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Letter to the Oireachtas Justice Committee re Blasphemy

I write further to the well publicised intention of the Minister for Justice, Mr Dermot Ahern to introduce a criminal offence, punishable by a fine of up to €100,000 of blasphemy. It is the Minister’s declared intention to thereby give statutory provision for the Constitutional offence of blasphemy. However this approach is wrong both in principle and at a practical level.

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