14 March 2010

Irish could get to vote in a referendum on Ireland’s new blasphemy law

DERMOT Ahern, the Irish Justice Minister, is proposing a referendum this autumn to remove the newly-introduced offence of blasphemy from the Irish Constitution, along with two other referenda that the government is already committed to.

Atheist Ireland, which tirelessly campaigned against a law that made Ireland the laughing stock of the Western world, revealed today that the Minister told the Sunday Times: [The Freethinker] Read more