Ms Maggie Beirne This is Me

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1. 1. www.daveanderson.org.uk

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   Published on: 3/12/2008   Last Visited: 6/14/2008

   Evidence given by Miss Maggie Beirne, Director, Committee on the Administration of Justice.
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   Miss Beirne: When the Historic Enquiries Team was first launched there was a lot of uncertainty in the early stages because there was uncertainty about what deaths they were going to cover, what their terms of reference would be and so on.
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   Miss Beirne: No, I think this was a very genuine attempt.
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   Miss Beirne: I have mixed views.It was rather unfortunate that the current Police Ombudsman commented negatively about dealing with the past before he had taken up office and, rightly or wrongly, there is a certain questioning about whether he did not really think the Office should be dealing with cases in the past and now, surprise, surprise, he has agreed his earlier analysis that they should not be engaging with cases from the past.At the same time, clearly when it was set up it was not envisaged the Police Ombudsman's Office would take on the level of investigation they are carrying out and it was essentially to look forward to new cases coming to them, though there might be some grave and exceptional ones.Now that has understandably been interpreted to mean all deaths in which there may have been police involvement that is stacking up into a very, very large number of cases.It is a very genuine problem that he is now juggling with.
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   Miss Beirne: I do not think so.
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   Miss Beirne: Absolutely.

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   Published on: 2/18/2008   Last Visited: 2/18/2008

   Telling the public that Maggie Beirne is knowledgeable in human rights is like saying that John F. Kennedy was an American democrat.
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   During this period Maggie Beirne has been a member of the full time staff member of the Administration of Justice, this job we are told involves research and advocacy particularly related to policing and human rights in Belfast, Ireland.
   
   For those who do not know; Ireland has been a war zone for nearly 87 years, first with the fighting for independence from British rule, followed by years of fighting among the northern and southern Irish to become separate states.The situation changed in 1998 in what is called the Good Friday Agreement which provides for all of Ireland to become unified, and to cooperate with the British to eradicate terrorists, this plan is currently being implemented.Through all of this period factions of the Irish Republic Army the IRA committed acts of terror on the sector of Ireland which remained part of the United Kingdom they also committed acts of terror in England itself . When all of this started Bin Laden was not even born.
   
   Maggie has been a staff member working on the policing for the Committee on the Administration of Justice since 1995 in places that would make Buxton look like Disney World.
   
   She has been tasked with coordinating a major comparative piece of research into policing jurisdictions beyond Northern Ireland which included Australia, Belgium, Canada, El Salvador, Netherlands, South Africa and Spain.She edited the subsequent report "Human rights on duty".Which outlines the principles quote for "Better policing, international lessons for Northern Ireland" this report has been widely used by Human rights groups around the world as a model for policing change. e.g. Timor L'Este, Mozambique and Afghanistan.
   
   As if this were not enough she has published the following; in 1982 "Complaints against the police" in 1985 "Consultation between the police and the public" in1988 "Plastic bullets and the Law" in 1996 "Misrule of the Law" in 1997 for PATTERN "Human rights on duty, Principles for a better policing-international lessons for northern Ireland"
   
   This is a lady who has worked since 1981 to the present, writing and participating in a major way on policing and policing practices as it pertains to human rights and the public.
   
   So yeah, we would like to pay for her passage to come here for the meetings.In fact we demand it, since we want the truth now, we are tired of lies.
   
   Maggie Beirne will bring 4 major and necessary qualities in to the equation 1.She will be completely impartial.2.She is fearless and will tell us the truth and the International Community will listen to her.3.She can write, so we will be seeing reports from this commission, waiting for our local boys to write reports takes a lot of patience, on both sides.And 4.Her experience in these matters makes all the other Commissioners' accomplishments look meagre in this particular area of expertise.

3. 3. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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   Published on: 1/31/2008   Last Visited: 1/31/2008

   CAJ director Maggie Beirne told the parliamentary Committee that her group understands Mr Coulter's decision to resign "was not taken lightly".