MARY Robinson vowed yesterday to continue "irritating and annoying" powerful interests to protect basic human rights. Mrs Robinson said she would work "flat out" in her final six months as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. When she left that job, she would seek ways to protect the world's poor from the impoverishing effects of globalisation, she said. The former Irish president said it was part of her job as defender of human rights around the world to annoy powerful countries. Accepting she had been critical of the US bombing of Afghanistan and the US treatment of prisoners at Camp...