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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. In the meantime,
as of now (late October 2009) we are taking a federal court case in the USA to recoup the royalties stolen. The names of several
people in the office of corporate enforcement in Ireland, including Deirdre Mitchell, have been used by the defendants (we
are the plaintiffs). It will indeed be interesting to see if these are the people who caused criminals to go free in Ireland.
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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