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Judge warns about 'unfettered access to the internet' in case of teen who abused own sister
10 Dec 2025 20:51 GMT
… uploaded 64 images of this child abuse to a social media site … 9, raped and murdered in church after being snatched mid-bike … Ring expressed, reports the Irish Mirror.
She compared the situation … news and features on Irish America, visit our homepage here …
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UN official says LGBT school curriculum is a ‘human right’ for children
08 Dec 2025 19:29 GMT
… cohesion.
READ: German Catholic bishops’ new document on ‘ … noted that, unsurprisingly, Ireland in particular was enthusiastic … even constitutes – bullying and abuse.
Different factions within the … change “treatments” for children, Alsalem also condemned …
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Victims of abuser Kelly tell of 'unimaginable trauma'
08 Dec 2025 17:34 GMT
… by the Spiritan order of priests in south Dublin, was jailed … two other predators who had abused children in Willow Park school were … . He said the effect of child sexual abuse was evident every day … future changed course.
He left Ireland as a young man, he …
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Clerical abuse survivor calls for end to character references in sex offence cases
07 Dec 2025 00:25 GMT
… offences against children.
Tony Gribben, who was abused by the Catholic priest Fr Malachy … Martin, the Primate of All Ireland, and as a result, guidance … proceedings.
A spokesperson for the Catholic Church said: "Some years ago …
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Dave Hannigan: The not-so curious case of a vanished high school football coach
10 Dec 2025 15:27 GMT
… five counts of possession of child abuse imagery and five counts of … of adulation. To use old Irish analogies, the man on the … reverence given to the parish priest, and the undying admiration foisted … having spent more of his childhood knocking around the field …
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Sinéad O’Connor: “I was a square peg in a round hole”
08 Dec 2025 22:42 GMT
… about my mother. ’70s Ireland was a very difficult place … of child abuse became something that was OK for Irish people … never heard anyone criticise the Church. Equally, apart from Slow … and this tiny little Buddhist priestess leaning against him snuggling, …
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Reorienting our sense of community – Small Things Like These
08 Dec 2025 21:07 GMT
… idyllically rural, with 1980s Ireland lovingly rendered in festive … of isolation, remembering a childhood Christmas when “neither Santa … by the Catholic Church and supported by the Irish state in … rules. Physical and emotional abuse were common.
In Keegan …
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Three women convicted in connection with cruelty and assaults at homes in Scotland run by Sisters of Nazareth
07 Dec 2025 18:16 GMT
THREE women have been convicted in connection with child cruelty and assaults in the 1970s and 1980s at two homes in Scotland run by the Catholic order, the Sisters of Nazareth.
Former nuns Eileen McElhinney, 78 and Carol Buirds, 75, as well as 68-year-old …
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Shame Was The Spur: The Public Life of Noam Chomsky
08 Dec 2025 09:02 GMT
… deeply anti-Semitic German-Irish neighborhood in Quaker Philadelphia … Romero, blown up the church radio station, and … with gratuitous vilification and childish abuse: “They shirk the … to Colombia, Palestine, Nicaragua, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, …
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The most outrageous on-stage moments in music history
06 Dec 2025 01:03 GMT
… the Lords of the New Church, punk pioneer Stiv Bators … Area trio was still childlike at heart in those … ;War," the Irish singer yelled "child abuse" several times … over allegations of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. The backlash was …