“Our legislators were asleep at the wheel” for the Hate Speech Bill.

Free Speech Ireland Director on the Niall Boylan show.

“Dáil members were 'afraid to question' hate speech law”

The former Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland, Nuala O’Loan, has said that proposed hate-speech legislation “has the capacity to do immense damage to free speech and democracy in Ireland”.
#gript https://gript.ie/former-police-ombudswoman-hate-speech-bill-may-do-immense-damage-to-democracy-in-ireland/

Only 4 out of 160 TDs were present to hear arguments to amend the Hate Speech Bill before voting.

Its safe to say the Dáil was asleep at the wheel and its now on the Seanad to rectify this legislation.

https://youtu.be/YWECILL9xQg

“You’re telling me that I’m causing other people to be offended. And I said at one point, ‘Who’s problem is it if they are going to be offended? Is it their problem or is it my problem?’ and in truth, it’s their problem. They’re choosing to take offence.”

#gript

https://gript.ie/watch-could-billboard-chris-have-been-prosecuted-under-irelands-new-hate-speech-laws/

A thanks to Senator Sharon Keogan and to everyone else who has shared our message

5 Scariest Things About
the Hate Speech Bill

“We are witnessing the codification of identity politics into our speech laws”
Sarah Hardiman, spokeswoman for Free Speech Ireland

www.yaf.org/news/free-speech-in-ireland-is-under-attack-yaf-to-help-irish-students-push-back/

“It's only Freedom of Speech if it applies to speech you don't like”

#HateSpeechBill

Census 2023:

~750,000 people in the Republic use a language other than English & Irish at home

The need for translators who understand idioms renders the Irish Hate Speech Bill furthermore ineffective or expensive

“ Only 4 [out of 160] were present to hear the arguments to excise Section 10 [of the Hate Speech Bill] ”

Attention all!
The Hate Speech Bill enters the second stage of The Seanad this coming Tuesday, 13th June.

We will be hosting a Twitter Space at 7pm this evening to discuss the matter:

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1kvJpmXkwVZxE

“ What exactly is Free Speech Ireland planning to do in order to defeat the Bill? ”

Debate is live

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-tv/seanad-eireann-live/

Justice Minister Helen McEntee says that "the vast majority of people" want hate speech laws.

#gript

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRZH-B6FX7I

"Near riots if they go to speak. Meetings are being held in secret lest they be disrupted"

Former Attorney General and Justice Minister Senator Michael Mc Dowell decries NGOs who push for hate speech laws as being ambivalent to the violence and threats those with minority opinions are subjected to.

FACT-CHECK:
Fine Gael claim Hate Speech Bill will only criminalise “extreme” cases

https://freespeechireland.ie/fg-claim-hate-speech-bill-will-only-criminalise-extreme-cases/

Apology demanded from Dermot Kennedy for using a common term to describe being tired in Ireland: "knackered".

Hate Speech laws will be weaponized by bad faith actors. Leave their social media outrage without the weight of the law.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-65943491

Members of Free Speech Ireland are attending the second Seanad debate on the Hate Speech Bill today.

Best of luck to all Senators speaking in opposition!