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The website is closing

Hi All,

After many years of this being up here I can no longer afford to pick up the balance for the hosting fees.

I have taken my bank details away from the website.

If you know anyone who wants the financial responsibility, please let me know?

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Added by Rob Northall on June 2, 2023 at 19:30 — 4 Comments

James Pollard

Anyone had messages from this guy James Pollard asking him to email him privately off the site??

Tried to comment on his page to ask him, he is moderating comments.

Think we have a scammer in our midst?

Please report anyone who behaves like this, and I will boot them immediately.

Regards

Rob

Added by Rob Northall on September 20, 2021 at 21:30 — 5 Comments

Will All this Disappear FOREVER???

On the 18th of August 2020 I paid £100 towards keeping the website up and running.

I was going to let it lapse and then it would have disappeared, but I thought better of it!

So what do we do with it?

What direction does it take?…

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Added by Rob Northall on September 2, 2020 at 13:00 — 23 Comments

Website Hosting 2019 to 2020

Hi All

It's that time of year again!

If you have found the Website useful and informative?

Please Consider donating to the hosting of the site?…

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Added by Rob Northall on July 23, 2019 at 12:01 — 5 Comments

Facing the future together - Ireland’s lifelong responsibility to survivors...

Facing the future together - Ireland’s lifelong responsibility to survivors...…

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Added by Rob Northall on April 26, 2019 at 22:30 — 16 Comments

Man sent to industrial school as boy for stealing food and coin wins Supreme Court case

Man sought redress over abuse by named Brothers in 1960s

Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 13:45

Mary Carolan 

 

The man was in the an industrial school between 1962…

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Added by Rob Northall on December 8, 2018 at 12:30 — 4 Comments

Conference Annoucement: “Towards Transitional Justice: Recognition, Truth-telling, and Institutional Abuse in Ireland”

Conference Annoucement: “Towards Transitional Justice: Recognition, Truth-telling, and Institutional Abuse in Ireland”

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Added by Rob Northall on October 14, 2018 at 21:15 — 3 Comments

"The Girl in the Tunnel"

In 1964, at the age of 12, Maureen Sullivan was illegally incarcerated in the Magdalene Laundry in the Good Shepherd Convent in New Ross.

In her four plus years in the system, she was treated as child slave labour, and was trafficked from one institution to another.…

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Added by Rob Northall on September 27, 2018 at 21:00 — 7 Comments

Boy George Link to Industrial Schools

Who Do You Think You are? Boy George BBC1

Added by Rob Northall on August 9, 2018 at 7:06 — 22 Comments

Blog Talk Radio - Host Sally O Elkordy Guest William Gorry of RISN

Here is this  evenings Interview with William Gorry

Please only listen to this if you are safe to do so

The content of this Interview may be Triggering…

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Added by Rob Northall on June 6, 2018 at 22:00 — 10 Comments

SPECIAL REPORT: Nuns told don’t co-operate as Bishop tried to thwart probes into Bessborough scandal

Monday, November 23, 2015

By Conall Ó Fátharta

Irish Examiner Reporter

As Bessborough was investigated, the nuns were told don’t co-operate, writes Conall Ó Fatharta…

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Added by Rob Northall on May 23, 2018 at 0:00 — 4 Comments

Very Interesting Tweet

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Added by Rob Northall on May 22, 2018 at 22:00 — 1 Comment

Website Hosting Fees 2017-18

After spending a frustrating 6 or 7 hours on the Internet yesterday!

I have managed to glean the following information…

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Added by Rob Northall on August 1, 2017 at 10:59 — 10 Comments

'We wanted to be loved': Institutional abuse survivors take their fight for justice to the UN

A report launched today criticises the State’s treatment of victims, which it says has caused further trauma.

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Added by Rob Northall on July 4, 2017 at 21:38 — 9 Comments

A Cautionary Tale Of Over-thinking!

There‘s a Very famous Joke/ Tale about over-thinking and it goes Something like this:

 

Bill and Peter have been friends for over 20 years;…

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Added by Rob Northall on April 25, 2017 at 11:00 — 4 Comments

Abuse redress bill ‘did not arise’ in hospital transfer talks

Former Holles Street master Dr Peter Boylan said his concerns about project have ‘strengthened’

The relocation of the National Maternity Hospital from Holles Street to the St Vincent’s hospital campus in Dublin involves the largest single investment made in maternity services in the State. Photograph: Dave Meehan The relocation of the National Maternity Hospital from Holles Street to the St Vincent’s hospital campus in Dublin involves the largest single investment made in maternity services in the State. Photograph: Dave Meehan

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Added by Rob Northall on April 19, 2017 at 20:56 — 3 Comments

Religious order that owes millions to abuse survivors given ownership of new maternity hospital

With the Mother and Baby Home Inquiry bringing New Disclosures Daily and the Sisters Of Mercy's Involvement in Industrial Schools and Magdalene Laundries can the Government do any more to prove they are "Good Catholics" and their Contempt for Survivors??

A new company will be set up to govern the new…

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Added by Rob Northall on April 19, 2017 at 20:30 — 6 Comments

Who is trying to Silence this Brave and Consistent Advocate?

After 10 Years of Campaigning on behalf of Survivors using the Name

"Industrial Schools Ireland"…

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Added by Rob Northall on April 9, 2017 at 20:30 — 17 Comments

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