Ireland’s deeply sinister hate crime bill
From our UK edition
These are certainly interesting times in Ireland. Like every other European country, there’s a cost of living crisis. Mortgages are going up. Inflation is wiping out savings and the ruinous impact of our strict lockdowns is still killing jobs. We’ve even spent recent days convulsed in a bizarre national uproar over RTE’s highest paid star being allegedly bunged money ‘off the books’; a scandal so serious that it led to the Director General of RTE being suspended while investigations are carried out. This is both a crank’s charter and a heckler’s veto Yet while these various issues dominate the papers and the airwaves, the really important issue of freedom of expression has been largely ignored.
