The sad, lonely death, in a Dublin doorway, of John Corrie, the 43 year-old homeless man who died yards from our parliament, is symbolic of many things wrong in our world, but for anyone to suggest they are shocked by such an inevitable tragedy just adds a shameful and offensive layer of hypocrisy to the charge sheet already faced by this society.

Members of the European Parliament have appealed to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, asking him to stop the stoning of a woman sentenced to death for having premarital sex.