A new report by the Immigrant Council of Ireland details the racist violence and harassment endured on a daily basis by migrants. By Eadaoin O'Sullivan.

In the school year 2009-2010 the State paid out more than €107 million to fee-paying schools to cover the costs of salaries for teachers, clerical officers and special needs assistants in those schools. In the same year, more than €12 million was given to these schools in capital grants, grants for assistive technologies, and grants for computers and other ICTs. There are 56 fee-paying schools in the State.

Deliberative processes are key if Ireland is to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, according to directors of Social Justice Ireland Seán Healy and Brigid Reynolds.

Muhammad Younis, originally from Pakistan, has been awarded €86,000 by a Rights Commissioner, following an official complaint about alleged breaches of employment rights. However Mr Younis’s ex-employer, Amjad Hussein - trading as Poppadom - has not yet paid the award. The Labour Court yesterday ordered Hussein to pay the compensation. 

Dean Baker recently released his latest book, The End of Loser Liberalism, under a Creative Commons license and as a free download. Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and a regular contributor to the Guardian, Truthout and the Huffington Post. 

Introducing the book on his website, Baker writes:

On Tuesday (16 August), Fintan O’Toole wrote in the Irish Times that “The State is on the brink of signing away almost all of the [oil and gas] resources we have left on terms that are by far the worst in the developed world.

The "unprecedented" release of documents relating to Fr Andrew Ronan by the Vatican to "assist those in the public who wish to study the matter carefully" has little to do with transparency, and more to do with its having its hand forced. 

The Vatican today (17 August) released a tranche of files (embedded below) relating to a priest – Fr Andrew Ronan - accused of sexual abuse in both Ireland and the United States. The files were released after an attempt by a man (named in court papers as John V. Doe) who says he was abused by Ronan to hold the Vatican liable for the abuse.