Bob Geldof action shows Dublin City Council's pettiness

Bob Geldof uses his celebrity as a battering ram, but he usually gets results, writes Michael Clifford.

At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were murdered in Myanmar last September, according to the aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières. Since a military crackdown on August 25, around 650,000 Rohingya have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh. These refugees now live in squalid, cramped camps in the poorest country in Asia.

Last Wednesday, Dublin City Council voted to rescind the Freedom of the City which was awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi in 2000. The Burmese leader, once a symbol of democracy in a country where the military ruled, is now the leader of Myanmar, formerly Burma.