This is the fourth post in my ongoing (and expanding) series about the Censorship of Publications Acts, 1929, 1946, and 1967 (on which, see Brad Kent Censorship and the Irish Writer. Politics, Polemics, and the International Dialectic (
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I began my previous post by saying that Melton Enterprises Ltd v Censorship of Publications Board [2003] 3 IR 623, [2004] 1 ILRM 260, [2003] IESC 55 (4 November 2003), is the only case (so far as I know) in…
The Censorship of Publications Acts, 1929, 1946, and 1967 were introduced to deal with the menace of evil literature (lampooned by Gordon Brewster in the adjacent 1928 cartoon). Melton Enterprises Ltd v Censorship of Publications Board [2003] 3…
This morning, TheJournal.ie has the following interesting article by Concubhar Ó Liatháin:
Couple whose book was banned celebrated as censorship legislation is on the way to repeal
Artists gathered in the Cork Gaeltacht at the weekend to remember a hero…
I have a letter to the Editor in yesterday’s Irish Times (with a few added links):
Sir, – Eoin Drea‘s article on Ireland’s EU presidency provides many examples of “an Ireland that is totally directionless on EU affairs”. At…
A new addition to tv’s cozy crime genre is Art Detectives (Back Dog Television, for Acorn TV; shown in Ireland and the UK on U&Drama; also available on PrimeVideo).
It stars Stephen Moyer (imdb…
Last week, in his column in the Irish Times, Michael McDowell (pictured right) took social media platforms to task for shirking their responsibilities on defamation. His analysis of the legal issues was, uncharacteristically, incomplete. Even so, he has a…
In a recent post on this blog, I noted that, where government ministers were overpaid due to a pension error, this was a straightforward case of the recovery of mistaken payments. Now, another example is provided by a piece by…
In a post last week, I argued that the Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024 fails to protect public interest speech, in particular by providing inadequate protections against strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs). I was commenting on a…