Tag Archives: Ireland

“These bastards should be shot”

Padraig Reidy: Is Ireland’s Daily Star inciting violence?

Trouble in the Blog O’Sphere

Eoin O’Dell: An Irish blogger has been forced to settle a libel case for €100,000. Would the country’s new Defamation Act have saved him?

Free expression – weekend roundup

Dara O’Briain, John Kampfner and David Mitchell on blasphemy, the libel reform campaign and offence

Ireland’s blasphemy law challenged

Padraig Reidy: Atheists test Ireland’s new blasphemy law

Who asked for Ireland’s blasphemy law?

Padraig Reidy says “Down with this sort of thing!”

Ireland: blasphemy law comes before Dáil

Down with this sort of thing!

Ireland’s new blasphemy law: blame the recession

Padraig Reidy on blasphemy in Ireland

No jokes please, we’re Irish

This article was originally posted on Comment is Free This is Brian Cowen. He is the Taoiseach of Ireland. He is a man noted for a certain belligerent political style, and certainly not noted for his sense of humour. Earlier this week, a man called Conor Casby took two of his paintings of a nude [...]

Conor Cruise O’Brien 1917-2008

Irish politician, writer and intellectual Conor Cruise O’Brien has died at the age of 91. Always controversial, ‘The Cruiser’ was one of the few intellectual heavyweights in Irish politics. He was internationally renowned, but at home probably best known for two things: his coining of the phrase GUBU (Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented) — which [...]

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