Two male counters had to cut the lock off a ballot box in South Roscommon this morning as the key for the lock went missing.

This week, I visited a grave at Glasnevin Cemetery, which is maintained by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the order that ran Magdalene Laundries at High Park and Gloucester/Sean McDermott St. For 11 years I have made this journey, but this occasion was different, because I witnessed the grave being opened by the grounds staff. This shock was followed by the realisation another former Magdalene woman had died while in the care of the nuns.

Irish Examiner journalist Noel Baker was last night presented with a merit accolade in the daily newspapers category of the Justice Media Awards.

In the early ’90s, her lone voice exposed a dark period in history, writes Conall Ó Fátharta

THE inventor of television, John Logie Baird, was born in Helensburgh near Glasgow 125 years ago today. His invention was arguably the single most important of the past 100 years.

THESE are the terrible words of a Bethany Home survivor to fellow survivor Derek Leinster, who has for many years led the campaign for redress.

The relentless work of Mary Raftery exposed what went on behind the walls of the Magdalene Laundries, writes Dan Buckley

In no particular order or weight ... Paul Brady, Henry Shefflin, Myrtle Allen, Saoirse Ronan, the Gulf Stream’s micro climate, Seamus Heaney, Fiona Shaw, Martin Hayes, Graham Norton, the Society of St Vincent de Paul, Rory McIlroy, Olivia O’Leary, Connemara, the Delphi and Blackwater valleys, Julie Feeney, John Hume, Lyric FM, Michael Noonan’s unflinching, selfless resolve at a moment of great personal tragedy.

ABUSE victims, politicians and fellow journalists gathered yesterday at the humanist funeral Mary Raftery had arranged herself before her death on Tuesday.

The funeral of journalist Mary Raftery has taken place in Dublin.

WHETHER you agreed with him or not, it is undeniable that John McCarthy, founder of the mental health lobby group Mad Pride, has put the state to shame by heightening public awareness of the issue of mental illness which, more often than not, has been swept under the carpet, and been the subject of a discredited form of enforced treatment in this country.

MARY Raftery was a remarkable person. She shone a light into the hidden past of Ireland, exposing the horrors of the industrial schools and laying bare a crime against humanity for long covered up and denied.

IT was with great sadness I heard of the death of Mary Raftery — what a great loss to this world.

Mary Raftery’s work exposed many abusers who had been protected by the Church, writes Andrew Madden

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin has led tributes to a groundbreaking journalist who lifted the lid on clerical and institutional abuse in Ireland.

The death of Mary Raftery is a reminder of the power of truth to bring about change.

'States of Fear’ documentary-maker and journalist Mary Raftery has died.

TWO current media topics suggest that Europe has a long way to go before we can consider ourselves civilised.

HAVING parachuted Martin McAleese into a position as a senator, Justice Minister Alan Shatter has announced that he has appointed President McAleese’s husband to oversee a committee set up to clamp down on any state interaction with the notorious work houses.

THE author of the report on institutional child abuse has said the country will be tested by how it deals with the fallout from the inquiry’s revelations.

The second Lisbon Treaty referendum will be a defining moment for Ireland, Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin warned today.

One of the country’s leading summer schools is to honour victims of clerical child abuse, it was revealed today.

OVER the next week or so, we will see another couple of reports that will confirm, once again, how children really don’t matter in Ireland.

VICTIMS of child abuse at industrial schools and other Catholic schools have expressed disgust at the Child Abuse Commission’s failure to provide them with advance copies of an explosive report before its publication on Wednesday.

ALLIANCE Victim Support has spent many years trying to help victims of abuse by campaigning, advocating on their behalf and introducing them to the services they need.

THE idea of a child being sexually abused by their teacher is every parent’s nightmare.

MY recent performance on the Vincent Browne radio show discussion on the Child Abuse Commission has evidently been causing Ryle Dwyer sleepless nights. He has used a second column (Irish Examiner, January 28) to bash me.

JUDGE Liam Hamilton once said to me that he was sure he would get no thanks for exposing the malpractices in the beef industry, and all the other stuff that surrounded it.

IRISH EXAMINER journalist Niamh Nolan yesterday won the Law Society’s justice award for daily newspapers.

AT first sight, it might not seem that Beverly Flynn and Martin Cullen have a lot in common. She’s from a dyed-in-the-wool Fianna Fáil family and he’s a political waverer.