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Liability for underage sex
ANYONE READING today's HeadToHead debate between Alan Shatter and Tom O'Malley may well experience the uncomfortable feeling of agreeing with both sides of the argument. To the question of whether adult defendants accused of having sex with a child should be able to claim an "honest mistake" as to the age of the victim, there are no black-and-white answers. p
Brown's bad result
IS IT all over for Gordon Brown? Is Britain's Labour government now doomed to a slow death before a general election the prime minister may now be forced to postpone to the last possible date in 2010? p
Opinion
Rushing in where fools normally fear to tread
It is possible that Iran is developing the technology which could, one day, allow it to deploy nuclear weapons, writes Tony Kinsella pShould there be strict criminal liability for adults who have sex with children?
HEAD TO HEAD: Allowing defendants to claim a mistaken belief that a child was over the age of consent virtually guarantees acquittal, making it a child abuser's charter, says Alan Shatter. Strict liability failed to protect children for 70 years and imprisoning people for a genuine mistake is an affront to justice, writes Tom O'Malley pOnline: join the debate at ireland.com/head2head
David Murphy and Mark Oppenheimer debated the question 'Is Scientology a Dangerous Cult?' Here is an edited selection of your comments. pGoing the biofuel route provides food for thought
ANALYSIS: THE WARNING by UN secretary-general Ban
Ki-Moon last week that escalating food prices may evolve into a
crisis of global proportions provided a potent reminder that the
advent of biofuels has been a double-edged sword, writes
Harry McGee . pSteeplejack has miraculous escape after becoming the fall guy
IRISH TIMES ODDITIES: A steeplejack engaged at the chimney, which is 260 feet high, of Messrs Wm Barbour and Sons' thread works will remember the close of the year 1910, writes Allen Foster pThe bungling beatitudes of Boris J, mayor of London
As the political arena has been drained of personality, we should embrace the presence of a real character, writes Ann Marie Hourihane p
An Irishman's Diary
'YOUR FACEBOOK account has been deactivated." That's how easy it
was. A few clicks and I'm free. But let's take a step back - to the
day last year when I signed up, just out of curiosity and because I
was tired of always answering "No" to the question: "Are you on
Facebook?" It took about 10 minutes for my deepest suspicions about
the site to be confirmed: that it's an entirely pointless
social-networking pyramid scheme, writes
Michael Kelly p
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