Court hears pensioner refused to fill out census form over CSO contractor's alleged links to Abu Ghraib

A pensioner in Ennis refused to fill out his 2016 Census form because of his ‘strong feelings’ over the Central Statistics Office (CSO) using a firm which had alleged links to prisoner interrogations at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison for the census.

At Ennis District Court, John Higgins (70) of Clancy Park, Ennis explained that he didn’t fill out his Census form over the CSO contracting CACI UK to help with the Census.