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Gardaí should continue to crack down on sex buyers and organised criminal gangs in order to reduce abuse and exploitation in the Irish sex trade, a new report has recommended. The study by the Sexual Exploitation Research Programme (SERP) at UCD, commissioned by the Department of Justice, bac

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Human rights organisations have urged US president-elect Joe Biden to help protect the Good Friday Agreement as the UK reaches the end of the Brexit transition period. A briefing paper signed by 14 organisations north and south of the border was sent to Biden's transition team, in particular to thos

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Dublin Book Festival is set to host a virtual discussion of the life and work of human rights lawyer Kevin Boyle later this month. Journalist Mike Chinoy, author of the recent biography Are You With Me?, will discuss Mr Boyle with Professor Donncha O'Connell of NUI Galway School of Law.

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A police officer who allegedly scanned a box of expensive Krispy Kreme doughnuts at a self-service checkout as a single carrot is facing a misconduct hearing. Cambridgeshire police officer Simon Read could be sacked over allegations he paid just seven pence for a £9.95 box of doughnuts in Febr

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The government will not support the removal of Mr Justice Séamus Woulfe following a row over his attendance at a controversial golf dinner, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said. The Supreme Court judge and former Attorney General has come under pressure following the publication of letter

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Retired judge Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan has been nominated for appointment as chair of the Standards In Public Office Commission (SIPO). Mr Justice Sheehan was appointed to the High Court in 2007 and elevated to the new Court of Appeal in 2014, before retiring in 2017.

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