Dublin S.E. General Election Candidates To Face Questions From Ringsend/Irishtown Community

Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre (RICC) will host a ‘fair election fare’ in their premises on Friday, February18th 2011 from 12.30hrs – 13.30hrs where local political election candidates and representatives have been invited to answer questions from key members of the community.

Each candidate will have a stall at which to set out their wares.

The purpose of the event, organised by the RICC Board and Management, is to give the electorate a real opportunity to ask real questions and get real answers in the run up to the General Election 2011.

Among those who have confirmed their attendance are; Chris Andrews TD Fianna Fáil, John Gormley Leader of the Green Party, Councillor Kevin Humphreys Labour, New Independent Councillor Mannix Flynn, Lucinda Creighton TD Fine Gael and Councillor Ruadhán Mac Aodháin Sinn Féin.

RICC is taking the initiative of reaching out to locals, including those who are involved in the areas of; Youth, Retirement, Disability, Community Development and Employment and to give them a chance to highlight any concerns that they may have.

London: More Revelations About How Energy Firms Are Spying On Environmental Activists

Three large energy companies have been carrying out covert intelligence-gathering operations on environmental activists, the Guardian can reveal.

The energy giant E.ON, Britain’s second-biggest coal producer Scottish Resources Group and Scottish Power, one of the UK’s largest electricity-generators, have been paying for the services of a private security firm that has been secretly monitoring activists.

Leaked documents show how the security firm’s owner, Rebecca Todd, tipped off company executives about environmentalists’ plans after snooping on their emails. She is also shown instructing an agent to attend campaign meetings and coaching him on how to ingratiate himself with activists. The disclosures come as police chiefs, on the defensive over damaging revelations of undercover police officers in the protest movement, privately claim that there are more corporate spies in protest groups than undercover police officers.

Senior police officers complain that spies hired by commercial firms are – unlike their own agents – barely regulated.

Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, which until recently ran the secretive national unit of undercover police officers deployed in protest groups, said in a speech last week that “the deployment by completely uncontrolled and unrestrained players in the private sector” constituted a “massive area of concern”.

Revelations about Mark Kennedy and three other undercover police officers in protest groups caused a furore last month and led to four official inquiries into their activities.

Now a Guardian investigation has shed new light on the surveillance of green campaigners by private security firms whose intrusive operations include posing as activists on mailing lists and infiltrating full-time agents into campaign groups over many years.

Multinational companies, ranging from power producers to arms sellers, hire these firms to try to prevent activists running campaigns against them or breaking into their sites.

The leaked documents lay bare the methods of one firm, Vericola, run by 33-year-old Todd. Based in Canterbury, Vericola, according to Todd, is a “business risk management company” offering a “bespoke” service to clients “regarding potential threats” to their businesses.

Over the past three years, Todd, using different email addresses, has signed up to the mailing lists of a series of environ-mental groups organising major demonstrations such as the G20 rallies in London, demonstrations against E.ON’s Kingsnorth power station and the expansion of Heathrow airport, giving her access to communications and advanced notice of demonstrations.

Last July, she forwarded details about Climate Camp campaigners to two company directors she called “the usual suspects”.

One was Gordon Irving, the security director of Scottish Power since 2001 after spending 30 years in Strathclyde police force. The other was Alan Somerville, then a director of Scottish Resources Group which produces a large amount of Britain’s coal.

Todd highlighted a call from campaigners to submit more objections to coal-producing developments which needed planning permission.

Activists say she regularly attended meetings of an environmental group, known as Rising Tide, for around a year in 2007/08.

The documents also show her advising a colleague on how to fit in with the other activists at meetings held to organise future protests. One tip was that he should not mention he was flying to Germany as “obviously” the environmentalists “hate short-haul flights”.

Todd, who says she is not a corporate spy, told the Guardian that all the information she acquires comes from public sources such as subscribing to emailing lists through the websites of the environmental groups.

Despite emails revealing how she repeatedly tried to find ways for her agents to access protest gatherings, Todd denied her company “infiltrates” meetings of protest groups as they are open to any member of the public.

