While I did not go through every case lost by Ireland before the European Court of Human Rights, I was particularly struck by the most recent – DG v. Ireland. The case in question related to a young man who had been incarcerated in St. Patrick's Institution in Mountjoy even though the High Court judge had serious misgivings about doing so because the individual was a minor. On appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, it was found that the child's rights had been violated.