#CounsellingNotes
I emailed these yesterday

#CounsellingNotes
#GazanStudents
#DRCC

Useful deflection from #TripleLock

#FloodingTheZone
October 23, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Counselling should be a safe space. Survivors shouldn’t have to fear it could be used against them in court.

George Gibney’s defence sought the complainants’ #CounsellingNotes before trial >>

www.thejournal.ie/george-gibne...

#RethinkingRelevance #FactsNotMyths #AccessToJustice
George Gibney's legal team sought counselling notes for the four complainants
The prosecution did not consider the counselling notes relevant to the case – but the defence wanted them to be used.
www.thejournal.ie
October 13, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Join us for a #RelevanceSymposium exploring the role of #SexualHistory and #CounsellingNotes in sexual offence proceedings.

🗓️ Thursday 1st October, 17:30-19:30

📍 Jury Assembly Room, Central Criminal Court, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8

>> www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-releva...
The Relevance Test in Practice: Evidence, Justice and Survivors' Rights
A symposium exploring the relevance of sexual history and counselling notes in sexual offence proceedings
www.eventbrite.ie
August 20, 2026 at 6:01 PM
July 4, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Govt’s & Civil Law Bill that still allows #counsellingnotes be used in trials is voted thru at 2nd stage. We will campaign for amendment to ban therapy notes in court at 3rd stage. Watch this space.
January 28, 2026 at 8:43 PM
The Govt is going ahead with a Bill on Thursday that still allows #counsellingnotes of SA victims be accessed in trials - only change being a Judge will decide. This keeps the chilling effect, forcing many to choose trial or therapy. This trauma, misogyny must end. Join our protest. Lobby your TD.
January 16, 2026 at 2:56 PM
"Healing should not be a liability"

Survivor and advocate Paula Doyle writes about having her own #CounsellingNotes used against her in court - years of trauma responses reframed by the defence as inconsistency and instability

www.thejournal.ie/readme/sexua...

#SurvivorRights #SurvivorSupport
Counselling notes in court cases: Survivors shouldn't have to choose between healing and justice
Paula Doyle and Lisa Molloy argue that therapy records should never be used in court and that survivors deserve both privacy and justice.
www.thejournal.ie
July 17, 2026 at 3:16 PM
We support the Section 19A amendments but the Bill still has gaps & Report Stage is the time to close them.

Read our op-ed in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social ⬇️

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

#JusticeForSurvivors #FactsNotMyths #SexualViolence #CounsellingNotes
The counselling room is not a court room: Bill must protect sexual violence survivors' right to fair trial
Rape Crisis Ireland supports the changes to the law on counselling notes, but they need more work
www.irishexaminer.com
June 10, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Hazel Behan spoke at an Oireachtas Committee hearing regarding a complete ban on defence access to complainant’s counselling/therapy notes in trials involving rape, sexual assault or gender-based violence.
#Midlands103News #Westmeath #Mullingar #Counsellingnotes
www.midlands103.com/news/midland...
Counselling Notes Are Used To Undermine Victims - Hazel Behan
A bill put forward by TD Ruth Coppinger aimed at banning the practice has started.
www.midlands103.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The use of the counselling notes of victims in court cases is cruel, inhumane and abusive - it is morally and ethically abhorrent, counter to every single tenet of therapeutic practice, and a final betrayal of an already profoundly traumatised person.

#counsellingnotes

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January 28, 2026 at 1:29 PM
The chilling effect of this disgusting practice on survivors going to the Gardai cannot be overstated.

It is beyond shameful and every person in this country should be outraged at the violation.

Thank you @independent.ie & @ruthcoppingersp.bsky.social

#counselling #counsellingnotes
January 28, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Therapeutic counselling space should be a place of safety, trust & healing -instead the system that seems to be entirely structured around protecting abusers reaches into that safety and destroys that too-leaving people who might speak out with nowhere to turn for support.

#counsellingnotes

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January 28, 2026 at 1:16 PM