UNICEF IRELAND APPEALS FOR DONATIONS TO LEBANON & GAZA
UNICEF Ireland has launched an appeal for donations to help send lifesaving supplies to the children in Gaza and Lebanon, where more than one million homeless children now face the threat of disease across the conflict areas. In Gaza, children are dying in their...
FINAL PHASE OF BODY WORN CAMERA PILOT FOR GARDAÍ IN WATERFORD
The third phase of the Body Worn Camera pilot programme for Gardaí, recently launched in Waterford by the Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee and the Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, is the final stage to test the use of the...
HEROIC RESCUERS RECEIVE WATER SAFETY AWARDS 2024
A total of 19 lives were saved from drowning by heroic rescuers from all parts of the country, which included several members of An Garda Síochana, who received due recognition at Water Safety Ireland’s National Annual Awards Ceremony for 2024 in Dublin Castle’s...
‘NATIONAL SERVICES DAY’ CELEBRATES IRELAND’S EMERGENCY AGENCIES
‘National Services Day 2024’ served once again to celebrate Ireland’s statutory and voluntary emergency services, as over 1,000 personnel from the frontline services paraded along the streets of Dublin, Cork, Kildare, Kilkenny, Limerick, Drogheda and Wexford. Owen...
FIGHTING AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN DEFENCE FORCES
The revelation that 68 serving Defence Forces members have convictions or are before the courts is the latest scandal to rock Óglaigh na hÉireann. With a long-awaited tribunal and an independent review by a senior barrister, there is both hope and scepticism that...
IRELAND’S FIRST DEFENCE FORCES OMBUDSMAN OFFERS VIEWPOINT
Upon hearing about the alleged cases brought to light by ‘The Women of Honour’ on RTÉ, Ireland’s first Ombudsman for the Defence Forces, Paulyn Marrinan Quinn SC, writes that it greatly upset and concerned her to think that female members had suffered these...