The Ditch stands with all those doing what they can to confront genocide and our state’s complicity in it. Nell Buckley, Emma O'Grady, Jane Windey and others appear in Ennis District Court on September 10, and The Ditch will stand with them. We encourage others to join us.

This is what happens when it’s left up to them. Children’s Health Ireland was in front of the Public Accounts Committee today. It still refuses to publish an internal report that concluded a consultant enriched himself through a scheme that delayed operations for sick children. It said, according to RTÉ, it “has not been evasive” about the refusal to make the report public – a report ‘which has been seen by RTÉ News’ (and similarly not published.) When The Ditch had another report on Children’s Health Ireland, which found nearly 80 percent of children’s hip operations in one Dublin hospital were unnecessary, we published it. We were criticised for it. Fine Gael’s Helen McEntee said parents ‘certainly don’t want parts of an unpublished document published elsewhere, not coming through the minister’ Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. Micheál Martin, defending his government’s inertia on the scandal, said, ‘We can’t go on a draft report that gets circulated to The Ditch.’ When given the choice the state keeps these documents private. We’ll keep doing what the state doesn’t want us to do.