Maeve O'Rourke's guest appearances

Maeve O'Rourke

The Women's Podcast

Bantercast

Una Mullally

Paul Howard

Eimear McBride

Donald Trump

Michelle Obama

Hillary Clinton

Rebecca Traister

Eve Ensler

Patti Smith

Sinéad Burke

Tess Holliday

Bernie Sanders

Elizabeth Gilbert

Glennon Doyle

Gretchen Rubin

OwlTail

For years now, campaigners and activists have been calling on the government to prevent records compiled by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes from being sealed for 30 years.  Proposed legislation related to the commission’s records, the Records Bill, was brought forward by Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman and the debate continues this week in Dail. Organisations such as the Clann Project, Justice for Magdalenes and the Adoption Rights Alliance are all against the records being sealed. They say it will result in people being unable to access information “disappeared" relatives or babies "buried in unmarked graves." In today's episode we asked human rights lawyer Maeve O’Rourke to talk to us about the issues and about her long battle together with with the Clann Project to ensure that women survivors of human rights abuses in Ireland get access to their personal information. Also with us was Mary Harney, a woman now in her seventies who was born in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork. Mary told us her life story and explained the devastating repercussions of being denied access to information about her identity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For years now, campaigners and activists have been calling on the government to prevent records compiled by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes from being sealed for 30 years.  Proposed legislation related to the commission’s records, the Records Bill, was brought forward by Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman and the debate continues this week in Dail. Organisations such as the Clann Project, Justice for Magdalenes and the Adoption Rights Alliance are all against the records being sealed. They say it will result in people being unable to access information “disappeared" relatives or babies "buried in unmarked graves." In today's episode we asked human rights lawyer Maeve O’Rourke to talk to us about the issues and about her long battle together with with the Clann Project to ensure that women survivors of human rights abuses in Ireland get access to their personal information. Also with us was Mary Harney, a woman now in her seventies who was born in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork. Mary told us her life story and explained the devastating repercussions of being denied access to information about her identity.<br/><p> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

Ep 441 Sealing The Records: Maeve O'Rourke & Mary Harney

One of the most enjoyable Banters we've conducted during our trips here, there and everywhere with Other Voices was this conversation with campaigner and activist Maeve O'Rourke. Recorded in London in April 2013, Maeve spoke to us about her work with  the Justice for the Magdalenes campaign, her interest in civil liberties and human rights and how she first got involved with campaigning.

Bantercast 16 Other Voices: Maeve O'Rourke