The environmental activists are angry that, by posing as a supporter, she has gained access to emails and meetings where tactics and strategies are discussed. Eli Wilton, a Climate Camp organiser, said: “It’s frightening that in a meeting about how to stop the fossil fuel industry, the person sitting next to you might be a spy paid for by the energy giants themselves.”

He said Todd and her colleagues “couldn’t have gotten subscribed without attending our meetings. These were internal lists where, for example, we strategised about how to stop new coal-fired power stations being built by E.ON.”

E.ON said it had hired Vericola and another security firm, Global Open, on an “ad hoc” basis as its executives wanted to know when environmentalists were going to demonstrate at or invade its power stations and other premises, as they had done in the past.

The E.ON spokesman said it asked Vericola only for publicly available information and if Todd and her colleagues had obtained private information, they had done so “under their own steam”.

SRG and Scottish Power did not comment.

Tamaulipas, N. Mexico: State Official Among 18 Killed In Gunbattles

Gunbattles left at least 18 people dead in northern Mexico, officials said, as the Nuevo Leon state police intelligence chief was killed in a violent attack.

Forensic personnel examine a burnt down car found with the corpse of Homero Salcido …More Enlarge photo

In the latest outbreak of alleged drug-related violence, two armed groups engaged in a series of clashes in the state of Tamaulipas bordering the United States, state government officials told AFP.

State officials said an investigation had been launched into an incident but offered no details.

Tamaulipas state is the scene of spiraling violence attributed to a dispute between the the Gulf cartel and the rival Zetas.

In neighboring Nuevo Leon state, attackers blew up a car in which the state intelligence chief was riding, officials said.

Homero Salcido, head of the intelligence unit known as C-5, was driving alone late Sunday on a street in the middle of Monterrey when he was targeted by unidentified gunmen who may have caused his truck to explode by shooting the gas tank or hitting him with a small bomb, officials said.

Monterrey, a prosperous city home to the local operations of several multinational corporations, is at the intersection of several highways — often used as drug smuggling routes — heading north into the United States.

More than 34,600 people have died in drug violence since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed soldiers and federal police in a widespread crackdown on the illegal cartels.

BREAKING NEWS: London: Neglected Elderly Patients Enduring “Harrowing” Plight: Watchog

A senior figure monitoring the National Health Service (NHS) detailed “harrowing” cases of the neglect of elderly patients in a report released Tuesday.

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Ombudsman: NHS failing older people

One patient died without her husband by her side because he had been “forgotten” in a waiting room, Health Service Ombudsman Ann Abraham reported.

Another was left in urine-soaked clothes held together with paper clips.

And half the the people studied in her report had not received adequate food and water during their hospital stay.

The state health service was “failing to meet even the most basic standards of care”, said Abraham after in-depth review of 10 serious complaints against the NHS.

Some patients were not given help eating and bathing while others were left distressed after mismanagement of their discharge from hospital.

One cancer patient, who was too dehydrated to speak, was left in pain and in need of the toilet for several hours while waiting for his daughter to pick him up so he could return home to die.

“These often harrowing accounts should cause every member of staff who reads this report to pause and ask themselves if any of their patients could suffer in the same way,” Abraham said.

“I know from my caseload that in many cases the answer must be ‘yes’,” she added.

British charities urged the government to consider the report’s findings and take action.

“The inhumane treatment of older people described in this report is sickening and should send shockwaves through the NHS and government,” Michelle Mitchell, of Age UK, said.

Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said the findings mirrored their own research findings.

Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said the cases were “completely unacceptable,” but defended the health service.

“It is of course important to put these 10 examples in perspective. The NHS sees over a million people every 36 hours and the overwhelming majority say they receive good care,” he said.

Dublin: 100,000 Children Countrywide Neglected By Alcoholic Caregivers: Charity

100,000 CHILDREN COUNTRYWIDE SUFFERING FROM ALCOHOL-RELATED NEGLECT:

AT least 100,000 children across the country are suffering neglect as a direct result of their parents’ alcohol problems — with a shocking one in six child abuse cases linked to the condition. New figures revealed by Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI) show children continue to be the silent victims of the long-standing national problem.

