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On this week’s episode of The Long Game podcast, Ben and Jason discuss the Irish Government’s mixed signals on whether or not they will revisit the hate speech bill.
Taoiseach said the 1989 Act needed to be “modernised” to deal with online speech.
“We want to be in compliance with the European framework.”
Described as a “horrible law”.
There’s a direct link between endless Irish statements on the Middle East, and the Irish housing crisis.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin is asked why he once called the Triple Lock “the core of our neutrality”, but is now proposing to abolish it:
“It’s not Government policy.”
“The nation state is a very new concept.”
“The nation state is a very new concept.”
Ben Scallan asks Taoiseach Micheál Martin to justify this:
Lies can “create a lot of public disquiet.”
Were the Irish ever a “homogenous group”, as Deputy O’Flynn appears to assert and An Taoiseach appears to deny?
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