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		<title>Abandoned again? Chad forces the UN out of the country.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International has been working in recent weeks to highlight the impact of the planned withdrawl by the UN from Eastern Chad. Much more on this can be read at the Amnesty International Ireland site.
Amnesty International has a research mission on the ground in Chad at the moment and one of my colleagues, Alex Neve [...]

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		<title>Honesty and a commitment to justice would have more meaning than any meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An edited version of this article appeared in The Independent newspaper in the UK on April 19, 2010.
Given all we now know about the cover up of clerical sexual abuse by Rome it’s difficult to see what is significant about the Pope’s meeting with a small number of victims in Malta over the weekend. I [...]

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		<title>The Vatican does it again; spins its policy and practice and then dumps the blame for abuse on others.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been times over this past week when I have momentarily thought that maybe, just maybe the Vatican was finally being forced to confront the truth about the reality of clerical sexual abuse and the cover up it perpetrated of such heinous crimes by clergy.
I admit I remained sceptical as I read about how [...]

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		<title>Are chinks finally appearing in the Vatican&#8217;s armour?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last twenty four hours have seen further dramatic developments in relation to the Roman Catholic Church and its management of child sexual abuse by its priests.
Last night Associated Press revealed yet another case which raises questions about Pope Benedict XVI’s involvement in the management of paedophile priests. AP published a letter which seems to [...]

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		<title>Papal letter is neither unprecedented nor a significant step forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An edited version of this article was published in Th Independent newspaper (UK) on March 22nd 2010. 
On Saturday Pope Benedict XVI published his letter to the Irish Church on the issue of child abuse. What was necessary seemed clear. As Pope, acknowledge the cover up by Roman Catholic Church of the rape and abuse of [...]

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		<title>A response to the Papal letter to the &#8216;Irish Faithful&#8217;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Below is a response to the Papal letter issued to the &#8216;Irish Faithful&#8217; earlier today that I recorded for the PM programme on BBC Radio 4. 
Its a first response, I will post a more detailed response soon. The full text of the Papal letter is available here.
 
“God’s justice summons us to give an account [...]

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		<title>What the Pope must say in his pastoral letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An edited version of the following comment piece appeared in the UK Independent newspaper on March 20th 2010.
Link here.
It was not being raped by a priest at the age of 14 that shattered my faith; it was the horrifying realisation that the Catholic Church had wilfully, knowingly abandoned me to it, the knowledge that they had ordained the priest [...]

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		<title>Don&#8217;t rush to judgement of Cardinal Brady on latest case</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another case involving Cardinal Sean Brady, a Priest accused of sexual assaults and a confidentiality agreement is breaking in the news.
But I would urge caution in any rush to judgment of the actions of Cardinal Brady in this latest case.
At first glance it appears damning. A woman who has reported an allegation of  serious sexual assault by a named priest sued [...]

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		<title>A response to Cardinal Brady&#8217;s homily</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listened very carefully to what Cardinal Sean Brady had to say in his homily delivered earlier today in St Patricks Cathedral, Armagh. I downloaded the text and read and re-read it several times. I wanted to ensure that I was being as objective as possible, really listening to both what was said and how [...]

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		<title>It appears Sean Brady may have committed a criminal offence in 1975 afterall.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got got taught another lesson about the power of social networks and new media when I popped onto my Facebook page a few moments ago. All day we have been hearing apologists for Cardinal Sean Brady assert that he committed no crime when he swore to child victims of sexual assault to secrecy [...]

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		<title>Child sex abuse was always a crime, even in 1975.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Opinion piece written for the Irish Daily Star, published March 15 2010
I was nine in 1975. Liam Cosgrave was Taoiseach and Dr Dermot Ryan was Archbishop of Dublin. The Bay City Rollers were topping the music charts and ‘Jaws’ was terrifying cinema goers everywhere. It was a different time and a very different Ireland; one where [...]