According to the group, which released the survey findings to mark Children of Alcoholics Week, one in every 11 children under the age of 16 is being neglected because of alcohol abuse within their family.

This figure is based on almost 10,000 responses to the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children’s (ISPCC) national children’s consultation survey.

A large section of the neglect relates to issues such as not having clean clothes, school lunches or children “having to be mam or dad” to their siblings because their own parents are not capable of this responsibility.

However, it also includes issues like physical and sexual abuse — with the survey suggesting that one in six child abuse cases is directly linked to alcohol problems.

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 “Parental alcohol problems can and do have a serious impact on a child’s welfare and safety,” warned AAI director Fiona Ryan.

“As a society we deny or ignore the impact of parental problems on children, yet these children are often leading lives of quiet desperation, unseen and unheard.

“They get our attention only when the most extreme cases come to light.

“We prefer to think of these as isolated incidents, but the reality is that currently one in 11 children tells us their parents’ drinking has a negative impact on their lives.”

Highlighting the fact alcohol abuse has failed to be addressed in Ireland for decades, she added: “When adults were asked about parental alcohol use during their childhood, one in 14 said they frequently felt afraid or unsafe as children, with one in 12 witnessing alcohol-related parental conflict.”

In an attempt to address the situation, the AAI has called on the next government to carry out a national survey of all households to clarify the extent of the problem.

The group is also seeking extra funding for social workers and other staff working with children facing these difficulties, to curb the availability of alcohol and to strictly regulate its promotion.

According to EU figures, as many as nine million children in the free-market bloc are affected by family alcohol abuse, a significant number of who are also victims of violence and other physical abuse.

The AAI survey findings emerged after the World Health Organisation (WHO) said alcohol abuse is the cause of more deaths worldwide than Aids, tuberculosis or non-related violence.

The United Nations’ funded group’s Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health said up to 2.5 million die from alcohol abuse every year, the equivalent of 4% of all global deaths.

Despite these sobering findings, the health body found alcohol-control policies are weak and remain a low priority for most governments despite the heavy toll drinking takes on society.

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By J. P. Anderson:

Health campaigners have backed the Government over guidance saying under-15s should not drink a drop of alcohol, even at home.

Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson told parents an alcohol-free childhood was “the safest option” to safeguard health.

For those aged 15 to 17, any drinking should be under the watchful eye of a parent or carer or in a supervised

Environment, he said. If this age group does drink, it should be infrequent and certainly on no more than on one day a week, he added.

The guidance states the brains of children under 15 were still developing and drinking alcohol could do serious damage.

He said: “This guidance aims to support parents, give them the confidence to set boundaries and help them engage with young people about drinking and risks associated with it.

“More than 10,000 children end up in hospital every year due to drinking and research tells us that 15% of young people think it is normal to get drunk at least once a week. They are putting themselves at risk of harm to the liver, depression and damage to the developing brain.”

The guidance, which is open to consultation and could be changed, is the first of its kind for parents in England.

Health Secretary Alan Johnson said the Government had a “responsibility” to provide straightforward information for parents. “The decision about when young people should first drink alcohol is clearly best taken by their parents or carers,” he said.

“But we know that parents want more information about the harms associated with drinking to help them make this decision. Government has a responsibility to provide straightforward information and guidance, which is exactly what we are doing.”

Don Shenker, chief executive of Alcohol Concern, said the guidelines helped parents who had, for too long, received “mixed messages” about whether they should give their children a little bit of alcohol or not. “There are many more factors that influence young people’s drinking than just what their parents say. The easy availability of alcohol at pocket money prices is far more important,” he said.

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Dublin: Inadequate, Underfunded, Dysfunctional & Outdated Mental Health Care Services Must Be An Election Issue: UPDATED

POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT IN IRELAND HAS NO VISION FOR CHANGE:

Louise Carron, with Aislinn Amory, Heather Ann Cody, Christine Dobbin and Blaithin Canaty outside Leinster House asking people to ‘Get on Board for Youth Mental Health’.

