade far into the background when they step back into the public space.

LGBT vigil Orlando shootings vigil in Barnardos Square RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

Whitewashing LGBT issues

Some US politicians and media pundits took the focus off the homophobic aspect of Orlando shooting and expediently framed it as Islamic terrorism. We have a history of similar erasure in Ireland. It is the invisibility with which our issues have traditionally been dealt with that compounds our isolation.

According to an LGBTIreland report released in March, one in five LGBT people has suffered physical violence.

Still, in 2016, we do not not have hate crime legislation in Ireland.

The invasive investigations and subsequent court case, where defendants were all acquitted, of the bloody murder of a gay man, Declan Flynn, in Fairview Park in September 1982, illustrated LGBT people’s vulnerability in this state.

It was only in 1997, after a series of ‘gay bashings’, that An Garda Siochána began to engage with hate-motivated crime against members of the LGBT community.

Fairview Park Fairview Park Photocall Ireland! / RollingNews.ie Photocall Ireland! / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

Continuing homphobia

In the climate of celebration following marriage equality, one would be forgiven for thinking homo/transphobia was a thing of the past. But it is clear to us at Outhouse that it’s far from over.

Anyone who believes that this is not true for Ireland should consult the LGBTIreland report. It was described by former President Mary McAleese at its launch as “as essential and revealing as it is horrifying”. “The ongoing damage is undeniable,” she added.

LGBTI Report Launch of the LGBT helpline report Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

The report documents the stress, anxiety, depression, self-harm, substance misuse, bullying and exclusion of LGBT people, and also outlines the day-to-day victimisation and harassment experienced.

Alarmingly, 30% of the 2,264 respondents had been verbally abused in the past year. Many other reports attest to the fact that our community and health services are hugely underfunded compared with any geographically-based community in this country.

This erasure by the state fuels, and actually ensures, our invisibility and our minority status.

Solidarity

The attack in Orlando strikes a particular fear in the hearts of LGBT people worldwide. It was an attack focused on the kind of space where we feel safe to express ourselves and celebrate together. People just like us were murdered – primarily for being themselves.

Expressing our sympathy and solidarity is important, but we must also continue to support movements for full equality and inclusion in Ireland, and we must support such efforts worldwide. We cannot be cowed by these attacks. We must harness our anger and upset, continue to claim our spaces and celebrate our diversity.

Outhouse has opened a book of condolence for the Orlando victims for the entire month of June at 105 Capel St, Dublin. It is open from 10am-10pm Monday-Friday, and on Saturdays from 1-6pm.

George Robotham is the Director and co-founder of Outhouse.

Read: Gay clubs are a sanctuary when being LGBT could get you killed

Read: Orlando shooter was a homophobic killer, deliberately using the ‘Isis’ name

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    Mute Revolting Peasant
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:15 PM

    hahahaha blame it on the saturday, clueless

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    Mute Cal1 Mooney
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    Nov 11th 2012, 3:03 PM

    Not clueless … purely cynical on behalf of our Government. They do not want the youth vote at election times, as many pro FFG/Labour FF commentators have already called out on Journal.ie.
    They know that the majority youth vote will go against the establishment parties.
    This type of cynicism is another good reason Labour should get an almighty kicking at the next election.

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    Mute Oh boy
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:18 PM

    The government couldn’t care less about the turn out, once it was a yes is all they wanted.

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    Mute Barry O Brien
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    Nov 11th 2012, 4:28 PM

    The Government / Parties where expecting 4% of votes to be towards the No, it ended up at 58.01% / 41.9%.

    That’s over 445,863 people that turned their backs on the Government, all parties, all independents “except for Mattie McGrath”, all the unions silent or in support of it. All the big businesses and Charities large and small and the one sided media.

    No funding for the No vote, millions for the Yes vote and media who forced opinions towards the yes.
    We may have lost this vote but the fight is not over and with a percentage like that and all the opposition we just proved not only to Government but all those in call of a yes, that we have more power than they ever believed and we will not be walked on.

