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02nd Jul 2013

Got a spare room? Edward Snowden has applied for asylum in Ireland

Well we are known as the Land of 100,000 welcomes...

Eoghan Doherty

Anyone got an extra air bed? Or maybe you’re signed up to couchsurfing.org?

Eitherway, CIA/NSA whistleblower-turned fugitive Edward Snowden is looking for somewhere to crash. You can read all about him here in JOE’s Keeping You Abreast.

Currently holed up in Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport like Tom Hanks in The Terminal, Snowden cannot return to his home country having had his passport revoked.

The man hasn’t been out of the news at all this past fortnight (he’s even appeared in lingerie ads), having leaked top secret government information on the classified PRISM program – a surveillance system that accesses email, phone lines and video conversations.

In fact, the US Government are probably reading this article right now. But that’s more to do with the fact that they love JOE.ie. They’re only human after all.

To be fair though, Snowden has asked 20 additional countries for asylum so let’s not be too flattered shall we. That’s like asking every single girl in your local for a wee shift and eventually getting off with the stumpy one with green hair and no money.

And she’s your cousin.

We’ll keep you posted…