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Ar bharr an Clarence Hotel ag iarraidh déirce.
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The libel laws in Ireland work
effectively as a taboo system, rather than performing the necessary task of preventing undue damage to people's reputation.
In fact, they are ultimately counter-productive in that they enable criminals with access to funds to prevent their misdeeds
from being known, while not allowing law-abiding and decent citizens the right to press their claims. Many of us in Ireland
will carry dark knowledge to our grave.
The country
is massively over-regulated, to the point that small businesses are choked, while corporate enforcement is lax - to put it
gently. In fact, it will take at least a decade from 2009 for international confidence to be restored in the Irish financial
system. Those who knew about the banking scams said nothing, either out of fear or because they were compromised.
I am particularly incensed about the music industry
in Ireland, which has failed to break a single quality act for a decade. When there was in effect no such industry, musicians
like Rory Gallagher, Phil Lynott and Louis Stewart were breaking through. One of the principal reasons is the formation of
IMRO, and the involvement of its erstwhile chair in copyright infringement as described over. Fear not; we can print this,
because we won a legal action on the subject in Britain. We also won one against U2's record distribution service in Ireland;
both are described amid the rogues' gallery on page 2.
A little-known result of the so-called “partnership” agreements in Ireland is that your colleagues cannot go on strike
if you, as an individual, are sacked, even if sacked summarily without use of agreed procedures. You can, if you wish, go
through the farcical employment appeals tribunal, which is essentially a ceremony of separation. If you are a civil servant,
your employer i.e. the Irish state can appeal any verdict you win all the way to the supreme court, removing a decade from
your life. Combined with this is the fact that the universities according to the minister for education (dec 18, 2002, in
the Dail) have no responsibilities whatsoever to their staff and students.
This short and very rushed site concludes with the 1997-2007 government's forays into technology
qua medialab and the sinister e-voting initiative.
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