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The Stopsopaireland.com site had attracted almost 16,000 signatures by 6.00pm today, having gone live at about 9.30pm last night.

Over 2,000 signatures were added in one hour this afternoon, according to the site’s administrators. They had expected about 5,000 signatures by lunchtime, and no more than 10,000 in total.

…He [Sean Sherlock] said he had consulted with both sides of the debate and had received over 50 submissions following a consulation process. A wording for the new instrument had gone to Cabinet.

“It will go to Cabinet and the Government will decide as to when it will be rolled out and how it will be rolled out,” Mr Sherlock said.

He said the Government was trying to ensure that the rights of internet users was balanced by the rights of the copyright holders.

 

Over 15,000 Sign ‘Piracy Law’ Petition (Elaine Edwards, Irish Times)

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In a hard-hitting speech delivered at the opening of a new Holocaust exhibition in Dublin last night, Justice Minister Alan Shatter said the Irish State lost its “moral compass” during and after the war.

“In the period following Hitler coming to power and preceding the Second World War, the doors of this state were kept firmly closed to German Jewish families trying to escape from persecution and death,” he said.

Records unearthed by the Minister from the Department of Foreign Affairs while he was researching the period many years ago show that the then Irish Ambassador to Germany, Charles Bewley (above), recommended the Government refuse visa requests from Jews to protect Ireland from “contamination”.

“In understanding the Holocaust and maintaining its memory…we should not forget or ignore the failures of this State and this State’s responsibilities for such failures,” he [Alan Shatter] warned.

Mr Shatter said this has consequences today for how we treat Israel.

“We should not be in denial nor should we ignore that the conduct of our State, at that time, in the eyes of some, delimits Ireland’s moral authority and credibility when today we seek to lecture later generations of those whose families survived the Holocaust on the conduct of their affairs in Israel,” he added.

State ‘Did Nothing For Jews In WWII’ (Breda Heffernan, Irish Independent)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFxoXI2JZbI&feature=player_embedded

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