Launch of Team Ireland s Don t Scroll By Campaign Targeting Online Hate Speech 02/23/21
Team Ireland athletes have collectively taken a stand against online hate speech this week as the Olympic Federation of Ireland launched their new campaign ‘Don’t Scroll By’. The campaign is an initiative of the Olympic Federation of Ireland’s Athletes’ Commission and has been launched with the support of Indeed, an official partner of the Irish Olympic team. It calls on the public and sporting stakeholders nationwide to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to online abuse, discrimination and hate speech, and to #DeleteBanReport any of this type of commentary they witness online.
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Team Ireland athletes have collectively taken a stand against online hate speech this week as the Olympic Federation of Ireland launched their new campaign ‘Don’t Scroll By’.
The campaign is an initiative of the Olympic Federation of Ireland’s Athletes’ Commission and has been launched with the support of Indeed, an official partner of the Irish Olympic team. It calls on the public and sporting stakeholders nationwide to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to online abuse, discrimination and hate speech, and to #DeleteBanReport any of this type of commentary they witness online.
A Tralee teenager has avoided a conviction for a tirade of racist online abuse of former Arsenal football star Ian Wright.
Patrick O Brien (18) had the Probation Act applied as Judge David Waters told Tralee District Court that the material sent over social media by the teen was clearly racist, reprehensible and utterly abhorrent.
However, the judge said he was satisfied they were not views held by the teen - but rather unthinking comments designed to cause hurt and passed in the heat of the moment by a young, immature and naive person.
Judge Waters also said that the Tralee teenager should be thankful for the generous attitude of the footballer who said he had forgiven him.
Should Character References Still Be Part Of The Legal System?
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Former footballer Ian Wright expressed disappointment yesterday as a Kerry teenager who sent him racially abusive messages escaped a criminal conviction.
The solicitor of 18-year-old Patrick O Brien revealed that his client had voluntarily made a €500 donation from his pocket money to the Irish Network Against Racism organisation.
He also described him as a good young man who was getting on extremely well as a student at IT Tralee .
But should character references play a part in legal proceedings?
Today FM courts correspondent Frank Greaney, Conor Hanly, Lecturer in Law at NUI Galway, and Noeline Blackwell, CEO of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, joined us to give their views on the issue.
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