Miss Ireland ‘must protest stoning’
Miss Ireland Lynda Duffy, 22, has refused to take a stand against Nigeria’s Islamic Sharia law, which allows women be sentenced to death by stoning, despite repeated calls.
A number of contestants have withdrawn from the competition in protest over the plight of Amina Lawal, a 31-year-old single mother who has gone into hiding while awaiting a second appeal against her death sentence.