Majella Moynihan
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Reporting on child welfare and homelessness nominated for Mary Raftery Prize
- Social Affairs
- November 5, 2020, 19:59
Irish Times reporting on child welfare and homelessness has been nominated for the 2019 Mary Raftery Prize, awarded annually to outstanding social aff(...)

Radio review of 2019: As RTÉ mourned Gaybo, it was tearing itself apart
- Music
- December 7, 2019, 05:00
In a year when Irish radio, like so much traditional media, continued to face online competition and shrinking finances, the experience of two station(...)

Drew Harris says Majella Moynihan case only one on record
- Crime & Law
- September 18, 2019, 11:01
The Majella Moynihan case is the only example of disciplinary proceedings against a female Garda member who became pregnant while unmarried, Garda Com(...)

Is Drew Harris making necessary change or making gardaí paranoid and confused?
- Crime & Law
- September 7, 2019, 02:00
One year ago this week, Drew Harris, formerly the deputy chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, became Commissioner of An Gar(...)

Dismissed gay garda supports Fianna Fáil call for State apology
- Crime & Law
- August 9, 2019, 03:03
The Government should apologise to a former Garda member who was dismissed from the force because of suspected “homosexual activity”, Fianna Fáil has (...)

1982: I was a garda. I was gay. I lost my job
- People
- July 20, 2019, 06:00
‘I was a good policeman, thrown on the scrapheap. I want them to acknowledge the reason’ Liam was in his Dublin Garda station in 1982, about to hi(...)

Why the ancient Greeks didn’t make a big deal of penis size
- Culture
- July 13, 2019, 05:00
In the brilliantly titled Fig Reveal, Cork’s Crawford Gallery recently supervised the removal of fig leaves from its Canova casts. The statues – of Ap(...)

Majella Moynihan continues to speak very highly of the support she received from her Garda colleagues, especially other women, while efforts were bein(...)

Ireland, 1984: A year of fierce debates and ‘mounting evils’
- Heritage
- July 6, 2019, 06:00
The year 1984 became notorious for a number of stories involving women, pregnancy outside marriage, and their treatment by society, church and State(...)

Garda cases similar to Majella Moynihan’s identified, says Drew Harris
- Crime & Law
- June 26, 2019, 22:08
The Garda has identified and is actively investigating a number of cases similar to that of Majella Moynihan, the former Garda who faced dismissal ove(...)