WHEN the English Defence League sprang to life two years ago, it had fewer than 50 members — a rough-and-tumble bunch of mostly white guys shouting from a street corner about what they viewed as uncontrolled Muslim immigration.

The 32-year-old man arrested for the attacks in Norway that have killed 91 people, Ander Behring Brevik, had his Facebook page taken down late last night, but his twitter page is still open.

IN his letter (January 8), Ciarán Cleary contends that Ireland should take Israel as an economic model, apparently believing its affluent, hi-tech researchers to be representative of that country generally.