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[Irish Examiner] - Speaking in Dublin yesterday, John Lonergan said MacArthur may have been released before now had there not been a fear within political circles of being seen to be "soft on crime". "Malcolm MacArthur had a very high profile from day one," said Mr
Lonergan says real test will be putting in place necessary resources
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[Irish Times] - John Lonergan, former governor of Mountjoy prison, speaking at a conference on how best to fund services for children, said if the State was serious about vindicating children's rights it must be serious about resourcing and supporting them to ensure
Call for resources to back children's rights
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[Irish Times] - Speaking at a conference in Dublin on how best to fund services for children, John Lonergan, the former governor of Mountjoy, said the campaign to pass the children's rights referendum would be the “easiest” bit. “It is only the beginning, a foundation.
Former Mountjoy governor calls for research into prison violence
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[Irish Times] - Speaking after a mental health conference in Portlaoise, John Lonergan said there was a lack of data on the extent of such violence in prisons because it was not in the interest of the establishment to quantify those problems. Overcrowding was a
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