Mixed messages from ministers on holding of blasphemy referendum

Government ministers are continuing to provide contradictory views on whether a referendum on blasphemy will take place this year in light of the Charlie Hebdo shootings.

Mixed messages from ministers on holding of blasphemy referendum

On Friday, junior minister for equality and Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said his “expectation” was that the referendum would be fast- tracked for the second half of 2015.

However, at a memorial service in Dublin Castle for the 10 journalists and two police officers who lost their lives in the attack, his party’s leader and a senior Fine Gael minister played down the prominence of the vote.

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