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		<title>Spin, spin and more spin, Cardinal Brady fights to dodge responsibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday when it was revealed that he had been a church appointed investigator into complaints by two children that had been abused by Fr Brendan Smyth, Cardinal Sean Brady told RTE that he had been following his Bishop&#8217;s orders and there were no guidelines for dealing with such investigations at that time.
A statement released by [...]

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		<title>Cardinal Sean Brady must resign over his role in Brendan Smyth case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given his admission that he was represented the Catholic Church at a meeting in 1975 where two child victims of serial paedophile Fr Brendan Smyth were required to swear oaths of secrecy about their abuse by Smyth, Cardinal Sean Brady must now resign.
In December 2009 Cardinal Brady told RTE that he would resign if a [...]

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		<title>So just how much did the Pope know about clerical sexual abuse?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the original version of an Op ed written for The Independent newspaper. An edited version was published in the March 9th edition of the paper, link here.
The recent revelations that the brother of Pope Benedict XVI may be called upon to testify in the growing child sexual abuse scandal in the German Catholic [...]

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		<title>Sinead O&#8217;Connor on the Diocese of Ferns plea for support</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a call from Sinead O&#8217;Connor last night who wanted to communicate her own strong sense of outrage at the call from Bishop of Ferns, Dr Dennis Brennan for parishioners to donate money to meet the financial costs of that diocese&#8217;s negligence in dealing with clerical child sexual abuse.
Here is what Sinead wanted to say:
&#8220;Please allow [...]

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		<title>Let the Church pay for the cost of its own crimes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A comment piece written for the Irish Daily Mail in response to reports that the Bishop of Ferns wants parishioners to contribute to the ongoing costs arising from the negligent handling of clerical sexual abuse by the Roman Catholic Church authorities.
In 1998 I first heard that the Diocese of Ferns had known that Fr Sean Fortune [...]

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		<title>I&#8217;m not Catholic anymore&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an essay I contributed to a book &#8216;What being Catholic means to me&#8217;, published by Columba Press last year. 
I’m not catholic anymore. I never formally quit the church or anything, I just came to realise that I was no longer part of it. I didn’t write to a bishop or the Pope, didn’t [...]

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		<title>Since when did the offendors get to dictate the pace of healing for their victims?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has it struck anyone else as obscene that in their rush to rationalise the abject failure of the Pope to properly address the deliberate cover up of the rape and abuse of children by Roman Catholic Priests, Irish Bishops seem to be suggesting that victims must be patient and wait for the Vatican’s grand design [...]

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		<title>Irelands continuing failure on extraordinary rendition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An opinion piece first published in the Irish Daily Mail on Jan 20th 2010
To find out more or to support Amnesty International click here.

On the 22nd of July 2002 a Gulfstream jet, registration number N379P, landed at Shannon Airport. It was owned by Premier Executive Transport Service, a front company operated by the CIA. Its [...]

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		<title>The cover up of clerical child abuse &#8220;the problem of one country&#8221; says the Vatican</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its Christmas Eve and I have just done two radio interviews for the BBC following the resignation of the Bishop of Kildare. Bishop Moriarty resigned four weeks after the publication of the report of the Commission of Investigation into child abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin.
He was the second bishop to resign, Donal Murray quit last [...]

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		<title>Bishop Murray resigns but has anything changed really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past seven years we have now seen the resignations of four bishops in Ireland who have been implicated in the mismanagement of child sexual abuse by priests of the Roman Catholic Church. Bishop Brendan Comiskey resigned in April 2002 after his resignation was sought by the Vatican under a code of canon law [...]

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		<title>Bishop Eamonn Walsh faces further questions on child abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have read the article I wrote for the Irish Times this week where I made the point that responsibility for covering up child abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin was not limited to Bishop Donal Murray but had to be shared by all those in positions of leadership in the Archdiocese.
In particular I [...]

