# childrens-rights - Saturday 23 March, 2013
TheJournal.ie has learned that the senator is in discussions over the possibility of joining Fine Gael and running for the seat being vacated by Gay Mitchell next year.
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# childrens-rights - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
In a year when many families and communities lost a child or young person to suicide, it makes no sense that €29 million pledged to be spent on mental health was not used, writes Tanya Ward.
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# childrens-rights - Monday 18 February, 2013
Fine Gael TD said it is an unusual piece of legislation as our laws do not generally address such personal issues as familial bonds.
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The report card comes from the Children’s Rights Alliance, which put the Department of Social Protection at the bottom of the class due to child poverty.
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# childrens-rights - Thursday 27 December, 2012
The Russian president said today he will sign a controversial bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
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# childrens-rights - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
The Supreme Court delivers its full ruling into why the Government’s website for the Children’s Referendum was not impartial.
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# childrens-rights - Saturday 1 December, 2012
Revival of medieval ‘foundling’ boxes in which abandoned babies were placed send “bad message to society”.
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# childrens-rights - Tuesday 20 November, 2012
The sexual abuse scandals in Australia’s Catholic Church and the BBC show that there is still work to do beyond the contitutional change passed earlier this month, says the Children’s Rights Alliance.
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# childrens-rights - Sunday 18 November, 2012
Good morning! Here’s the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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# childrens-rights - Sunday 11 November, 2012
Which electoral area had the highest proportion of ‘Yes’ votes? Which one had the highest percentage of ‘No’ ballots? And into which top 10 does the Taoiseach’s home constituency fall?
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# childrens-rights - Friday 9 November, 2012
Pat Kavanagh says she has serious questions about the new Child and Family Support Agency.
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Fergus Finlay says countless reports documented Ireland’s failings to protect children, but this constitutional amendment will change that.
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# childrens-rights - Thursday 8 November, 2012
The government’s scaled-down version of ChildrensReferendum.ie needed amending this evening after it omitted part of the referendum being held on Saturday.
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Children’s minister Frances Fitzgerald says the Office of the Attorney General gave legal advice on the website and booklet.
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The head of Amnesty International Ireland addresses concerns of the ‘No’ camp in Children’s Referendum – and says the Constitution will still be unambiguous in asserting the status of the family.
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The Supreme Court says the government’s literature is not impartial, and therefore an inappropriate use of public money.
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The dramatic storyline has not gone unnoticed but it should not permeate people’s opinions, writes Tanya Ward.
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Five youth organisations give test poll to those not entitled to vote – but whose lives are most likely to be affected by the outcome.
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# childrens-rights - Sunday 4 November, 2012
The Minister has strongly criticised what he labelled “the constant misinformation” being propagated by the No side.
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# childrens-rights - Saturday 3 November, 2012
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said future Saturday votes will depend on the turnout in next week’s referendum. Do you support holding votes on Saturdays?
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# childrens-rights - Thursday 1 November, 2012
The High Court today rejected the claim by Mark McCrystal that the Government is using public money to call for a Yes vote – but now the case will go to the Supreme Court.
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# childrens-rights - Wednesday 31 October, 2012
Emotional language and arguments as Frances Fitzgerald and Fergus Finlay argued for a ‘Yes’ vote as John Waters and Kathy Sinnott argued for a ‘No’.
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Refuge centres for victims of domestic abuse are stretched to the limit, forcing vulnerable women and children to stay in dangerous living conditions.
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# childrens-rights - Wednesday 24 October, 2012
The vote is just over a fortnight away but are you confident that you know enough to cast your vote?
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# childrens-rights - Saturday 20 October, 2012
Applications to get onto the Supplementary Register of Elections close on Tuesday. Here’s what to do.
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# childrens-rights - Friday 19 October, 2012
A RedC poll commissioned by the National Youth Council of Ireland shows almost universal Yes support.
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# childrens-rights - Wednesday 17 October, 2012
The assassination attempt on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai has put her situation in the spotlight. But she’s not the first, writes Dr Ekaterina Yahyaoui.
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# childrens-rights - Tuesday 16 October, 2012
Fine Gael Deputies Liam Twomey and Damien English will run to raise money for Barnardos, and encourage people to vote Yes in the Children’s Referendum.
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Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan wants broadcasters to give more time to information on the children’s referendum.
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# childrens-rights - Monday 15 October, 2012
Malala Yousafzai is being treated for a damaged skull in a highly specialised unit in Birmingham.
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The debate will be held on Halloween Night, October 31, and will feature four parties, two each from the Yes and No campaigns.
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# childrens-rights - Sunday 14 October, 2012
The national broadcaster is dropping a ‘stopwatch’ system for news broadcasts, but will keep it for formal debates.
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# childrens-rights - Tuesday 9 October, 2012
Malala Yousafzai led a campaign for the right to education for children. She was shot in the head on her school bus.
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The Ombudsman for Children Emily Logan said that her office was highlighting cases which were likely to lead to systemic change.
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# childrens-rights - Monday 8 October, 2012
Here are the things we learned, shared and loved today.
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Polls usually open from 7am but this time around they won’t open until 9am.
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# childrens-rights - Monday 1 October, 2012
Diarmuid Martin says the Children’s Rights referendum is welcome, but will not solve all challenges for parents and children.
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# childrens-rights - Sunday 23 September, 2012
With little opposition to the referendum so far, there are suggestions that broadcasters will simply cut down on coverage rather than have to give 50/50 airtime to both sides.
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# childrens-rights - Thursday 20 September, 2012
The former governor of Mountjoy said that it will be easy to get the children’s rights referendum passed – but warned that the real test will come afterwards.
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