Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach disgraced himself and betrayed the best instincts of fair mindedness in the Irish people when he visited the Gulf states in January and when he deliberately averted his gaze from the shocking crushing of workers' rights, human rights and women's rights. The Irish Daily Mirror is not a revolutionary newspaper and certainly would not have anything in common with the Socialist Party or the Committee for a Workers' International, but yesterday it ran a stunning headline, "Dying for the World Cup".

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