How Iraq gave Ireland a lesson in democracy

THE Iraqi interim government was recently able to organise for its citizens living abroad to vote in the elections at home.

Despite war, car bombings, terror and fear, arrangements were made for over one million Iraqis living in over 20 countries all over the world to register and cast their ballot.

Yet for several decades in this country, successive governments have refused to extend the ballot in general elections to our citizens living in the UK, the USA and elsewhere.