Eden Hazard scored twice as Chelsea battled to a 3-3 draw with Roma to stay top of Champions League Group C.

Sabina Higgins has said anti-Semitism has been reawakened due to right-wing politics and warned that “poisonous ideologies” must not be tolerated.

TWO reminders of the horror of the Holocaust emerged yesterday, one in the German town of Luneberg near Hamburg; the other in Dublin.

The Shannon audit found no evidence that Section 12 is being used in an over-zealous manner by An Garda Síochána, and that the fall-out from the 2013 Athlone and Dublin Roma cases meant some gardaí were more anxious about using it.

The Garda Commissioner has insisted she knew nothing about an alleged smear campaign targeting a whistleblower in the force.

The review into the alleged mistreatment of garda whistleblowers could be widened into a full-blown inquiry, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald’s office has said.

Less than one in five of the racist incidents, including acts of violence, which were reported to a European human rights body here were also brought to the attention of gardaí, it has been claimed.

Ireland’s most vulnerable children have been left behind by the Government, according to the Children’s Rights Alliance.

The United Nations has expressed concern about how the economic crash has affected children here.

Ireland has moved to strengthen the rights of children, but there is much to do, says Tanya Ward

Discrimination and prejudice against Travellers and Roma is racism, it must be named as racism and tackled as racism, President Michael D Higgins has insisted.

A Roma family whose two- year-old blond son was removed overnight from them by gardaí in what their lawyer alleged was a case of “hysterical” and “overzealous” policing has settled its High Court action for €60,000 damages.

The High Court has awarded a Roma family - whose two year old son was removed by Gardaí two years ago - €60,000 in damages under a settlement of their legal action.

This week the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights published its concluding observations on Ireland, finding the Government is failing to deliver on human rights obligations.

Traveller support group Pavee Point has lodged an official complaint over a Facebook page based in Waterford which demands the removal of Roma people from the city.

Facebook has apologised to transgender and drag queen users whose accounts were deleted for violating its policy on using real names.

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Gardaí might not have removed two children from their Roma families if they had access to health records, according to the Ombudsman for Children’s report.

The Ombudsman for Children Emily Logan’s report found that the removal of Child T from her home in Tallaght, west Dublin, was "more complex" than that of Child A.

 

The State is to compensate the parents of a two-year-old Roma boy wrongfully taken from them because of unfounded fears that he may have been abducted.

Racial profiling played a major part in the Garda handling of two cases in which Roma children were wrongly removed from their parents last October because of unfounded fears that they had been abducted.

The Government has apologised to two Roma families who both had a child put into care over unfounded fears the youngsters had been abducted.

A young boy wrongly taken from his Roma family in Athlone last year has suffered "quite significant psychological difficulties" since his ordeal, according to the solicitor for the family.

A report into the wrongful removal of two Roma children from their homes by gardaí amid false fears they had been abducted recommends changes to the way Garda powers are used.

A top judge in the UK has rejected opposition by a Roma couple to the adoption of two of their children by a same-sex couple.

The solicitor for a Roma family whose child was wrongfully taken from them last year says he believes racial profiling played a role in the decision.

A report on the Garda removal of two Roma children from their parents in the false belief they were stolen children is not ready for publication, the Department of Justice has said.

Victims of racism can tell their stories online at iReport, which records the number of incidents per region and raises awareness, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

Russell Crowe met Pope Francis during the General Audience at the Vatican today.

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A Roma family who claim they have been subjected to a prolonged and violent neighbourhood campaign of intimidation have won a High Court order quashing Dublin City Council’s refusal to grant them priority for a housing transfer.

It has emerged that Gardaí did not contact local social workers when they removed a two-year-old Roma boy from his family in Co Westmeath.

The protection of children from abuse and neglect is an issue that has generated extensive public debate and a series of detailed inquiries in recent years.

The removal of children from Roma families after their physical features prompted suspicion does not expose institutionalised racism in the gardaí, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted.

Children’s Ombudsman Emily Logan has been given special powers to investigate gardaí involved in the removal of two children from Roma families in recent days.

THE resolution of the scandal over Roma children being removed from their families can be foretold. The internal inquiry being conducted by An Garda Síochána into the case of the 7-year-old girl in Tallaght will conclude that the officers who took the children into care made a poor judgment call.

A DESCRIPTION in a local website of the murder of hip hop artist and well-known anti-fascist Pavlos Fyssas, 34, known as Killah P in a working class area of Piraeus outside Athens.

The Garda and children’s watchdogs will review the cases of two Roma families having children removed from their homes amid claims they could not prove their identity.

The Garda Ombudsman Commission will review the cases of two Roma families having children removed from their homes amid claims they could not prove their identity.

Amnesty International has urged a full and frank investigation into the cases of the Roma children taken from their families and put into state care.

The Ombudsman for Children is to investigate why two children were taken from their Roma families and put into State care.