Burma threatens to undermine EU credibility on human rights

GROUPS all over the world, including in Dublin, took advantage of the 65th birthday of Aung San Su Kyi to pressurise jailers in her native Burma to release her, and hold genuinely democratic elections later this year.

But even as Christy Moore’s songs of defiance and freedom rang out through the National Concert Hall, it begged the question about the limitations of civil protest.

The writer Damian Gorman read part of his poem addressed to the Troubles in the North, but applicable to Burma, warning of the dangers of complacency and detachment.