Who asked for Ireland's blasphemy law?

New rules which forbid causing 'outrage' among religious people have baffled Ireland. We were getting along just fine without them. I'm not sure which piece of unpopular Irish news was being buried by which: the announcement last year of a second referendum on the Lisbon treaty, or the shuffling through of a law creating penalties for blasphemy, an offence that has never properly existed in the Irish state.

While there was certainly a store of resentment in the population at being asked to vote again (that is: vote properly, you morons, as the government is barely holding back from saying) on the Lisbon treaty, there is a certain sense of bafflement at the new blasphemy legislation, smuggled in under the guise of defamation law reform. The new law came into effect on 1st of January 2010.

to see full article please click HERE which appeared in the Guardian newspaper in July of 2009

Please also take a look at this article also which appeared in the Irish Times (July '09)

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