Human Rights in Ireland is pleased to welcome this guest post from Ben Power. Ben is the Board and Company Secretary for Transgender Equality Network Ireland. For more information on TENI’s work see www.teni.ie Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) is Ireland’s national trans organisation. We seek to improve conditions and advance the human rights and equality of trans people(…)
Dr Orlaith O’Sullivan is Communications Officer for TENI. To find out more about TENI’s work see www.teni.ie Five years is a long time. The world has moved on in the five years since 19 October 2007, when Mr Justice Liam McKechnie explained in no uncertain terms that the State was in breach of the European Convention(…)
This October, the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) and the Law Society of Ireland will host the 10th Annual Human Rights Conference, Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in Ireland: The Role of the Irish Constitution and European Law. The conference will examine the impact of the Irish Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights and EU law in advancing human(…)
“The treatment of migrant workers is a vexed one which poses considerable difficulties to the regulation of the labour market and the enforcement of public policy….” Hussein v The Labour Court & Anor [2012] IEHC 364 (31 August 2012) at para. 1 (Mr. Justice Hogan). The High Court decision in Hussein v The Labour Court has(…)
The Centre for Disability Law and Policy (NUI Galway) and Amnesty International (Ireland) held a seminar today on getting legal capacity law right. The seminar can be viewed here. The seminar heard from Oliver Lewis from MDAC who spoke about the CRPD in international Best Practice on legal capacity law. Christine Gordon who spoke about(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest post from Aisling de Paor, a Ph.D candidate in the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway, and Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) scholar. Aisling is a graduate of NUI Galway (BCL) and University College Cork (LL.M). Aisling qualified as a solicitor(…)
In February 2010, I blogged the case of Lebanese Irish citizen Hussein Ali Hamoud. The High Court judgment from April is now available here. Mr. Hamoud married two women in Lebanon; S.A.A. in 1975 and S.A.H. in 1988. Polygamous marriage is permissable under Lebanese law. In 2000, Hamoud was granted asylum in Ireland (he(…)
We are delighted to welcome another guest post from Noelin Fox. Noelin is a Ph.D candidate in the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway. Her research examines the right to independent living provided for in Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of with Disabilities. Noelin has worked for many years in(…)
“… my contemporary, Declan Costello, committed to social justice, was a potential force within the party. … Our two fathers had been members of the same team at the Imperial Conferences of the 1920s and had served on the Fine Gael front bench together in the 1930s and early 1940s; as a boy I had(…)
“The court…was of black polished marble, and very nearly as smooth as glass. It was entirely built of Irish marble, I believe, from quarries in Connemara. One effect of this construction was that the players and the ball were mirrored, as ‘in a glass, darkly’, on floor and walls — a rather distressing feature,(…)
