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In May 2016, two District Court hearings took place that were notable for the things they had in common, but also for the disparity in their outcomes. In Letterkenny, a deaf man successfully appealed against his 2014 conviction for drink-driving on the grounds that gardaí were unable to provide an Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpreter […]

I am now working in the Czech Republic. Before I arrived I had a certain tourist’s knowledge of Prague and had visited briefly twice previously for short periods but the main tourist sights sell this flecked and overlaid tapestry of a city short, neglecting its diversity of specialist shops and bookstores – fast disappearing from […]

Last month in Belfast the first of many commemorative events took place to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the formal founding of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, NICRA. The organisation was pivotal in bringing together all those who were discontented with the status quo in the North. Within eighteen months, a wave of protest […]

Terry Kelleher was born in 1948, in Dublin. His dad was a doctor in the British Army so he was educated in schools in Egypt, Austria, Germany, and eventually Wicklow. His elder brother John, later movie producer (‘Eat the Peach’) and film censor, recalls teaching him to walk, lured by sweets, on the Empress of […]