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		<title>No acknowledgement of responsibility by the Vatican but the Pope will write a letter. So all&#8217;s well then?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So today Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Cardinal Sean Bready met with Pope Benedict XVI to discuss the report of the Commission of Investigation into clerical sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin.
After their meeting the Vatican issued the following statement:


Today the Holy Father held a meeting with senior Irish Bishops and high-ranking members of the [...]

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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scale and deliberate nature of the cover-up revealed by the Murphy report has left many people outraged and, quite understandably, there have been vociferous calls for accountability. In the white heat of the past week much of the outrage has been directed at Bishop of Limerick Dr Donal Murray, who now seems set to resign, [...]

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		<title>Bishops lied and covered up abuse but are unlikely to face prosecution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horrifying contents of the Dublin Archdiocese report and the sheer scale of the cover up have shocked Irish society even after the Ryan report last May and the Ferns report in 2005.
Bishops in Dublin colluded with child abusers, protecting them and hiding them, enabling them to prey on the innocent. Children were deliberately sacrificed [...]

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		<title>The struggle for a decent society</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was moved to my core by the depth of isnight in the letter copied below from today&#8217;s Irish Times.
It is searing in its insight, but also in the hope central to the demand Christopher sets us all as individuals who make up our families, communities, institutions and societies.
the problem is best described as the [...]

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		<title>The lies and deceit of the Roman Catholic Church revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article for the Irish Daily Mail, published on May 27th 2009.
They lied, at times by omission, at times by distorting the truth and at times just blatantly. The most senior leaders of the Catholic Church in Ireland lied to and deceived us all, and sacrificed children in the interests of their authority and most [...]

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		<title>The Dublin report will shock us all</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An op ed I wrote for the Irish Daily Star which was published today. The report was published this afternoon. More to follow on the report later.
It can be downloaded here.
Even after the Ryan report last May and the Ferns Report in 2005, the contents of the Dublin Diocese report, the scale of the cover-up, [...]

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		<title>&#8216;Robin Hood Banker&#8217; avoids prison sentence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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An interesting story from Germany about a banker who took a very proactive approach to wealth redistribution.
Amazing really, she didn&#8217;t in any way benefit personally from her activities, acting solely to help bank customers who were in debt. It would be fascinating to hear about her journey to making the decision to do this. 
She is [...]

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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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On Sunday night I re-tweeted a comment about the X-Factor. I am genuinely saddened that this comment has clearly caused hurt and offence. I posted it because I thought it spoke to the media circus that the X-Factor has become, and concerns about how many peoples’ vulnerabilities are put on show in the name of [...]

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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A feature written for the Irish Sunday Mail about the RTE &#8216;Would You Believe&#8217; film, My Fathers House which was broadcast on Sunday November 1st 2009.
The house really hasn’t changed much, at least not from the outside. It sat at the end of a long driveway; about two hundred metres back from the road, perched [...]

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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to popular demand (alright then, three requests anyway) here is a fab basic muffin recipe. Really quite simple and gorgeous muffins.
1 3/4 cups of plain flour
1/2 cup of sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
Some fresh grated nutmeg
Mix these dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
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1 beaten egg
1/3 cup of melted and cooled butter
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		<title>Sex abuse rife in other religions, says Vatican as it blames sex abuse on Gays</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vatican has lashed out at criticism over its handling of its paedophilia crisis by saying the Catholic church was &#8220;busy cleaning its own house&#8221; and that the problems with clerical sex abuse in other churches were as big, if not bigger.
In a defiant and provocative statement, issued following a meeting of the UN human [...]

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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I had the unique experience of being “uninvited” from taking part in a Mass of Healing and Reconciliation planned by Fr Iggy O&#8217;Donovan at the Augustinian Church in Drogheda. It seems the Archdiocese of Armagh, led by Cardinal Sean Brady, believes there was something “inappropriate” about the invitation and instructed Fr O’Donovan to withdraw [...]

