Fine Gael’s free speech double-standard

In the general context of SF litigation against others, the Irish Times spoke, recently, of Ireland’s defamation laws as a “threat to democracy” – this is the same paper that carried an article, some months back, asking “How did McEntee’s Hate Speech Bill become embroiled in Ireland’s Culture Wars ?” – or words to that effect. The Hate Speech Bill was almost portrayed as some “poor innocent”. Since I last used the words “vile” and odious” – in this forum or as a comment on a YT posted Gript video – regarding “Ireland’s Paper of Record”, I had reason to question whether, maybe, those words were “a bit over the top….”. Now – on reflection – I consider myself to “have pulled my punches” !!!