Their campaign bus will be touring the State to encourage general election candidates to put youth mental health on their political agenda. The initiative is spearheaded by youth charities Headstrong, Belong To, Foraige and Inspire Ireland.

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Mental health care is treated like the Cinderella of the Irish health system, campaigners say.

A coalition of organisations is demanding political parties seeking votes in the forthcoming general election commit now to an overhaul.

Orla Barry, director of Mental Health Reform (MHR), formerly the Irish Mental Health Coalition, urged voters to make outdated mental health care an election issue with candidates ahead of the poll.

“People who are concerned about the poor quality of services available should raise this issue with election candidates – and call on them to commit to reform if elected,” she said.

One in four Irish people experiences mental health problems at some time in their lives, according to MHR.

The coalition said a report commissioned for the Department of Health four years ago – A Vision for Change – was making slow progress in shutting down old Victorian asylums and creating new community-based services.

A commitment in the report to ensure 8% of overall healthcare spending goes towards mental health by 2016 – up from the current 5% – must also be met, they insisted.

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Primary Schools Expel Disturbed Children:

By J. P. Anderson

SCHOOLS are being forced to expel disruptive children as the only way to help them access proper support services, a primary principals’ leader has revealed.

The drastic measure highlights the frustration of primary school principals over inadequate resources to deal with the growing emotional and behavioural problems among pupils. Ahead of their annual conference which begins today, Irish Primary Principals Network president Larry Fleming said these needs can not be met because of waiting lists or children falling between health services and special education supports.

He referred to a school where the principal had trouble getting help for a boy with violent behaviour.
“They have excluded the child from school because it is the only way the other children can be protected and proper support services will be put in place for the child and his family.
“As long as he is in school the health services say the school needs to deal with the problem and the Department of Education says, because a child’s needs are not strictly learning needs, no extra resources are available,” said Mr Fleming.
He said this is typical of the situation in which children with emotional issues, violent or bullying behaviour do not fit into any category covered by the department’s special needs regulations. A survey of about 800 principals found nine-out-of-10 have seen an increase in emotional disturbance and attention disorders among pupils, while half believe more pupils are depressed or behaving violently.
“If a child’s problems do not fit under the heading of learning difficulties, the school is told that nothing can be done and the health services should be called. Then you’re into waiting lists and day-to-day, meanwhile the teacher and the school may have to cope with violent, threatening and bullying behaviour,” said Mr Fleming.
He said children and their needs do not always fit into the restricted categories laid down by the department, even though the model works very well for children with diagnosed learning needs that fit into the established categories. “We also have to think of the other children who might be seriously affected by the problems of one child,” he said.
“We need to be able to call on appropriate help and support directly, no matter where that help comes from — be it play therapy, behaviour management, counselling, psychiatric services or more serious interventions,” said Mr Fleming.
The Department of Education is spending about €900 million on supports for students with special needs this year, ranging from resource teaching for those with common learning difficulties to the high-support needs of children with autism or severe behavioural disorders.

London: “Legacy Of Indifference To Child Sex Tourism Is Placing British Children At Risk” From Paedophiles: Charity

The legacy of years of indifference to child sex tourism is putting British children at risk, according to a report.

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Ecpat UK, which campaigns to stop child abuse, also warned that paedophiles convicted of offences against children abroad are escaping UK sanctions because of loopholes in the British legal system.

Home Secretary Theresa May should act to close a loophole which enables sex offenders to travel abroad for up to three days without informing the authorities, Ecpat UK said.

Director Christine Beddoe said the charity was “deeply concerned” that “the legacy of years of indifference to child sex tourism is placing British children at risk”.

“Data about British sex offenders abroad is patchy, rarely shared between authorities and it is uncertain how much ever gets on to the UK criminal records data base,” she said.

“The Government simply don’t know how many British sex offenders have been prosecuted abroad and then slip back into the UK undetected.

“Despite their ongoing risk to children and the fact that many of these individuals are known to authorities both in the UK and in the country in which the abuse took place, these individuals often fall off the radar.”