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		<title>Denying full marriage rights to same-sex couples denies their children the right to a family</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article below is my response to an opinion piece in the Evening Herald a week or so ago, link to that here, and comments by Cardinal Sean Brady at the weekend, link to that story here.
I thought it might be worth posting here as well.
Irish people want equality for everyone &#8212; gay or straight. It&#8217;s [...]

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		<title>A Very Dangerous Man, World Same-sex Ballroom Champions, Hamlet&#8217;s Mother and me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three months on and I am only now finding time to listen to some of the media I did to launch Beyond Belief.
I loved Midweek on BBC Radio 4 with Libby Purvess. Libby was great, she was so engaged and got the very best out of a pretty diverse panel.
Actress Penelope Wilton was about to tread the [...]

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		<title>Cannot recommend this book too highly &#8211; The Irish Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Triumphing over a tormented childhood

 
Eamon Maher reviews Beyond Belief in The Irish Catholic
 
It would be difficult not to know of Colm O&#8217;Gorman. He is regularly on the radio and television, mostly in the past as Director of One in Four, the organisation set up to provide support for people who have suffered from sexual abuse [...]

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		<title>Strange old world isn&#8217;t it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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India took a big step forward recently its High Court ruled against a 149 year old law dating back to the Raj and decriminalised homosexuality.
The ruling last Thursday overturned a 148-year-old british colonial law which described a same-sex relationship as an &#8220;unnatural offence&#8221;.
 
Homosexual acts were punishable by a 10-year prison sentence. The Indian parliment is now expected [...]

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		<title>Drivetime 6th June 2008 &#8211; Everyone has the responsibility to respect and uphold the rights of others in their community and the wider world</title>
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In 1948, in a global effort to ensure that the inhumanity of the Second World War would never happen again, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)was passed and adopted by the United Nations without a single dissenting voice. 
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		<title>Colm on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Midweek with Libby Purves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Brodcast on May 20 2009, on this episode on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Midweek Libby Purves is joined by Colm O&#8217;Gorman, Penelope Wilton, Donald Reeves and Bradley and Soren Stauffer Kruse.
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Colm O&#8217;Gorman is Ireland&#8217;s executive director of Amnesty International and founder of the charity One in Four, which helps victims of abuse. When he was [...]

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		<title>Justice demands accountability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ An opinion piece for the Irish Daily Mail, May 26 2009
Over the past weekend senior church figures including cardinal Sean Brady and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin have called upon the religious congregations to look again at the now notorious indemnity deal they negotiated with the state back in 2002. That deal, done in the last [...]

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		<title>Colm debates Clerical Abuse in Ireland with US Catholic League</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well this was an interesting debate. Dr Bill Donohue of the Catholic League issued a statement in which he condemned &#8220;hysteria&#8221; over clerical sexual abuse in Ireland.
Matt Cooper at Today Fm&#8217;s Last Word asked me to come on the show and debate the issue with the good Dr Donohue. It was quite the discussion. 
I [...]

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		<title>Jon Snow from Channel 4 News interviews Colm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 12:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Listen to Colm’s interview about his memoir Beyond Belief with Ryan Tubridy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 22:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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This interview was broadcast on RTE Radio 1 on May 11th 2009.
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		<title>The Sunday Times &#8211; Catholic Church is living with one foot in Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 20:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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From The Sunday Times
Don’t look away: it’s unbelievable that we still haven’t learnt the lessons from systematic child abuse in Ireland
by Libby Purves
Understandably distracted by our own little crisis of trust, we have perhaps not taken in the apocalyptic import of a bigger one across the Irish Sea.
Perhaps it is a vague sense that we [...]

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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 08:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ll do my first ever live in studio interview for Beyond Belief  this morning with the fabulous Jumoke Fashola on BBC London. Really looking forward to it. I&#8217;m in London for the next five says and have lots of media lined up. After months of waiting its all go. I am relieved that the waiting is [...]

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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 22:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 22:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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In 1948, in a global effort to ensure that the inhumanity of the Second World War would never happen again, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)was passed and adopted by the United Nations without a single dissenting voice. 
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