The same man who just a year before firmly favoured the hate crime bill now saw which way the wind was blowing
Taoiseach Simon Harris and Justice Minister Helen McEntee. Photo: Gerry Mooney
Suddenly, the Government has scrapped its own hate speech bill, or to be more precise, it has scrapped, for now, the sections of a bill dealing with hate crime overall that pertained specifically to ‘hate speech’.
Announcing the decision to ditch the offending sections, Justice Minister Helen McEntee said she was doing so because a political consensus on what is, and what is not ‘hate speech’, was lacking.
