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Fri 08 Aug 2009Falsehoods deserve debate 'red card'
A YELLOW and red card system should be used in the debate on the forthcoming referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, Brigid Laffan, the principal of the college of human sciences in UCD, said at the Merriman summer school yesterday.
She said any group deliberately perpetuating falsehoods about the treaty should receive a yellow card. “If they persist, they should receive a red card. This would not muzzle debate but would ensure that we have a debate based on fact and reasoned argument.”
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