    All parties are going to be very careful on their next steps, because now they know they have 445,863 people willing to fight their every move.

    Start thinking Chess every move has a counter and every move can lead to defeat.

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    Mute Garry Fitzgerald
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    Nov 11th 2012, 7:01 PM

    Mooney

    Do you reckon you’re going to get another Saturday vote after yesterday? Think on clueless!

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    Mute Sharon Gold
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:24 PM

    Well for all of those who voted yes don’t start wailing and whinging when the social workers come banging on your doors for your kids, cause guess what it will happen and you couldn’t be bothered to research and inform your selves. Too late then the damage has been done!!!

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    Mute Luke McDermott
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:28 PM

    Good.

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    Mute Mick
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:31 PM

    If you look after your kids why would they come to the door?

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    Mute Declan Noonan
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:33 PM

    Well Sharon it’s a shame that someone didn’t go banging on the doors all through the years when children were being neglected and abused!!!

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    Mute Declan Noonan
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:33 PM

    Well Sharon it’s a shame that someone didn’t go banging on the doors all through the years when children were being neglected and abused!!!

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    Mute Revolting Peasant
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:34 PM

    yeah mick, no child ever lied about ill treatment because they thought it wasnt fair that timmy next door got a 3ds and he only got a ball

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    Mute Mick
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:41 PM

    @Revolting…that reply is so weak it’s funny.., used you do that by any chance?

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    Mute Paul Matthews
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:41 PM

    They will only come knocking for a reason. The only ones that need worry are the ones with reason to.

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    Mute Revolting Peasant
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    Nov 11th 2012, 3:13 PM

    explain what you mean by weak mick, i know someone that was hauled in front of social services on numerous occasions because their child was telling lies in school about mistreatment at home, is that weak to you if that was now the child could be taken from his family?

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    Mute Gerri McCaffery
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    Nov 11th 2012, 3:36 PM

    Seriously? Get a grip! They have better things to be doing! Unless you are abusing or seriously neglecting your children, you have no need to worry!

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    Mute Margaret Cantwell
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    Nov 11th 2012, 3:39 PM

    Some commenters here naively believe the Government will have to have a good reason to come knocking on family doors. I have heard of many cases where good parents were targeted for reasons such as; refusing to have their child vaccinated with the MMR vaccine (Waterford mother and child had to flee their home, and go into hiding); A middle aged woman in Carlow, was jailed because she refused to have her daughter vaccinated with the HPV vaccine. It seems they want to remove the parents right to make informed medical choices for their children. Another case I heard of, a young mother had a public health nurse come into her home a few days following the birth of her child. The mother was still not recovered fully from the birth, and had not done the washing-up which was in the sink., and the public official was rude and uncivil to her, and threatened her with the words “If you don’t pull yourself together, your child will be taken into care”. This mother did not smoke, or take drugs, and was doing her best for the baby. She did not deserve to be threatened like that, as she was a good and caring mother, and had done nothing wrong. I heard about two cases of homeschoolers, who were threatened by social workers. Three families were seriously threatened by school inspectors, because they took the kids for a short holiday during school term, (for various reasons, including the husband could not obtain his holidays any other time). These are only the tip of the iceberg.

    And what about the In Camera (secret) Court system? The Social Workers are free to make any accusation they wish, without any proof. The cases are never publicly heard about on newspapers, radio or t.v. The judge can, and does, often judge against innocent parents. Just because you never hear of these cases, does not mean they are not happening.

    The very sad thing about the result of this referendum, is that there was safer protection for children and families in the previous wording. Now, with the removal of Article 42, the Government are no longer obliged to provide free primary school education. The Government are now, with the removal of Article 42.5, allowed to adopt any child, from any family, for any reason. It is open to serious abuse.

    The Irish Constitution gave excellent protection to Children … it was the State who failed them! Take a look at the Board of Directors of Arc Adoption Agency, which was recently set up. This will allow adoptions to and from foreign countries. It was set up, with the intention of waiting like a vultures, for the flood of children now likely to be unlawfully adopted from innocent parents. Does it ring alarm bells for anyone, that one of the Directors works in NAMA – I.B.R.C. (formerly Anglo Irish Bank)? Another Director has a big involvement in major multinational Pharmaceutical Companies. Any informed people know that these two companies , Anglo and Big Pharma, do not give a tuppenny damn about children, or their rights.

