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Almost a year on from The Vulnerable Accused Network conference last September and our special issue is available in the CrimLR! Thanks to John David Taggart Jonathan Doak 🇺🇦 🌹🇪🇺 & co and Chloe Hanna for excellent contributions and co-editors Roxanna Dehaghani and Dr Harriet Pierpoint 🤩

Very excited to be Dublin City University today with Professor Yvonne Daly & colleagues from the #IMPLEMENDEZ COST to launch the Irish Mendez Centre for Investigative Interviewing which will promote the implementation of the Mendez principles by all agencies involved in investigative interviewing.

And we are underway! Professor Yvonne Daly welcomes all attendees to Dublin City University and outlines an exciting schedule of talks and engagements for the day ahead. Great to see a strong turnout at the launch from many State agencies. #IMPLEMENDEZ

We are delighted to be joined at the launch by Ivar Fahsing & Dr. Gisle Kvanvig of SMR//NCHR who established the first Mendez Centre for Investigative Interviewing on Monday. As experts in the field, they are giving attendees an excellent overview of the Mendez Principles.#implemendez

Next up, our COST Action Chair - Prof Dave Walsh - locates the Mendez Centre for Investigative Interviewing within the wider COST and outlines the growth, and future, of the #IMPLEMENDEZ project.

We are honoured to have an address by Professor Juan E. Méndez - the architect of the Mendez Principles - welcoming the launch of the Irish Mendez Centre for Investigative Interviewing. #implemendez

Excellent keynote address from Catherine Pierse, Director of Public Prosecutions, on the scope for the wider implementation of the Mendez principles at all frontiers of Ireland's adversarial criminal process.

Our next keynote address is by Dr. Emily Logan who outlines the pivotal safeguarding role that the Mendez principles can play in addressing inherent and situational vulnerability in police settings. #Implemendez Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC)

Home after an engaging morning at the "Research Roundtable on Policing and Community Safety" organised by Prof. Gautam Gulati & Colum Dunne of UL School of Medicine. Very compelling insights raised by all who participated & expertly chaired by Prof Brendan Cullen & Mary Donnelly.

Excited to be in Dublin for the 3rd time this week to give a paper on "intermediaries" as part of the Law Society Ireland "Criminal Law Seminar" today. It is wonderful too to be joined by Prof. Tom O'Malley (University of Galway Law), Mr. Justice White & Martin Lawlor: lawsociety.ie/productdetails…

Along with my co-director Dr Alan Cusack (UL School of Law), I was delighted to launch the Irish Méndez Centre for Investigative Interviewing Law and Gov DCU last Wednesday, under the auspices of the IMPLEMENDEZ COST Action (COST). Read more here! dcu.ie/lawandgovernme…

Dr Alan Cusack UL School of Law Law and Gov DCU IMPLEMENDEZ COST We hope that this Centre can become a dynamic hub of knowledge exchange both domestically & internationally. We will work closely with the newly-established Norwegian Méndez Centre for Investigative Interviewing also, and more, as the IMPLEMENDEZ Action continues to grow.

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**New Publication Alert** An article written by Professor Yvonne Daly & Dr Alan Cusack on the establishment of the Irish Mendez Centre for Investigative Interviewing has just been published in the latest edition of the Garda Review. An Garda Síochána Prof Dave Walsh #implemendez COST

On 15 Nov, Dr Andrew, Dr Dr Alan Cusack & Dr Bláithín O'Shea presented the Community Access Support Teams (CAST) pilot at the Northern Police Research Webinar. CAST is a health-led, collaborative policing programme which will provide 24/7 response to people w/mental health issues.

The changing nature of the Garda station interview. A lot has changed with police custody and questioning In Ireland over the last 40 years, but improvements can still be made, writes Professor Yvonne Daly Law and Gov DCU Dublin City University rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

At the airport after an invigorating trip to London to present at the Law & Society Research Seminar Series Goldsmiths Law with Roxanna Dehaghani. We are very grateful to Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos for the invitation & to all who engaged with our paper. Hopefully it will be in print soon.

In a new open-access paper in Human Rights Law Review, Roxanna Dehaghani & I survey recent jurisprudence on the right to a fair trial (Art 6) to understand how "vulnerability” is constructed by the ECHR. Huge thanks to Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos & Professor Yvonne Daly for comments: academic.oup.com/hrlr/article/2…

The Irish Méndez Centre for Investigative Interviewing - led by Professor Yvonne Daly & Dr Alan Cusack - held two #ImpleMendez April events: 1. Workshop on Rapport-based Interviewing 2. Roundtable on Memory, Psychology & Investigative Interviewing. More details here: implemendez.eu/two-events-hos…

Very excited to get my hands of a copy of this which will offer important insights into the role of the intermediary for Ireland's emergent cohort! Very well done John David Taggart.