Its report – Off The Radar: Protecting Children From British Sex Offenders Who Travel – also called for a cross-Government strategy to deal effectively with the investigation and prosecution of child sexual offences committed abroad.

It went on: “We are concerned about the vulnerability of children in international schools and orphanages because of the lack of information-sharing between jurisdictions, and the fact that international organisations are unable to access the criminal records-checking procedures that would be expected as standard procedure by UK institutions.”

Ecpat UK stands for End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of children for sexual purposes.

Chicago: Energy Drinks Can Be Dangerous For Children & Teenagers Doctors Warn

By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner, Ap Medical Writer:

 

CHICAGO – Energy drinks are under-studied, overused and can be dangerous for children and teens, warns a report by doctors who say kids shouldn’t use the popular products.

The potential harms, caused mostly by too much caffeine or similar ingredients, include heart palpitations, seizures, strokes and even sudden death, the authors write in the medical journal Pediatrics. They reviewed data from the government and interest groups, scientific literature, case reports and articles in popular and trade media.

Dakota Sailor, 18, a high school senior in Carl Junction, Mo., says risks linked with energy drinks aren’t just hype.

Sailor had a seizure and was hospitalized for five days last year after drinking two large energy drinks — a brand he’d never tried before. He said his doctor thinks caffeine or caffeine-like ingredients may have been to blame.

The report says some cans have four to five times more caffeine than soda, and Sailor said some kids he knows “drink four or five of them a day. That’s just dumb.”

Sailor has sworn off the drinks and thinks other kids should, too.

The report’s authors want pediatricians to routinely ask patients and their parents about energy drink use and to advise against drinking them.

“We would discourage the routine use” by children and teens, said Dr. Steven Lipshultz, pediatrics chairman at the University of Miami‘s medical school. He wrote the report with colleagues from that center.

The report says energy drinks often contain ingredients that can enhance the jittery effects of caffeine or that can have other side effects including nausea and diarrhea. It says they should be regulated as stringently as tobacco, alcohol and prescription medicines.

“For most children, adolescents, and young adults, safe levels of consumption have not been established,” the report said.

Introduced more than 20 years ago, energy drinks are the fastest growing U.S. beverage market; 2011 sales are expected to top $9 billion, the report said. It cites research suggesting that about one-third of teens and young adults regularly consume energy drinks. Yet research is lacking on risk from long-term use and effects in kids — especially those with medical conditions that may increase the dangers, the report said.

The report comes amid a crackdown on energy drinks containing alcohol and caffeine, including recent Food and Drug Administration warning letters to manufacturers and bans in several states because of alcohol overdoses.

The report focuses on nonalcoholic drinks but emphasizes that drinking them along with alcohol is dangerous.

The American Association of Poison Control Centers adopted codes late last year to start tracking energy drink overdoses and side effects nationwide; 677 cases occurred from October through December; so far, 331 have been reported this year.

Most 2011 cases involved children and teens. Of the more than 300 energy drink poisonings this year, a quarter of them involved kids younger than 6, according to a data chart from the poison control group.

That’s a tiny fraction of the more than 2 million poisonings from other substances reported to the group each year. But the chart’s list of reported energy drink-related symptoms is lengthy, including seizures, hallucinations, rapid heart rate, chest pain, high blood pressure and irritability, but no deaths.

Monday’s paper doesn’t quantify drink-related complications or deaths. It cites other reports on a few deaths in Europe of teens or young adults who mixed the drinks with alcohol, or who had conditions like epilepsy that may have increased the risks.

Maureen Storey, senior vice president of science policy at the American Beverage Association, an industry group, said the report “does nothing more than perpetuate misinformation” about energy drinks.

Many of the drinks contain much less caffeine than coffee from popular coffeehouses, and caffeine amounts are listed on many of the products, she said in a written statement.

Caffeine is safe, but those who are sensitive to it can check the labels, she said.

A clinical report on energy drinks is expected soon from the American Academy of Pediatrics that may include guidelines for doctors.