    People, join up the dots, and see the glaring truth. I believe a full and urgent investigation should be carried out, by objective people, into what the players behind this Referendum are planning. I smell corruption. For your information, it would be a good idea to take a look at an online interview with Brian Gerrish, “Child Stealing by the State”. He mentions in the interview that the corruption is going on in the U.K., Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and in the E.U.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 7:04 PM

    Sharon
    Is there something happening in your house that would bring the Authorities there? Be very careful what you unwittingly say in public lady! Brain…..first gear ……then clutch …..then start with tongue or pen !

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    Mute Andrew Brennan
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:47 PM

    Does the Yes vote in the referendum mean that the debts incurred by the bank bailout are not our children’s debts?

    But Congrats all around to Labour as it celebrates 100 years of fighting for justice for all. Scorecard so far:

    Industrial Schools closed: ZERO

    Magdalene Asylums closed: ZERO

    Prosecution of bishops/cardinals/Religious Superiors involved in criminal conspiracy to protect clergy involved in the physical and sexual torture of children: ZERO

    And of course managed to persuade 30% of electorate to vote in children’s referendum.

    Things can only get better … as the song goes.

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    Mute Damien Flinter
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    Nov 11th 2012, 7:37 PM

    But they already have gotten better

    E1bn compo for child abuse transferred to taxpayers.
    Wuncha megabankers elevated to new church of the Sacred EUcharistic Shekel to replace worn-out Roman model.
    Confidence of public in the institutions of the state destroyed by betrayal, spin and outright lies leaving door open for demagogic transfer back to a future our grannies would recognise.

    Not a healthy smell off it, Hamlet, something rotten a lot closer than the state of Denmark.
    And Sticky-Boy Eamo wonders why it didn’t catch fire….hmmm.

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    Mute tom
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:27 PM

    The arrogance is unreal.

    Door is open now for a challenge that no doubt will follow.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 3:17 PM

    Kathy ‘spine shiver’ Sinnott claimed earlier today that there will be a challenge to referendum result. Such a challenge will of course be lost as SC will not overturn decision of the people. I hope that Sinnott and her authoritarian angry brigade get stiffed with the costs of any such challenge.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 3:45 PM

    I suspect there many be a few challages no doubth it will be difficult if not impossible to overturn. but your right no one in power cares about right wrong injustace or the law of the land.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 4:38 PM

    Desmond O’Toole the tool

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    Nov 11th 2012, 9:06 PM

    Isn’t it past your bedtime, Barry?

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    Mute Dave Sherman
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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:44 PM

    If you Gilmore had out the abolition of the Seanad with this referendum you would have an much higher turnout. And on the next general election you won’t want people to vote!

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    Nov 11th 2012, 7:58 PM

    how right you are

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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:39 PM

    Sharon I’m disheartened with the results as many are. “Told you so” will be cold comfort to those lives it will destroy.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 3:10 PM

    I can just picture the smug grin on Alan Shatter’s face as he counts the money he will make from a huge increase in family law cases

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    Nov 11th 2012, 11:54 PM

    Shatter’s Re-Printed Legal Tome “Shatter’s Family Law” should NOW be re-named “Law Shatters Families”… jus’ sayin’, loike… ;)

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    Nov 11th 2012, 3:52 PM

    Because of the actual TurnOut, this Abomination has been FOISTED upon us by LESS than 1 in 5 of the actual Electorate… a mere 19.4% of Eligible Voters have got this Referendum Passed – (33.5% of Electorate actually Voted; of those, 58% Voted YES; so, 58% of 33.5% = 19.4%… THIS is the TRUE figure of this Referendum… LESS than 1 in 5 of “The Electorate” have ACTUALLY said “YES” to this Constitutional Amendment… So, so sad… What an Indictment of our “Electorate”… 2 out of 3 of ALL Voters just didn’t even bother…. Just wait a few years & see precisely WHERE this will have led our Society… :(

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    Nov 11th 2012, 5:23 PM

    If 99.4% of the ELECTED representatves of the people supported the referendum, (only one TD opposed) why should the UNELECTED be given 50% of the airtime?

