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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.
1. #DONEGAL: A man is set to be charged over the 2006 murder of former Sinn Féin official and IRA double agent Denis Donaldson.
2. #THE ORPHANAGE: The decision to rename a former children’s institution in Dublin that’s been turned into a co-living space as ‘The Orphanage’ has prompted outrage.
3. #SWORDS ROAD: Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for witnesses following a hit-and-run incident in Malahide in which a teenager was injured.
4. #PONGY: The EPA is warning that plumes will continue to appear in Dublin Bay until an upgrade to the Ringsend wastewater treatment plant is complete.
5. #LONDON: A baby that was delivered prematurely at eight months after his pregnant mother was stabbed to death in London has died.
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Sometimes I read things like this and have a double take, it’s crazy that some new laws or ammendments are not already in place
@The Divils Avocado: to be fair this only became an issue following the interpretation of an appeal court. Up till child victims were named. This clarifies that interpretation.
@Paul Clancy: I think the question is, should one interpretation change the law on all matters or just the case that is being presided over? I find it strange that law can be viewed in many different ways and the latest way is how everyone moves forward
@The Divils Avocado: unfortunately there’s scavengers ready to use those cases in their own benefit giving as facts opinions and in same cases given as true the word of someone under psychotic episode.
This is most of the times a defamation of the good name and reputation of the child dead. The families suffer a third victimisation and in the public sphere.
The law is only making sure the families can name their children when they wish to do so; and protect the families from scavengers with their own agenda.
@The Divils Avocado: and then come things like at what age a child should know one of their parents killed one of his siblings when the child was a baby? How this information should be given to a child?
Like it or not, the State needs to have in place something to ensure the Fundamental Rights of each children, such as provision of a safe environment for the development of their abilities to their highest
There is a genetic element in psychosis therefore the siblings need to be protected of being in the spotlight of the media as much as possible
@Garreth mc mahon: thats how precedents is created and it was a higher court that made the ruling so lower courts are obliged to follow that direction. An issue was raised by the appeals court and has now been corrected. It’s a good result for the rule of law.
What about those under age that have killed they should be named
@Sandra Conlan: if victims can be named so should the perpetrators.
Far too much secrecy in this country in the past what they wont know won’t bother them the less said the better attitude,can’t publish names for legal reasons or they are underage despite the fact at times the perpetrators of some very serious crimes are teenagers, often secrecy just protects the perpetraters of very serious crimes.
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