The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
DUP LEADER Peter Robinson has dismissed the Eames-Bradley proposals for addressing the past and accused Lord Eames and Denis Bradley and other members of their group of engaging in an exercise in moral equivalence and ambivalence.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
NEARLY no-one noticed, but an “arcane, archaic, unenforceable and outdated law” in Northern Ireland could have been heading down the path to abolition last Wednesday in the House of Lords. Instead, any change to the law on blasphemous libel here is starting out on a new route to Stormont, where it will end up in the hands of the first Minister for Policing and Justice. And so it came to...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The government has been advised to set up an independent watchdog for the House of Lords and ban peers from paid lobbying in a package of measures aimed at ending a culture of "peers for hire". An independent inquiry by the former Archbishop of Armagh, crossbencher Lord Eames, today recommended measures including asking peers to sign an undertaking to abide by the new code of conduct on...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Former Archbishop of Armagh, Lord Eames, has unveiled what are being described as "radical" reforms to House of Lords expenses. These amount to setting up an independent commissioner to investigate complaints, and a new Code of Conduct aimed at preventing any further abuses of the kind perpetrated by Lords Taylor and Truscott, who were suspended from the House after taking cash to lobby...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
'No place in House of Lords for peers for hire,' says chair Lord Eames Peers are to be banned from taking money for parliamentary lobbying under proposals published today. A group of peers tasked with reviewing the House of Lords code of conduct urged that members should not be able to profit financially from their position. The review, chaired by former archbishop of Armagh Lord Eames, was set up...
The Daily Rant (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The House of Lords is set to give its blessing to the repeal of libel laws first passed over 700 years ago. The changes repeal laws - dating to 1275 - which allow libel and sedition to be prosecuted in criminal courts. The laws have long been regarded as something of an undesirable and anachronistic anomaly in UK law and open to abuse; Geoffrey Robertson QC - who successfully defended Salman Rushdie...
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
guardian.co.uk MPs' expenses: Tony McNulty faces rebuke over second home claimsguardian.co.ukPeers will be told today by Lord Eames that they cannot continue to work for lobbying firms and work in the House of Lords. He has been asked to review the …MPs' anger mounts over expenses reportIndependentSir Christopher Kelly reforms 'could create Commons of the rich'Times [...]
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
By Suzanne McGonagle Irish News 12/10/09 A future Conservative Party government in Britain will “bin” a report addressing the legacy of the Troubles, one of its authors has claimed. Denis Bradley of the Consultative Group on the Past has warned that failure to address problems of the past risks creating a “new generation of victims”. The former vice-chairman of the Northern...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
Irish Times 4 August 09 ONE OF the proposers of the controversial Eames-Bradley report payment of £12,000 for every death in the Northern Ireland Troubles said today he would fight on for the payment to be made . Denis Bradley, co-chair with Lord Eames of the Consultative Group on the Past which made the proposals, is still behind the idea, despite the former Church of Ireland primate having...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
Derry Journal 14 July 2009 Denis Bradley, the co-chair of the body set up to find ways of dealing with the legacy of the Troubles, says dealing with Northern Ireland's violent past is costing a "fortune" . The former priest, who along with former Church of Ireland primate Lord Eames co-chairs the Consultative Group on the Past, says various methods of investigating the past – including...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Below I have posted a few thoughts on collective guilt following Rev Harold Miller’s comments. Miller himself of course made mention of what is fast becoming the central religious text of the collective guilt brigade: the Eames Bradley report. The high priest of collective guilt (the noble lord himself) once proudly pronounced at the start of the report “The Group has endeavoured to remain...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
News Letter 11 July 2009 THE proposer of controversial payments for Northern Ireland terrorism victims yesterday said it might have been a mistake to put a value on lives lost. Lord Robin Eames added that the £12,000 recognition sum was based on an equivalent grant already paid out by the Irish government, but admitted matters could have been handled differently. Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 26/06/2009
BBC 25 June 09 The government has invited people to formally respond to the recommendations in the Eames Bradley report on Northern Ireland's past. In January the group published their report on dealing with the legacy of conflict. The consultation will run until October. Lord Eames and Denis Bradley chaired the consultative group Its most controversial recommendation - making a payment to the family's...
Thinking Anglicans (Free subscription) | 19/06/2009
From Ireland: The Rt Revd the Lord Eames of Armagh, OM, gave the Annual Lecture of the College of St George, Windsor Castle on 26 May 2009. Speaking on the theme of the mechanics of reconciliation, he drew from his...
The Lead (Free subscription) | 19/06/2009
Robin Eames, the retired primate of the Church of Ireland, or Rt Revd the Lord Eames of Armagh, as he is called when he is at home, was chair of the panel that produced the Windsor Report. In a recent lecture, he spoke of reconciliation and looked back at his committee's handiwork.
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