A two day awareness campaign, raising initiative on law against female genital mutilation is to taking place in Dublin airport this weekend.
An Garda Síochána and the Border Management Unit at Dublin airport will this weekend run ‘Operation Limelight’ to raise awareness around the practice of Female Genital Mutilation in Ireland, including the law and the very serious risks to the long-term health of women and girls, subjected to it.
Operation Limelight originated in the UK and similar initiatives have been implemented in other countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.
The two day initiative will run on today Friday October 27th and tomorrow Saturday October 28th. in an effort to reach high passenger numbers travelling for the bank holiday weekend.
Members of An Garda Síochána and the Border Management Unit will provide information to passengers travelling to and from Dublin Airport, which will explain what FGM is, outline the law in Ireland, and inform people what they can do if they are worried that a girl may be at risk of FGM.
FGM (also known as circumcision or cutting) involves removing all or part of a girl’s external genital organs including the area around the vagina and clitoris. FGM is performed for cultural and not medical reasons and is totally illegal in Ireland.
Under the Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 2012 it is a criminal offence for a person to attempt or perform FGM in Ireland and it is a criminal offence for someone resident in Ireland to take a girl to another country to undergo FGM.
FGM is mostly carried out on girls between birth and 15 years of age and it is a form of child abuse which comes under child protection regulations in the Children First National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children 2011.
It has also been recognised as a form of gender-based violence in the Third National Strategy on Domestic Sexual and Gender Based Violence and the current implementation plan for the Strategy contains actions focused on improving the supports and services available to those who have been subjected to FGM.
FGM violates a series of well-established human rights principles, including the principles of equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex, the right to life when the procedure results in death, and the right to freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as well as the rights of the child.
A Recruitment Competition launched for CEO designate of New Policing & Community Safety Authority (An tÚdarás Póilíneachta agus Sábháilteachta Pobail) has been launched today.
A competition has been launched to recruit a Chief Executive Officer designate for the forthcoming new agency – An tÚdarás Póilíneachta agus Sábháilteachta Pobail, the Policing and Community Safety Authority (PCSA), latter which will be established following the enactment of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill, which is currently before the Seanad.
The competition has been launched by the Public Appointments Service, with the deadline for applications to close at 3:00pm, on Thursday, November 16th, 2023.
Once established, the PCSA will consolidate and enhance the broad-ranging oversight functions of the existing Policing Authority and the expert inspection functions of the Garda Síochána Inspectorate into a new body. This is a key step toward a more cohesive and effective framework for the independent oversight of An Garda Síochána and to help in building stronger, safe communities.
The establishment of the PCSA is one important element of the broad overall suite of changes being delivered under the Policing, Security and Community Bill 2023.
A comprehensive implementation programme is running in parallel with the passage of the Bill, to ensure that the new structures and provisions can be established as soon as possible, following enactment.
The key role of the PCSA will be to review and assess the performance of An Garda Síochána and to promote the continuous improvement of An Garda Síochána in delivering on their mission of ‘Keeping People Safe’. The independent body will benefit from an expert, in-house inspection function, which will have robust inspection powers, including the power to conduct unannounced visits of Garda premises.
The PCSA will also promote inter-agency collaboration and community engagement to improve community safety, including through oversight of Garda cooperation and collaboration with other relevant agencies. This is in line with the policy underpinning the Bill that improving and maintaining community safety is not only the responsibility of An Garda Síochána, but requires a whole-of-Government and cross-society approach.
The PCSA will also continue to fulfil the important public awareness and engagement role of the current Policing Authority, including through regular public meetings with the Garda Commissioner and his senior leadership team.
Image of whippet/greyhound killing caged Hare in St. Patrick’s cemetery Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
On July 25th 2023 last, Thurles.Info, together with the Mail On Sunday Newspaper, posted a story stating that local people had expressed anger over the fact that Thurles Municipal District Authorities were failing to introduce or indeed implement bye-laws. Same story related to the barbaric sacrifice of a gentle, harmless, trapped, live Hare; all of which was permitted to occur in St. Patrick’s Graveyard, Moyne Road, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. A video posted on social media and shown HERE, has already been viewed, much to the embarrassment of Thurles residents, on almost 75,000 occasions.
Garda at Thurles, having been made aware of the barbaric incident, which actually took place during a funeral service; and having viewed the social media video; undertook a criminal investigation into the issue.
This morning in St. Patricks Graveyard, the image now shown above, which met those visiting the final resting place of their loved ones, were appalled to view a 50.8cm x 76.2cm (20in x 30in) image of a greyhound sniffing a dead hare, which had been sacrificed as part of this funeral ceremony; during which, also, saw large quantities of alcohol consumed, as evidenced by the large amount of discarded bottles and cans left strewn about, for cemetery employees clean up and remove.
It would appear that the image together with a large amount of discarded wreaths was deliberately thrown in an area that would attract most attention and not in the area provided.
About time now that large plastic litter bins were positioned around this graveyard to dispose of waste matter, as is provided in other properly run graveyards.
Once again, we ask the Question; “What are we getting in return for increasingly rising Property Tax”. It certainly is not being used in Thurles to fill potholes.
The man accused of a spate of bookmaker robberies in Co. Tipperary, before being arrested in west Co. Dublin, on Wednesday, October 18th last; who appeared before Judge Miriam Walsh at a sitting of Cashel District Court yesterday afternoon, October 20th, has now been named as Mr Declan Murphy.
Mr Murphy who gave an address at No. 7 Church View, Kilmeague, Naas, County Kildare, stands charged with stealing €3,500 in cash from Ladbrokes bookmakers in The Square, Fethard, Co. Tipperary on September 28th last. Mr Murphy also stands charged with an attempted robbery at Bar One Racing, Davis Road, Clonmel, Co Tipperary on October 7th last; the theft of €800 from Ladbrokes in Bailey Street, Killenaule, Co. Tipperary, on October 12th, together with the theft of €3,000 from Bar One Racing Unit 2, Ballylynch, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, on October 15th last.
No application for bail was sought on behalf of Mr Murphy, who had remained unemployed since February this year, but had been working for 17 years prior to that occasion.
Mr Murphy was remanded in custody to appear before Clonmel District Court on Tuesday next, October 24th.
A man, understood to be aged in his 50s, appeared before Cashel District Court at 4.15pm this afternoon; same charged regarding a series of armed robberies targeting bookmakers, here in Co. Tipperary.
As part of ongoing investigations into these armed robberies, the accused was arrested by detectives from the Clonmel District Crime Unit, following an operation conducted in west Co. Dublin, on Wednesday, October 18th last.
The arrest related to four incidents which took place in September and October, 2023. The ongoing investigations related to robberies at premises in Fethard on September 28th last, Killenaule on October 12th last, Carrick-on-Suir on October 15th last, and an earlier attempted robbery in Clonmel, on October 7th.
Following the arrest of the accused, he was taken to a Garda Station in Co. Tipperary and detained under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2007.
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