Law – Ideas in ALL

Author: Dr Oliver Bartlett, : Assistant Professor of Law, Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University

Research Stream: Social Lives

In October 2022 the Department of Justice published the Sale of Alcohol Bill. The publicly announced purpose of this legislation was to reform Ireland’s sprawling and disparate alcohol licensing rules and to bring Ireland’s nighttime economy closer to that of other major European cities. However, it emerged that the potential public health problems raised by a liberalisation of alcohol licensing were ignored at the highest political level. Based on a report launched on 20^th October 2023 at Maynooth University, this post will summarise and contextualise the children’s rights impacts of the reform, which also appear to have been neglected.

Social Structures

Authors: Gerard Maguire – Nottingham Trent University, DSA Ireland & Katie Donnellan – Maynooth University

Group of Indigenous Women at a protest holding a large red sign with the wording in white font 'Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls #MMIWG' — Figure 1

The 2021 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples will focus on the theme “Leaving no one behind: Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract” and takes place on the 9^th of August. Various groups and peoples are redesigning a new social contract that serves the interest of “We, the peoples”, as per the preamble of the United Nations Charter. However, it appears that in certain instances, there are some people being left behind. The plight of Indigenous Women in the United States (US) and Canada is one that receives little attention or media spotlight. The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) is a human-rights crisis that disproportionately affects Indigenous Peoples in the US and Canada.

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