    Many of the UNELECTED objectors presented themselves for election and were rejected by the voters. This is a Democracy

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    Mute MJ Madden
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    Nov 11th 2012, 11:01 PM

    Brendan Palmer: A National Broadcaster, so as not to be seen to be unduly biased – especially in something as cut-and-dried as a Yes/No situation – IS obliged to the 50/50 Airtime Rule, TO BE FAIR TO THOSE WHO MAY ACTUALLY VOTE. Your statement implies that Airtime should be allocated on a proportionate basis to Dáil members & THEIR preferred position. Wow… Imagine a General Election following any period where one Party or another had a VAST majority… THEY, by YOUR reasoning, would be at a DISTINCT advantage in AIRTIME in the run-up to said coming Election. THAT doesn’t sound very Democratic to me… and, don’t forget, the vast majority of T.D.’s ARE tied to their PARTY Line… they have WHIPS to answer to… They GOTTA toe the Party Line regardless of what they may PERSONALLY feel about ANY issue… Irish APATHY (& the MILLIONS available to support “YES”) has resulted in 19.4% of the Electorate making THIS decision for ALL of us. Those, mostly ordinary folk, who are/were AGAINST the WORDING of THIS Constitutional Amendment FIRST (along with the Media) got to see the Wording on September 19th, 2012, and THEN had the opportunity to digest it & make a decision on WHICH way to respond. However, research has shown (from publicly available information) that the Yes Campaign has been preparing for a very VERY long time in Advance… Amongst others (from Amnesty International) is one very highly-qualified (including Harvard) lady who, amongst other experience, has spent time in The UNITED NATIONS… and she started with the Campaign in FEBRUARY 2012… not to mention a Communications Director starting in May 2011… Methinks the Yes Campaign doth, indeed have a success based upon an Over-Abundance of Money (whilst NO had nothing) & some serious heavy-hitters guiding them together with some, as yet undetermined, period of fore-warning of what was coming down the pipe before other mere mortals.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 11:15 PM

    Methinks Mr. Madden that you should put yourself forward for election and if the electorate agree with your arguments, you will be elected to the inner circle (Dail) and be in a position to influence that which is presented to the electorate for their consideration.

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    Mute MJ Madden
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    Nov 11th 2012, 11:30 PM

    Mr. P… You still did not manage to address your fallacious comment regarding Airtime… Any answer…?

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    Mute MJ Madden
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    Nov 11th 2012, 11:33 PM

    …and, of course, as The Electorate are also UNELECTED does your viewpoint tend to the Dictatorial in that THEY (Electorate) too should NOT receive “AirTime”? Yours, etc…….

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    Nov 11th 2012, 11:51 PM

    Just in case you missed it…….
    Methinks Mr. Madden that you should put yourself forward for election and if the electorate agree with your arguments, you will be elected to the inner circle (Dail) and be in a position to influence that which is presented to the electorate for their consideration
    It’s called democracy

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    Nov 12th 2012, 12:03 AM

    Oh dear-o-dear… still not got any answers have you… P’rhaps YOU should continue to, something by your words you actually have admiration/aspirations/jealousy for, The Kildare Street Set… You obviously, by your evasive tactics, have a natural affinity for THAT LifeStyle… G’nite, Mr. Pee……….

