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Did I ever tell ye about the time #Gemma4Aras18 contacted me by DM to instruct me not to use the #MaryBoyle hashtag? 😂😂😂 #SueMeGemma
#MaryBoyle's cousins @joecraig79 & @JosieCraig1 also have stories about #Gemma4Aras18's behaviour at that time & can confirm I tried to calm things down. Causes are more important than personalities & at that time GO'D was Mary Boyle's best chance for justice. #SueMeGemma
That being the case, I advised both @JosieCraig1 & (especially) @joecraig79 to let it go, despite the injustice of being excluded from GO'D's campaign for their cousin #MaryBoyle. I think that was the right advice at that time, but things have changed! #SueMeGemma
Thread: In 2014, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child examined the Holy See's human rights record. Regarding #Ireland it noted patterns of 'torture and other cruel or degrading treatment' and 'sale of children, trafficking & abduction' #papalvisit tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treat…
UNCRC noted Vatican's failure to investigate the arbitrary incarceration and 'slavery-like' conditions of girls and women in Magdalene Laundries 
In addition to providing accountability and redress, the Committee urged the Vatican to take 'all necessary measures to ensure that women and children are not arbitrarily confined for any reason whatsoever in Catholic institutions in the future'.
This was 2003, just after I’d successfully campaigned for Ferns Inquiry, the 1st investigation of clerical abuse in an Irish diocese. The Church fought tooth & nail against its establishment. This attempt to suppress information is no surprise #Stand4Truth irishtimes.com/news/social-af…
We were campaigning for a full inquiry into abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin at the time. The Church was still denying that abuse was commonplace & that it knew about it & had covered it up. It argued that Canon (church) Law was superior to the law of the state. #Stand4Truth
It was also the the same period within which the Vatican asserted diplomatic immunity to block my civil action against the Pope to try force them to reveal what they knew about the priest who had raped me and dozens of other boys. #Stand4Truth
#FreeAssange Update [possibly]
Official Update #FreeAssange #Unity4J
URGENT ALERT: @Lenin Moreno Confirms he spoke to UK authorities re Julian this week (contradicting prior Ecuadorian Embassy stmt). Says his 'only' demand is that @JulianAssange NOT be executed. Armed police onsite outside Embassy NOW. LIVE FEED m.facebook.com/story.php?stor… #Unity4J
