Cork Pro Choice group apologise to Fathers4Justice for libel and pay damages
Cork Pro Choice, an organisation campaigning to Repeal The 8th Amendement in Ireland, has apologised to Fathers4Justice, and it’s principles Matt and Nadine O’Connor, for claiming they promoted domestic violence with their ‘Change The 8th’ campaign advertisement, ‘A father is for life not just conception’, which features a photograph of a father cradling an infant […]
F4J Statement: Cork Pro Choice Allegations
Fathers4Justice (F4J) are concerned that a number of individuals in the ‘Repeal The 8th’ campaign are aggressively opposed to democratic debate around the 8th Amendment. In particular, the organisation Cork Pro Choice has made a serious allegation concerning our advert, ‘A father is for life not just conception’, which will run on Bus Eireann in Cork […]
The Sun: ‘For too long the men’s health crisis has been taboo’
By Peter Lloyd To mark International Men’s Day, we highlight the tell-tale signs your man is reaching breaking point – and highlight some of the possible causes behind it. Needless to say, these problems can affect any man at any age. Something Matt O’Connor, founder of Fathers4Justice, knows all too well. He suffered depression when […]
‘A father is for life not just conception’: Fathers4Justice launch Eighth Amendment campaign
Fathers’ rights organisation Fathers4Justice (F4J) is to enter the debate around the Eighth Amendment with a media campaign calling for the recognition and protection of the rights of the father in relation to the unborn child. The campaign poster features a picture of a man cradling a new born child with the words ‘a father […]
High Court rules court acted ‘unlawfully’ in excluding public from Fathers4Justice founders trial
Pic: Dr Michael Pelling and Matt O’Connor The high court today ruled in a declaratory judgment that court managers and magistrates sitting at Aldershot Magistrates’ Court on 20 February 2015 acted ‘unlawfully’ in excluding members of the public who sought to attend the trial of Fathers4Justice founder Matt O’Connor, for a Section 5 Public Order […]
Minister claims dads seek court orders to see kids in attempt to REDUCE child maintenance payments
Pic: Matt King & son / Caroline Nokes MP A government minister has told a Fathers4Justice supporter that dads who seek court orders to see their kids, do so in order to reduce their child maintenance payments. In a letter to Robert Syms, MP for Poole, the Minister for Welfare Delivery at the Department for […]
Face of new Childline campaign Cheryl Cole is domestic violence perpetrator who assaulted husband AND nightclub attendant
The face of the new Childline campaign from the NSPCC, Cheryl Cole, has a conviction for assaulting a black woman and has previously admitting being a domestic violence perpetrator. The pop star was convicted of assaulting nightclub toilet attendant Sophie Amogbokpa at a nightclub in Guildford in a violent attack in 2003. In her 2012 autobiography she […]
Fathers4Justice Founder in High Court Judicial Review Final Hearing over Closed Courts
HEARING 21 OCTOBER 2016 The founder of Fathers4Justice appears in the High Court (Royal Courts of Justice) on FRIDAY 21ST OCTOBER 2016 for the trial of his Judicial Review Claim seeking to quash the decision of Aldershot Magistrates Court on 20 February 2015 to hold his trial for a minor public order offence in a […]
SOS Viagra Sausages launched as part of men’s health campaign
Fathers4Justice founder Matt O’Connor has launched a range of Viagra Sausages as part of a new Save Our Sausages (SOS) campaign aimed at cooking up awareness about what he says is an alarming public health emergency facing men. Inspired by his own experience with depression and the thousands of cases he has been made aware […]
Tory MP Eric Pickles brands Fathers4Justice “the most pointless organisation in the entire world”
Tory MP Eric Pickles has told a Fathers4Justice supporter he was getting on his nerves and didn’t support equal rights for dads, before branding the campaign group “the most pointless organisation in the entire world”. Father-of-one, Adam Lowe, from Brentwood went to see his MP to ask him for help to see his young son, […]
