The Dáil has voted 78 to 68 to defeat a bid from opposition parties to prevent the use of counselling notes in sexual assault prosecutions. Justice minister Jim O’Callaghan said his legal advice was that counsellors’ notes should be available, and that they can be of value in securing a prosecution.
Shocking interview w/ DUP’s Carla Lockhart on BBC Radio 4 rnow
Refuses to describe the violence in Belfast as thuggery, then attacks media for being asked about why she was standing next to masked loyalists the other day.
Ends by whipping everything up some more
No wonder we’re in such a mess
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
20 years of this place! The Cedar Lounge Revolution is 20 years old today.
Yep, this was the first post from the Cedar Lounge Revolution, June 10th 2006. Difficult to believe it's weathered the subsequent two decades more or less intact. It has been a sort of collective, a diary, a sounding board,…