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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Really its the whole 26 county free state that needs to be weeded out and replaced by the 32 county Republic. There's no point mucking about with something that was set up in the first place to twart democracy .
Tinkering with the Free State.
ah jayzhus would they never leave us alone. & we'll have a caravan for the mammy, Parnell promised us one
"Really its the whole 26 county free state that needs to be weeded out and replaced by the 32 county Republic. There's no point mucking about with something that was set up in the first place to twart democracy ."
Oh yeah? By you and whose army?
Well yes the likes of Tony O'Reilly have the free state police and free state army protecting their ill gotten gains and they have leinster house politicians giving away the nations resourses to their cronies, but its no harm if the Irish people at least recognise who their enemies are.
the most ridiculous has to have come in the sunday independent.
"most Irish people blame the Attorney General and not Mc dowell"
http://unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si...14167
I seriously doubt this. - How many Irish people can name the Attorney General?
answers on a postcard please.
The nicest commercial coverage came from the Examiner. With little picture of a Jolly Roger in the corner ( "A crewman from the Pirates of the Caribbean yacht competing in the Volvo Ocean Race sits high up the mast after crossing the start line in Portsmouth, England, yesterday. ") The Examiner had been really onside with indymedia throughout the week. Curious little collusion there.
http://examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=...1.asp
Rather than describing "hysterical democracy"as the Dublin based Tribune did, the Examiner focussed on "flower people women of Ireland power"
http://examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=...1.asp
Readers will recall that Justice Laffoy decided to release a man from prison who had been convicted of "statutory rape" because of an earlier decision of The Supreme Court that the old 1935 law under which he had been convicted was not in accordance with the constitution.
On Wednesday 31 May 2006, speaking in the Senate, Michéal McDowell, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, said:-
"Although that offence has now been struck down as inconsistent with the constitution, things done under it are not retrospectively made unlawful."
The state, through the governor of Arbour Hill Prison, appealed Justice Laffoy’s decision to The Supreme Court and last week an unanimous judgement was handed down by The Supreme Court overturning Justice Laffoy’s decision.
Writing in last Saturday’s Irish Times Mr McDowell said:-
"Anyone who now reads the five Supreme Court judgements will see that the view taken and argued by the state was not simply correct; it had overwhelming logic, it had ample international precedent, and it had deep foundations in Irish constitutional jurisprudence, in justice, and in common sense.
"The Supreme Court did not, as predicted, tear up its own jurisprudence to ‘square the circle,’ but carefully and consistently applied it in a manner that the constitution demanded, and that foreign Supreme Courts faced with comparable problems have consistently done.
"The alternative view, if upheld in The Supreme Court, would have produced grotesque results unprecedented in our own law and unknown in any comparable system of law."
To my way of thinking the original Supreme Court decision (referred to in my first paragraph) should certainly not be regarded as making unlawful retrospectively anything which was done under the aegis of the stricken law. But whatever The Supreme Court says it is a nonsense to confine a man in prison, this summer and into the future, under a law that was declared, in Spring 2006, unconstitutional.
Having lived through the period I think that the more recent of these two Supreme Court decisions was unwisely made in a period of flagrant political distress and uncertainty created in no small measure by the minister himself.
Sean Crudden