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May 6, 2017 No Comments Michael Nugent

Stephen Fry blasphemy investigation also threatens RTE, Irish Times and Atheist Ireland

The police investigation into Stephen Fry for blasphemy also threatens RTE, the Irish Times and Atheist Ireland. The offence of blasphemy is committed not only by the person who first utters a blasphemous statement, but also by anybody who publishes it. RTE published the statement by Stephen Fry when they ...

International blasphemy expert Prof David Nash responds to police investigation of Stephen Fry

Professor David Nash of Oxford Brookes University is an international expert on the history and contemporary status of blasphemy laws throughout Europe and beyond. He has worked with Atheist Ireland at the United Nations and the Irish Constitutional Convention to seek abolition of the Irish blasphemy law. He has today ...

Secular Sunday tribute to Charlie Hebdo

Reproduced with kind permission of Secular Sunday I once had aspirations to be a cartoonist but my rudimentary drawing skills never developed into anything marketable. Nonetheless I have always admired the art and, this week in particular, have found myself amazed at how a picture can say so ...