Six arrests have been made after a garda was injured during a protest in Dublin city centre.

Generation Snowflake has endured the invective of an older generation that imagines itself more robust, more emotionally and philosophically secure in its skin.

In any assessment of the health of free speech, a despairing reference to US president, Donald Trump, is unavoidable. He and his unsettling Praetorians trumpet contempt for anything that celebrates the Enlightenment principle of freedom of expression and do so in a way that encourages despots, tinpot or otherwise, to silence and undermine individuals, movements, and ideas that challenge their worldview. This big-brother gagging often comes from sources that should know better and which should have the institutional confidence to tolerate dissent, so it might be, with logic, challenged and possibly refuted.

The scheduling of controversial columnist Kevin Myers as a moderator at a talk on censorship in Limerick strikes as a “provocative, calculated” move by the organisers, a professor at the University of Limerick has said.

Chris Stone writes that the right to public protest is just one area in which autocratic regimes are limiting the right to free expression.

Free speech rights should allow an anti-abortion group to release secretly recorded videos of discussions with a California company that provides foetal tissue for research, a US judge said.