For the last 29 years, I have been engaged in legal activism both in legal practice and through my role as a consumer and human rights advocate. That advocacy has brought me into contact with many public officials across the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia. It has also brought me into close contact with journalists, many of whom were keen to report the detriments suffered by individuals and how authorities intended to resolve these deficits, or not as the case may be.

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

Since 2022, I have been considering and drafting my proposed EU Regulation which deals with the problem of contaminated cabin air, which may be found on some of the flights you may take.

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.

I return to the latest in my series about Ireland’s proposed National Centre for Research & Remembrance or the NCRR. I’ve waited for a longer period than normal between episodes in this series of podcasts, as I have been waiting for a response to my letters from the Minister;

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

We all like to think that the flight that we take is one of the safest and most efficient ways to move around the world. Yet, for over 70 years there is a hidden issue which affects the health and comfort of passengers and crew: contaminated cabin air quality, often referred to as “fume events” or “aerotoxic syndrome”.

Since 2006, I have been involved in the work and advocacy on aircraft cabin air quality.

Once I published 'A Magdalene Rose', I began 'The Journey Home', not just for the book, but to bring an Irish society recognition of those within the book, because for so long, for some 94 years, their names & presence were all invisible.

There are so many aspects to my book, A Magdalene Rose. It is a story that is rich in people and places, all with a story to tell.

On this date, 54 years ago, Mary Julia Breheny died within the infamous High Park Magdalene Laundry in Dublin having spent over 40 years in that Institution. Frank Brehany (See Note 1), has today formally launched a bid to bring his draft Bill, also known as “Mary’s Law”, before members of the Oireachtas in the hope that he can secure support or sponsorship for this important initiative.

The question of accountability for those who were made victims and survivors of Ireland's abusive institutional system remains a profoundly complex and morally charged issue.

Those who have been following my blog, or through the social networks, will have been witness to all that I have written about my book, 'A Magdalene Rose', since May of this year.

Both before and after I published 'A Magdalene Rose', I have been talking about the failure of four people's Human Rights and their Rights contained within the Irish Constitution.

It's been a roller-coaster year, for all the right reasons! At the beginning of 2025, I was in the final throes of completing the development and copy edits of 'A Magdalene Rose' and finalising the design of the book and its front cover and dust-jacket.