Ireland’s draconian proposal to ban 'hate speech' — something the government refuses to define — will have severe implications for the basic human right to free expression in the public ...

Transphobic “hate speech” will not be criminalised in Ireland after its government backed down on a controversial law. Ministers had proposed punishments for hate speech as part of a new hate ...

Ireland will not introduce hate speech laws, its justice minister said on Saturday, dropping a central part of the response to riots in Dublin last year following criticism from some government ...

Meet Tadhg Hickey, an Irish “comedian” who has become a walking, tweeting case study in how virulent anti-Zionism serves as a ...

UTA has moved swiftly to drop Bob Vylan, the punk duo at the heart of a scandal in the UK over their performance at ...

Meanwhile Ireland was forced to put the kibosh on an Orwellian hate speech law proposed in 2023 that would have criminalized “speech that a person has neither uttered nor published” that one ...

Donald Trump’s newly-appointed vice-presidential running mate JD Vance has previously come out in opposition to Ireland’s proposed hate speech law, which he has described as “authoritarian”. In a ...

The proposed hate crime and hate speech legislation, an update to Ireland’s Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act (which was originally passed in 1989), would criminalize “intentional or ...

The statement, whose backers also include Spain, Belgium, Colombia, Ireland and other nations, said the countries "are ...