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    Nov 11th 2012, 4:21 PM

    With the way this referendum was handled, we the people have been given a taste of what it is like to live in Communist China. Like I said before, there was a big turnout to vote NO even though there was No campaign against this referendum. That is telling us something pretty significant here and that is: had this referendum not of been so biased and one-side and a proper equal funding of both campaigns ( Yes and No ) been given months ( not a dismal few weeks before hand ) prior to the referendum itsself, this whole referendum would have been defeated.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 5:47 PM

    RTE skewed the debate iin such a way that it was seen as a Roman Catholic fundaMENTALists versus the rest of us fight. And once John Waters and his ilk were inserted into the debate and spouted his irrelevant nonsense a ‘Yes’ result was sure thing.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 11:28 PM

    That’s the problem with the McKenna Judgement, it purports to prevent the government from using public money to ride roughshod over those who have an opposing view. (A laudable aspiration) In fact all it achieves, as has been shown in the last number of weeks, is that it allows cranks and naysayers to get their opinion broadcast and those who would like to hear a reasoned debate simply will not get involved because they do not wish to be associated with these people.

    In my opinion, if there was no McKenna judgement preventing a reasoned debate, this referendum would probably have been defeated.

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    Mute Sharon Gold
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    Nov 11th 2012, 4:25 PM

    Ignorance is bliss until it comes to your door. Lets hope it never does, and for you great believers of the state. they don’t need a reason. Just make sure you don’t lose your job, or are deemed too poor, perhaps your child fell and had an accident could make you an unfit parent, perhaps you might suffer from depression at some time, perhaps you may have a disability, just some of the things to consider!! Check out social worker’s handbook pages 74, 75 and 76. Food for thought!!!!!

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    Mute MJ Madden
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    Nov 11th 2012, 11:25 PM

    Sharon, me auld mucker, well said. Unfortunately, as you say, these people just won’t believe ’til it affects THEM… We don’t yet know WHEN this ordure will hit the Fan but, sure as eggs-is-eggs it surely WILL… Those it DOES come to affect WILL know pretty damn clearly & quickly that this “YES” Vote was an abomination on Traditional Irish Family values… Their lives WILL be turned upside-down & inside-out and, unless they realise QUICKLY that what is happening IS as a result of THIS & get to tell their unfolding story immediately to people BEFORE it hits “In-Camera” proceedings then NOBODY ELSE will ever get to hear about it….
    EVERYBODY (from all the Evidence from the UK, Australia, USA & Canada) is a POTENTIAL target… Those who Voted YES will regret it… Those who did NOT Vote at all will regret THEIR choice… Those who DID Vote NO will also be vulnerable, maybe those who stuck their heads above the parapet even MORE so… There shall be NO consolation in being able to say “I told you so”, just the same devastation as all others targeted… Hopefully many WILL have instant supportive contacts to notify once realisation dawns that the Powers becoming available from THIS Referendum are what are being used against them… Sad times ahead… :(

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    Nov 11th 2012, 4:07 PM

    @Margaret Cantwell EXCELLENT comment.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 3:57 PM

    “I think probably it was a referendum that never really took fire in terms of debate about it. We didn’t have the same intensity of debate about this referendum that we saw for example on the stability treaty referendum or some other referenda on social issues before.” …… is he for real? Michael Noonan told RTE not to host debates in a fair 50 50 manner as reported by this very website. Oh how short your memory is.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 2:55 PM

    This referendum is meant to commit all involved in children’s care to put children first… A noble aspiration I think all would agree. Whether it succeeds is dependant on the legislation that derives from it, the resources the state puts into adhering to its principles and the commitment of carers (parents and other carers).
    But the most important element is the last of these but no legislation or constitutional amendments can fully control this. What hopefully this constitutional amendment will do is make it easier for abuses to be reported and commit state authorities to act decisively in the interests of the child. The reason why this c about is not that abuses happened

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    Nov 11th 2012, 3:00 PM

    Sorry pressed ‘submit’too soon. I was saying this amendment is about ensuring that the balance of power is in favour of the child as opposed to the other interested groups ( be they be parents, guardians, schools ,state or church or any representative thereof). Time will tell if it succeeds.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 3:29 PM

    that how it was sold but not the wording in print. unless it’s overturned through challages becase it was unjustly run campaign we have no choice but to make the best of it.

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    Nov 11th 2012, 5:00 PM

    what the the conclusion of Big Phils investigation into this matter all those yrs ago , well none really he was too busy being promoted

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