Posted on 07/07/2025 9:20:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Irish government is reportedly set to reject demands from the European Union to implement hate speech legislation after Dublin abandoned plans to do so last year.
In September of last year, the Irish government scrapped plans to criminalize so-called hate speech in its Criminal Justice Bill, which would have allowed the state to send someone to prison for up to five years for “incitement to hatred against persons on account of their protected characteristics”.
The move to abandon the controversial section of the bill came as Justice Minister Helen McEntee admitted that it did “not have a consensus” among the Irish population.
In response, the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, warned that Dublin may face legal action from Brussels for failing to meet the bloc’s stringent speech standards.
The commission said in May that Ireland “still fails to transpose the provisions related to criminalizing the public incitement to violence or hatred against a group or a member of such group based on certain characteristics, as well as the conducts of condoning, denial and gross trivialization of international crimes and the Holocaust”.
According to a report from The Sunday Times, which cited sources within the coalition government, Dublin will respond this week by declaring that the country is “already properly transposing EU directives”. …
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islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist
You cannot keep abortion and lgbt without free speech curtailment.
At least pass a F.A.C.E. act!
They voted "yes".
Ireland,a country that has defiantly refused to follow orders from London,has no problem bowing to Berlin.
Exactly.
You’re either a sovereign nation in control of your own destiny or you’re a vassal state under the rule of a larger empire.
Today Ireland sits at that crossroads. My hope and prayer is that our Irish friends choose wisely.
No; Ireland has not been at such a crossroads. They’ve been a vassal to the EUSSR since 1972. Now if they move to leave the EUSSR, that would be a crossroads indeed.
How Hitlerarian of them.
Of course.
Otherwise the Nazi regime that’s taken over the Irish government would all be spewing their vile hate from prison
F the EU and their scumbag Muslims.
Ireland is the place where the govt official told the people to report anyone who says Ireland is becoming a police state to the Guardia.
Ireland is incomprehensible at this point. Turned this abomination of tyranny back but...
The Irish government is apparently a bunch of British operatives who have made November 21, 1920 null and void.
Dublin is nothing like it was even three years ago.
British operatives? The EUSSR is run by Berlin.
Of course Ireland did. It has been conquered by islam which will eventually decapitate the homosexuals they teamed up with to take it over.
“the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, warned that Dublin may face legal action from Brussels for failing to meet the bloc’s stringent speech standards.”
If this comes to pass, Ireland, take the next step and leave the authoritarian EU. There are no real benefits to being in that awful club.
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