Debt cancellation deal - Time for Ireland to play its part

THE achievement of two Irish rock stars in stirring the collective conscience of the world’s industrial nations into wiping out billions of debt owed by some of the world’s poorest nations is truly monumental.

Bob Geldof and Bono, and their supporters, have helped achieve a humanitarian feat of gargantuan proportions which will contribute to the welfare of generations to come.

The two Dublin men have been the catalyst for an extraordinary provocation of world capitalism to realise its moral duty to the developing world.