Noeline Blackwell

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211 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Noeline Blackwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Today with David McCullagh · Cork drink spiking incident prompts renewed warnings · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

That's the big lesson that needs to go out.

There is no rational, there's no logical or innocent explanation for it.

Stop doing it.

Let's have a massive campaign again to remind people that this should not happen.

I also think there is a point to be made about having more sophisticated forensic ways of identifying if the evidence is there because laws on their own won't fix this.

People have to stop doing things that are illegal and harmful for fun or in order to facilitate further crime.

Today with David McCullagh · Should therapy notes be used in court? · 24 Apr 2026 podcast

Well, because they're the people who are holding these health records.

So Barbara has explained really well what happens.

But the real issue here for a lot of people is that when they go to a counsellor, they're going to a health specialist.

They are not going to the guards at that stage.

And then, however, the law is so lax and so wide at the moment that a client in a therapy session risks their notes being called up by the accused.

So at the moment, someone who is accused of a sexual offence may very well ask

once they know that there's a therapist involved, they may ask to see the counselling notes.

And the reason they ask to see them is can they damage in any way the credibility of the person making the complaint by comparing for little differences perhaps.

between counselling notes and what is said to the guards.

So in that case, as the law stands right now, the law allows the accused to get information about a person's counselling notes and the person who has the notes is the therapist.

So the therapist is being asked

to hand over these notes in some occasions, sometimes to the guard, sometimes to the DPP.

It may be that the court will ask, but for the most part, the real problem for victim survivors is that the guard will say, or the DPP will say, I need those notes in order to make sure we have a good case here that will go ahead.

And the person is under such pressure that they feel they have to hand them over.

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