I heard a story recently of someone who took writing “Romani ite domum” on the boards of a building site, every night on his way home from the pub; he was protesting the building of a supermarket on the site of a local cricket pitch. The thing is he was clever enough to publish a witty protest (for those familiar enough with Life of Brian) and not get caught. You could hardly claim that what Matthew McKenna, 20, and Dean …
Because he would have been crazy to settle in Dublin… The FT interviews a guy who runs a service for Irish people looking for a humane bankcrupcy regime… …in Ireland, unlike in many western countries, bankruptcy is not an option for most people. Just 29 people were declared bankrupt last year and 17 in 2009. This compares to 135,089 bankruptcies in England and Wales, 20,329 in Scotland and 2,323 in Northern Ireland in 2010. Adds: Oh, and the Dublin court …
As Ireland readies itself to welcome President Obama to these shores next month, those with an interest in upholding international law have been given reason to recall how he has failed the litmus test of Guantánamo. While the President appears to have forgotten his January 2010 promise to close the internment camp within a year, a new batch of leaked government documents provides a reminder of just how iniquitous the US experiment in unlawful detention has proven. The new document …
