It has come to the attention of the IPA that there are individuals in the province who claim to have qualifications, credentials, diplomas or certificates in Parapsychology. It is believed that these individuals may be using these claims to gain access to private residences, public buildings or places of employment. The IPA would like to make an appeal and put out a warning to the public in order to advise individuals to be vigilant as to whom you allow access to your home, family or business.
Following recent discussions within the committee, a list of IPA guidelines has been drafted within the following four areas: Current IPA members include NIPS, UFO Society of Ireland and NIPRA, with the IPA committee currently made up of the following:
Darren Ansell (NIPS),
Warren Coates (NIPRA)
Betty Myler (UFO SI)
The group is currently in talks with members of C.A.P.R.A. on joining the IPA having met this promising group in recent weeks.
We aim to have a dedicated site for the IPA up and running within the next few months.
In May 2007 NIPS founded the Irish Paranormal Alliance (IPA), a body with the primary aim of enabling groups with a genuine interest in the paranormal to share knowledge and research, and also to help provide some discipline & guidance in the field of paranormal study in Ireland. Whilst the group have been heavily involved with new research and most recently with the filming of NI's Greatest Haunts, there has been a shift of focus from the IPA. However, the group have now reopened the opportunity to apply for membership of the alliance. The Alliance will hold a twice yearly conference in the North and South of Ireland.
As membership is by application, if you would like to put your group forward, please contact Darren in the first instance.
The NIPS team met with the guys from Hidden Dublin Walking Tours today following an invite from Aidan of Hidden Dublin. The team joined the 'Haunted Dublin' Tour around some of the city's alledgedly most haunted locations. We were then able to provide feedback on the tour, based on our experience of paranormal investigation & research.
This is the start of an ongoing relationship with Hidden Dublin and it is our intention to invite the guys on an investigation in the North in the near future.
After much discussion, we have taken the recent decision to step back from private home investigations as we feel we can be of limited assistance in resolving these cases. Occasionally with pyschological issues contributing, we feel a moral and professional responsibility to ensure these cases are dealt with by the correct people. We will be spending much more time on research, experimentation and investigating claims of paranormal ability.
This is a process known as Pareidolia. The fact that we initially see a giant face in the photo, even though it doesn’t fit the rest of the image, is probably not a coincidence. We have more neurons dedicated to promptly identifying faces than the ones that recognise Victorian kids sitting on their dad’s lap. That’s why pareidolia happens so often with faces. You don’t usually see Victorian kids in the clouds.
Britain's 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act was repealed and replaced by the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, which came into force on May 26, last year. 
NIPS are delighted to announce that we have a new investigator in training, with skills and experience the team have been seeking for some time. He has the necessary skills and accumen in the field of psychology, which the group requires in order to offer a completely balanced and professional approach to investigation and research. Cormac will also be helping us to devise some new experiments and tests, particularily in the area of mediumship and the study of ESP.
