A packed courtroom yesterday erupted into laughter after ‘Guantanamo Granny’ — 79-year-old anti-war activist Margaretta Darcy — blew a whistle and declared: “I am a whistleblower”.

RECENTLY a friend of ours, a young Angolan woman, came to see us in great distress. We have known her since her arrival in Ireland in 2000 as an asylum seeker with a baby daughter.