O’Shea urges Ireland to withdraw from United Nations

The chief executive of the Irish aid agency GOAL has called on the Government to withdraw from the United Nations in protest at its lack of action in the Darfur region of Sudan.

At least 20,000 people have been killed in the region and a million more have been displaced from their homes due to an on-going war between rebel groups drawn from the local black African population and Arab militias allegedly backed by the Sudanese Government.