The narrative of social justice and consumer rights in the European Union, the UK and Ireland is punctuated by the determined efforts of individuals who have dedicated their lives to championing fairness and equity.

How to navigate the Institutional Silence: 5 Essential Books on Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes.

The history of the Magdalene Laundries is a complex and often painful chapter in Irish social history.

I return to the growing development of the National Centre for Research and Remembrance, or the NCRR, and examine how the failure of non-recurrence has all the potential to fail the very concept of social justice the centre was intended to deliver.

Since the late 1990s, I have been involved in not just representing people, but in the task of legal activism.

12 Months ago, Frank Brehany’s latest book, ‘A Magdalene Rose’, enjoyed its Global Book Launch in Monmouth in South Wales. The success of that launch was followed by 3 successful launch events in the Republic of Ireland in September 2025.

This is the 7th article and podcast & article that I have produced about Ireland’s National Centre for Research & Remembrance (NCRR), seeking as I do, to highlight the silver-lining for this great endeavour.