Rights for them but not for us

MARY Robinson is critical of the Irish state’s failure to enshrine the European Convention of Human Rights in domestic legislation (Irish Examiner, Dec 20). Maybe the judiciary should get proper training. Too much for them to apply human rights. We know: family law, treatment of juvenile offenders, mentally handicapped people ...

Rights for them but not for us

The hypocrisy is mind-blowing: ratify UN and European charters on human rights in order to make them viable for other jurisdictions, but ignore them here. Strange also that former law professor Mary Robinson after serving as President of this country and as High Commissioner for Human Rights with the UN tackles this sad fact only now.

She would have had a much stronger influence in those positions. Why not earlier?

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