The Irish are breathing a sigh of relief as finally, after hundreds of years, they can adulterate coffee with sheep dung without fear of prosecution.
But burning witches at the stake will definitely be out and it will be illegal to conduct tiger fights in public.
Some of the more bizarre laws set for the chop include the 1181 Act banning Jewish people from owning armour, a 1366 Act forbidding English people from marrying Irish people and the 1285 Police Act, which set up a corps of watchmen to arrest suspicious strangers.
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