The Irish Times reports today that members of Italy’s mafia meted out a punishment of gang rape against one of their number they suspected of being gay. The man was raped while in prison two years ago by eight others, resulting in him requiring medical treatment. None of his attackers were punished by the authorities.

It seems that police in Australia will have to reopen around 7,000 cases which used DNA evidence in their prosecution due to an error which was discovered, leading to the release of a man who had wrongly been accused of

So, Beijing 08 is almost upon us. I’m not that into the Olympics myself, but I’ll inevitably end up watching some of it and getting totally engrossed in some off-beat sport I’ve never heard of but become an over

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The term “genocide” did not exist until it was formulated after the Second World War. The word and what it defined had to be invented in response to the systematic mass-killing of

The former Bosnian Serb, Radovan Karadzic was arrested near Belgrade yesterday. He is accused of war crimes and genocide during his countries war from 1992-5. Karadzic was working as a doctor of alternative medicine when he was taken into custody.

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, gave a speech to the European Parliament this morning where he spoke about the Lisbon treaty. In this speech he said that “Institutional things are for members of parliament, rather than referendums, it’s

I remember Séamus Brennan as Minister for Transport but he was also Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism, Minister for Education and Minister of State as well as a host of other positions during his long career in Irish politics.

It is a shock that Jews were in the German army but only because we have 20-20 vision from the studies and examinations of what we know happened. They had no clue. And it just adds to the tragedy

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Via Twenty Major, it would appear that hoardes of good-hearted teens are descending upon Dublin in order to restore ..something.. about the city, by way of cleaning up graffiti.
The Irish Times reports:
Teenagers

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Following on from my previous article, and some of the debate generated by the publishing of the Heads of Civil Partnership Bill, I thought I would elaborate in more detail on my thoughts.