Kevin O’Brien celebrates reaching his century batting against England in the group B World Cup game in Bangalore, India, yesterday. Ireland went on to win the game by three wickets. Photograph: Graham Crouch/Getty Images
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Restoring FOI ActIN 2003, AFTER tabling legislation to emasculate the 1997 Freedom of Information Act, then minister for finance Charlie McCreevy and minister of state Tom Parlon didn’t even stick around to introduce the Bill; notoriously, they hopped off to the Cheltenham festival, leaving the dirty work to someone else. As Ombudsman and Information Commissioner Emily O’Reilly has often complained publicly, the effect of the amending legislation was to restrict the public’s right to know. Indeed, that was its explicit purpose.
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Anti-government demonstrators burn copies of the Green Book next to the Green Book Studies Center in Benghazi March 2nd. Photo:Asmaa Waguih /REUTERS
Anti-government demonstrators burn copies of the Green Book next to the Green Book Studies Center in Benghazi March 2nd. Photo:Asmaa Waguih /REUTERS
An undated handout photo released on March 2, 2011 by the Urban Search and Rescue team of New Zealand shows rescue services at work on the Canterbury Television (CTV) building which housed an English language school attended by Asian students, predominantly from Japan and China, more than 60 of whom are presumed dead in its ruins. Grieving New Zealanders wept and hugged March 2, as the nation fell silent to mark the moment the previous week when an earthquake tore apart Christchurch and claimed hundreds of lives. Photo: USAR/AFP/Getty Images
Mounted Nepalese soldiers participate during Army Day celebrations held at a military parade ground in Kathmandu on March 2nd. Photo:PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images
Dancers from the State Ballet of Georgia perform during a dress rehearsal for Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial in Taipei March 2nd. Photo:Pichi Chuang /REUTERS
Johannes Rydzek of Germany uses a chair lift before the men's Nordic combined individual large hill event at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo March 2nd. Photo:Michael Dalder /REUTERS
A Pakistani Christian sets tyres on fire as others shout slogans against the killing of Christian government minister Shahbaz Bhatti in Islamabad by gunmen, during a protest in Multan on March 2nd. Photo:AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images
A Sadhu (Hindu holy man) looks on at the Pashupatinath temple during Maha Shivaratri in Kathmandu on March 2nd. Photo:PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images
Bangladeshi migrant workers try to climb over the wall near the Tunisian gate at the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Ras Jdir after fleeing unrest in Libya March 2nd. Photo:Zohra Bensemra /REUTERS
Hindu devotees are silhouetted against the rising sun as they take a holy dip in Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers during the Mahashivratri festival in the northern Indian city of Allahabad March 2nd. Photo:Jitendra Prakash /REUTERS
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