Repeal set for 3,200 archaic colonial laws

JEWISH people will be legally allowed to buy armour for the first time in Ireland since the 12th Century when thousands of archaic colonial laws are swept away, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern signalled last night.

The anti-semitic bar is one of 3,200 laws passed between the Norman invasion in 1169 and the 1800 Act of Union which remained on the statute books after independence in 1922.

Suspected thieves will no longer face the possibility of being subject to trial by having a millstone placed around their necks, thrown in the river and proved guilty if they sink, either.