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Mon 12 Dec 2009Self-defence law 'to be introduced'
Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has denied that legislation which would allow householders to use lethal force when defending their own was a licence to kill.
The draft Criminal Law (Defences) Bill 2009, published in a report by the Law Reform Commission, will be enacted in early 2010, he said.
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