Call for law to tackle child porn online

Campaigners against child abuse material available online are calling on the Department of Justice to bring in a range of measures, including laws to combat internet access to images of children of a sexual nature.

Pornographic images of children are not blocked by Ireland’s internet providers where the material is hosted outside the country, as it is in many other jurisdictions, including Britain.

Norway — which has a similar population size to Ireland — blocks up to 12,000 such websites a day, revealing the appetite for such images.