Author: Gavin Sheridan

Grangegorman Board minutes 1956

These are the minutes of meetings of the board of Grangegorman Mental Hospital from 1956.


Grangegorman Board minutes 1954

These are the minutes of meetings of the board of Grangegorman Mental Hospital from 1954.


Protecting your data – Science Gallery event

Readers,

Wojtek Bogusz, a digital security consultant for Frontline Defenders, who provides training and advice to human rights activists on how to increase privacy and freedom of communication in repressive environments will be giving a talk tonight in the Science Gallery Dublin. If you’re interested in attending please book on the website. I will be there to introduce Wojtek. It’s very well worth attending if you’re interested in things like Wifi security and protecting yourself from hacking.

Gavin

Commission of inquiry on mental illness: 1966 report

It doesn’t seem to have received much publicity, but the HSE has started publishing historical documents, particularly from Grangegorman Mental Hospital in the 1950s. Many PDFs are not OCRd so I’ve started the process. The documents are quite poorly scanned so the OCR won’t be as good as it could be. But it’s a start. All mental hospital records from this era should be digitised.

Here is the Commission of inquiry on mental illness: 1966 report, which was already subject to OCR by the HSE. Thank you.



Cabinet Agendas 1998

I’ve published these before but now I’ve combined them into year documents and subjected them to an OCR process. These are the Cabinet agendas for all Cabinet meetings from April to December 1998. Cabinet Agendas become available after 10 years, under Section 19 of the FOI Act (unlike in other countries where they can appear as soon as a few days after).

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Taoiseach diary 2003

As part of an ongoing process. Redactions marked ‘A’ are what the department believes to be “personal information” as defined in Section 28 of the FOI act. Entries marked ‘B’ relate to the Taoiseach’s private papers as a member of the Oireachtas. Regards ‘B’ redactions – the cover letter from the FOI officer states “Section 46 of the Act states, inter alia, that the Act does not apply to records relating to any of the private papers of a member of the Oireachtas and as such I consider that the Act does not apply to these entries.”



Minister for Environment diary 2009

As part of an ongoing process. This is the appointments diary of the Minister for the Environment for 2009. Some entries in Minister’s diary were deleted as they related to Govt. meetings and associated records (s.19), Parliamentary matters (s.22) and personal Information of parties other than the requester (s.28).