Professor Ursula Kilkelly is Head of the Department and Dean of the Faculty of Law in University College Cork. Ursula is a national and international expert on child law, and is currently updating two of her texts on child law. You can read more on Ursula’s extensive publishing and policy contributions on children’s rights (and(…)
Oireachtas Committee on the Constitutional Amendment
Legal Analysis of the Children's Referendum: Article 42A.1
Dr Conor O’Mahony is a lecturer in law in the Faculty of Law, University College Cork. The proposed Article 42A.1 provides The State recognises and affirms the natural and imprescriptible rights of all children and shall, as far as practicable, by its laws protect and vindicate those rights. Its stated intention, in the words of(…)
The kids are all right? The case for constitutional reform.
We are delighted to welcome this guest post from Edel Quinn. Edel is a member of the Legal and Policy team at the Children’s Rights Alliance. The Alliance is a coalition of over 100 organisations working to secure the rights of children in Ireland, by campaigning for the full implementation of the UN Convention on the(…)
Still No Movement on the Children's Rights Constitutional Amendment
It is almost 3 months since the Oireachtas Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children released its final report. As previously highlighted on this blog, this report followed 2 years, 62 Committee meetings, 2 other Committee reports and numerous milestones highlighting the precarious position of children’s rights in Irish society, including the publication of the Ryan(…)