My memories of Veronica Guerin s murder: Justice minister McEntee promises CAB will continue to fight John Gilligan s legal challenge independent.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from independent.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee has said she clearly remembers journalist Veronica Guerin being shot dead despite being just 10 years old and says that the Criminal Assets Bureau has since seized a €194m from criminals.
The minister said the bureau continues to be a ‘shining light’ in tackling criminal gangs and while it was established for emotive reasons, it has stood the test of time. She says it is the State’s intention to make sure Ireland remains tough on organised crime and that the crime bosses will be held as accountable as those who carry out their orders in the future.
Struan Stevenson: Hate Crime Bill is the perfect marriage between nationalism and authoritarianism heraldscotland.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldscotland.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Scottish Transport Minister Humza Yousaf makes an emergency statement at Holyrood wednesday.Pic Gordon Terris/The Herald.20/11/16. THE re-emergence of authoritarian nationalism is shaping the world we live in today. We have witnessed its steady growth in Scotland where 13 years of SNP government have sounded the death knell for the freedoms we once took for granted. We now live in a society where people, because of Brexit, the coronavirus and the downturn in the economy, feel betrayed and insecure and tend to want someone, preferably an outsider, to blame. That scapegoat, for thousands of SNP supporters, is invariably Boris Johnson, the Westminster Government or even England itself. Meanwhile, the rise of social media has enabled us to share our grievances instantly and globally and this in turn has created an opening for many predatory cybernats to circulate smears and insults and to violat
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Preacher Mike Overd. (Screenshot credit: Christian Concern/YouTube)
Four Christian preachers in the United Kingdom, known as the Bristol Four, will challenge the Avon and Somerset Police Departments over their arrests following an incident caught on video in 2016.
Christian Concern reports Mike Overd, Don Karns, Mike Stockwell, and AJ Clarke are bringing their lawsuit against the police for assault, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, misfeasance in a Public Office, and infringement of their Human Rights, in particular articles 9, 10 and 11 of the European Convention of Human Rights.
The case raises significant questions on the right to freedom of speech and the freedom of Christian preachers in the UK to exercise their religious beliefs and to have the right to freedom of assembly in public.