Contents: Message from our Chief Executive; Members’ Meeting on the Children’s Rights Referendum; Member Focus — Youth Advocate Programme (YAP) Ireland; News in Brief; UNCRC Optional Protocol — a Communications Procedure; Report Card 2012; Female Genital Mutilation Bill; Government to End Detention of Children in St Patrick’s; The Courts — Recent Judgment; Universal Periodic Review — Update; National Children’s Strategy — Update; The Constitutional Convention; Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael Ard Fheiseanna; St Patrick’s Day in the Áras