Dr. Marcie Schneider, an adolescent medicine specialist in Greenwich, Conn., and member of the academy’s nutrition committee, praised Monday’s report for raising awareness about the risks.

“These drinks have no benefit, no place in the diet of kids,” Schneider said.

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Cramlington, Northumberland: Coroner Warns About Dangers Of Mephedrone Drug After Double Suicide

A coroner has warned about the dangers of the drug mephedrone after two young men who were discovered hanging were later found to have taken it.

 

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Friends Christopher Harrington, 20, and Kieran Kenny, 19, hanged themselves in woodland near their homes in Cramlington, Northumberland, last July.

The schoolmates, who had both worked in the local McDonalds, were found to have enough alcohol in their systems to theoretically put them well over the drink-drive limit.

Assistant deputy coroner for Northumberland Paul Dunn told an inquest at Wansbeck Hospital that both were found to have mephedrone in their systems as well, though it was not possible to say how much they had taken, or when.

He issued a warning to young people that the drug, known as miaow miaow and which was legal at the time, has been linked to many suicides.

Mr Dunn said: “It’s quite clear both men had taken mephedrone. The police have carried out extensive inquiries in relation to that, looking at telephones, computers, and obviously speaking at length to their friends – I stress it was not illegal to possess or take the drug at the time – to establish what happened.”

He said in this case there was nothing specific to say the drug caused both men – who left notes to their families and friends – to kill themselves. He added: “Clearly, I have a responsibility to the wider public for them to be aware of the risks involved in taking this particular drug.”

Last June, all pathologists and coroners were circulated a warning from a private forensic lab which said around 50% of the suicides by hanging or shooting that it had dealt with in the first half of 2010 involved people who had recently taken mephedrone, he said.

“It could be that the ‘come down’ is more pronounced from these drugs than other stimulants, for example ecstasy,” he said. “There is growing evidence to suggest that mephedrone or miaow miaow could cause suicidal tendencies.”

Mr Dunn, who recorded a verdict that both men took their own lives, added: “I stress very firmly that there is no evidence to suggest that (taking mephedrone) had an influence in the decision that either Christopher or Kieran took on that occasion.”

Dublin: Wave Of Younger Children Now Suffering From Eating Disorders: Research

CHILDREN as young as five are falling victim to eating disorders, according to alarming new findings. www.teenline.ie & www.spunout.ie & www.letsomeoneknow.ie  www.3ts.ie & www.aware.ie

A combination of poor parenting and the growing influence of the media and social networking sites are blamed by experts as the main reasons for the disturbing rise in the number of pre-teens suffering from disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating.

The Eating Disorder Resource Centre of Ireland says cases of children as young as seven and eight suffering full-blown anorexia, meaning they reduce their food intake to the point where they become starved, have come to its attention.

Also, cases of anorexia among children are not confined, as is widely perceived, to girls. In one distressing case, a five-year-old boy had become so obsessed with his appearance, he developed the illness.

Suzanne Horgan, director and founder of the Dublin-based resource centre, said: “One of the major trends amongst eating disorders is that sufferers are getting younger and younger.

“The media must take a lot of the blame for this for sending out messages of the importance of appearance to seriously impressionable people.

“Parents too, particularly mothers, need to set proper examples to their children.

“For example, a woman should not watch a weight-loss programme on TV with their children present. And if a woman looks in the mirror and says something negative about her own appearance with her child in earshot, the child will absorb what she says.

“It’s particularly important for parents to act responsibly when their kids are very young, because by the age of seven a child’s personality has been defined. And kids are developing a lot more quickly too. It’s not unheard of for girls of nine and 10 to have periods, because the levels of oestrogen in food are bringing puberty on more quickly.

“There are now cases of seven and eight-year-olds with full-blown anorexia.

“I recently received a call from a lady who was distressed about her friend’s son, who had developed anorexia. She told me that although he was just five, he was vomiting and weighing himself repeatedly.

“That really scared me.”

* The Eating Disorder Resource Centre of Ireland delivers affordable resources, including therapy, education, training, information, advice, support and care to individuals experiencing eating disorders. Visit: www.eatingdisorders.ie