MARIA MAYNES who looks at how TDs voted:
“must not take place in NHS”
‘Grotesque phenomenon’.
350,000 litres of embalming fluid each year
Hate, after all, cannot drive out hate.
Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee expects her controversial Hate Speech bill to be in force “by the end of the year”, and says how confident she is that nobody in Ireland will ever be taken to court for “misgendering” under the law. Question by Ben Scallan. #gript
“In what way is this credible?”: Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee is asked how activists and government-funded NGOs who have campaigned for hate speech laws for years can be cited as evidence that her hate speech bill is popular. #gript
Laoise Aodha de Brún says women’s rights group The Countess are backing a bill to ban biological males in women’s prisons, saying vulnerable women are being threatened and subject to sexualised abuse. #gript
Not what people want
Groupthink Ireland.
The Attorney General of Northern Ireland has been granted permission to challenge the province’s abortion ‘exclusion zones’ law through a judicial review. The Bill which would ban pro-life protests outside Northern Ireland’s abortion centres and hospitals providing abortions has consequently been delayed from becoming law, and a date for a hearing of the judicial review […]
The TD’s sponsoring the Bill are Mairéad Farrell and Sorca Clarke.