Appropriated from AlJazzeera ; “It is a US-run prison built from scratch on an US military base to hold “enemy combatants” captured in the so-called “war on terror”. Those imprisoned there have never been charged with a crime, nor do they have any meaningful way of challenging their detention. The inmates allege abuse at the hands of... »

At a political level, the signing of the bill reminds the world that Ireland is still the pious Roman Catholic society of yesteryear. The appeal to religious morality as the embodiment of good at a time when loan default is imminent functions to create an image of Ireland as a society more concerned with... »