I'm sure mopti will post this if I don't

The trial of five anti-war protesters accused of criminal damage of a United States Navy plane at Shannon Airport has collapsed following a suggestion by the defence that the trial judge had attended the inauguration of George W Bush as US president.

(from Ireland.com, who lock their content up behind a paid registration for which several very public passwords no longer work)

opportunism

During today's postal strike, which was called off but happened anyway due to postal workers having already arranged to take the day off the "Disputes Committee" not having met until the afternoon: Oranmore Post Office raided. (RTÉ not only gives their news away for free, they've actually got a pretty slick XSL-styled RSS feed so the feed URL reads like a regular web page)