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Irish Hate Speech Law, also known as the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill or Ireland Hate Crime Bill, refers to a bill proposed in the Irish legislature that would mandate penalties for hate speech content that incites violence. In late 2023, the proposed bill received increased attention online following anti-immigrant riots in Dublin, Ireland and prominent figures like Elon Musk discussing it online. Concerns over the bill potentially making certain me...

Irish author Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize on Sunday. His novel, Prophet Song, imagines an Ireland that has fallen under Right-wing totalitarian control, and begins with members of the new secret police rapping on the door of a union leader to interrogate him for “sowing discord and unrest” against the government.

Now the whole world can see that Ireland is poised to pass one of the most draconian pieces of legislation in modern times

The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe reported a 44% increase in hostility against Christians in 2022.

‘We are going to get them,’ Varadkar said when speaking about those who caused violence on the streets of Dublin yesterday.

Our challenge remains to use the law to prevent hate speech, but not in a way that unduly curbs or politicises free speech

People can still have 'full and robust debate' under new law but 'cannot incite hated or violence against others'

This week, the arrest of British Catholic woman for 'praying' outside an abortion clinic has attracted international attention. However, the jailing of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, director of anti-abortion group March for Life UK, is neither surprising nor particularly rare as a denial of free speech in Great Britain. While this form of "protest" is uncommon as…

Yesterday’s angry protest outside Leinster House is a good example of why hate crime legislation needs to be passed, Joe Brolly has said.

‘It is not my sole focus, it is not my sole priority,’ the Minister for Justice said of the bill, which is currently before the Seanad…