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Mary Robinson returning to Ireland

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w … 061099.ece

From The Sunday Times
Colin Coyle
March 14, 2010

Mary Robinson is returning to live in Ireland after 13 years in New York.

The former Irish president and UN commissioner for human rights said yesterday she was looking forward to spending more time with her four grandchildren but emphasised that she would not be retiring. Robinson is to continue campaigning for “climate justice”.

The Ballina-born politician, who turns 66 in May, has kept a home in Pontoon, Co Mayo. She has been the chancellor of Trinity College Dublin for several years and is now likely to spend more time at the institution.

Robinson, who described the Celtic Tiger as “sheer selfish stupidity” in an interview in The Guardian newspaper, was last year awarded a medal of honour by US president Barack Obama, the highest civilian honour in America.

However, she is believed to have been hurt by criticism by conservative Israeli groups who claimed she had shown “a consistent bias against Israel” and failed to prevent anti-semitic dialogue at an anti-racism conference in Durban in 2001.

Robinson has called the criticism “unjust and unwarranted”.

She said yesterday that instead of working with governments that had failed the poor, she planned to work with “civil society”.

“[By that] I mean churches, business, trade unions, the normal environmental groups, development groups, human rights groups, youth groups — as never before we have to build up the pressure,” she said.

In recent years, Robinson has become a member of The Elders, a group of 12 eminent leaders who try to influence world affairs.

P.S. Given the statements:-

[She said yesterday that instead of working with governments that had failed the poor, she planned to work with “civil society”.

“[By that] I mean churches, business, trade unions, the normal environmental groups, development groups, human rights groups, youth groups — as never before we have to build up the pressure,” she said.]

Would VLPS members perhaps agree that former president of Ireland Mary Robinson should become active on behalf of the VLPS and ‘build up the pressure’ on the Irish Government to ‘decommission’ the ‘Irish Law Society’ & ‘The Irish Bar Council’ as both these ‘elitist organisations’ have ‘failed’ to protect the Irish public and “civil society”?  J.F.

They are all connected, and look after each other. Just like their colleagues in the Irish Government. Cesspools of corruption and evil. I wish we could find just one competent and just solicitor who would be prepared to challenge these dreadful people.

Regards, Setanta.