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Supreme Seafoods, Thomas Cooney
Supreme Seafoods, Thomas Cooney
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Fintan Barrett’s four year old daughter would often turn to him while playing and exclaim “what to do, Daddy?” Indeed, this very question of what to do next had frequently swirled around his own head as he considered the options that were now available to him and his business Supreme Seafoods. Some commentators had described the recent economic crisis as ‘a perfect storm’ and that analogy was particularly apt for someone operating in the fish industry. Although Fintan’s family had worked in the fishing industry for many generations, whether out at sea or processing and selling fish on land, the …
Learning To Cry Out Loud, Mairie Cregan
Learning To Cry Out Loud, Mairie Cregan
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
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From Family To Care: Issues For The Child, Paul Bailey
From Family To Care: Issues For The Child, Paul Bailey
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
It is still widely held that the traditional or conventional nuclear family is the only suitable environment in which children can grow up and that any deviation from this norm puts children at a considerable disadvantage (Kahan, 1989). The vulnerability of children and young people coming into residential care in Ireland due to their dysfunctional family experiences, and how coming into residential care and their subsequent experience therein can sometimes further increase this level of vulnerability for the adolescent child has been well documented. This paper discusses the question: What can we, as residential child care workers and agencies, do …