“Justice”, in this Ireland, is not about anything hard and severe like sending people to prison or cracking down on lawlessness.
Real issue is not being faced
Credit where credit is due.
Politicians who are demanding a new category of offence on foot of these crimes are not legislating sensibly.
Crickets.
There’s a bit of carts and horses about this one.
In an RTÉ-commissioned poll on “hate speech” legislation a few years ago, only 19% of viewers said they were in favour of such laws. The poll ran on Claire Byrne Live and was conducted by Amárach Research in 2017, the year after the Brexit referendum and the election of then-US President Donald Trump. 2017 was […]
Hate crime.
Senator Sharon Keogan has railed against the government’s proposed hate speech laws, saying that they will turn Ireland into a “woke theocracy.” The comments were made this week in the Seanad during a debate on a new proposed hate speech law. Sharon Keogan on her opposition to hate speech legislation, warning that Ireland is sliding […]
At the end of the year, whoever leads Fine Gael is set to take over as Taoiseach from Micheál Martin as a condition of the government coalition. Some would naturally assume that this means we’ll see a return of Tánaiste Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach, as he is obviously the current leader of Fine Gael. Varadkar […]
But look at her record in office: What, exactly, has she achieved?
As violent crime surges across Ireland, particularly in major cities, few politicians have been willing or able to admit the severity of the crisis. With Fine Gael styling itself as the “Party of Law and Order,” and insisting that Ireland is “a safe country,” it’s seemed for several years now that the government is reluctant […]