The country’s first ever statutory advisory committee to support monitoring of Ireland’s implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will begin work today with the official appointment of 11 members.

An Oireachtas committee has demanded that Victorian “lunatic” laws from the 19th century be urgently updated to protect the basic human rights of people with intellectual disabilities.

WHEN politicians talk about doing things “for the country” I presume they mean “for the people” — or do they? Let’s see.