The Irish state today is discharging a debt of honor that stretches back 80 years,
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They teach to repay the teachers who took pains with them, to discharge a debt that they are fine enough, and wise enough, to acknowledge.
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Those include indications that a child is employed to discharge a debt; that wages are being paid to a third party; that very young children are being employed, and that workers are kept at work by force.
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The general rule is that if a creditor promises to discharge a debt in return for a fraction of payment, in paying the agreed fraction, the promisee is not providing consideration for the promise, as this is merely part performance of a contractual duty already owed.