From the Backdoor dept.:
Ireland is soon to have a law similar to SOPA passed that would give music and movie companies the power to force Irish ISPs to block access to sites suspected of having copyright infringing material on them.

Irish citizens won???t have a chance to lobby their democratic representatives because there won???t be a vote on the law ??? snappily named ???S.I. No. of 2011 European Communities (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2011??? ??? in the Irish Parliament. Instead the law is being enacted by ministerial order because it is being prepared in the form of a Statutory Instrument.