City giveth but unable to taketh away as Bob Geldof tries to hand back Freedom of Dublin City

He was a freeman of the city but he was also a slave to his conscience.

And so it was that Bob Geldof came cap, or rather Russian ushanka hat, in hand to beg Dublin City Council to take back his scroll.

It’s her or me, he told them, her being Aung San Suu Kyi, the once celebrated, now excoriated, leader of Myanmar, where 500,000 Rohingya people have fled slaughter under her apparently disinterested watch.