We need more mental health services, not more prison cells

Building more prison places will not fix a problem that starts with a shortage of psychiatric beds

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Bessborough researcher urges purchase of site and inquest into deaths of women and babies

We still don’t know where 19 mothers and 859 infants associated with Bessborough were buried, Conall Ó Fatharta says

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Opinion: Two mentally ill prisoners had to share a cell in an overcrowded prison. One lost his eye

Crowded prisons are unsafe and ours are grossly overcrowded

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WhatsApp Web Users Urged To Check Chrome Extension After Adobe Security Flaw

Check your Chrome extensions now: ‼️ A flaw could have let any website read your private WhatsApp chats.

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Hundreds of Irish writers set to share millions of euro after €1.31bn Anthropic settlement

Artificial intelligence giant settles copyright infringement case

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You Langer: Colette Sheridan on a wonderful new book of Cork’s slang words

Immaculate conception, fine half, electrocution lessons, a fifty and more in professor’s compendium

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Opinion | Ukraine’s L.G.B.T.Q. Soldiers Are Still Fighting and Still Waiting

The legal gap for gay Ukrainians has always been unbearable. Then the war with Russia seemed to make the disparity untenable. But the gap remains.

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Roadworks company apologises to woman after Donegal crash

A roadworks company has apologised to a woman, who lost her immediate family - her husband and two children - in a road incident in Inishowen, Co Donegal six years ago.

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Wife of man who took his own life in CUH unit calls for change in mental health treatment

'I don't in any way blame Cork University Hospital. I think they're doing the very best they can with the resources they have, but I think an awful lot is being put on them without enough proper train...

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[Guest Post] The GuestKat Prowls the UDRP Docket: Six Months of Cybersquatting, Catfights and Curious Decisions

The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

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Digital wallet pilot ‘on very shaky legal and technical grounds’

Ireland’s implementation of the digital wallet pilot raises significant legal, privacy, security, governance and transparency concerns, particularly given the State’s reported trialling of...

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The Irish Times view on the digital wallet: a solution seeking a problem

The likely uses for the wallet remain unclear

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Court psychiatric reports can lead to lifelong consequences for minor offences

At the heart of this issue lies a simple but vital principle: medical confidentiality. It is the foundation of trust between patient and doctor. Without it, people do not speak freely. Without it, car...

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LGBT Disregard

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Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission welcomes Government…

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) today welcomed the proposed establishment of a statutory Disregard Scheme for certain historical…

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New directive for delivery workers could see prices rise

A new EU directive to be implemented by this December will change how delivery workers are classified and will likely increase prices of takeaways for customers.

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Opinion | In Sudan, a Preventable Atrocity (Gift Article)

Hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan are bracing for their city to be overrun by a militia notorious for committing atrocities.

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Prof Brendan Kelly: Ireland’s attitude to a ‘flutter on the horses’ is wrecking lives

We have spent too long treating gambling harm as a failure of character. A ruthless approach to regulation is needed

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Women in EU 'losing billions' over pay transparency delay

Women across the EU are losing billions of euro every year because of delays in implementing new pay transparency laws, according to research from the European Trade Union Institute.

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I worked in Bessborough in 1996 as a student. So many questions came to me too late

My friend and I might not have known what exactly was going on there, but we knew enough to want to run away from the place, writes Audrey Hackett

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Government should not chair EU debates on tech policy, academics say

Open letter criticises State’s ‘questionable track record’ on digital policy and corporate tax

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Indecency, obscenity, immorality, vice, depravity, corruption: the chilling effect of the Censorship of Publications Acts – Part 2 (censor and chill) – Cearta.ie

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A third of young people in mental health crisis attending CUH there because of cannabis

'There is a very strong association between cannabis and psychosis,' Cork doctor tells Oireachtas health committee

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Act ends criminal element in mental-health detention

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Man should not have been carried while prone - inquest

A verdict of death by misadventure has been recorded into the death of a prisoner with a history of mental illness after he had been physically restrained by staff at Cloverhill Prison in Dublin six y...

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Supreme Court to hear appeal potentially significant to wards of court awaiting discharge

Senior judges agree case raises issues of public importance and will make it priority hearing

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